A few OS X questions

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I've just been playing with Cyberduck, one thing that was missing from the directory list, .htaccess files etc.

When I go to create one in OS X, it whines about them being reserved for system files. True I thought, but why aren't they showing in Cyberduck? Uploading them as text files is fine, but it's no use if I can't actually see the file to download it again when I want to change something, like now. :)

Next question, text editor with syntax highlighting? The freeer the better. :p

If there aren't any worthwhile ones in that price range, is Textmate worth it? Dollar rate = wahey at the moment, so it's not so bad I spose.

Next question, I just burned me a CD, will these magical .AIFF's play ok everywhere I insert said CD?

Next, unrelated question, denying access to a file with htaccess, perhaps the php.ini, if I just stick a deny all, allow from my ip, would this stop the site working? I'm not sure I like the idea of people being able to read that file. :p

Thanking you in advance, I tried to avoid the 'I'm a Mac n00b, help me!' threads the best I could. :(

Edit: For the text editor I could just be a gimp and install Dreamweaver. :p
 
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For dealing with .htaccess files and coding related tasks I'd thoroughly recommend Panic's Coda. It's absolute brilliant - beats Dreamweaver hands down and gives you an awesome option to enable system file view when dealing with .htaccess files.
 
Will_3rd said:
if you've burned AIFF files to data cd, you can play them on Windows/Linux with Quicktime/Realplayer/VLC

They worked fine WMP and in a car stereo today, that was the audio CD setting though. :)
 
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