By Andre Hollist

I am sure there are many useful applications out there that developers have become accustomed to and could not live with, but here are just 10 Useful Developer Tools for Mac which you should consider looking at.

1. TextMate - Code editor, exclusive to MAC.

Some of its features include: foldable cloth blocks, auto pairing of brackets, and syntax highlight colours.

http://macromates.com/

2. BBEDit - HTML and text editor. Pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, syntax colouring as well as supporting numerous code languages.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

3. Cyperduck - An easy to use GUI interface FTP client. Easily preview files with its quick look option. Supporting protocols include FTP, SSH.

http://cyberduck.ch/

4. CSSEdit - Style sheet editor with live preview features and debugging options makes it a well rounded CSS editing application.

http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/

5. Changes - Browse through changes between two text files side by side. Options to merge from left to right or vice versa. Offers integration with BBEDit and TextMate.

http://changes.en.softonic.com/mac

6. Wine - Run i.e. 6, 7 and other windows software through an emulator just as you would do on a normal windows machine.

http://www.winehq.org/ 

7. Parallels Desktop - Run windows and Mac side by side. Allows you to drag and drop files between the operating systems and run windows applications.

http://www.parallels.com/uk/products/desktop/

8. Firefox - With add-ons such as Web Developer and Firebug make Firefox a very useful Browser to help develop and debug your site.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ (Add-ons)

9. TeXSL Plugin - The TeXSLMate PlugIn adds an XSLT/XQuery debugging palette to TextMate.

http://ditchnet.org/texslmate/

10.  P4Merge - Provides visual comparison for text and image files such as JPEG, GIF, BMP.

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/products/merge.html