Helium is a free Mac app that enables Picture in Picture on OS X. Open it, feed it a URL or video file and it’ll play in a borderless window anywhere on screen.
Category: Apps
Creative Cloud nuking hidden folder content ⇢
We’ve encountered an issue on the Mac where Adobe Creative Cloud appears to be removing the contents of the first hidden folder at the root of the drive, in alphabetic order. By happenstance, the first hidden folder on most Backblaze customer’s internal drive is the .bzvol folder.
WTF, Adobe. This is why we can’t have nice things; I guess this is a vote in favor of enforced sandboxing on the Mac.
Happiness is a podcasting family ⇢
Myke Hurley, writing at iMore:
The fact that we have computers in our pockets now — on our person at all times — means that we are all just a tap away from each other. And since we have hosts who live all over the world, there’s someone online at practically any time of the day or night. That’s powerful, and that’s why I love my Apple devices. They not only help me do my work in a practical sense; they also help me stay connected to the people that are most important in my life.
Remember the Milk gets giant overhaul ⇢
Remember the Milk was the first task manager I ever used. Like Gabe, I used Remember the Milk for years. I upgraded to their Pro service way back on July 24, 2008 and have close to 6,000 completed tasks logged there.
The service fell behind, though, and I moved on, but now, it’s back with a huge update. With an all-new look and new apps, the service offers features found in other systems, including start dates, task sharing, subtasks and more. Remember the Milk had things like plain-English parsing and amazing search operators well before anyone else, and these have been updated as well.
Day One 2 released ⇢
Day One 2 is now out as a new, paid upgrade to the excellent Mac and iOS journaling app. The new version supports multiple photos per journal entry, multiple journals and a more powerful filter system.
I’ve been using the betas for a while, and have been impressed. Day One has been a constant on my iPhone’s homescreen for years, and I’m happy to pay again for an app that means so much to me.
Apple releases Music Memos and GargeBand 2.1 for iOS ⇢
Jim Dalrymple has the details. Music Memos looks really neat.
f.lux responds to Apple’s Night Shift
The developers of f.lux, responding to Night Shift, the iOS 9.3 feature that’s … uh … very much like their app:
Today we call on Apple to allow us to release f.lux on iOS, to open up access to the features announced this week, and to support our goal of furthering research in sleep and chronobiology.
As we continue to innovate and improve upon our ideas, we remain hopeful that we will have the opportunity to offer our best, new work to everyone who wants it. We’ve learned that people’s lives, biology, and everyday routines are incredibly, wonderfully different, and these differences must be embraced. There is not one right answer for everyone, so we are committed to making software that’s ever more adaptive and responsive to each individual’s needs.
Interact ⇢
If you need more than what iOS’ built-in Contacts.app allows you to do, Greg Pierce’s new app piece of wizardry is for you:
Interact empowers you and your contacts to get more done in less time, with features like group management, one-tap contact creation, and more you won’t find in the built-in iOS Contacts app.
I was able to beta test this app, and it really is amazing what you can do with your contact data right from an iPhone with this app. Go check it out.
Twitter for Mac 4.0 shipped ⇢
Viticci switches to 2Do ⇢
I’m pretty happy in OmniFocus, but this app looks insanely powerful.
Dropbox to discontinue Mailbox and Carousel ⇢
Earlier today, Dropbox announced that Mailbox and Carousel are being discontinued:
The Carousel and Mailbox teams have built products that are loved by many people and their work will continue to have an impact. We’ll be taking key features from Carousel back to the place where your photos live—in the Dropbox app. We’ll also be using what we’ve learned from Mailbox to build new ways to communicate and collaborate on Dropbox (you can see early signs of this focus with Paper).
Sketch is leaving the Mac App Store ⇢
We’ve been considering our options for some time. Over the last year, as we’ve made great progress with Sketch, the customer experience on the Mac App Store hasn’t evolved like its iOS counterpart. We want to continue to be a responsive, approachable, and easily-reached company, and selling Sketch directly allows us to give you a better experience.
We don’t expect this decision to be unanimously popular, but we want to share how we arrived at it. We take your satisfaction and support seriously, and hope you can understand the choice we have made.