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Free HTML Editors for Mac OS X
- Komodo Edit
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Multi-language editor for creating quality code.
- Nvu [read: N-view]
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Free web pages editor that definitely help you manage a website easily even without
technical knowledge of HTML.
Using ColorSync Utility
I love image. I love editing image. Fortunately, I met ColorSync Utility.
ColorSync Utility can help me edit my image. I can Resize Image, Apply Profile to image and do Image Correction.
First of all, we need to open our image(s) with ColorSync Utility. You have to highlight image(s) that you want to edit. Then, Control-Click on one of those images. After that, a menu will pop-up. From this menu, mouse hover on Open With and choose ColorSync Utility to open this image(s) in its field.
TextEdit Hidden Ability
Accidentally, I discover hidden ability of TextEdit : Completing Word and Recognizing Font Style. Let's go through these two.
Completing Unfinished Word
Actually, this feature have already discussed in later article. However, I find a quicker way of doing these word completion.
For example, procrastinate will be a long word. Luckily, if we type it inside TextEdit, we just need to type procra and then press Escape, list of TextEdit's words recommendation will be shown.
TextEdit Decorates your Font
Be sure not to miss up this feature: TextEdit Font Editor. Oh, don't worry, it's already there inside TextEdit, so you don't need to do any extra download.
Style Editor
I made it all only with Font Editor and Colors Editor of TextEdit. Surprising? (I hope so, but the fact is not)
In short, with TextEdit, it's possible to have our favorite font colorful, shadowy and clean. Maybe we can call this thing mini-photoshop text-styler, oh such a long name.. and the style can be copied and pasted to another text. Later I'll tell you, one by one, okay?
Flip Image in Terminal Way
Terminal can help you perfectly flip your image either you want to flip it horizontally or vertically. Of course, you can flip diagonally also, by flipping horizontally after the image flipped vertically.
What benefit me by doing this..
You can save a lot of time and Mac memory while performing this image manipulation. It's just a line of code so you don't need to spend much time to write the code for flipping image. And you don't need to open image editing Application that, of course, eat up a lot of memory of your Mac, all you need is only Terminal (including your keyboard and a little skill).
TextEdit Copy the Invisible Style
Another surprising and very special feature inside TextEdit, copying style. It can copy definitely all styles, those styles are :
- Underlines: None, Single, Double, or Color
- Strokes: None, Single, Double or Color
- Text Color
- Font Shadows: Opacity, Shadow Spread, Altitude, Angle
- Font Family
- Font Weight: Regular, Bold, Bold Oblique
- Font Size
Save Time with TextEdit
Besides TextEdit special ability to create an astonishingly quick HTML features, which further information can be read at Creating Web Content with TextEdit, TextEdit also included this surprisingly useful feature Completing Missing Letter.
Check Spelling and Complete Missing Letter with TextEdit
It's such a great advantage TextEdit gives here. TextEdit can help check the spelling that will return red underline for misspelled words, and TextEdit will be happily help correct that word if it is told to do so.
How to make TextEdit correct misspelled or incomplete word?
- Highlight word that is required correction or completion by TextEdit
- After that, press Control while clicking on that highlighted word
- Many TextEdit recommendations will pop up right into sight
- Choose the most favorite (of course, most correct) one
- Let's stick to two examples on widws and macntsh. Resulting these two
- Initially I think widws would be recommended by TextEdit as Windows, err maybe I am too simple-minded..
Creating Web Content with TextEdit
TextEdit must be a well-known Application for all Mac users. Besides its simplicity, it's also been loved because of its effectivity.
One of its useful, hidden, and effective feature is saving in the form of webpage (usually known as HTML format).
What are those features that support building webpage content? Those features are Inserting Link, Building Table, Constructing List, and Customize CSS Style. However, make sure that the file is already saved in with HTML format.
Changing to HTML Format
This is the most important part before going through other tricks; without this part, applying other tricks will end up in vain. Let's see how to do it. Don't worry it's just 3 steps.
- Create New document Command-N and Save the file Command-S
- Go under File Format
- Choose HTML
It's easy, isn't it?
Link Mania
Links is one of the important factors for building web, especially for bloggers. Fortunately, TextEdit provides quick, easy, and only 3-step away to insert link into TextEdit itself.
- Highlight the text you want to be linked to.
- Access to Menu Bar the one with Apple on the leftmost, then go under top down menu Format. Mouse hover the Text and it will show up to the right another menu, look for Link... . It's rather hard to describe with words. However, the fastest way will be exposed at the bottom of this article.
- Enter the destination link. Hit Return. The highlighted text will be underlined and displayed in blue. It just like link (of course).
Link address should be inserted into this
