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• 12.12.07 On Mindmeister, XMIND and Mind Mapping posted in Design, Geekery

  It’s my personal opinion that mind mapping doesn’t get enough attention. Of course, I spend a lot of time in the “real world” blabbing on about mind mapping. Evangelizing, even. So I’m going to expound (again) on thoughts and tools for few bytes…

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Utilities posted in Geekery

  What’s a mac without a good set of utilities? These programs are, just like the rest of this series, the ones that are proven in my workflow to work. Not always beauty contest winners, and not always well known, but tried and tested by me. Not that I’m offering money back guarantees or anything :). The topics range from disk repair and archiving to memory management and there should be something here for any intermediate to advanced mac user.

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Productivity posted in Geekery

  Well, the year is quickly coming to an end and I thought I’d chronicle our latest Mac app adventures. So what makes this particular list of OS X app picks special? First, I’m not doing reruns, so you’re not going to hear about TextMate and Quicksilver all over again. This list assumes you’ve picked up on the basics from at least one of the gazillion top ten lists on Digg, and made your own decisions. Second, this list isn’t a popularity contest. Some of the apps I’m including aren’t popular (yet), some aren’t even widely known. I dig through a lot of apps to find what’s going to work the best for me (and hopefully look good doing it), meaning I offer this list as nothing more than a documentation of my findings. As always, I’d love to hear what you’re using…

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• 11.18.07 Forging a New System posted in Geekery

  It’s been a weird week. I found together just when I needed it. And I had reached a point of frustration with Leopard problems in iGTD and had gone looking for other solutions only to find none. 1 hour after I gave up the public alpha of OmniFocus was released. I pre-registered for a license (good deal). Then Bartek announces iGTD2 with some screenshots/casts today and things are looking pretty competitive again. I just want one system I can trust and love! I’ve found my divorce rate with mac apps is about 90% and my typical relationship length is about a year. Development cycles and my interest level and needs tend to get out of phase at some point. Once I’ve settled into a new routine, I’ll be revisiting some of my productivity posts to talk about more current affairs. In the meantime, I’ll be trying to get to know OmniFocus better…

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• 7.29.07 Group Productivity On The Web posted in General

  I’ve been working to narrow down the array of possibilities for productivity apps at Circle Six Design. I’ve been looking for solutions that are accessible by both employees and clients, inexpensive and easy to use. Out of the array of possibilities, here’s my current list…

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• 7.7.07 Path Finder Update posted in Geekery

  Path Finder has been updated to 4.7.1 with a bunch of fixes and features. First of all, Subversion support is no longer experimental, but considered stable. I’ve been using it since the last release with good luck and enjoy having it built into my GUI file manager. The move-to-trash delay has been significantly decreased, and the “Open With” menu is finally sorted by application name. For a full list of changes, see the Path Finder changelog.

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• 5.14.07 iGTD Review: 1.4 posted in Geekery

  Here’s the greatest thing about the new release of iGTD: Way fewer “hacks” are necessary to make it conform to a more GTD-like workflow. It’s got a revamped interface with much more fluid ways of handling things like “maybe” tasks and “wait for” tasks, plus it adds handling for next actions and start dates. And you thought it was great to start with! Check out the list of new features and go ahead and download it to try out. It’s still donationware, and according to the author, always will be. I went ahead and made a second donation on account of this being such an extensive upgrade that if it were a commercial application, I would have charged my users for it ;).

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• 5.12.07 30Cal Upgrade posted in Geekery

  Yep, a major upgrade already. And I still got some work done today. My server got hacked, so that took up part of the day, but anyway… The new version (1.5) is now an application and has improved support for recurring events and skipped dates in recurring events. The API Key and User Token are now requested by the script and stored externally so you can upgrade without copying and pasting. And thanks to that innovation, the file is now an app so that it’s easier to run. Check the download page for the latest version.

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• 5.4.07 Tangerine: Sticky Sweet Color Management posted in Design, Web Design

  Tangerine is a new color management app for OS X that provides designers with a consistent palette for creating color palettes that translate between applications. It functions as a floating palette available from all applications and adding colors can be done with copy and paste, a dropper (magnifying glass) or with input sliders. The colors are then available with the click or drag of a swatch in any of your applications. It works with profiles and adjusts for different screen modes. In my short time experimenting with this program I’ve fallen in love with it. This is an excellent extension to the built in Color Picker and in tandem with a good Color Wheel makes for an excellent color management setup. If you deal with color, in print or web, check this out!

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• 4.23.07 A Few Thoughts on Coda posted in Web Design

  I seem to be the only one not thinking of switching my entire web development platform to Coda. I’m not saying it couldn’t ever happen, but in my last 2 hours of experimenting I’ve been suffering from Dreamweaver flashbacks.

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