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The auto-updating tool in OmniFocus, the crazy powerful task and project manager from The Omni Group, offers a number of useful options for power users. You can change the install location while...

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The menu bar utility for CloudApp, a simple service for sharing links, photos, and other files with short URLs, displays a list of the most recent items you’ve shared. You can click any item to visit...

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[Flash 10 is required to watch video.] Finer Things in Web: The website for Fantastical, a smart menu bar calendar utility for the Mac, uses some clever animation to draw your attention to its...

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Breevy

Breevy onethingwell: Breevy is a text expander for Windows that helps you type faster and more accurately by allowing you to abbreviate long words and phrases. It’s compatible with TextExpander for the...

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Export your Evernote items to MacJournal with this AppleScript

Export your Evernote items to MacJournal with this AppleScript If you’re considering an alternative to Evernote for keeping a journal or even a blogging client, MacJournal from Dan Schimpf is probably...

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DaisyDisk’s icon animates as it scans your drive

While scanning your drive with DaisyDisk, a fantastic utility that helps you clean up your drive and reclaim free space, its Dock icon subtly animates a progress bar.

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Tally turns your whole screen into a simple, customizable counter

Tally is a clever, single-serving iPhone app designed for one specific purpose: making it dead-simple to count (up or down). Open the app and your entire display becomes a button—tap anywhere, that’s...

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How do we know if mobile apps are secure? – Scott Hanselman

How do we know if mobile apps are secure? – Scott Hanselman I download a new 99 cent app and perhaps it wants a name and password. What standard UI is there to assure me that the transmission is...

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Apple Maps: mouseover search results, their pins jump

When you mouseover search results in Apple Maps for Mac, the pins jump on the map to let you know where that result actually is.

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Four tips to rock, tune, and sync iTunes Radio

I’ve been exploring iTunes Radio lately and there is some clever features and polish. My wife and I have had a Pandora subscription for a while ($48 per year via in-app purchase), but since our...

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Messages for Mac: Quick Look all media from the current conversation

Click a piece of media or shared location in a Messages and hit Space to Quick Look it without opening a separate app. At the top of that Quick View window is a grid icon. Click that, and you’ll see a...

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iCloud site displays notifications across all apps

The apps at Apple’s iCloud.com work together as a suite for a number of features, including email notifications. In my screenshot example, I received an email alert (which looks a lot like Push...

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Xbox One: Setup Internet Explorer, Do Not Track is enabled by default

I wanted to try web browsing on my new Xbox One, and this brief setup process for Internet Explorer (natch) had Do Not Track enabled by default. The ‘Send my personal browsing history to Microsoft’...

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iTunes can sync Digital Booklets to iBooks on iOS

Some music albums from iTunes Store come with a digital booklet of art, lyrics, or all sorts of other stuff artists include. Usually these booklets just stay in iTunes, but there is a way you can move...

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Unread newsreader matches website CSS to give you a smooth transition

When you tap to view an article on its original website in Unread, a polished, gesture-based newsreader from Jared Sinclair, the in-app browser tries to match the website’s background CSS so you get a...

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iOS 7: Swipe anywhere on the camera to switch modes

While using the iPhone or iPad’s camera, you can swipe jus about anywhere on screen, even over the viewfinder, to switch modes between photo, square, panorama, etc. On iPhone, swipe left and right. On...

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Pushpin for Pinboard now has iOS keyboard shortcuts

The Sweet Setup is right, Pushpin is a fantastic iPhone and iPad app for Pinboard, a service for saving and optionally sharing bookmarks. It’s the only Pinboard app I use now, and it just released a...

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