I’ve created a forum for discussing all things nerdy, the BrettTerpstra.com Forum. I wanted a place to have conversations about my various projects, but also to allow more interaction with my readers. I’ll be active on it, and I hope you will too.
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($59 value each) for Scrivener. Scrivener is the ultimate app for writers. Organize your story, add research, and get to writing with full support for notes, links, footnotes, rich text, Markdown and so much more. With story organization features, character tracking, and a complete set of writing tools, it’s the most fully-fledged writing app you’ll find. Get ready for NaNoWriMo! (By the way, it also integrates well with…
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A long time ago I published a tool called iTunesIcon that would grab an app icon from iTunes. It worked well in its time, but has been mostly broken in recent years. It was designed mostly for writers who were reviewing apps and needed to get an app’s icon for artwork, but could be used by anyone with a need for such things.
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 1-year subscriptions ($39.96 value each) for TextExpander. TextExpander is a long-time supporter of BrettTerpstra.com and I’m very proud of that. It’s the first app I install on a new Mac and I almost can’t function without it. It saves me untold hours of typing, and with its shell scripting capabilities it goes well beyond simple text expansion.
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You may have noticed I’m running a series of giveaways on this blog. Literally every developer I’ve reached out to has been willing to put up 1-10 licenses or 1-year subscriptions for their app, and I’m extremely pleased with the list I’ve put together. In an effort to keep track of all of them, I’ve built some (if I do say so myself) impressive automation around this project, and I thought I’d share. It’s some mad science, but it’s working great…
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Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! When it comes to focusing my attention, nothing helps avoid mundane distractions better than not having to repeat myself in emails, type out common urls, or fix my most common misspellings. TextExpander brings all of these features to your whole team.
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a Pro license ($69.99 value) for Hookmark. Hookmark is the ultimate tool for keeping track of all of your stuff. Your links, your notes, your documents, your tasks… Hookmark makes everything linkable and provides easy navigation between related objects. It takes a minute to work it into your workflow, but once you do, you’ll wonder how you lived without it.
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