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As much as I like iThoughtsHD, I’ve never been happy with its color options. The latest update fixes that with several useful palettes, including solarized. A damn useful app just got pretty. As an aside, the image is my original pass at a mindmap for my Macworld Scrivener article, which I’m told will be in the new print edition shipping this week. Yay.
Chained commands. My love of this window resizing utility blooms like flowers in spring.
It’s been about a month since I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo for my search engine. This far in, I’ve found the search results to be slightly slower (not enough to matter) and sometimes different from Google’s. In some case different means worse. In other cases, different means better. It feels like a wash to me.
Overall, I’m glad to have made the switch and don’t see myself going back. I like the clean way DuckDuckGo presents results and did I mention DuckDuckGo’s privacy policy?
I’ve picked up a few tips since my last entry on the subject:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=. Fire that off in your browser’s URL bar and start typing your search. I got that tip from Jason Rehmus, via Steven Hackett.It always made me crazy how iCal can’t show a two-week view. With a one line terminal command, you can fix that.
TinyLetter is the simplest way to send email newsletters. Creating signup forms is a breeze, and TinyLetter even makes it easy to reply to your readers individually. It’s also free.
TinyLetter doesn’t have all the features most email services offer. It’s built for people, not business. Just compose your message, send it to your readers, and find out what they think. That’s all there is to it. 
There is no Mac Power Users episode this week but I am pleased to announce we have an official MPU Vimeo page. As the year moves forward, Katie and I intend to add small screencasts to the page that naturally arise from show topics and discussions. Katie did a fantastic job of the first screencast explaining how to use OpenDNS. If you haven’t yet, you really should set up OpenDNS.
I was reading MacStories’ coverage of Photoshop for the iPad and it got me thinking. I’m guessing 2012 will be the year that Adobe, Microsoft, and the other “big” developers get serious about the iPad. I hope they don’t blow it.
While I’ve never met Don Southard, I’m a fan of his nerdery at DirtDon.com and writing at MacStories. Don just released an app, Thumbtack, a menu bar utility that gives quick access to your Pinboard account. Slick.
via Macdrifter
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Did you know that you can drag an e-mail from Apple Mail to 1Password? The fun begins later when you need that e-mail again. Just click the mail message in 1Password and it opens the mail message, even after you’ve buried the mail message in your archive. Pretty slick.
Apparently the Air Force cancelled a big iPad order because someone realized GoodReader’s developer is a Russian company. The whole thing is nutty. The Air Force could have used a home-grown PDF reader, like iPad PDFpen or baked their own.