I had a great time in the New Relic studios in San Francisco recording Systematic this week. I was joined by not one, but two awesome guests: Dave Hamilton of Mac Observer and Mac Geek Gab (and the Macworld All Star band), and Moisés Chiullan of ScreenTime and the Electric Shadow Network.
podcast, systematic
This week, brettterpstra.com is sponsored by Doxie and their line of portable scanners. I’m a big fan of Doxie and have been happily using their products from day one.
Sponsor: Infragistics (May 29th) Thanks to Infragistics and the NucliOS framework for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. iOS developers, you really should check this out. Marked 2 sneak peek: bookmarks and navigation (Jun 3rd) This has already been refined a bit, but this preview of one of the new features in Marked 2 is, in my opinion, prety cool. The sweet giveaways continue: ScreenFloat (Jun 3rd) The ScreenFloat giveaway runs until Sunday, enter now!
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ScreenFloat is another indispensible Mac utility from the author of Yoink. It allows you to capture any part of your screen and quickly turn it into a floating window that you can reference while you work in other applications. I use it frequently to grab specs from a web page while I’m writing about something, preventing me from having to switch back to the browser should my mind lose a bit of the information.
giveaway, macappstore, macos
I know I’ve been quiet this week as I try to wrap up a lot of things and plan for a week in San Francisco during WWDC (I’ll be flying in tomorrow). I spent some time this weekend working on a new feature for the Mac App Store release of Marked 2 that I thought I’d show off. (It will, of course, be available in the non-MAS version, too).
marked, video
I’m pleased to have Infragistics as a sponsor this week. Their NucliOS toolset makes creating complex data-based iOS applications a breeze. If you develop mobile applications for iOS, you’ll want to check this out.
I love music. I love discovering new music. I love discovering old music. I didn’t have any guides to the world of music, really. I struck out on my own and found what I love by buying, trading and stealing until things made sense. And it all went backwards.
music, personal
Sponsor: OmniFocus 2 for Mac (May 22nd) A big thanks to Omni for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. OmniFocus 2 has a lot to offer! Markdown: here, let me show you (May 23rd) My video tutorial on Markdown is available now, check the post for a discount code! Because it’s my day off: just breathe (May 26th) My plecostomus fish was enjoying memorial day, so I made a video. It’s goofy, but I like it. Mirror your MindMeister maps to nvALT (May 27th) This is how I&rsquo…
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I had a great time talking with Brett Kelly (@inkedmn) this week. He’s recently gone independent, so it was another great chance for me to bounce some ideas about my own new work life off someone in the same boat (and maybe even offer some advice…).
podcast, systematic
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bookmarks, coffee, css, icons, launchbar, omnifocus, search
I hear frequently from people who are new to Markdown. While it’s not a terribly complex syntax, it can be a little hard to grasp when you’re starting from scratch. This is especially true if you don’t already have a background in HTML coding. So I made a video to help out.
markdown, video
