I compiled this list of apps I use on my mac to help with productivity. As a web designer, I’m always looking for cool apps to make life easier for myself when it comes to getting things done faster and easier. All of the apps listed are Freeware and/or Open Source with the exception of BBEdit, but its well worth the money!
Paparazzi!
Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of web-pages. Paparazzi! allows you to define minimum size and capture size, so you can capture the best screenshot according to your needs. You can choose between saving the resulting picture as .jpeg, .pdf, .png or .tiff, also adding a thumbnail and thumbnail icon.

If you are just starting out as a designer or maybe you just like messing around with Photoshop & Illustrator, learning keyboard shortcuts can help you out immensely in time and in effort. Now, of course you or not going to be able to memorize all of them unless you are some type of human computer or you are Daniel Tammet. Just learning a few of the ones that are repeated tasks like copy, paste, transform or zoom will help.

