This is the kind of post I love. Dr. Drang talks about TableFlip for Mac and MultiMarkdown tables. I’m a huge fan of MultiMarkdown tables, which is a weird sentence to write. It’s how I create my crib sheets.1 I think TableFlip is the easiest way to work with MultiMarkdown tables, by far. When I’m on my Mac, it’s mostly what I use now.2 But, as a Sublime Text user, I’m also a huge fan of the Table Editor plugin even though it’s no longer supported (damn you vim).

Amazon introduced several new photo features for Prime members. The first big one is a new family sharing option. This looks to be a really convenient way for family members to share the unlimited Amazon Drive storage and also keep shared albums. The semantic search looks great. Similar to Apple and Google, Amazon is attempting to recognize the context of photos and surface the perfect result from a text search. In my very brief testing, it works as described.

It’s nice to see Dropbox working on core features again. I haven’t been thrilled with what they are doing on the Mac but iOS is getting some new stuff today. The last time I used the iOS Dropbox app was to authenticate another app to use Dropbox. Hopefully this is a new focus for them.

OmniGraffle is such a generally useful application that I stay in step with every upgrade. Now version 7 is out and I’m all in with the Pro version. I use OmniGraffle for a thousand different things each year. For example, I used it to plan out a new kitchen with the awesome scale features. I also use it to create nice visual effects like magnifier callouts for images. Now version 7 brings some big new features like SVG import, infinite canvas and a new point editor for shapes.

Fujitsu’s ScanSnap announced a future fix in the works for their PDF creation tools on Sierra for Mac. While this issue is manifested by changes resident in macOS Sierra with how certain PDF content is influenced when it is modified using the new OS, Fujitsu is working to resolve both ends of this issue. To start, Fujitsu will take the initial action to fix select applications that will allow ScanSnap to be used to create new PDF content going forward that is safe to modify on macOS Sierra.

Mr. Reader was my absolute favorite RSS reader on iOS. But, let’s face it, the RSS reader market is a rough road to travel. Now, Mr. Reader has been discontinued and removed from the App Store which is a pretty sad day for the intersection of iPad users and super RSS nerds. By way of @roguemonk on Twitter

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If you’re interested in what an actually researcher thinks of the Microsoft announcement about intering the oncology research fied, there’s no better blog to turn to than In the Pipeline: Put shortly – and these sorts of stories tend to put actual oncology researchers in a pretty short mood – the cell/computer analogy is too facile to be useful. And that goes, with chocolate sprinkles on it, for all the subsidiary analogies, such as DNA/source code, disease/bug, etc.

For those unaware, one of the highest profile security researchers and bloggers was hit with the largest DDoS attack in history. It was so massive that it impacted Akamai and they removed support for his website, which is a dramatic accomplishment that may portend an unwelcome future for the internet and free speech. Today, he has a follow up post The Democratization of Censorship: John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

This is a follow up to a previous post. My own testing shows that there’s no issue with my ScanSnap and DEVONthink Pro Office. My interpretation is that the main issue is with scanning to Preview.app from the ScanSnap software. Use at your own risk but I’ve been a happy DEVONthink Pro Office user for many years.