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Looks like MacUpdate is having a sale on PDFPenPro. 50% off makes it a cool $49. It's a great application and FAR better than Acrobat. If you have any need to edit, OCR or manipulate PDF's this is the application to get.

Fake[1] is so much fun. I expect to do a lot more with this. It really does make me giddy for some reason. Maybe because I’ve been doing some of this with Python scripts and it’s very difficult to do well. Fake is like Automator for the web. But it’s better than that. It’s graphical programming for the web. It can automatically find and populate forms. It can submit logins and extract content.

This new bundle looks great. Some of the best Mac apps out there for $40. Seems like a good deal for developer and buyer.

I just noticed that ResophNotes, the Simplenote client for Windows, has been updated recently. I had thought it was abandoned-ware after a long delay in patches and feature enhancements. I was wrong. ResophNotes now supports pinned notes and syncs much faster. This is the definitive Simplenote client for those of us suffering on Windows.

I don't begrudge people using QR codes but to me, they seem like a poor solution for a real problem. We need a way for a computer to interpret analog information from the real world. QR codes just make the problem worse for me. I see them on bus stops and billboards all the time. I used to see URL’s instead. At least a URL is legible (most of the time).

I was a big MacZOT buyer several years ago. They offered spectacular sales on good software. I've really preferred to stick to the app store lately, but every once in awhile they offer something unique and great. This is one of those times.  6200+ royalty free, commercial-use fonts for $50. There are some nice looking fonts in the collection. There's only 8 hours left on the sale.

Clever Mac Application to help you properly tie a Tie. $0.99 in the App Store. I love these clever 3rd party applications.

A significant number of links were just added to the Keyboard Maestro (aka Peter N. Lewis) blog. Good stuff. Although I woke up to a KM flood in Reeder.

Brett Terpstra had a post a few days ago about how he uses Evernote even though he is predominately a plain text guy. Brett makes perfect sense. Damn him! I used Evernote like crazy for a long time. I paid for premium service for a long time. But it worried me that it was a hole I was digging that I might not be able to get my carefully curated notes out of.

Beer Tracking Trilogy Episode 4 See this post for the introduction and ground rules Bento I started this project in Bento. A couple of years ago, I created a Bento database for cataloging beers I drank. The purpose was to know what to buy again, and what to avoid at all costs. Bento worked moderately well but had some frustrating rough edges. Bento on the Mac has two different views into the data.