February 2012
38 posts
Pro Picker: An advanced color picker for graphic... →
“Pro Picker is the ultimate color picker for Mac OS X. In particular, it is designed for those that crave an efficient color picker and know their way around basic color theory.”
donttrack.us: Great list of "blocking" extensions... →
I’ve just visited DuckDuckGo’s donnttrack.us website again. Did you know they feature a list of “blocking” extensions for most browsers? The list includes, among others, Ghostery, Adblock, and Disconnect. If you care, even just a little, about your privacy, you might want to check it out. (Scroll to the bottom)
Final Cut Pro X Tutorial: Custom Resolution... →
I was looking for a solution to setup “custom resolutions” (iPad: 1024x768, iPhone, iPhone Retina, Android, etc.) in Final Cut Pro X. First it seemed it’s impossible, according to a mail from 7toX developers, but a follower on Twitter sent me a promising video.
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 →
