MG Siegler:
Look, at the end of the day all you have to think about is this: do you believe the services you’re using are out to exploit you? If so, don’t use them. Sure, a good TOS may be able to protect you from some of that, but hardly from all of it. If a company wants to fuck you, they’re going to figure out a way to fuck you. You shouldn’t be using a service that you think is trying to fuck you.
Ken Case:
Let’s start with OmniFocus 2! For OmniFocus 2, we’re bringing back to the Mac all of the design and innovation that went into our iPad edition of OmniFocus: dedicated Forecast and Review modes, clearer navigation, and a fresh look and feel. I’m looking forward to sharing it with you! At 6pm on January 31, you’re invited to join Merlin Mann, David Sparks, and me for the first public debut of OmniFocus 2.
Well, I’m $4 lighter.
My App.net iOS client of choice is out of beta and on the App Store for $5. If you’re a heavy user of the service, check it out.
I’m getting more and more excited about this update. Since April 21, 2011, I’ve invoked Alfred on my MacBook Pro 15,634 times. That’s an average 25.9 times per day.
On Ignore the Code:
You can’t make a complex application simple by adding a veneer of simplicity on top of it. in fact, that will just add to the confusion, because now you’re sending the user misleading signals about what’s really going on. Apple promised a «dramatically simplified new interface». They were right; the interface does look more simple. Unfortunately, this just makes the rest of iTunes all the much worse.
Another sweet looking mail client for iOS is on its way. When will Apple let users change the default app?
The Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry:
We are well aware that people are going to complain about missing features: push notifications and streaming are obvious examples. But so are trends, and video support, and in-line photos, and… well none of that matters. We believe in building opinionated software.
The product you have in your hands is what we wanted and needed it to be. As the tagline on the website says, “A simply beautiful way to tweet.” We achieved that goal.
Shawn Blanc looks at the latest version of the original Twitter client for iPhone.
Speaking of Alfred, Vero Pepperrell published this today:
In version 2, Alfred will be even more polished and user-friendly than ever. To achieve this, Andrew has rewritten Alfred from the ground up to make every aspect more efficient, more powerful and more flexible, reusing only around 15% of code from v1. Of course, we’ve also taken great care to ensure existing users would still feel at home with v2.
I’m excited. Alfred is one of the most-used apps on my MacBook Pro.
The weird little social recommendation network is closing its doors after being bought by Yahoo:
The update to the venerable Mac OS X editor includes Retina support and lots of other goodies. The in-app update mechanism seems to be falling over the moment, but this link will download the DMG directly.