Mike Vardy did an interesting article about the whole home screen fixation, including a few quotes from yours truly.

There is a nice update out for TextExpander adding several useful features including AppleScript support and keypress macros (tab, return, esc, enter) can now be nested in fill-in snippets (excellent!). Check it out.

I’ve always felt that Microsoft was on to something with OneNote. It is the one app that really worked on the Windows tablets. I recently received an e-mail from Microsoft expatriate Chris who has been developing his own useful Mac apps including a OneNote-like app called Notes. Chris has some great looking apps and they are all free. Check out the whole bunch.

My friend Victor Cajiao over at the Typical Mac User podcast hit one out the park this week with his Hard Drive Master Class with George Starcher and data recovery expert Scott Moulton. I learned a ton.

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While I’m sure there are a lot of good reasons to spend $800 on Photoshop, I find Gus Mueller’s Acorn scratches the itch for me quite nicely. The good news is there is a new version with plenty of new features and, for a limited time, it is just $30.

Recently, I’ve been talking about HoudaSpot, a great Spotlight add on with tons of granular controls. If you’d like to get more out of Spotlight but don’t want the complexity of HoudaSpot, Houdah’s developer has a simpler version, Tembo. I really like it and it is in the Mac App store for $15 right here.