Category: Sponsor

Instead of running RSS sponsorships this month, I’m raising money in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to learn more and donate.

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When our son was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2009, we were thrust into the world of chemotherapy. As some of you heartbreakingly know, chemo is rough. The meds are brutal, and the side effects are enough to make anyone fall to their knees and plead for mercy. Josiah was just 7 months old when he got his first round of chemotherapy.

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Instead of running RSS sponsorships this month, I’m raising money in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to learn more and donate.

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In addition to the fully-paid care that St. Jude provides for its patients and their families, St. Jude is a world-class research institution:

The research resources and core facilities at St. Jude are truly extraordinary. From state-of-the-art technologies to expert support, our shared resources are designed to expand the capabilities of each research group, freeing investigators to pursue innovative ideas.

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I just got an email that my original St. Jude fundraising goal of $8,000 has been met in just nine days!

My goal was to raise $1,000 for every year of our oldest son’s life, to honor what he has been through and the progress he continues to make. I think it’s awesome that we hit the goal so quickly.

A deep thank you to everyone has donated so far. It’s humbling and encouraging to see so many names on that fundraising page.

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Instead of running RSS sponsorships this month, I’m raising money in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to learn more and donate.

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I can’t believe it’s only been a year since the last time September rolled around, but that’s what time does when you’re a parent. It speeds up, leaving you behind if you aren’t careful.

It’s worse when you have a child with a catastrophic disease. When I scroll back through photos of our oldest son, so many of them are tinted by his experience.

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Qbserve helps improve your productivity by giving you a picture of your time spending patterns. It provides instant feedback on your performance by watching the sites and apps you use.

Qbserve stores all the tracked data privately on your machine and doesn’t require subscription. It is currently focused on self-management but business features like project tracking and billing are also coming soon.

Try it for free and see where your time goes. Use coupon 512PIXELS on checkout for 25% off in September.

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Obscura is a camera app for iOS. A really great camera app. What makes it great? Obscura was designed, not just as a handful of features that photography geeks care about, but instead to make it easy to take great photos.

Obscura has always given you powerful manual control over ISO, exposure, focus, and shutter speed, as well as beautiful filters and ergonomic controls like no other.

New in the latest major update are gesture-based exposure and focus controls that offer effortless adjustments to those settings with just a swipe of your thumb, letting you quickly get the perfect image no matter the conditions. But don’t worry, great auto-focus and auto-exposure controls are there for more casual shooting.

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This week, save 25% on your choice of some of the best and most interesting tools for writers, designers, and thinkers. Get great prices, straight from the developers — no bundles, games or gimmicks.

• Tinderbox: the tool for notes.
• Storyspace: serious hypertext narrative
• DEVONthink Pro Office: document management reinvented
• Nisus Writer Pro: the powerful word processor for OS X.
• Scrivener: grow your ideas in style.
• Bookends: the reference manager you’ve been looking for.
• Aeon Timeline 2: the timeline tool for creative thinking.
• Taskpaper: make lists and get organized
• BBEdit: power tool for text
• TextExpander: type more with less effort
• Scapple: quickly capture and connect ideas
• PDFpen: powerful pdf editing
• WriteRoom: write without distractions
• HoudahSpot: powerful file search
• Take Control Books: the answers that you need now.

Summer’s the time for new plans and fresh projects and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, or writing memories for your grandkids, these great tools will help.

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Have you ever spent all day in front of your Mac, just to wonder where the heck all that time went?

Have you tried to bill a client, but couldn’t reconstruct how many hours you spent working for them?

You could use a time tracker, but to be honest, manual time tracking sucks.

You have to start and stop timers, enter what you did, and so on.

And if you forget that, you are back to square one.

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Ever forgotten to attach some files to your email, although you mentioned them in the text? Or sent an email to a wrong person?

If your answer is ‘yes’, then MailButler is just the right thing for you, because it has your back while you’re working with Apple Mail. It saves you some very common, and very annoying mistakes, and helps you organize and optimize your email correspondence.

MailButler is an add-on, which adds many great productivity boosting features to your Apple Mail. Among them is the ability to schedule, undo, and track emails, convert emails to notes, upload email attachments regardless of size, and more. The developers plan to add new things to this list.

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Working Copy is a powerful Git client for iPhone & iPad. It lets you clone repositories, edit files, commit changes and resolve conflicts. Other applications can open files inside Working Copy, granting Git access to all of iOS.

Having Git on both your regular computers and your iOS device is the ideal bridge between traditional and post PC computing. Work with the latest tools on iOS to embrace the future without leaving the stability of your current setup behind.

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If you do any work with audio on your Mac, Audio Hijack is for you. With it, you can record any application’s audio and get an audio file for use wherever you like.

If you can hear it, Audio Hijack can record it.

Podcasters the world over use Audio Hijack to record their shows. Whether it’s simply capturing their own mic and applying audio effects, or record Skype conversations, Audio Hijack is a podcaster’s best friend. Of course, you don’t need to be creating content to make good use of Audio Hijack. You can save a Skype conversation with an elderly relative, record a web stream from Safari, and so much more.

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Codescanza is an iPhone app that stores all those loyalty cards or other codes that you can’t add to Apple Wallet.

Codes that you scan or import can be accessed instantly in Notification Center (without unlocking your phone) or by swiping up on an Apple Watch.

With Codescanza 1.2 you can also add codes directly to Apple Wallet, and if you specify a location they’ll appear automatically on your lock screen or Apple Watch whenever you’re nearby.

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