Category Archives: OS X

Twitter/Facebook in iTunes 9

Lots of rumors beforehand and nothing like reality.

Quick iTunes 9 first impressions

iTunes 9 was just released. You can go to any number of sites for the press release, so just my first impressions.
The look is now softer, more subtle, maybe a little more “plastic”. The maximize (green) button no longer puts iTunes into mini mode on the Mac. You have to hit Shift--M to switch, [...]

Yojimbo still needs an iPhone sync

Downloading Yojimbo 2.0 today on a clean build of Snow Leopard. Type Yojimbo into the search box on Safari, and the autofill:

People want their sync.

New OmniGroup application tomorrow

Via Twitter, Ken Case reveals that a new OmniGroup application is coming tomorrow:
All he has revealed:
Yes, a new product which works well with both OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner.
Also, it’s a Mac app which will cost less than $30.
Stay tuned tomorrow for the OmniGroup reveal!

WeatherCal by Bare Bones, or DIY

Bare Bones Software, home of the fantastic Yojimbo and BBEdit, have released a new mini-app called WeatherCal. It’s a Preference pane that adds weather to iCal as an all day event. Simple and elegant and US$10.
If you want to save a few dollars, here’s how to DIY. Go to Weather Underground and bring up your [...]

OmniWeb 5.9.x, 6, and Safari 4

The OmniGroup blog had this interesting tidbit today:
We’ve also gotten pretty far with integrating the new Safari 4 beta engine: it’s now integrated into our internal builds of OmniWeb 6, and we’re bringing that work back to OmniWeb 5 so it can make it into the 5.9 sneaky peek builds.
Pretty awesome for a product they [...]

OmniGroup giving away OmniWeb (and more)

OmniGroup moved OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter to freeware status.

On the Safari 4 beta

In an earlier post I asked for an improvement to the location bar. Apple has improved the bar in the Safari 4 beta:

One more step would be allowing users to start typing the link name as in Firefox:

The top site and Coverflow search of history added some options to the Safari reset window:

I like the [...]

Mac OS X 10.5.6 in Software Update

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3194 has all the details.

Request: Better location bar for OmniWeb and Safari

Firefox 3 has a two-line format for bookmark/history titles which makes good use of screen space:

OmniWeb 5.8 puts it all in one line:

My request is for OmniWeb to use a two line method of displaying so we can better see the link title.
Side note is that Safari does not do it at all: