AirParrot works as advertised. After some small hiccups with purchasing1 I was able to effortlessly stream my iMac display to an AppleTV 2 in another room. The streaming was smooth and high resolution. I was able to stream YouTube videos and DVD playback. Much like using VNC, there was no audio support. Only video is streamed. For $10 AirParrot is a great option for quickly sharing a Mac desktop with an AppleTV.
Want a quick and beautiful Markdown cheat sheet. Own Marked.app?
Visit the Byword markdown guide and download the source markdown file.2 If you prefer, you can download Fletcher Penny's MultiMarkdown documentation and use it instead or in addition to the Byword documentation.
Setup this AppleScript and trigger it with some kind of launcher (LaunchBar, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, whatever floats your boat).
tell application "Marked" activate open "/Volumes/Macintosh HD 2/Dropbox/Notes/Byword Markdown Cheat Sheet.
Leon Jacobs over at Ingenuity Lab has a brief overview of the apps and process he uses to write a Kindle book. Hint, it uses Scrivener.
AppStorm has a short review of the flash card application Mental Case. My wife uses this application for Law School and she likes it very much. That application is available for iPad, iPhone and Mac with syncing between. It has an unusual interface but also has some great tools for testing your knowledge.
If you're a Pinboard.in user I highly recommend the Pinboard Safari plugin from Mario Fischer. Nicely done.
It's mostly a preconfigured set of bookmarks with shortcuts but it's handy and does just what I want.
ChronoSync and ChronoSync Agent are the best backup system I have.1 This looks like a good update
By way of MacMegasite
Dropbox is NOT a backup ↩
I’ve posted previously about my Keyboard Maestro macro for posting files to this site. It’s still one of my work-horse macros. I use it nearly every day and usually multiple times a day. In short, this macro takes the finder selection and uploads it to the current months WordPress content folder and returns a url to the clipboard so I can paste it into a draft post. The entire process works via Transmit.
AppStorm has a good interview with Dustin MacDonald of Acrylic Software. Acrylic makes Pulp and Wallet for Mac and iOS. I always like to read about the creative people behind these indie companies. These people are the life-blood of iOS and OS X.
Brett has a relatively straight forward script to insert a link from an the Address Book entry to an NVAlt note. This is going to be extremely useful on the Mac and gives me all kinds of ideas.
For what it's worth, I usually keep notes about people in 1Password. I would feel horrible if some how my personal notes got out. Their not bad notes, but some of the notes contain social security numbers for my family as well as their WiFi passwords for when I visit (or they forget it and call me).
If you were going to buy Parallels 7 anyway, this is a good deal. If you wanted any of the other applications, then it is a great deal.
