View from the Dock

Long ago, I began an information organizer review series. I started out strong. I posted a nice little intro piece. I knocked out the first review in the series. Then it utterly unraveled for two reasons.
First, Alan over at Metadata weighed in that VodooPad shouldn’t be in my review group (which included Yojimbo, DEVONThink, Together, [...]

I’m on the road this week in Washington, DC. Away from my desktop Mac, I’ve been thinking about data synchronization and the cost we should expect to pay for it.
It seems that everyone is coming out with syncing solutions, and most of these solutions include web-based access to data. And soon, we can expect [...]

I accidentally discovered a great Mac-compatible game today, and ended up losing a whole afternoon of productivity.
Here’s what happened. I use LaunchBar to quickly access programs on my Mac. This afternoon, I typed the keyboard shortcut for LaunchBar (-space bar), typed ‘n,’ and then hit return. This is my two-second method to launch NetNewsWire. But [...]

Firefox Release Candidate 3 is now out. It’s not a big update. In fact, there’s only one change. The nice thing is that one more of my favorite Firefox Extensions is now available for the new version of Firefox.
Delicious Bookmarks is a cool little add-on that allows you to quickly and effortlessly add new [...]

Avery, the office product and label-making company, now offers a free Mac application called DesignPro to help customers design everything from labels to T-shirts to CD art. This is the classic ‘give away the razor and charge a premium for the razor blades‘ marketing model: you get the free software, but to use it you [...]