February 11th, 2008
Gus Mueller of Flying Meat has released VoodooPad 3.5, with a bunch of new features and fixes, including built-in support for editing images in an external app such as, oh, Acorn for instance. Man, I’ve gotta figure out how to link my products up better!
If you haven’t tried VoodooPad before, Gus’s one-line description “you put your brain in it” does it justice. It’s a desktop wiki which means it does all the things a web-based wiki would do, and more. And in a quick, not-sucky-like-the-web kind of way.
The possibilities for this innovative app are so great, I hear Gus even writes his blog with it, but I wouldn’t recommend that!
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February 5th, 2008
Hah! This one isn’t political, folks. You can take your finger off the unsubscribe button. :)
Dave Nanian, my friend over at Shirt Pocket, and member of the small yet powerful association of clothing-inspired software name consortium, has released the much anticipated SuperDuper! 2.5. The release is timed appropriately to fall on the day when so many states in this country vote to nominate candidates for President, that it’s been dubbed SuperDuper Tuesday by the press.
The new version of SuperDuper returns 100% compatibility with Leopard, while also adding support for a kind of “best of both worlds” setup where you can use a single volume to support both Apple’s Time Machine backup and SuperDuper’s bootable backups. Pretty nifty!
If you need want an easy solution for cloning safety backups of your precious disks, I highly recommend SuperDuper!
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February 5th, 2008
At the C4 conference last year, I talked about software acquisition, and about how you might find potential applications that are looking to be taken over by a new owner.
Sometimes, it’s as easy as reading a blog post. Lee Falin announces his desire to sell his company, and exit the Mac indie software business.
Screen Mimic is a cool app, and would serve as quite a head start for anybody interested in the screencasting market. But the real attraction here is Lee is selling an entire functioning company, which includes administrative elements such as a working online store, which is a classic stumbling block for people just getting started.
It will be interesting to see whether Polarian ends up being acquired by an ambitious new indie developer, or by a larger company that perhaps sees value in propping up its existing video-related software.
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February 4th, 2008
MarsEdit 2.1.1 includes fixes for three serious issues discovered in 2.1.
- Work around a conflict with a WriteRoom plugin that caused an XML parsing error
- Fix preview problem with preview placeholder tags inside HTML tag attributes
- Fix Tags support for 10.4 Tiger
Enjoy!
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