View from the Dock

I’ve been thinking lately about news readers. I use NetNewsWire on my Mac and my iPhone. It’s a good reader, and I’ve grown to depend on the automated syncing of my feeds between my desktop and phone. I, like many people, only sync ‘must read’ items to my iPhone. My Mac client is where I [...]

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, [...]

1. Things integration, tagging

Cultured Code’s Things is slowly and methodically nearing release — something I suspect many people eagerly await (or not, considering we now get to use the Beta for free!). Last saturday, Cultured Code released a small version update with a big new feature: system-wide To Do integration. Enter a To Do in [...]

Here’s a project idea for the long weekend. Have you heard of scanner art? The basic idea is this: you scan things and you try to make something something artistic with it. Is it art? Is it really photography? Some say yes, some say no. I say, ‘Who cares?’
I have found that I can get [...]

Last week, Reinvented Software released Together 2.1, a very substantial upgrade from version 2.0 (which I was planning to review).
This release highlighted the problem with reviewing a series of Mac applications right before the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June: there’s a strong possibility that some of the other apps I plan to review may [...]