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NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone released

September 23, 2009

Newsgator has released NetNewsWire 2.0 for the iPhone, which now syncs with Google Reader, just like its desktop coounterpart. It also sports a new icon, itself an improvement over the 1.0 version.

In truth, I was not a fan of the first incarnation of NNW for the iPhone. It was slow to sync, which made it [...]

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Pixelmator 1.5 is released

September 8, 2009

Pixelmator is my favorite non-PhotoShop image-editing app. With the release of Pixelmator 1.5 comes a number of new features, including Save for Web:

Save for Web allows you to quickly save a compressed version of a file in a Web-friendly image format and file size. In true Pixelmator form, the new Save for Web dialog is [...]

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A Love Triangle: NetNewsWire and Google Reader

March 3, 2009

I’m stuck in a love triangle with two popular RSS readers, and I just can’t figure it out. I love them both but for very different reasons (and at very different times).

On the desktop, I prefer NetNewsWire for a variety of reasons:

Keyboard shortcuts for blog posting, Delicious posting, Twitter posting, etc. Easier keyboard navigation Sorting by date [...]

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Review: First look at Safari 4 beta

February 24, 2009

Apple released their first public beta of Safari 4 today, and being the app junkie that I am, I gave it a spin.

My overall impression: Safari 4 has some good improvements — the least of which is not speed — but has nothing revolutionary.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s new in Safari 4:

Tabs: The most [...]

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PIM Review: Evernote

February 2, 2009

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts that compares Journler, Together and Evernote in a PIM faceoff for Macs. The first post can be found here.

Evernote is one of the few cross-platform, web-based apps that I both use and enjoy. Add to it an iPhone app that is nearly as powerful as [...]

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Choosing a back-up battery for your iPhone

January 23, 2009

A colleague of mine was sporting a Richard Solo backup battery for his iPhone yesterday. After listening to him rave about it, I was set to buy one.

Then this morning, before I headed to the Solo website, an article from Cult of Mac popped up in my RSS feeds featuring a new backup battery that [...]

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TweetDeck gets the nod over Twhirl and Twitterific, for now…

January 22, 2009

There is no “best” Twitter application, this I’ve decided. It seems that of the three I use, one has a feature I long for when not using it.

Twitterific

Twitterific is simple, straight forward, I can post from NetNewsWire and it has awesome keyboard shortcuts. Plus, the icon is the best of any of them, for what [...]

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Mail Act-On 2: Going back to an old favorite

January 22, 2009

Before I started using Google Apps for Your Domain, I was a power user of MailTags and Mail Act-On, both apps developed by indev.

Not too long after moving to a Google-based system, I abandoned MailTags, which is a terrific app. At the same time, I stopped using Act-On as much. When I switched over to [...]

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NetNewsWire or Google Reader: Which one is better?

January 21, 2009

So it seems I should write a post about NetNewsWire and Google Reader. Why? Because as I was reading John Gruber’s post about NetNewsWire for his Mac and iPhone, a fellow twitterer posted this question:

Mac users of the world: I don’t understand NetNewsWire.. I use Google Reader.. What does NNW offer over that?

My first response [...]

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ScanSnap cousins: The S300M vs. S510M

January 21, 2009

I’m in the market for a scanner that will serve one purpose: Transform paper files into pdf’s. That’s it.

At one of my newspaper stops, I used the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M, which is the standard-bearer of pdf scanners for Macs. It’s where I was headed, until I stumbled across the S300M model.

What holds me back from [...]

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