This is by far the best OS X App.net client I’ve seen so far.
Category: Apps
The Magazine Gains Sharing and Web Subscriptions ⇢
Marco:
I hastily built a basic site while I was waiting for the app to be approved. I only needed it to do two things: send people to the App Store, and show something at the sharing URLs for each article. Since The Magazine had no ads, and people could only subscribe in the app, I figured there was no reason to show full article text on the site — it could only lose money and dilute the value of subscribing.
Original Photoshop Source Code Available ⇢
Bryan Bishop:
The Computer Science Museum is offering the source code for Photoshop 1.0.1 for the Mac with Adobe’s blessing. It’s for non-commercial use, though it’s not something you’re going to be able to run out of the gate — aside from operating system and architecture issues, the MacApp libraries that were licensed from Apple at the time are not included. It consists of about 128,000 lines of code, the majority of which were written in the Pascal programming language.
Why I’m the Perfect Mailbox Customer
- I just linked to it on my popular blog.
- I signed up for an account.
- I probably won’t ever use it, because OmniFocus Mail Drop works well for me when it comes to reminding me to deal with my email.
The OmniFocus 2 Debut Video ⇢
Be still, my heart.
Paper Users Waste Everyone’s Time, Duh ⇢
Alexandra Samuel at Harvard Business Review’s “Blog Network:”
I knew right away, when you walked in here with a paper notebook — a paper notebook! — I realized that this meeting was not going to be a good use of our time.
You’d make better use of your time if you took your notes in digital form, ideally in an access-anywhere digital notebook like Evernote that makes retrieval a snap. If you had that, I could shoot you the link of the book I want you to read, or the contact card of the person you want to meet. And if you planned to act any of the ideas or outcomes from this meeting, you would want to pop the follow-up tasks into your task management program.
Twitter Data ‘Accessed;’ 250,000 User Passwords Reset ⇢
Bob Lord:
This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information – usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords – for approximately 250,000 users.
OmniFocus 2 Unveiled ⇢
At an event in San Francisco last night, the OmniGroup unveiled OmniFocus 2, a giant update to the venerable GTD app for the Mac.
The new version looks great. While I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, it looks like the guys at the OmniGroup have kept OmniFocus as powerful as ever, but in a much better looking and powerful design.
The new version the same as the old — $79.99 — but with a twist:
Gabe Weatherhead, on Automattic Buying Simplenote ⇢
Today I feel like a jilted lover stalking their ex. I continue to check the developer discussion board and see many repeat complaints about bad syncing and data corruption. If you want to get a feel for how well a service is doing, Twitter searches are a great way to do it. Because I miss the halcyon days of great Simplenote syncing, I search Twitter for “simplenote” regularly. I see a lot of people leaving Simplenote because of corrupted data. That has the smell of rot and makes me sad.
App Review: Check the Weather
I’m a huge weather nerd. In high school, I got certified via Skywarn. Some buddies and I almost got killed one night chasing a tornado an hour or so east of Memphis. (That’s a story for a different time.)
That said, I’ve never been really happy with a weather app on my iPhone until I came across the simply-named Check the Weather.
The app uses GPS (or pre-saved locations) to pull up the correct weather information. The main screen shows the current state of things, with a look ahead at the day, as well as the next three days.
Poster 2.0 Released ⇢
For months, Poster has been my go-to app for posting to 512 Pixels when on an iOS device.
Today, the app hits version 2.0. The new version includes lots of helpful goodies. If you run a WordPress site, this $3 app is well worth the money.
Be sure to check out Viticci’s review of the update.
Aperture X Coming? ⇢
This isn’t the first time a book has popped up leaking a software announcement from Apple. I used Aperture 3 for ages, but last year started storing all my photos on Dropbox. While time will tell if I ever go back to Aperture, there’s no denying the current app is feeling forgotten.