![]() ![]() Window management hasn’t seen many changes in years. It can also sync to cloud calendars and displays your upcoming events from the menubar with one click. It stores events within Calendar or other apps like Bus圜al. The app does a great job understanding start and finish times, addresses etc and allows you to fully edit and delete entries at a later date. Fantastical sits in your menubar and with a single click you can enter in events using english rather than a fiddly dialogue. It looks poor and it’s features haven’t really changed in years. The same annotations in Skitch can be found within Evernote.Ĭalendar on Lion is a pretty crappy app. Really handy app that I gladly paid for and was pleased to see being acquired by Evernote to take it forward. The app allows you to take screenshots and snapshots, annotate them quickly and then save locally, to Evernote or share out on the web. One of the companies bought by Evernote is Skitch. The iOS apps are excellent too so my digital stuff is available everywhere. One niggle – exporting from Evernote still not great so I’m tied into the service more than I’d like. I upgraded to Premium which allows for 1GB of uploads per month, secure notes, collaborative notes and also a history of changes. The client allows for rich enough text editing, images are OCR’d to allow for some great searching and there are good options for notebooks and folders. Notes, images, pdf’s, web pages, receipts, bills, contacts, recipes, lists etc etc etc all go into Evernote. You can easily retrieve individual files and if the worst happens and you need everything you can download it all slowly or send of a disk to get your data more quickly.Įvernote is my digital filing cabinet. Unlike the other online services I tried, Backblaze is quick and reliable to upload data and supports unlimited amount of data. I use Backblaze for online backup of my computers. Backups can be scheduled and once the first backup is complete daily/weekly incrementals take no time at all. I’ve certainly needed it a couple of times and it’s never let me down. As it’s a bootable backup you can also boot from it should you find yourself in trouble. SuperDuper! creates a fully bootable backup on a drive of your choosing that should your drive or computer fail allows you to fully restore from that point in time. What do you mean you don’t backup? Criminal. Although there is only 2GB free, you can earn up to 18GB free and with so many app’s plugged into Dropbox via it’s API’s it’s a great way of sharing between desktop and mobile. Its great for sharing podcasts and files with the folk I work remotely with. I store all my documents in Dropbox so I can get them anywhere – Mac, iOS or on the web. I think everyone has a Dropbox account so there’s not too much to say with this one. Despite having two screens, launching app’s quickly via touch is very useful. Already I have a podcast tab setup in remote so I can quickly setup or jump to app’s I need while podcasting. With Alfred Remote now out for iOS you can launch apps, scripts, URL’s etc from your iPad or iPhone. A lovely app that will become your most used app if you let it. Buy the PowerPack and you can extend via scripts from the Alfred community or ones you write yourself, control iTunes and access a full clipboard history and also snippet library. Alfred allows you to drive your Mac fully from the keyboard – launch app’s, search the web etc. Hopefully there are one or two gems in the list that are new to you.įor a longtime I used Quicksilver and then Launchbar as a keyboard launcher but around three years ago I moved to Alfred and I just can’t let it go despite Spotlight catching up in Yosemite. When Yosemite came out I nuked the iMac and dropped a few app’s so there are a few changes in the list. A couple of smaller app’s have been eaten by Mavericks and Yosemite but I still look to third party app’s for most of my day to day needs. Well Safari is now my browser of choice, iTunes still where my music is but podcasts are now in Instacast. A recent post from Gordon on his current Mac App’s spurred me to look back at my last post on this in 2012. ![]()
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