I left a comment in response to a note from the Ulysses guys on my “dream Markdown editor” piece. It just said “I want a beta.” They let me know they heard me by publishing the quote on their devblog. Today, they gave me a beta, and a hilarious T-shirt:
apps, wwdc
One day into WWDC and I already have a couple of clandestine software previews lined up. For an app junky like me, that’s a sweet score. I’ll be sure to get the minimum embargo information and let you all know as much as I can about the previews I get.
personal, wwdc
I’m heading to WWDC today. I’m going as blogger and tech support for Engadget and TUAW, but I’m hoping to have free time to hang out with all the cool bloggers and devs, especially later in the week after the fervor surrounding Monday dies down a little. I’m around through Friday; if you want to grab a bite/drink and haven’t already contacted me, let me know!
personal, wwdc
I just want to point out that the current Bundle Hunt bundle is awesome. I own (and love) every app included and have half of the books, icons and themes or I’d buy it myself right now. If you’re missing more than $50 worth of the bundled items, it’s worth it. You can always gift redundant licenses to friends in need.
apps, bundle, macos, sale
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about my current Mac-based setup, have a look at my “Sweet Mac Setup”, part of Shawn Blanc’s series of the same name.
interview, macos
I don’t screencast a lot, but I do it enough to have a set pattern for preparing to record. I automated the process a few months ago and figured I’d share it.
applescript, automation, launchbar, scripting, terminal
I’ve been waiting to write about Found since the last WWDC. I got a preview then, and a few months later got a beta copy. It’s pretty amazing.
appreview, dropbox, macos, search, spotlight
I’ve been testing an app called Trickster for a bit now, and it’s publicly available today (just in time to be included in the impressive Productive Macs bundle). It’s a revamp of Apparent Software’s predecessor app, Blast.
appreview, macos, spotlight, utility
This is a quick mention of an iPhone app that I’ve been trying out and have come to really like. It’s called Slow Feeds, and it’s a special kind of RSS reader. It’s a beautiful interface and syncs with Google Reader, but its primary goal is a unique vision: sort and highlight feeds with lower post volumes so they don’t get lost in the river of news.
appreview, iphone
I’ve been meaning to write about Textastic for almost a year now. I’m easily distracted by shiny objects, so some things take a while. In the meantime, this app has only gotten better. It’s in the iTextEditors chart, but I think it deserves a special mention. I’ll try to write up a few more of my favorites before another year passes me by.
appreview, ios, ipad, markdown, text, writing
I did a little hacking on Marked today and thought I’d share the results. I haven’t been able to get an official incremental find working in Webkit; it only wants to work on editable text and forcing the find API yields very unsatisfactory results (as you can see in the current version of Marked by hitting F, searching and then using G to jump to the first result). Out of frustration, I decided to build the damn thing in CSS and JavaScript. It worked.
css, javascript, marked, video
I joined Myke and Terry again today to discuss a whole bunch of stuff I don’t know nearly as much about as I should. Please take the episode title as sarcastically as possible.
interview, podcast
I have to admit, I get a tiny bit annoyed when I see people blog about “going back to paper.” It always feels a bit like they’re just trying to buck a trend1. That being said, I appreciate paper for its two strongest points: speed and ubiquity. I can almost always find something to write on faster than I can load up a notes app on my iPhone. If I need to write something down fast, it’s going on paper. I get it. I don’t write anything long form on paper, but I do touch the…
notes, paper, review
xmlformat: XML Document Formatter In working with RSS feeds for the various sites I work on I often use to pull down raw feeds without any of my default browser handlers interfering. This little CLI is easy to pipe the output through and get much, much more readable results (and work better with and as well). sysutils/waiton Available through , this little command line utility lets you wait for events from kqueue before proceeding with a script. I’ve been looking for a simple…
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