Remapped. Angle is rough, but I think this version is better.
Buddha
June 25, 2009
WeatherCal by Bare Bones, or DIY
March 19, 2009
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 zip code’s weather forecast. In the upper right, you’ll see an iCal button. Right-click, copy link, then Subscribe in iCal. That’s it.
If it’s this easy, why would you want to use WeatherCal? The feed is kind of messy, and WeatherCal cleans up the report. It also adds a nice little icon to represent the weather. For example, today’s weather shows an umbrella. WeatherCal also offers OTA syncing if you use MobileMe while my manual method requires a wired sync. You will have to decide if a clean feed and little icon are worth the price of two mochas.
Side note: If you are on iPhone 3, you can cute and paste the link into a subscribed calendar right on the iPhone.
OmniFocus for iPhone video guide
July 10, 2008
OmniGroup has posted a video guide to OmniFocus for iPhone. If you are curious as to how location services works with OmniFocus, the video does a nice quick explanation. As a side note, Michaela’s voice reminds me of GLaDOS from Portal.
Today v1.2 released
June 25, 2008
I’d never heard about the Today app until reading about it on TUAW. If you want the functionality of Entourage’s My Day without the cost, then Today looks like a solid choice.
OmniFocus sync
May 11, 2008
OmniFocus internal alpha has syncing to .Mac, WebDAV, and Disk. It also appears there is an iPhone sync – which would make tasking during meetings complete.
Financial software for Mac OS X: iBank 3 Beta
February 6, 2008
IGG Software has released a beta for iBank v3. Beyond direct OFX download, some insane eye candy options (Coverflow for transactions?), tax program support, much better reporting, and just general stomping all over Quicken, the app includes “sync with your iPhone”. Mobile entry of information? That’s a definite plus, albeit one with lots of questions. What does it require? How is security? How easy is it to use on a mobile device?
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Sync notes with your iPhone
November 28, 2007
It’s been a year since I debated moving over to Yojimbo from SOHO Notes, so it’s time to address the next step – syncing. One of the biggest gripes I have about the iPhone is the inability to sync notes with the desktop. You can email yourself, and then move that note to the Notes IMAP folder, but that’s hardly a seamless method. Enter Markspace’s Missing Sync for iPhone. This will allow iPhone users to sync notes with Yojimbo, Entourage, or their own notes app. Availability is listed as 4Q 2007, so “RSN”.
Now we just need Apple to release the SDK to OmniGroup so we have a tasks app as well as syncing for OmniFocus.