Growl 1.4 is out with the first update in months. I welcome this. There were a number of SDK bugs that remained and I was concerned it had been abandoned. This looks like a good update. The preference panel received some much needed love.
The networking panel now provides an option to subscribe to alerts for a specific app on a remote machine.
There are some nice enhancements to the api.
Moom 3 is out with a new update.1 The latest revision provides optional screen edge snapping like in Windows 7. Drag a window to a screen edge to automatically snap and resize. It's not something I need with Moom, since I'm more of a keyboard navigator.
Moom also added an undo option. Accidentally move or resize a window? Drag the window a tiny bit and have it snap back to the previous window location.
The easiest way to un-hide the Library folder is to use PathFinder
Some of the deals are almost unbelievable.
Parallels 7 Civ 5 KeyCue 6 BusyCal ScreenFlow $50? I already own most of these and they are great.
An amazing new shell for the Mac (and normal Unix) from "Cory" at RidiculousFish.com. It appears to be feature complete and supports things like better autocompletion and better Man page access.
The documentation is extensive. I also like how self effacing the project is. For example, the project's tag-line:
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
FoldingText is a new app from Hog Bay Software. They make awesome stuff like WriteRoom. I have high hopes for this.
By way of the eminent Brett Terpstra
Erik over at TheMindfulBit has a nice tip for quickly connecting an ordinary keyboard to an iOS device by way of the Mac application Type2Phone.
I made one little modification. I added AirServer into the mix (no scripting to connect automatically though). Voilà, Tweetbot on the Mac.1
I can't really handle using it like this though. I keep trying to click on it with the mouse. It did let me pretend that I had Tweetbot for the Mac, which was a moment of bliss.
I'm adding to the cacophony of Coda blogging. It's good. It always been good. Every tweak on this site has been done with either Coda on my Mac or Textastic on my iPad. But Textastic is my least favorite way to work. Diet Coda1 is my new favorite.
Coda on the Mac is significantly better.
I kind of wish Panic made a note app for Dropbox. I guess if Dropbox ever provided direct SFTP login then Coda would work with it for text editing too.
I've accepted that eBooks are the future of reading. I say "accepted" because I was once a trophy reader. I prided myself on displaying the spoils of reading. I still have a large library of books on wood-pulp but I've abandoned them to their fate in my attic. There are thousands of books up there.
I stopped valuing the atoms in exchange of the ideas. The pleasure I once felt perusing my taxidermied collection of first editions and rare prints has been overwhelmed by the memories of moving boxes and cramped apartments.
This is kind of a "duh" tip but still one I use every day. I have several DuckDuckGo site specific searches in Launchbar. For this site, I just used the html parameters that show my own custom search results.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=*&sites=www.macdrifter.com&sort=date&kj=%23C0724F&k3=macdrifter&kx=%23C0724F&ky=t&kaa=%23919191&ka=a&kt=h&kk=s&ko=1&k9=%23A90101&kg=g But really the basic site search prototype in LaunchBar looks like this, where the asterisk indicates where LaunchBar will insert the search terms:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=*&sites=www.macdrifter.com Once it is saved and indexed:
