I recently wrote about how I use QuickCursor to switch between Scrivener and TextMate, which left at least one reader wondering, “Why?” “I’d like to know why you sometimes feel it’s necessary to jump from Scrivener to TextMate…via QuickCursor.” –@drdrang Scrivener is perfect for organizing writing projects and providing a focused writing environment, yet it …
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Weekend in Blue Ridge
The kids are visiting with friends during DNow this weekend, leaving me and Julie “kidless” for two nights. She pulled a few strings with someone she works with and grabbed a cabin in Blue Ridge, Ga. at the last minute. We arrived last night and it is exactly what both of us needed. The tension …
Writing Anywhere and Everywhere
Writing applications are growing as plentiful and affordable as the number of platforms on the market to help me record my thoughts. I am using this blog to review and define my system of capturing ideas. I no longer have to wait until I have my favorite notebook and pen or return to my computer …
Twitter for iPhone Cursed Itself
My recent review of Twitter of iPhone: Twitter for iPhone was perfect and life was flawless until someone got that glint of pride. Thinking they could be better than perfec, they went too far and were cast down from the light to wallow in agonizing hell for all eternity to consider the folly of its …
Safari and AppleScript
I’ve used a Mac since the early 1990s and have never learned AppleScript. No time like the present! I was trying to do something that seems so simple, but the answer was eluding me. My goal was to write a script accessible with a FastScripts keyboard shortcut that would: open a new Safari browser window …
∞ Thirty Percent
Eddie perfectly sums up Apple’s much-discussed 30 percent cut in the iOS App Store. Amen and pass it on. ∞ Thirty Percent: Apple isn’t taking jack from you because without Apple you wouldn’t have a business developing iOS apps. Plain and simple. People really need to get this. If Apple did not create, maintain, pay …
teleport
Teleport is exactly what I needed when I wasn’t even looking for something. teleport: teleport: teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, …
Extravagent Defense for our Starving Nation
The Wall Street Journal published a series of charts explaining President Obama’s federal budget proposal. It’s thrilling to see such a large amount of money allocated in two categories: $82.2 billion reserved for Health and Human Services, and $77.4 billion for Education. Those social services rank 2nd and 3rd, respectively. Can you guess what took …
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Journler – Back from the Almost Dead
Journler (yes, that is the correct spelling) is intriguing software that I used for a while some years back. The developer, Phillip Dow, stopped development in 2009, but he posted a couple of days ago that he is open sourcing the application and introducing a new application called Per Se. Journler – Blog: I’ve finally …
Kindle:Updated
Updated my Kindle tonight. Solid update so far.