It's on sale today at MacUpdate for only $15. That's 50% off and a good deal. If you want a shock, run Little Snitch while you browse the web. It's amazing the kind of stuff advertisers are trying to load. Little Snitch will kill it all but tell you about it first.
This might be a "duh" tip, but it's news to me. From any space in OS X, right click on Safari in the dock and choose New Window. Boom, a new safari window in the current space. So many wasted hours moving Safari windows between spaces.
Such a great couple of weeks for Mac applications. Between Marked 1.4, Keyboard Maestro 5.2, Path Finder 6 and now Voodoo Pad 51 the Mac software future is looking very good.
There is also a new version of Voodoo Pad for iOS. Both versions sync via Dropbox. That's a very compelling solution for complex notes.
Voodoo Pad 5 is a major update to the wiki-style notepad app and it is only $25 for a short time.
RipIt is the best application I have used to rip DVD's. There has only been one disk it could not rip and that was rectified after an update.
It's on sale today for $10.
It just keeps getting better.
Full feature list here.
Serious upgrade in my opinion. The most significant are related to direct file manipulation actions. Even the small bits like "standardize path" and get the system idle time are great.
I keep a long list of macros that are in development. Many are on hold, waiting for features or me to write a shell script. This release will probably clear several out of the list.
I use about 5% of what Acorn can do for image editing, but what I use I love. Take, for example, Acorn's color picker. I use this regularly for tasks that have nothing to do with editing an image. I use it to grab the info about a specific color. I pop open Acorn's color panel with shift-cmd-C. I can then use the color picker by hovering over some pixel anywhere on the screen.
No question about it. I already purchased the upgrade to Path Finder. $5 off this week only. That makes it $15 to upgrade or $35 if you have never experienced the alternate reality of the Finder1. Path Finder has saved my bacon many times. Whenever I need to transfer a large number of files, or a few very large files, only Path Finder has been able to do it. That's just scratching the surface of the app.
I noticed this comment in the latest Default Folder X update:
Recent OpenMeta tags are now read separately from Leap and Yep because the new Mac App Store versions of these applications cannot share their recent tags via the standard OpenMeta mechanism.
I only use OpenMeta with one application, NVAlt. That's because NVAlt syncs Simplenote tags with OpenMeta. It's convenient because I have several Hazel rules that match the OpenMeta tags to trigger rules.
Go check your Mac updates. If you have ever used GoToMeeting or similar, then you have Java installed. Let's be safe out there kids.
By way of TUAW
Will Shipley and Dr. Drang both wrote smart articles about upgrades in the Mac App Store. I agree with Will that the lack of upgrade pricing may discourage developers from making significant changes to their applications. However, I think there is a big part of the user base that is still getting accustomed to paying for software at all, let alone for an upgrade. There's also a risk that less scrupulous developers will offer upgrade pricing instead of fixes and patches.
