Mac Apps

Vidnik

In Cocoa, Google, Mac Apps on 10 May 2008 with no comments

Handy for those quick videos you want to put on YouTube, like, right now! Vidnik lets you record video from your ISight and immediately upload it to YouTube.

David Phillip Oster: “To use Vidnik, run the app, then click the record button to start recording. Click it again to stop. Trim to just the golden [...]

Evernote Invitations

In Around The Web, Mac Apps on 3 April 2008 with 14 comments

I’ve got a few Evernote invites.

If you want one all you have to do it to follow me on Twitter and send me a note with your email.

UPDATE: I’m all out of invites, sorry. Maybe one of the one’s that I gave an invite to can spare you one tho. Subscribe to [...]

How Fluid Saves Spaces’ Ass

In Apple, Mac Apps on 30 March 2008 with no comments

Spaces, introduced in Leopard, is nifty. It’s fast, it’s elegant, and it’s not that useful.

Many others have written about why Spaces falls short, but the main thing is that it separates your activities by Application instead of by function. (As usual Mr. Gruber has written about this far more eloquently than I could).

Now [...]

Misu App

In Mac Apps, Mac ISV, macsb on 15 March 2008 with no comments

I don’t know what this is, but I like the name:

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MarsEdit is the Best

In Mac Apps on 15 March 2008 with 1 comment

It seems that the best programs in one’s software arsenal kind of sneak up on you, like a tiger in the grass.

For me MarsEdit has turned out to be such a program. Quietly, without flash or undue noise, it does its job every day, making posting and writing to a blog an absolute pleasure.

The [...]

Things Recurring Event Dialog

In Mac Apps on 5 February 2008 with no comments

Things:“When you set out to do something new, it is a good idea to have a look at what others in the field have done before. When we began to approach recurring tasks, we looked at iCal’s recurring events. We wanted Things to be as flexible and powerful as iCal. The corresponding interface in iCal [...]

Mad Bundle and MacHeist

In Around The Web, Mac Apps, Mac ISV, Marketing on 24 January 2008 with no comments

A little drama in the world of Mac bundles.

Mike Lee:

“First, Phill’s a real person, with real feelings. He doesn’t like being vilified or having sinister motives ascribed to him any more than you or I do. When people suggest that MacHeist is somehow evil, that hurts his feelings. He doesn’t wake up in the morning [...]

Service Scrubber Will Cause Problems for 1Password

In Keychain, Leopard, Mac Apps on 13 January 2008 with no comments

Probably one the most used apps on my Mac is the wonderful, 1Password. I could never have a different password for every site and service without this program.

Thus I was suitably worried when today it suddenly stopped working and told me Decryption Error:

WARNING: Your copy of /Applications/Safari.app was modified and its code signature [...]

Does A Free NetNewsWire Cheapen Other Software?

In Around The Web, Mac Apps, Mac ISV, Marketing, macsb on 9 January 2008 with no comments

Paul Kafasis asks if making NetNewsWire free lowers the value of other commercial Mac software: “This strikes me as an overly aggressive move by NewsGator that has (presumably unintentional) negative side effects. If developers are upset when Apple kills a market (iTunes and the MP3 market, Watson v. Sherlock, and many more), can we hold [...]

MarsEdit Keyboard Shortcuts

In Design, HIG, Mac Apps, Mac ISV, Reviews, macsb on 1 January 2008 with no comments

Although I’ve always been a MarsEdit user, I had found myself taking advantage of it less and less recently.

That all changed when Daniel Jalkut released version 2.0 this year. Now I keep it open all the time, ready to make a post (or at least start a new draft).

It doesn’t hurt that a single [...]