… you just never know.
PDFpen for iPhone Tutorial
A friend asked me why on earth I’d need a PDF app on my phone. Rather than explain briefly, I made a 40 minute video. Here is my soup to nuts explanation of how I use PDFpen for iPhone.
If you haven’t bought the app yet, you should right now. Smile just dropped the price (for a limited time) on PDFpen for iPhone* to $2. (PDFpen for iPad* is also on sale for just $7.) Watch the video, buy the apps, tell your friends. You can’t go wrong.
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MPU 116: Workflows with Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman is what you would call a “quality individual”. He writes about technology for fun and profit, skewers trivia geeks on Jeopardy, and is an overall nice guy. Glenn joined us this week on the Mac Power Users to talk about writing, game show training, and general geekery.
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TextExpander 4.04
The newest version of TextExpander for Mac is out with some nice improvements:
- Supports Cut, Copy and Paste for items in the snippet list
- Adds popover to resolve snippet abbreviation conflicts
- Duplicate snippets are drawn with blue abbreviation (vs. orange for conflicts)
- Adds “expand abbreviation ‘<abbreviation>’” syntax to AppleScript expand command
- Restores support for %j day-of-year macro
There was, however a bug with the updater that requires you to manually download. You can get it here.
Inside the Sausage Factory
Just in case you were thinking I’m really efficient at screencasting, go ahead and open this image to its full size.
Dr. Drang on a Better iOS Google Maps
“Sounds to me like playing hardball got Apple most of what it wanted. Reminds me of Flash.”
Spot on.
Upgrade Your OmniFocus Icons
If you’re an OmniFocus geek, like me, you’ve probably spent some time setting up custom perspectives. OmniFocus ships with a nice collection of icons for this purpose but I’m always on the hunt for better ones. This just got a whole lot easier with this gorgeous set of retina-ready icons from Silvia Gatta. The collection includes 50 icons and is just $5 for a limited time. At just 10 cents an icon, I’m in.
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