Mac App Store frustrations begin to boil over

by Mike Wehner (Oct 15th 2014 5:00PM)

Over the weekend, just a few days before an Apple event that is expected to be the debut of some new Mac hardware, Bare Bones Software revealed that the company will no longer sell new versions of its popular BBEdit HTML/text editor on the Mac App ...

Bare Bones Software pulling next BBEdit from the Mac App Store

by Steven Sande (Oct 13th 2014 12:30PM)

Over the weekend at the Çingleton conference in Montreal, Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software made a presentation in which he gave his reasons why the next version of his company's flagship product - BBEdit - won't be sold on the Mac App Stor...

Revisiting Single Application Mode in light of Mavericks' App Nap feature

by TJ Luoma (Nov 21st 2013 7:00PM)

I have known about OS X's "Single Application Mode" for a long time, but a new feature in Mavericks has me testing it out again. According to an article on TidBITS, Single-Application Mode was introduced in 1999 with the (then) new Finder in Mac OS...

Keyboard Maestro on sale in Productive Macs bundle plus revised time tracking macro

by TJ Luoma (Nov 7th 2013 11:00AM)

Before I get into today's main topic, I want to remind you that until November 18th, you can get Keyboard Maestro as part of the current Productive Macs bundle. For $30 you get seven apps, including Keyboard Maestro (normally $36) and another utili...

Five apps (and more) to help you write your NaNoWriMo novel

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 6th 2013 3:00PM)

November is National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. It's a month-long initiative that challenges you to get that unwritten novel out of your head and onto paper. We have a handful of tips to help you get started, and below is an upd...

Replicating QuickCursor using BBEdit and Keyboard Maestro

by TJ Luoma (Aug 30th 2013 9:00AM)

QuickCursor was the first app I bought on the Mac App Store. It was a great utility which let you send text from any application to your favorite text editor, and then when you were done, it would send the text back from your favorite text e...

Yojimbo 4 brings syncing, highlights iCloud woes

by TJ Luoma (Aug 14th 2013 2:45PM)

Good news for Yojimbo fans: version 4 is now available, and it syncs across Macs. (Pause and wait for for chorus of 'hallelujahs' to subside.) I've been a Yojimbo user for years, but in case some of you don't know what it is, I'll start by quoting ...

Terminally Geeky Time Tracking via Screenshots

by TJ Luoma (Aug 2nd 2013 9:00AM)

A few weeks ago I shared this on Twitter: "Here's an eye-opener: a @keyboardmaestro macro which takes a screenshot every 30 seconds. Review at the end of the day to see where it went." Since then, several people have asked me to share my setup (and a...

How we write for TUAW: A look at blogger workflows and tools

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th 2013 3:00PM)

I love it when another blog comes up with a great idea that we can borrow, and that was the case over at iMore when Rene Ritchie published a post over the Memorial Day weekend titled "How we write for iMore: Our workflows from Mac to iPad to iPhone a...