CriticMarkup was unveiled a little bit ago, and it was intriguing but not immediately useful to me at the time. Since then I’ve been playing with the MultiMarkdown Composer beta (available to owners of version 2), which includes a basic “change tracking” feature supporting full CriticMarkup syntax as you type. I’m sold.
criticmarkup, markdown, marked, multimarkdown
I’m late posting this. The episode went up on time (Tuesday), but the post about the episode is… behind schedule. Carla White was a great guest, and we had a high-energy talk about how a non-developer can take an app idea from start to finish and put quality apps out on the app store.
podcast, systematic
Mad Mimi is a design-oriented email newsletter service founded in 2008. Developed to provide a mobile-app-like feel, and with a drag-and-drop email composer, Mad Mimi offers a simple, elegant user experience that helps customers create, send, and track beautiful html email campaigns.
I’ve mentioned EventScripts before, but I’m finding it awesome enough lately to mention again. I use it in tandem with BetterTouchTool, but for different purposes.
bluetooth, ios, iphone, macos, proximity
Ok, this will be the last update to Sidecar for a little while (no promises). 1.5 seems like a nice number to hold at while I work on some other projects. I’ve put enough hours into a project with a very limited audience to feel mildly guilty, but I’m having a lot of fun with this. Hey, I respect your life choices.
jacket, sideshow, simplify
I was considering adding a feature to Jekyll that would let me provide “.txt” links that return Markdown versions of posts the way that MacDrifter’s Pelican install does and I’m pretty sure Gruber used to. I got bored with the idea of writing a generator for it, so I hacked a workaround that turned into something quite different from the original objective. That happens a lot.
experiments, markdown, marky, nvalt
The ZenDock kickstarter campaign has made quite a splash around the big Mac news sites. I was feeling a little left out, as it was designed for MacBook Pros and I had just shipped my last one off to my brother and moved everything to a 13” Air. Then, in the last 48 hours of the campaign, ZenBoxx announced a little brother to the ZenDock: ZenDock Air.
hardware
Sidecar 1.4 is up. I really should save these changes up and make larger releases, but this is fun. I’m playing a little more with the controls and color variations, so this does add some fun stuff.
sideshow, simplify
PDFpenPro is the advanced version of PDFpen. PDFpenPro does everything that PDFpen does, such as add signatures, edit text and images, perform OCR on scanned documents and export Microsoft Word documents. It also has the ability to create a PDF form, build a table of contents, and convert HTML files to PDF.
I’ve updated Planter to 1.3 with a few new features. Previously, it created directory structures based on tab-indented folder trees in plain text, using either the command line or LaunchBar (original post, and the LaunchBar version). Now, it handles file templates as well as slightly more advanced variables.
planter, ruby, scripting
I had a great time getting to know Stu Maschwitz today. He’s a filmmaker with an impressive list of credits, and also the creator of a new plain-text screenwriting app called Slugline.
podcast, systematic
I mentioned Write — a Markdown text editor with a ton of sharing options — a while ago, and I was impressed with it overall. A new version just came out, and an iPad version to go with it. It’s not just a companion app, though. In addition to a round of bug fixes, there’s something else really neat going on here.
appreview, ios, ipad, iphone, texteditor
