NetNewsWire As Syndication Router

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

My friend Brent Simmons, developer of the amazing NetNewsWire client, which I think I neglected to mention, but you probably learned anyway, turned free eariler this month, has written up a nice summary of the ways in which NetNewsWire serves as a router for incoming RSS feeds. I’m especially struck by this analysis because the […]

One Year Later

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

One year ago today I signed the paperwork and handed over the check for my purchase of MacXword, the amazing crossword application that I renovated and released as Black Ink about two months later. (Semi-interesting trivia: the transaction took place on the premises of the Leopard Tech Talk in Boston (Dedham, actually). Since the seller, […]

Skitch Public Beta

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

My friends at Plasq software made an exciting announcement today: Skitch is now available as a public beta! What is Skitch, and why might this be exciting to you? Well, Skitch is, in a nutshell, a screen capture and image editing utility that makes it extremely easy to edit, draw on, and type over images […]

I Get Around

Friday, January 11th, 2008

While I am regrettably not going to make it out to Macworld Expo in San Francisco next week, I have managed to do some web site traveling, by participating in panel discussions and other interviews related to Macworld and otherwise. The Guardian: Reading The Runes For Apple The UK newspaper The Guardian invited me to […]