PopClip Puts Text Menus Right Where You Need Them [50 Mac Essentials #47]
22/02/2012 |
PopClip brings cute iOS-style select-and-click text tools to your Mac. It’s great.
Just select some text – just select, no clicking required – and familiar cut, copy and paste commands appear in little boxes above the text, just like they do on your iOS device.
Not just those commands, either, but others too: search the web, open links, reveal files (that last one is more useful than I imagined). It’s one of those tools you don’t know you need until...
Acorn Is A Fine Image Editor For Everyone [50 Mac Essentials #46]
Acorn describes itself as “an image editor for humans”, and that sums it up in a nutshell. What you get inside Acorn are pretty much all the image editing features you’re ever going to need, for a fraction of the price of some of the competing apps. If you’re into creat...
Writing Kit Makes Writing And Research Easy On iOS [Review]
If you need to do some serious writing on your iPad, you should give Writing Kit a try. It’s more than a text editor – the word “kit” in its name is the giveaway. This app is about the process of writing, which often (especially for non-fiction) means more than simply ty...
Mou Makes Light Work Of Markdown And Other Text Tasks [Review]
This is Mou, a rather cute little text editor that you might like to check out if you ever use Markdown to format stuff for publishing on the web. Or even if you don’t. First of all, Mou is lightweight and fast. It's up and running in next to no time. Although aimed at web developers, I t...
Save And Search Text Notes At Blazing Speed With Notational Velocity [50 Mac Essentials #43]
I've been using Notational Velocity for years and years, and I can't imagine using a Mac without it.It's an extremely simple application, but that’s a large part of its appeal. It stores text notes, and searches through them at blazing speed.In its early days, NV was a niche product with a ...
Tree Outliner Helps You Think Laterally With Its Sideways View [Review]
Tree is an outliner with a difference – it offers an unusual horizontal view of your document alongside a host of useful outlining features. Most outliners are designed to work like most electronic documents, as electronic equivalents of a piece of paper held in portrait position. But Tre...
Bootable Backups Are Easier With Superduper [50 Mac Essentials #42]
Every Mac sold since the launch of OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has had a copy of Apple’s backup software, Time Machine, included.And thank goodness for that, because backups were the elephant in the computer industry’s room. Everyone knew it was essential to keep backups, and everyone knew th...
Raven Browser Offers New Ideas, But Don't Make It Your Default Just Yet [Review]
Raven is a new browser for OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion), currently in beta. What sets it apart from the rest is a sleeker appearance, and a Twitter-esque side panel called the Smart Bar. What does this Bar do? It acts as a home for what Raven calls “web apps”, which are perhaps best...
Simplier Offers A Simple Way To Play Music Without iTunes [Review]
Simplier is a very simple $3 music player for people who just want to hear some tunes without having to trudge through the hassle of opening and browsing inside iTunes. When I say very simple, I mean it. The app is clearly modelled on apps like Twitter and Sparrow, which use a series of icons i...
Anti-Procrastination App Forces You To Think Before Wasting Time [Review]
How often do you find yourself goofing around on Facebook when you should be working? It’s OK, you’re not the only one. But in future, you might be able to keep yourself productive with a clever little app called Obtract.Designed by Eric St Onge as part of a thesis for an MFA in Inter...
Writer: A Smart New Plain Text Editor For OS X [Review]
Now you might think that the world already has enough plain text editors, but those of us who spend all day writing will always disagree. Writer is a new text editor on the Mac App Store. It’s similar in some respects to applications you’ve seen before, yet it’s also distinctly ...
