RSS Sponsor: Ita⇢

Thanks to Nice Mohawk for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week! — SH


Ita is a brand new list-making app that’s designed to make it fast and simple to collect and organize information. You can drag items to rearrange them, tap to mark items completed, and add multiple items quickly, all from the main list view. If you make lists, you’ll love how fast Ita makes it to collect and complete your stuff.

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RSS Sponsor: TextExpander⇢

Thanks to Smile for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week! — SH


The new TextExpander 4 from Smile dramatically increases the options for automating your work with advanced “fill-in” snippet types. They are great for creating form letter templates that can be personalized on the fly. Check out the video demo and see the new multi-line text fields, multiple choice popups, and optional text blocks in action.

Registered TextExpander users can upgrade for $15. (There’s no charge for the upgrade if you purchased after January 15, 2012.)

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RSS Sponsor: Igloo Software⇢

Thanks to Igloo Software for once again sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week. Be sure to check them out, as they’re giving away a set of my favorite notebooks! - SH


“That’s no moon. It’s a corporate intranet!”

… 6 months later …

“I felt a great disturbance in our company – as if hundreds of employees cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

Your intranet doesn’t have to suck. At Igloo, we built a new intranet platform that combines social technologies with document management in a beautiful, usable digital workplace.

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RSS Sponsor: Wet Frog Studios →

Thanks to Aaron at Wet Frog Studio for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed! — SH


Your mom was wrong.

She told you not to judge a book by its cover. But everyone does it. And if you sell an app, publish a book, run a business or write a blog, you need to put your best foot forward.

Thankfully, this week’s sponsor is Aaron Mahnke from Wet Frog Studios. Aaron designs brands for developers, authors, writers and businesses. And he does a really good job. Want proof? Check out the cover of my book, Bartending, or the best-selling iPhone app Drafts. Ever read an article over at Minimal Mac? Yeah, he did that, too.

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RSS Sponsor: OmniPlan for iPad →

Thanks to the OmniGroup for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week! — SH


Sarah wakes up, prepares a full breakfast, and fires up her standard suite for design. Two new, time-consuming projects this week — it’s time to start planning much further than was previously warranted. Should’ve started yesterday.

OmniPlan for iPad is perfect for this. An intuitive interface keeps unnecessary controls out of your way until you need them, and you don’t have to become an expert in another field.

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RSS Sponsor: Fantastical →

Thanks to Flexibits for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week. - SH


Fantastical is the Mac calendar app you’ll actually love to use. Type in that you have “Lunch with John on Friday at 1pm” and Fantastical will schedule it! Or type in that you need to “Buy milk by Tuesday” and Fantastical will create a reminder with a due date!

Fantastical’s natural language event/reminder creation, beautiful calendar, and gorgeous list make it the best calendar you’ll ever use. Stay on top of your schedule with features like native CalDAV support, automatic alarms for new events, iCal and iOS reminder support, and instant search.

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RSS Sponsor: Sudoku Touch →

Thanks to Shiny Things for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week!


Sudoku Touch is the world’s simplest Sudoku, incorporating an innovative and clean interface, 5 levels of difficulty and gorgeous retina graphics. Powered by advanced handwriting recognition, Sudoku Touch is a joy to use. It is available today at a special price of 99¢ from the App Store. It works on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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RSS Sponsor: Igloo →

You can work better, not just harder, with a collaborative intranet like Igloo.

An intranet should help you:

  1. Access the information you need – anywhere, on any device
  2. Co-author documents, track versions and get approvals in one place, without barraging you with email
  3. Discuss ideas openly (or privately)
  4. Ask questions as easily as popping over the cubicle wall
  5. Replace meetings by narrating your work

Intranet doesn’t have to be a bad word.

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RSS Sponsor: Igloo Software →

Thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week!


Work isn’t a place – it’s what you do.

And you might work on a lot of devices – a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad – in a lot of places. You might work on the road or maybe from home (with your Aeropress and clickity keyboard). And that makes it hard to securely use a shared drive, coordinate with clients and collaborate with your team.

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RSS Sponsor: Drafts for iOS →

Thanks to Agile Tortoise for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week!


Drafts is the quick way to capture and share ideas on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Drafts reduces the friction between you and that next great tweet, email, task. Drafts opens with a new ready to edit draft – enter your text, and you’ve captured that thought. When you’re ready to do something with that idea, Drafts offers a growing set of output options: Tweet, Email, Message, Export – or send to other apps like OmniFocus, Things, Tweetbot and more.

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Sponsor: Minigroup →

Thanks to Minigroup for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week.


Braizen uses Minigroup to manage projects and collaborate and communicate with their clients.

A minigroup is a private, secure online space where members communicate with posts and comments, share large files, and manage projects.

Braizen uses one minigroup like an intranet, to discuss business and assign tasks. They also create separate minigroups for each client, where employees working on various accounts present comp designs and drafts.

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