Category: Reviews

2024

2024.12.04 Suspicious Package keeps on tickin'
2024.05.02 WriteMapper - writing with mind maps
2024.02.17 A Cerakey ceramic keycap review

2023

2023.12.09 Brett's Favorites 2023 Part II
2023.12.08 Brett's Favorites 2023
2023.02.01 Stuff I'm Using in 2023

2022

2022.12.31 Brett's Favorites 2022 - Hardware
2022.12.21 Shooting Stars with iTelescope.net
2022.11.30 Brett's Favorites 2022 - Personal Projects
2022.11.24 Brett's Favorites 2022 - Mac Apps
2022.07.02 BetterTouchTool and Stream Deck
2022.01.15 Brett's Favorites 2021

2021

2021.07.17 Software mute for XLR mics
2021.07.13 A non-slip keyboard tray solution
2021.05.26 Get files from Mac to iOS faster with WALTR PRO (+Giveaway)
2021.04.27 Peek brings text selection back to Quick Look (+Giveaway)
2021.03.16 An ode to Bartender
2021.02.26 Open Zoom links in Zoom (and why Choosy is the best default browser)

2020

2020.12.31 Brett's Favorites 2020
2020.08.17 Brett's 2020 Podcasting Setup
2020.05.27 The MacSparky Photos Field Guide (+Giveaway)
2020.02.18 Enhanced music listening on macOS
2020.02.06 Fantastical 3

2019

2019.12.30 Brett's Favorites 2019
2019.11.06 Hook 1.3
2019.10.09 The Shortcuts Field Guide Giveaway
2019.07.18 The Keyboard Maestro Field Guide Winners
2019.07.10 Giveaway: The Keyboard Maestro Field Guide
2019.06.19 The Top 20 Apps not in my Dock
2019.05.24 SSD Showdown: Seagate Fast vs Samsung T5
2019.05.21 The MacSparky Keyboard Maestro Field Guide
2019.04.23 Make your favorite keyboard a Bluetooth keyboard
2019.04.04 HoudahSpot 5.0
2019.03.27 When you find a hair clipper worth writing about...
2019.02.08 Hook: connect everything
2019.02.06 Retrobatch: node-based image processing
2019.02.05 The addictive hobby of customizing mechanical keyboards
2019.01.03 Brett's Favorites 2018

2018

2018.10.09 My new favorite sleep headphones
2018.09.06 CleanMyMac X
2018.08.17 I wrote a review of the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard for you nerds
2018.07.25 AeroPress Timer v3
2018.05.14 Fellow Prismo: AeroPress Espresso(ish)
2018.05.02 Cardhop 1.1
2018.04.30 Men's yoga apparel: a Yoga Nerd Review
2018.04.24 Curio 12 — a Markdown extravaganza
2018.03.07 Deckset 2.0 is more of a great thing
2018.03.01 The OmniOutliner 3 winners!
2018.02.21 OmniOutliner 3 (+giveaway!)
2018.02.05 Best of 2017: Personal Projects
2018.01.22 Best of 2017: Real stuff
2018.01.15 Best of 2017: Nerding out on macOS
2018.01.10 Best of 2017: Creating on macOS
2018.01.08 Best of 2017: working on macOS
2018.01.01 Best of 2017: iOS Apps

2017

2017.11.15 Universal Mac organization with Unclutter (and it's 40% off!)
2017.10.18 Cardhop for Mac: contacts done right
2017.09.26 MultiMarkdown Composer 4 (+Giveaway)
2017.09.11 Add favicons to Safari tabs with Faviconographer
2017.08.29 The Learn Ulysses video course
2017.08.02 Quantify everything with Exist.io custom tracking
2017.06.09 Trading Cryptocurrencies giveaway winners
2017.06.06 Trading Cryptocurrencies Video Course (+giveaway)
2017.02.27 Best of 2016: (Almost) all of the iOS favorites
2017.01.13 Best of 2016: Mac apps for nerds
2017.01.09 Best of 2016: Mac creativity
2017.01.05 Best of 2016: Mac productivity

2016

2016.12.20 MindMeister and Apple Watch
2016.11.02 The WALTR 2 Giveaway winners
2016.10.29 WALTR 2 (+Giveaway!)
2016.10.05 TableFlip: the cure for Markdown table editing
2016.07.26 MicFlip 2.0, the best USB cable I've ever had
2016.06.08 MultiMarkdown Composer and CriticMarkup
2016.06.07 The Image2Icon winners
2016.06.07 Still my favorite iPhone accessory
2016.05.17 Associate: Amazon affiliate linking for iOS
2016.04.12 The TextExpander subscription snafu
2016.04.12 Arq 5 gets a big speed boost
2016.03.16 TaskPaper 3.0
2016.02.28 In which I review an airport restroom
2016.02.26 A look back at 2015: The Rest of the Best
2016.02.22 A look back at 2015: My Top iOS Apps
2016.02.17 A look back at 2015: My Top Mac Apps
2016.01.25 HoudahSpot 4.1

2015

2015.12.26 The CleanMyMac 3 Winners
2015.12.22 Win a copy of CleanMyMac 3 for Christmas
2015.12.22 The Magic Number winners
2015.12.17 Taking advantage of YouTube music on Mac and iOS
2015.12.17 Magic Number giveaway
2015.11.13 A fix for slippery iPhones
2015.11.12 Curio 10 and Curiota
2015.10.19 A magic mistake
2015.10.02 The Mac Pick-A-Bundle has some sweet apps...
2015.09.05 Dropzone 3.5 Giveaway Winners
2015.09.02 Post-vacation Dropzone 3 Giveaway!
2015.06.09 The Painless tmux/Vim winners
2015.06.04 Painless Tmux + Painless Vim giveaway
2015.06.03 MindNode 2.0 for Mac (with Marked 2 integration)
2015.06.02 Living the Remote Dream
2015.05.27 LaunchBar 6.4 streamlines custom actions
2015.05.27 TextExpander 5
2015.05.26 MacPaw announces DevMate distribution platform for Mac devs
2015.05.20 Postbox 4
2015.04.24 MeisterTask for iOS and Apple Watch
2015.04.17 A Friday Freebie: Network and Database icon set
2015.04.16 VOX for iOS
2015.04.07 CleanMyMac 3 adds robust new features
2015.03.19 Blink: instant iTunes affiliate links on iOS
2015.03.18 MeisterTask: visual task management from MindMeister
2015.03.08 My favorite stuff from 2014, Part 2
2015.03.03 David Sparks' "Workflow Video Field Guide"
2015.03.03 BitTorrent Sync 2.0 is official
2015.02.17 The details count with Tally 2
2015.02.17 Records: a flexible database for Mac
2015.02.10 Doing Spotlight right with HoudahSpot 4.0
2015.02.06 Even better MindMeister collaboration
2015.01.13 Macminicolo turns 10
2015.01.05 My favorite stuff from 2014, Part 1

2014

2014.12.22 Slopes 1.4 for winter sports lovers
2014.12.13 CodeRunner 2
2014.12.02 Typed: a new Markdown editor from Realmac
2014.11.21 The WALTR winners
2014.11.18 WALTR: amphetamines for your video collection (+giveaway)
2014.11.12 The "Shell Tricks" video course
2014.10.22 BitTorrent Sync vs. The Cloud
2014.10.15 Drafts 4 Keyboard Extensions
2014.10.13 The AeroPress Timer 2 winners
2014.10.08 AeroPress Timer 2 giveaway
2014.10.08 The Marked 2 giveaway winners
2014.09.20 The PicGIF Giveaway winners
2014.09.18 Counters•, a new tally app for iPhone
2014.09.16 PicGIF Giveaway
2014.09.09 The Antetype winners!
2014.09.03 iBetterCharge: remember to charge your iDevices
2014.09.02 Antetype giveaway!
2014.09.02 New Perspective Icons for OmniFocus 2
2014.08.26 Announcing the Textbundle format (and Ulysses 3 giveaway)
2014.08.18 'Delight is in the Details' winners (and discount!)
2014.08.13 'Delight is in the Details' giveaway!
2014.08.12 The OnTop Winners
2014.08.11 Clarify for Markdown blogging
2014.08.07 OnTop calendar manager for iPhone, +giveaway!
2014.08.06 The Tower 2 giveaway winners
2014.08.02 Vox 2.1 with SoundCloud integration
2014.07.30 The Tower 2 giveaway
2014.07.23 A big update to Shawn Blanc's 'Delight is in the Details'
2014.07.22 The Polymo winners
2014.07.22 Tower 2 is twice the Git power
2014.07.17 Giveaway: Polymo for iPhone
2014.07.16 Review: Dropzone 3
2014.07.11 The Transloader winners
2014.07.09 Giveaway: Transloader remote downloader
2014.07.02 The coolest way to present a mind map
2014.06.29 Curio 9 winners and 10% off for everyone!
2014.06.25 Win a copy of Curio 9!
2014.06.24 Curio 9 adds all kinds of awesome
2014.06.08 The Screenfloat giveaway winners
2014.06.03 The sweet giveaways continue: ScreenFloat
2014.05.21 The new DuckDuckGo
2014.05.20 iThoughts updated for extra awesome (and iOS 7)
2014.05.16 The Yoink giveaway winners
2014.05.14 Giveaway: 5 codes for Yoink
2014.05.13 The Painless Vim giveaway winners
2014.05.09 Giveaway: 5 copies of "Painless Vim"
2014.04.22 Moviedo, your todo list for movies
2014.04.17 The Fantastical 2 for iPad winners!
2014.04.14 Five more copies of Fantastical 2 for iPad!
2014.04.12 Fantastical 2 for iPad, review and giveaway
2014.04.08 Cupcake, a color tool for web and app designers
2014.04.07 Deckset 1.0 released
2014.03.15 The Arq 4 winners, and something extra for you...
2014.03.12 Brainstorm collaboratively with Stormboard
2014.03.11 Arq 4 Giveaway!
2014.02.18 The Shoots & Leaves winners
2014.02.14 Shoots & Leaves Valentine's Day Giveaway
2014.01.28 VOX 2.0
2014.01.09 Mindmeister 9: more powerful cloud mind mapping
2014.01.02 Shoots & Leaves turns photos into plain text

2013

2013.12.23 A few of my favorite Mac apps in 2013
2013.12.21 Marked 2.2 (811): one bit niftier
2013.12.14 The winners of the Cognitive Productivity giveaway
2013.11.28 MindNode 3 for iOS
2013.11.20 Begin 1.5 released
2013.10.24 Ulysses III 1.1
2013.10.16 Terminology 3 for iOS is more useful than ever
2013.10.15 Essence icons for iOS 7 app design
2013.10.12 Wallflowers: my favorite OS X augmentations
2013.09.27 Winners of the Begin for iPhone giveaway
2013.09.25 Giveaway: Begin - a todo list for iPhone
2013.09.13 And the ForkLift winners are...
2013.09.12 Announcing the BusyCal Winners
2013.09.11 Advanced file management with ForkLift (plus giveaway!)
2013.09.09 Federico Viticci wrote the book on Editorial for iPad
2013.08.17 Nimblstand, a truly flexible iPad stand
2013.08.07 The Chatology winners
2013.07.23 2x Giveaway - Win TWO copies of myPhoneDesktop
2013.07.18 Going #iPadOnly
2013.07.17 Oyster Giveaway
2013.07.13 Mac App Giveaway: Briefly
2013.07.01 Mac App Review: Oyster
2013.06.30 Mac App Review: SliceReader
2013.05.29 Sketchnote Typeface
2013.05.11 EventScripts and reliable Bluetooth proximity detection
2013.05.07 Write for iPad with device sharing
2013.05.01 Sitting pretty (at my computer)
2013.04.29 iOS App Review: WordEver HD
2013.04.26 Mac App Review: Dash for developers
2013.04.24 Drafts 3
2013.04.03 Mac App review: Ulysses III
2013.03.23 Markdown, the book
2013.03.22 iOS App Review: Pinbrowser
2013.03.08 iOS App Review: AeroPress Timer for iPhone
2013.02.28 Glui: a lightweight alternative to Skitch
2013.02.16 iOS App Review: Write for iPhone
2013.02.09 An iOS development saga: TimeToCall
2013.02.07 iPhone App Review: Horizon
2013.02.06 Mac App Review: MultiMarkdown Composer 2

2012

2012.12.29 Great apps for 2012: iOS
2012.12.28 Great apps for 2012: Mac and iOS
2012.12.27 Great apps for 2012: Mac
2012.12.18 Calendar Paste, scheduling made easy
2012.12.14 Tally, let me count the ways
2012.12.07 Gerber Artifact, the most useful thing in my pocket
2012.12.07 Memories: photo, video and text journaling
2012.11.11 App Review: BTT Remote
2012.11.10 Quick Review: Pro HDR
2012.10.12 Mac OS X Screencasts makes Hazel easy for everyone
2012.10.09 World (ringtone) peace: Cleartones Organic giveaway
2012.09.24 Mac app review: Slicy
2012.09.03 Win a free copy of nvNotes: iPhone note-taking app
2012.09.03 FioWriter brings Mac editing shortcuts to your iPad
2012.08.26 TextDown: Markdown editor for Chrome
2012.08.23 Drafts 2.0 and Drafts for iPad
2012.08.04 Mountain Lion Paparazzi!
2012.08.02 Celebrate the Day One updates with a free copy!
2012.06.05 App Review: Found - Spotlight on steroids
2012.06.04 Mac App Review: Trickster, instant access to recent items
2012.06.04 iPhone App Review: Slow Feeds, a unique RSS reader for iPhone
2012.06.03 App Review: Textastic code editor for iPad
2012.05.29 Frictionless Capture Cards
2012.04.02 App Review: Tree, an outliner I can love
2012.03.26 Had Enough?
2012.03.14 Byword for iOS!
2012.03.02 A word about Magic Launch and nvALT

2011

2011.12.31 Some of my favorite Mac apps in 2011
2011.12.03 LiveReload addendum
2011.12.02 App Review: LiveReload
2011.11.21 App Review: Dropzone
2011.11.20 Nest: initial impressions
2011.11.18 iOS App Review: WriteUp
2011.11.03 App Review: Quiet
2011.10.28 App Review: CodeRunner
2011.10.26 iOS App Review: Reading List
2011.10.05 The QuickCal winners
2011.09.29 App Review: Gradient
2011.09.24 Listary giveaway, get yours!
2011.09.23 iOS app review: Listary
2011.09.04 App Review: Tunesque
2011.09.03 Five Yoink promo codes up for grabs!
2011.09.01 App Review: Yoink
2011.08.27 App review: Launchpad-Control
2011.08.26 App Review: Byword