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Inbox Zero
Inbox Zero I’ve been keeping my e-mail inbox at zero for a couple of years now. But while watching Merlin’s Inbox Zero talk at Google, I decided to also max-simplify the mailboxes I use to archive my...
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LaunchBar 4.3
I love, love, love LaunchBar. If I ever have to use a machine where it’s not running, I actually panic for a couple of seconds… I can’t launch any apps!! Then I remember that thing called Finder. For...
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HP Software Continues To Be Garbage
HP Customer Participation We hooked up the HP scanner to the lady’s PowerBook last night, and we got this window. In the year 2007, even on Unicodey, natively-international Mac OS X, HP’s "Customer...
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Cover Flow’s transparency detection
Mac OS X’s new Cover Flow feature seems to be doing some interesting analysis of your icons. Normally a Mac OS X icon has a shadow below it; if the icon were drawn normally, there would be a gap...
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Cover Flow’s transparency detection
Mac OS X’s new Cover Flow feature seems to be doing some interesting analysis of your icons. Normally a Mac OS X icon has a shadow below it; if the icon were drawn normally, there would be a gap...
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""" iPhone Software Version 1.1.2 This version of the software includes additional new features, bug fixes and supersedes all previous versions. """ Please use the serial comma. Omitting it is asking...
View ArticleC’mon Apple
“”" iPhone Software Version 1.1.2 This version of the software includes additional new features, bug fixes and supersedes all previous versions. “”" Please use the serial comma. Omitting it is asking...
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iSnoop package tracking
Whoa, I just found a really neat universal package tracking app which: Uses Google Maps to show the progress of your package around the planet Offers RSS for keeping track of your package Seems to...
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D&D meets OmniGraffle
I finally posted the beginnings of my D&D kit for OmniGraffle. Maybe someone will notice it and encourage me to keep expanding it with more and more fun and useful gaming resources. Check it out!...
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I made an AppleScript for OmniGraffle. Create a table. Give the first cell of the first row the fill color you want. Give the first cell of the second row the other fill color you want. Select the...
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Last.fm history chart in OmniGraffle
So I looked at the Information Aesthetics post about graphing out one’s music listening history from last.fm. It’s pretty neat, but of the two tools available for drawing these kinds of graphs, one is...
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Delicious Library 2 is not that good
I am doing my best to be impartial. Here are the notes I made as I tried out this app for the first time. The first thing you see when you open the app is a message that the graphics will not work...
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Shelf 2: OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner as media library
Shelf 2 screenshot I found that none of the media library applications out there really worked well for me, so I set out to create my own solution using OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and Python (via...
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iTunes 8 Jpop thumbnail
I’m impressed with the appearance of iTunes 8, especially the new grid view. But here’s the hideous image iTunes 8 uses to represent the “Jpop” genre. I’m pretty glad I don’t use the genre feature at...
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Escape from spell checking in Mac OS X once and for all
The condescending dotted red underlines were driving me insane. It seemed like nearly every time I typed anything, the computer was chastising me, “WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!” It’s surprisingly out of line...
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Unison 2 Color & Contrast
[Panic](http://www.panic.com) continues to make me grumble in envy at their tasteful, forward-looking app design. Today they released [Unison 2](http://www.panic.com/unison/), and as is their way, they...
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Somewhere around age 7, I’m still trying to nail down exactly when, I started programming. Not because I’m super smart, but because I was so lucky as to have a Mac Plus in the house. By watching my...
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I got into a Twitter debate with Lukas Mathis, my favorite writer about software design. It is really hard to have a proper debate on Twitter! I thought I should lay out my thoughts, and my...
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iTunes 11 for People Who Love Albums
It took a few days, but with some experimentation and some help from friends, I think I have arrived at an iTunes 11 workflow that respects and enshrines albums as much as I want it to. Adapting to a...
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