PostRank top blogs of 2009

For the Apple category the highest rank goes to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball.
TUAW gets the second position and AppleInsider the third one.

One Finger Discount

While MacHeist is giving away six free applications, more than 100 developers are offering 20% off their software. The discount is available through a coupon code. For the complete story head on the One Finger Discount page. Great initiative!

BumpTop alpha for Mac

BumpTop is available for Mac as a private alpha release. Nice!

More fields in Spotlight search results

If you’ve been wondering how to add more fields in Finder Spotlight search results, read this.

Use Yojimbo 2.0 for your notes and blurbs

There are multiple examples of notes and information organizer applications on the Mac: Together, DEVONthink, Evernote, EagleFiler, Yojimbo… From time to time I tried one of them but I couldn’t find one that fit my needs or how to use it efficiently to organize my stuff.
Then about a month ago Yojimbo 2.0 was released. I [...]

Where do you keep your software licenses?

Until recently I was using RapidoSerial, a free tool. Unfortunately RapidoSerial is slow and not maintained anymore. It has been replaced by SecretBox, now a shareware. I was not convinced by SecretBox, so I tried other alternatives but none of them were enough polished for my taste.
Then came 1Password 3.0. I had already a license [...]

SizeUp

SizeUp is an excellent application developed by Irradiated Software. It allows you to easily arrange and size windows on your screen. All functions may be accessed via shortcuts or the menu bar. In the same way Radiohead experimented with their last album you can choose the price you want to pay, the minimum price being [...]

Search Pinboard.in with Glims

If you want to use Glims with Safari under Snow Leopard you can get the beta here. Glims allows you to add search engines to Safari search field. I came across the following web site while browsing the Pinboard Google Group: http://domnit.org/pinboard/search.html. It offers two search plugins to use with Firefox and other browsers. You [...]

Snow Leopard unleashed

Yesterday I went to buy a copy of Snow Leopard. I made sure everything was ready for the new cat: a working bootable backup of my system! I chose to do a clean install. Of course it took more time and I also ran the Migration Assistant but everything ran smoothly. Eventually I encountered a [...]

NetNewsWire syncs with Google Reader

I have been using the new release for one week, the syncing works like a charm! This is great news for all of those who don’t have a Mac at work.