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I’m still very happy using Cobook on my Mac and iPhone but frustrated by the lack of an iPad version. Today, Cobook universal version is available and it works just like Cobook for iPhone, which is just fine by me.

Brett Terpstra does some more magic with PopClip and now there’s a new PopClip extension for CriticMarkup. It’s really nice.

I love when great apps and developers get the attention they deserve. This interview with Greg Pierce is a nice bit of insight into one of my favorite apps.

Python API is just a page with links to Python modules and wrappers for various API’s. Go there, then make cool stuff.

Just look at these outlines. Just fantastic. I particularly like the Catch-22 outline at high resolution. By way of Taking Note

Check out the new browsable and searchable Editorial workflow repository. It’s excellent. The next update to Editorial will include an option for publishing workflows to the repository. I have three tips for publishing to the new site: Include your attribution Don’t hardcode login credentials Provide some documentation in the description and in any Python code

A hearty thanks to Encoding.com for sponsoring Macdrifter this week. They offer a pretty incredible service. It’s not just an API. There’s a number of desktop integrations available too. Pretty slick. Still encoding video with on-premise hardware? Encoding.com is the world’s fastest cloud encoding service. We’ve made proprietary optimizations for ingest, queue times, processing, and egress of your source content that rivals the fastest on-premise equipment, with infinite scalability.

Evernote for Windows just received a significant update that brings it into parity with the Mac version. The new version 5 now supports reminders, shortcuts, related notes and improved search. Not to mention the entire app is much nicer to look at. I like Evernote a lot and it’s a wonderful collaboration tool. It’s nice to have all the convenience and rich design I’m accustomed to on the Mac sitting in front of me on my Windows machine too.

My family really loves Miyazaki’s work. But I think he knows when you step down and when you push onward.

Sounds pretty horrible and not surprising: “Mission after mission was always just getting eight-inch dredgers, six-inch dredgers … and food supplies, quads, jeeps, out to the diamond dredging operation outside of Kamonia,” Hinkle told the film-makers.