February 2012
34 posts
Adjust Mail's delay for marking items read in... →
All you Tumblr followers are great! Haven’t seen so many positive responses on other platforms. Thanks!
Polkast: Access all your files from anywhere.... →
“Access 100% of the files on your computer from anywhere.”
Free, too. I wonder how these guys are planning to make money.
Humans TXT: Get to know the people behind a... →
What is humans.txt?
It’s an initiative for knowing the people behind a website. It’s a TXT file that contains information about the different people who have contributed to building the website.
via @mrschtief
Octopress bundle for TextMate →
clipodder →
onethingwell:
A small simple cron-friendly podcast downloader, with support for arbitrary user defined media types (pdf, html, etc…)
See also
Bashpodder
ContactPrivacy: Prompts when apps want access to... →
For jailbroken devices you can install ContactPrivacy to get a confirmation dialog when an app wants access to your contacts. It was inspired by Path. Technically probably not the best solution, but currently the best option until something better is introduced.
Carbon Copy Cloner turns 10. Developer looks back...
One of the most vowed backup and syncing utilities for Mac turns 10. The developer, Mike Bombich, honors it’s ten year anniversary with a slide show of the changes the tool made over the years.
I think system administrators are going to like it.1
And frankly so do I. ;) ↩
Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces →
Great idea by Gina Trapani to better organize apps on your iPhone.
(via Beelog)
Spirits is now available for Mac as well →
From an email by Spaces of Play:
“We have redrawn all 42 levels by hand to support any resolution up to 2560×1440 pixels. It will look stunning on your MacBook Air and your wide-screen iMac alike. Add multi-touch trackpad support and native fullscreen in Lion – this is the best port your Mac has seen in years.”
Disable OS X's "Downloaded File" Warning Dialog... →
Does anyone have a service (Automator??) that removes the xattr
quarantine flag from selected files and folders? I realize the
danger….
Here’s how to put to sleep Mac OS X’s
Quarantine…
Essentially run a defaults command to disable new files getting a quarantine flag, and then running xattr to remove the flag from files already on your system.
Seems to work for...
Famous Paintings Improved by Cats →
via @Loredo
WatchIt’s the Little Things
This is Brad Colbow speaking at re:build 2011 speaking about how to the user experience can actually be improved.
Make user input more convenient in Keyboard...
I’m currently working on a Markdown library for Keyboard Maestro 5. I wanted to make these macros universally usable. The macros prompt for user input for links and images. My idea was that the user would be able to switch windows however he or she pleases and the macros would come back to the editor after all input has been collected.
The trick is to use a variable. Keyboard Maestro can...
Adobe® Photoshop® Simulator written entirely in... →
Very acurate.
via @corefault
Bookle: New ePub reader for Mac
Stairways Software (Keyboard Maestro) has a new app out for ePub reading on the Mac.
@boredzo:
Finally, an ePub reader for the Mac that doesn’t look like ass and/or paginate: http://bookle.stairways.com
Get in on the
Finance Manager MoneyWell 2.0 Is Out and on Sale
@MoneyWell:
Surprise! MoneyWell 2 is out a day early and I’m on sale until Feb. 23: http://nothirst.com/moneywell/
MoneyWell is available on the
Veggie Meals →
A great looking app for vegetarian recipes.
tmsu: Tag files, mount virtual file system of your... →
onethingwell:
tmsu is an application that allows you to organise your files by
associating them with tags.
This works in an interesting way: you tag your files at the command
line, then work with them via a virtual filesystem, in which each tag
appears as directory.
Hollywood's long war on technology →
via @kohlenklau
VLC 2.0 Release Candidate →
Download the first release candidate of VLC 2.0. Here’s a list of changes.
via @narrenfrei
IdeasOnCanvas: Preview: iCloud for MindNode →
ideasoncanvas:
We have been working on adding iCloud integration to MindNode for some time now and today I’d like to give you a short preview of MindNode’s iCloud integration. MindNode touch 2.1 iCloud support in MindNode touch will be pretty similar to how Apple implemented iCloud in their iWork…
How to Plan a Screencast →
One does not simply walk into screencasting.
Take screenshots of all windows and save them as...
Nice little app to take screenshots of all windows (even hidden ones) so you can rearrange them freely.
Recommended by Eric
Accessing Properties of URLs with AppleScript →
January 2012
39 posts
iTunes: Copy/move metadata into other fields... →
This Tag That Tag has been updated to version 3.0:
“This Tag That Tag v3.0 is now a consolidated applet that previously had been a collection of four separate scripts. It will assist with copying text between tags for each selected track or track in a selected playlist.”
OmniFocus to MindNode and Scrivener (using OPML)
This script opens up a lot of possibilities for exporting tasks out of OmniFocus to a lot of other apps. In my case this app is MindNode.
The script above was originally written by RobTrew and modified by Shotster and me. Shotster added string replacements and added some mandatory entities to it. I added more entities to make it work with German, and hopefully, other languages as well.
Run the...
All books and albums mentioned in Steve Jobs bio →
This site has a list of all books and music mentioned in the Steve Jobs biography1 written by Walter Isaacson.
Which I just finished. I like it. ↩
The Three Little Pigs: Free SiriProxy server →
Feed the pigs with 4S keys and 16 more people will be allowed to connect to Siri.
Vim for iPhone and iPad (for real!) →
Uses \ to get out of Insert Mode. Not sure how useful I find this, but who cares? I mean it’s Vim on my phone. I love it already anyway.
via @raylinth
Thinking outside the box, literally. →
“In one experiment, each participant was seated either inside or outside of a five-by-five-foot cardboard box.”
I made two screencasts for MindNode
MindNode, my favorite mind mapping app for every Apple platform, just went online with a beautiful new website and two (also beautiful) screencasts. Not just the website and the screencasts are new, Markus, the developer of MindNode, made the jump from solo-dev to company (IdeasOnCanvas).
My congratulations for this big launch, Markus!
I’m glad to be working with these guys. Quality and...
FileGoBack - The tiny time saver for Apple's Time...
FileGoBack allows you to inspect the Time Machine history of one particular file so you can easily go back to a previous version in case it’s been overwritten or deleted.
Free during beta.
PDFpen for iPad is now available! →
Looks fantastic! There’s also a companion app for your Mac to view iCloud stored documents.
Get it now while it’s hot, “from an Apple Store near you”. ;)
Pacifist 3.0 →
“Pacifist is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them.”
This tool is around since the early, I mean very early, days of OS X. It allows you to pop in your OS X installation disc and install files you accidentally deleted....
Search Steam Store with Alfred
I made two new Custom Searches for Alfred to search Steam.
This one searches Steam:
`http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term={query}`
Click here to add this search to your Custom Searches
This one searches Steam for Mac games:
`http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term={query}&os=mac`
Click here to add this search to your Custom Searches
You may also want to give this a nice...
Multitasking: This Is Your Brain On Media →
If you didn’t know yet, multitasking is bad for you.
How to Turn Off Google’s Annoying New Personal... →
Red Bull BPM DJ →
While others are trying to take over the desktop market with their DJ apps, others intentionally are avoiding that market and focus on new markets, e.g. iOS. Red Bull DPM DJ looks very promising, unfortunately it uses In-App Purchases to “unlock” features, so for this free app you practically get nothing, but can unlock more effects and/or access to your music library by paying...