Nice article, but the photo of him on vacation feels a little backhanded.
Category: Apps
Things 2.0 Lands ⇢
Things, the GTD app of choice for many nerds has hit version 2.0. From the Cultured Code blog:
Today is a big day in Things’ history. It sees major updates for all our clients, as well as the long awaited Things Cloud release. Many of you have been looking forward to this, and I want to thank you for your patience. We have been working hard on these updates and we are truly excited to be releasing them today.
TextMate 2 Goes Open Source ⇢
Allan Odgaard:
I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environment, my ability to do this is what got me excited about programming in the first place, and it is why I created the bundles concept, but there are limits to how much a bundle can do, and with the still growing user base, I think the best move forward is to open source the program.
While Odgaard hasn’t declared this the death of the text editor, it doesn’t give me much hope about its future.
On Instacast and iCloud ⇢
Martin Hering:
We are using a technique known as document storage. Instacast simply saves its state into one single document that is pushed to other devices. Using this document Instacast on other devices can be updated accordingly. That’s the theory.
In practice there are a lot of pitfalls.
This is a great article outlining what it’s like for developers to use iCloud day to day. It seems like the service has a way to go in terms of robustness when it comes to certain use cases.
All Hail Slogger ⇢
Holy Brett Terpstra, Batman.
On The Future of CandyBar ⇢
I used to pimp the crap out of my PowerBook with this little app. Sad day.
Day One 1.8 Released ⇢
The new Day One update is here, and it’s pretty great.
The new update expands the app’s capabilities from just text entry. Now, journal entries can include location, photos and even the weather.
I work on a Mac all day long, and for me at least, journalizing at my computer has never been successful. I always have a notebook in my back pocket, and more often then not, if I journal, that’s where it happens. With the new Day One, I can snap a photo of my page and file it away.
How to Remap ‘iCal’ and ‘Address Book’ in Alfred
On Chocolat ⇢
I’ve been using Chocolat as my text editor for several weeks, and have been pretty impressed by it. It’s fast, good-looking and works a lot like TextMate.
And it has an awesome Easter Egg in its “About” screen:
Mountain Lion Adds New Terminal Commands For Sleep, Sharing & More ⇢
TJ Luoma at TUAW has the details. Lots of good stuff, but I’ll still be running Homebrew as well.
Nike+ FuelBand iOS App Updated ⇢
I’ve been using a Fuelband for about 10 days now, and I can confirm what Matthew writes — the app is way faster than it was.
On the Mac App Store ⇢
Marco Arment:
But now, I’ve lost all confidence that the apps I buy in the App Store today will still be there next month or next year. The advantages of buying from the App Store are mostly gone now. My confidence in the App Store, as a customer, has evaporated.
Next time I buy an app that’s available both in and out of the Store, I’ll probably choose to buy it directly from the vendor.