Yes, the phrase ‘text expander’ may sound as boring as mud, but as a blogger and regular computer user I maintain that text expanders are essential bits of software for anyone who spends more than an hour a day typing in to the computer and in the video below I’ll attempt to show you why. A good program, like TextExpander for the Mac will be intuitive and easy to master, and with very little set up it can save you hours of toi

I’m just catching up on my Keyboard Maestro reading. There’s some good stuff happening with it these days. Eugene Gordin has been evolving some really nice macros to fit some unique use cases. This one zips a group of files and shares them on Dropbox for a limited time. Hazel does some file clean up at a set interval to remove the shared files. A really nice way to do it. This entry was posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 6:53 AM and is filed under keyboard maestro, Link. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

Nettes kleines und kostenloses Tool von MacPaw, um externe Laufwerke im Blick zu behalten und die von Mac OS X oder Windows generierten Dateien wie DS_Store, Thumbs.db, Spotlight, hidden trashes und so weiter zu löschen.

There are several iSCSI initiators available for OS X, but we’ll limit this example to using the globalSAN iSCSI initiator which appears to be popular. It’s a simple 3-step process to setup access to the iSCSI target on the ReadyNAS. So, let’s get started.

Experience your media on a visually stunning, easy to use interface on your computer or Home Theater PC. Your media has never looked this good!

We can now use our mobile devices for many of the tasks that once required a computer. Unfortunately, for the longest time, printing documents didn’t feel like one of them.

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Printing from the iPhoneThe situation improved when AirPrint became available, along with a gaggle of compatible printers from the likes of Epson, HP, Canon, and others. Yes, there have been improvements, but we still have a ways to go before printing becomes as ubiquitous and as easy on our devices as it is on our Macs.

As a writer about Mac, iPhone and iPad applications you sometimes think you’ve seen it all, apps being very similar, especially when they perform basically the same tasks. I should know better – it’s the details that can make all the difference and I tried to highlight that fact in an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago in which I compared five outlining apps for Mac.

These days, there’s literally an app for everything: keeping recipes, managing projects, invoicing customers, and managing one’s finances. Money management is an especially popular app category now that people can simplify budget tracking and analyze both earnings and expenses all in one window.

Time management is incredibly important for many people. We all have busy lives and the more we can get out of our time working, the more time we have for other things. With there being only twenty-four hours in a day it really comes down to being as efficient as we can with the time we have.

PDF has become a worldwide document type standard and you no doubt deal with these documents fairly regularly. Because the file tpye is so common there is a plethora of applications available to work with them. It can be a bit tricky to wade through the large number of choices though, so I’ve attempted to pull out ten of the most useful apps for performing various functions. Everything from simply managing your PDF files to editing, extracting and more.

Keeping track of the time you spend during certain activities can be useful for many reasons. The most obvious one that comes to mind is if you are a freelancer that needs to bill by the hour, and therefore need some proof of how much time you spent doing certain tasks. But that’s certainly not all, even if you don’t charge by the hour, it’s still useful to know how much time you’re spending doing certain tasks so that you can then refine your workflow or be aware of how much time you are investing (or wasting).

You know how sometimes you come across a tip that is so clever you are both happy to have learned it and annoyed that you didn’t think of it yourself at the same time?

That’s how I felt sitting in Katie Floyd’s Going Paperless presentation at Macworld 2011 (more on my Macworld roundup here).

It is well known that I love a little Mac app called Hazel that allows you to create rules to perform almost any function on your computer. One great use of Hazel is to move all the PDFs that you are downloading from the web now that you are going paperless.

Katie’s tip is to use the Source URL of the downloaded PDF as a basis for doing the processing. Brilliant! Have no idea what on earth I just said? No worries, I’m about to go through it.

Simple
No-nonsense NZB download manager.

Runs everywhere
Windows, MacOS X and Linux versions.

UNRAR & PAR
Handles RAR and PAR2 files

Unbeatable price
Free!

Streaming
Preview media files while you download.

Secure
Supports SSL encryption and IPv6

Map tasks and timelines
Turn brainstorming into action plans using an interactive environment that shows overviews and details in a clear format. MindManager helps validate priorities, get buy-in on goals and strategies, and map out timelines.

Phone to Mac (formerly "Pod to Mac") is an iPod, iPad or iPhone to Mac transfer software that lets users transfer iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod songs, playlists, videos, tv shows and much more to a Mac and into iTunes. Phone to Mac can rip music from all iPods and iPhones works with or without jail-breaking.

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Mac OS X Automation
POWER TO COMMAND

Sooner or later every individual, business, or organization is challenged to perform repetitive or complex procedures on their computers. Whether the task is renaming numerous files, batch processing images, or building documents using data from multiple sources, the need for powerful automation tools is shared by all computer users. Mac OS X is designed, from the ground up, for automation and offers a variety of integrated tools and technologies to solve your automation challenges.

Automator
Your Personal Automation Assistant
Automator delivers customizable automation to customers without the necessity of writing any scripts, routines, or computer code. Similar in concept to kitchen recipies, Automator enables users to create an “automation recipe” by following a simple drag-and-drop process, relating the individual steps of a workflow to pre-crafted automation nuggets that are listed in the order in which the steps of the task are to be performed. If you can describe how to make a sandwich, you can use Automator!

These Automator actions are designed to take some of the tedium out of your work. Many of them were created specifically for web designers and developers. However, if you’re not either of those, you may still find them useful. For information about each action, see below. If you’re new to Automator, you can learn about it here. Formerly named “Automator Actions for Web Designers”.

Junecloud Automator Actions includes: Save for Web, Make Names Web-Friendly, Create Clean Archive, Create Symbolic Link, and Hide or Show Extensions. Change Extensions and Find Finder Items by Label are no longer included.

If you’re like many enterprising Mac users, you probably use a utility like Alfred, a great productivity booster shot that lets you open apps, move files, search specific websites, control iTunes, and much more with just a few keyboard strokes. Thanks to an Alfred release now in beta, you can count 1Password among its special tricks.

A new option in Alfred 1.2′s sidebar lets you turn on 1Password integration. Click it, enable the option, and click Reload Bookmarks. Now, whenever you want to log into a site quickly even if you aren’t in your browser, you can:

toggle Alfred (Option-Space by default)
type “1P” and a space
type a couple letters of a Login you want to open
hit Enter to automatically open that Login in your default browser like a boss (if 1Password is locked, you’ll need to unlock it, but the auto-login process will continue. Also like a boss)

LogMeIn Free bietet Ihnen kostenlosen Fernzugriff auf Ihren Desktopcomputer, sodass Sie auf Ihrem Smartphone, Tablet oder jedem anderen internetfähigen Computer Dateien öffnen, E-Mails abrufen und Programme ausführen können – so bleiben Sie immer produktiv. Free ist äußerst benutzerfreundlich und absolut kostenlos.

EagleFiler is a digital filing cabinet, a research assistant, and a snippet collector. You can use it to write a journal, track all the files for a project or job, save your favorite Web articles, store financial statements, run a paperless office, plan a trip, collect your course notes, archive your e-mail correspondence, search mailing list archives, research a purchase, remember recipes to cook or books to read, store scientific papers, gather legal case notes, or assemble a scrapbook. It’s the most flexible tool on your Mac.

This post is part of a series that revisits some of our readers’ favorite articles from the past that still contain awesome and relevant information that you might find useful. This post was originally published on April 5th, 2011.
Dropbox is one of those tools that spends most of its time sitting in the background, and yet has become an essential app for users on just about every platform. Dropbox as cloud storage, as a syncing solution, and even as a way to host a website is an incredibly useful tool.
That utility isn’t lost on app developers. Software that works with Dropbox is springing up everywhere — sometimes as a built-in function, and other times as a user hack. Either way, it makes life among many gadgets easier to have certain files accessible anywhere, anytime.
Here are some apps that you can start using to take advantage of cloud storage even more.

To use a keyboard shortcut, or key combination, you press a modifier key with a character key. For example, pressing the Command key (the key with a symbol) and the "c" key at the same time copies whatever is currently selected (text, graphics, and so forth) into the Clipboard. This is also known as the Command-C key combination (or keyboard shortcut). A modifier key is a part of many key combinations. A modifier key alters the way other keystrokes or mouse clicks are interpreted by Mac OS X. Modifier keys include: Command, Control, Option, Shift, Caps Lock, and the fn key (if your keyboard has a fn key). Here are the modifier key symbols you can see in Mac OS X menus: (Command key) - On some Apple keyboards, this key also has an Apple logo () (Control key) (Option key) - "Alt" may also appear on this key (Shift key) (Caps Lock) - Toggles Caps Lock on or off fn (Function key)

Have you ever heard of a little preference pane utility called Hazel?

I use it everyday and it just may be the single most under appreciated app on my Mac. It is that good. Hazel basically allows you to preform preset actions based on a set of rules that you create. All of this sounds rather boring – best just to share how I use Hazel.

In this final episode of the OmniFocus Screencast trilogy, David covers task completion, review, and additional customization and database maintenance. The screencast is in AppleTV format and looks great on your Mac, iPad, and AppleTV. This episode has a small overscan so it plays better on the AppleTV. Enjoy.

Dialectic is a highly versatile telephony tool that unites your Mac, data, and phones — mobile, landline, & VoIP — enabling you to be more productive. And it’s designed exclusively for Macintosh.
Dialing Has Never Been So Much Fun
Dialing the phone? Fun? How can that be? Simple: Dialectic. See a phone number on a webpage? Two clicks of the mouse and the Bluetooth-enabled phone in your pocket is main windowconnecting your call — and iTunes is paused & your iChat status is set to “On the phone...”.
Have a number entered into your digital address book? Click & talk. Trust us, it’s so much fun you’ll be calling people just for an excuse to use Dialectic.

Give yourself a chance of recovery.

When your Mac is stolen, you lose everything - family photos, music, memories and much more. The FBI report that only 3% of stolen computers are ever recovered, which isn't suprising.

Hidden will help you and the police recover your Mac when it's lost or stolen by tracking its location, taking photos of the thief and collecting screenshots of the computer in use.

David and Katie are joined by Eddie Smith of Practically Efficient to discuss all that is awesome about Dropbox. The trio discuss how to use Dropbox to share files across multiple computers and iDevices as well as dive into geekier uses for the service.

In our first “Workflows” episode we talk with Merlin Mann, or as David calls him, the “Hero of Nerds.” Merlin discussed how he uses his Mac for his work and the applications he uses to be more productive. This extra long episode is packed with geeky goodness.

David and Katie sit down again with Merlin Mann. Merlin updates us on his workflows and his latest projects.

At AppStorm we love helping you get the most out of your devices, mostly by giving you the low-down on the latest and greatest apps! Occasionally, however, it’s good to highlight the very best apps available; whether they be old classics, or new gems.
Recently each site has published a massive, and eminently thoughtful, roundup of the very best apps available, and I’ve collected them all together! Our editors and teams went to herculean lengths to ensure that these roundups would be more than worth your time, so without further ado…

Beschreibung
Read Later gives you access to your Read It Later account (free) or Instapaper (which requires a paid subscription membership) in a easy-to-use application.

Enjoy viewing all your read later items without logging in via a clean mac app - where your articles are just one mouse click away. The clean design offers you a fast navigation and will save you time storing and accessing articles you are planning to read.

➪ Syncs your articles with Read it Later (free) and / or Instapaper (paid subscription membership needed)
➪ Add, Archive, Edit, Move, Like or Delete your articles
➪ Customizable shortcuts to open Read Later or add new web pages
➪ Read articles in an Article View with Paper, Light and Dark styles
➪ Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins in the Article View
➪ Download up to 500 Instapaper articles and up to 1000 Read It Later articles per folder
➪ Export your items to CSV or HTML

Share:
- Share via Twitter, Pinboard, Facebook, Delicious, Evernote
- Shorten article link with bit.ly or j.mp
- Send article link via email

Secure backup to your own computers and hard drives or friends & family - no storage limits. Learn more
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Enterprise-level real-time, cross-platform backup to onsite, offsite and cloud destinations.

Recently, quite a few people have been asking me how I’ve been getting on with my MacBook Air and iMac set-up, which I got about eight months ago after blogging about my plans for ‘a cloud-centric Mac set-up’ way back in April last year. In short: I couldn’t be happier. If you’re thinking of doing the same or simply want to read a bit more about this set-up, read on…
THE DEFINITION OF THE CLOUD
When we say ‘the cloud’, we tend to think of Dropbox, and whilst it’s true that Dropbox is very much the key to keeping my two Macs in sync, there’s more to it than that. The thing that many people forget is that we’ve actually been living in the cloud — to some degree — for quite some time: IMAP email, for example, is one of the oldest and most common examples of data being stored on servers to allow access from multiple devices. So if you’re thinking of going to a two-or-more Mac set-up, you’ll be pleased to know that you’re already a fair way there. (Unless you’re using POP3, of course, in which you case you really need to get out of the 16th Century.)

SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git,
Mercurial and SVN version control systems.

I don’t think we can necessarily say something like "yoga is all the rage these days" anymore, but it is safe to say that yoga has become a fairly steady, mainstream workout activity for many people.
We have resources all around us and make no mistake about it, there are plenty covering the wide variety of yoga disciplines. And as you would have guessed, the next progression is to venture into applications. There are many applications that are available on multiple platforms that either walk you through a yoga workout or help to teach you yoga. I searched for one in this category and decided to give All-in Yoga a try.
I’ve had a bit of an interest in learning more about yoga for quite a few years. I’ve tried a couple books and wandered the Web for information, but I’ve come to realize it’s not an easy thing to actually learn on your own without little guidance. Many people turn to classes for this, but my situation hasn’t always made that option a possibility. Being the Mac nerd that I am my next logical place to look is the App Store.

It's all about your time
Time Sink tracks the time you spend in the Mac programs—and their associated windows—as you use your Mac. It does this automatically, so you can go about your work without even thinking about Time Sink.

A table-style view (top left image above) shows usage for both foreground and total time, and can be easily sorted by name, foreground time, or total time.

A report-style view takes that same information and presents it graphically, for an easy at-a-glance view of your activity.

This report can be grouped by usage (as in this page's top right image), or showing natural foreground/background usage patterns over time, as in the below screenshot.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a tool that could manage your videos and movies as well as Apple's iTunes and iPhoto manage your music and your photographs? Now there is. Meet Usher, your personal movie assistant.

Find and Manage Everything

Usher is the ultimate movie and video assistant because it can see and manage pretty much everything:



Usher can manage the videos you keep on your hard drive, and it will do so even if you don't want to move your videos and movies into Usher's library—it's your choice as to whether or not Usher moves things into its library, or just helps you manage your collection in place.



Usher can see videos stored in iTunes, iPhoto, and Aperture, providing easy management for these collections. You can add details to these videos, and then use Smart Playlists (as in iTunes) to quickly filter your collection on those details.



Usher also includes search-and-download capabilities for both YouTube and Vimeo1. Downloading your favorite video is now as simple as running a search (or entering its URL), and then letting Usher do all the heavy lifting—Usher can even auto-convert these downloads for use with the iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV, and copy them to iTunes.

Lumina is focused to show you a simple way to track your time.
The concept of Lumina is based on three columns.
Projects: A project is a bundle of tasks
Tasks: A tasks is a bundle of durations
Durations: A duration is the smallest brick to calculate your total time.

Frizzix - Der FritzBox-Anrufmanager für Mac OS
Frizzix ist ein kostenloser Fritz Box Anrufmonitor und Anrufmanager für Mac OS X.
Frizzix zeigt ein- und ausgehende Anrufe, die über eine Fritz!Box geführt werden, sowie die integrierte Anrufliste der FritzBox bequem auf dem Mac an.
Anrufmonitor

Frizzix zeigt ein- und ausgehende Anrufe mit Hilfe von Growl an und funktioniert auch noch nach dem Aufwachen aus dem Ruhezustand!

In version 1.11.0, the Evernote for Mac client has significantly expanded support for AppleScript.

The Evernote AppleScript Dictionary provides access to notebooks, tags, notes and a subset of their properties.

For a full description of each command and its syntax, view the Evernote AppleScript dictionary in Apple's Script Editor application. The Script Editor can be found in /Applications/AppleScript/Script/Editor.app. To open the Evernote dictionary, choose "File > Open Dictionary..." and then select Evernote from the displayed list of applications.

A Polyglot Database Client for Mac OS X
Explore, Query, Visualize

Focus on the data, not the database. Induction is a new kind of tool designed for understanding and communicating relationships in data. Explore rows and columns, query to get exactly what you want, and visualize that data in powerful ways.
SQL? NoSQL? It Don't Matter

Data is just data, after all. Induction supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, and MongoDB out-of-the-box, and has an extensible architecture that makes it easy to write adapters for anything else you can think of.
Free As In "Free to Kick Ass"

The full source code for Induction is available on GitHub. I'm excited to build something insanely great, and I invite you to join me on this codeventure. Bug reports, feature requests, patches, well-wishes, and rap demo tapes are always welcome.

The PHP Function Index (PHPfi) is a very fast documentation viewer to look up any PHP function.
Its search offers realtime-filtering of the function list and it downloads and caches the user contributed notes from PHP.NET for instant lookup.
Additionally its AppleScript interface lets you look up PHP functions easily from within your favorite editor.

Using TextExpander and OmniFocus for tracking actions & projects

In this short screencast I am demonstrating how I use TextExpander inside of OmniFocus to track projects, which I have delegated and where I don’t want to track individual actions.

Basically all these projects are tracked as individual entries in a Single Action List called ‘Delegated Projects’ and I use the note field and TextExpander to capture easy to read status updates. I get these updates either through weekly status calls or meetings I have with the project owners or via email.

Whenever I am asked to provide an update myself or meet anyone associated with the project, I can quickly and easily engage on the subject.

I also use TextExpander to capture single Waiting For actions I record during meetings or calls. TextExpander helps me to reduce the time and the typing required to capture these while I still want to follow and remain engaged in the conversation. Querying my Twitter followers that seems to be the most common use case amongst them as well

MacHash is your up to the minute Apple news reader. It aggregates, streamlines and delivers the latest news headlines from the leading Apple, Mac OS, iPad and iPhone news sources in one integrated experience.

MacHash News brings all the latest articles and rumors together in one place. Flick through stories with the gesture based reader and easily navigate to the web via the integrated full screen web browser. Share, email, tweet, and save articles with built in social media support for Twitter, Facebook, Instapaper, Read it Later, Evernote, Tumblr and more.

New features in v3 include the site browser, podcast support and site filter features. Read your favorite Apple and Mac sites and feeds right within MacHash. Catch up on the latest Apple talk with the podcast directory and stream episodes and videos from within the app.

MacHash is constantly updated throughout the day and keeps you in the know with a curated selection of more than thirty of the finest Apple news sources such as: AppAdvice, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, GigaOm, iLounge, Macworld, MacNN, MacRumors, MacStories, Touch Arcade, TUAW and many more.

JewelryBox allows you the freedom to manage your rubies, gemsets and gems from a graphical environment. Take advantage of the native OS X application interface with a 100% pure objective-c code base. Out of the box, JewelryBox runs natively on Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

To create a nested condition:

Hold down the alt/option key. The plus (+) button will change to show ellipses (…).
Click on the ellipses button above where you want to create the nested condition.
or

Hold down the plus button for the condition above hwere [sic] you want to create the nested condition. While holding the button down, you will see an indicator and then a menu with extra options.
Select “Add nested condition”.

This post is the answer to the first question that any new Mac user will ask: which apps are the best? The next time someone asks you this question, don’t think twice, just send them here.
We’ve spent hours and hours browsing the web, combing the Mac App Store and wandering through our own archives for the absolute best Mac apps around and we’ve found a whopping one hundred of them that we think you’ll love. Whether you’re looking for a screenshot utility, a todo list or even a great game to play, we’ve got you covered. We’re not merely offering a mindless list of links either, we took the time to tell you what each app does and why we love it so you can make an informed decision. Happy downloading!

Wer mal eben schnell Daten aller Art von seinem Mac auf das iPhone oder iPad schieben will, kann die gute alte Dropbox verwenden; eine weitere Möglichkeit ist Air2Files.

Dazu installiert man anfangs aus dem Mac App Store den kostenlosen Air2Files Server und gibt anschließend über die Menüleiste das Verzeichnis an, in dem die Dateien liegen, die übertragen werden sollen.

Laptop is a set of scripts to get your Max OS X laptop set up as a Rails development machine.

What it sets up
SSH public key (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
Homebrew (for managing operating system libraries)
QT (used by Capybara Webkit for headless Javascript testing)
Ack (for finding things in files)
Tmux (for saving project state and switching between projects)
Postgres (for storing relational data)
Redis (for storing key-value data)
ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
RVM (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
Ruby 1.9.3 stable (for writing general-purpose code)
Bundler gem (for managing Ruby libraries)
Rails gem (for writing web applications)
Heroku gem (for interacting with the Heroku API)
Taps gem (for pushing and pulling SQL databases between environments)
Postgres gem (for making Ruby talk to SQL databases)
Foreman gem (for serving your Rails app locally)
Git Remote Branch gem (for faster git branch creation and deletion)
Heroku accounts plugin (for using multiple Heroku accounts like a client's account)
Heroku config plugin (for pulling config variables locally to be used as ENV variables)
Heroku labs plugin (for using config variables during assets precompile and for using Ruby 1.9.3)
It should take about 30 minutes for everything to install, depending on your machine.

In this episode, David and Katie talk about how to keep your Mac clean and organized using Noodlesoft’s Hazel. Hazel watches folders and runs actions based on specific criteria to take action on the folder items. Hazel also keeps your Mac tidy by throwing away left-over bits of deleted programs and helping you to manage your trash.

RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream).

RCDefaultApp also allows setting the application when digital cameras or FireWire webcams such as iSight are connected to the computer. For completeness' sake, there are also settings that mimic the existing "CDs and DVDs" preference pane, which allows setting the action to take when various types of CDs and DVDs are inserted into the computer.

Finder's Get Info panel can be used to set the default application for file extensions and file types, but it's not intuitive. Apple's Internet preference pane in MacOS X 10.0 through 10.2 (Jaguar) allowed you to set the Web and Email applications, but no other URL handlers. In MacOS X 10.3 (Panther), these settings have moved to Safari's and Mail's preferences — meaning you have to run those applications if you want to choose to not use them. Similarly, the digital camera preference is located in Image Capture's preferences, and the webcam preference is a checkbox in iChat's preferences. RCDefaultApp allows the setting of all of this information, and ties everything together in one preference pane.

RCDefaultApp also allows entries to be disabled, such as URL schemes that have security issues ;-)

Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Ruby and Python programs. This is done by wrapping the script in an application bundle directory structure along with an executable binary that runs the script.

Platypus makes it easy for you to share your scripts and programs with those unfamiliar with the command line interface, without any knowledge of the Mac OS X APIs -- a few clicks and you will have your own Mac OS X graphical program. Creating installers, maintenance applications, login items, launchers, automations and droplets is very easy using Platypus.

Supports shell scripts, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Expect, Tcl, AppleScript or any other user-specified interpreter
Can execute scripts with administrator privileges via Apple's Security Framework
Can display graphical feedback of script execution as progress bar, text window with script output, droplet, WebKit HTML rendering or status item menu
Dragging and dropping files or text snippets on application, which are then passed to the script as arguments
Can create applications which run in the background (LSUIElement)
Set own application icon or select from presets
App bundle configuration for associated file types, identifier, version, author, etc.
Graphical interface for bundling support files with script
Command line tool for automating script application bundling and integrating platypus into your build process
"Profiles" which can be used to save configurations
Built-in script editor, or linking with external editor of choice
Extensive documentation and many built-in examples to help you get started.

Sven Fechner is the force behind SimplictyIsBliss.com and one of the biggest evangelists of OmniFocus next to Ken Case. I am a regular reader because he says smart things and provides keen insight. He understands his simple set of tools and shares his discoveries in succinct posts. Sven doesn’t post about the latest cool apps or cute “tricks.” He writes about solving real problems with basic tools.
He’s currently working on a new OmniFocus book that I am anxiously awaiting. Based on how he uses OmniFocus, it’s guaranteed to be a valuable addition to my library.

In this installment, the iTunes Guy answers questions about moving your iTunes library, opening multiple iTunes windows simultaneously, finding tracks in playlists, and more.

I’m enjoying my new iPhone 4S but I’ve found that when shooting movies it captures files at 1080p, producing big files. After downloading these movies to my Mac I often want to post or email them. I find converting them to a smaller size a bother. Is there an easy way to do that?

There is. And the avenue to that easier way is Automator. Try this:

In the past two years, we’ve seen a lot of specialized photo manipulation apps enter the scene. Apps like Analog, Flare, and Instagram allow people to apply filters that recolor or add texture to photos. Focus is a photo manipulation app as well, but its specialty lies in creating unique blur effects in photos.
Cameras that have an adjustable lens allow you to change the focus of a photo, blurring objects at different distances. However, if your digital camera doesn’t have the ability to change the lens focus, or if you just took a photo without focusing it well, you might feel the need to give photos that effect manually. Read on to see what Focus has to offer.

With a little bit of care, you can maximize the battery life (i.e. the time your battery will run before it must be recharged) and lifespan of your notebook's battery. Most importantly, use your Apple notebook in its comfort zone for temperature (See “Notebook Temperate Zone”). Don’t leave it locked in a hot trunk during the summer.

Forget the default browser, Choosy opens links in the right browser. When you click on a link Choosy will do the right thing, whether that's something simple (like using whatever browser is already running) or something complex (like prompting you to pick a browser, but only when you hold down the shift key and click on a link to google.com).

How To Build An AppleScript-Based Cocoa-Application
This page describes how you can build a simple AppleScript Application using XCode on Snow Leopard (10.6)[1].
Contents [hide]
1 Creating a Wikipedia-Application[2]
1.1 Creating the project
1.1.1 Choose "New Project…" from File Menu
1.1.2 Choose "Cocoa-AppleScript Application" from Templates
1.2 Adding a Web View
1.2.1 Add an Outlet
1.2.2 Double-Click the Interface-File
1.2.3 Search for WebView and drag it into your window
1.2.4 Resize the WebView to fill the window
1.2.5 Set Size-Settings for automatic resizing
1.2.6 Connect the Outlet to the WebView
1.3 Opening an URL
1.3.1 Tell the WebView to open an URL
1.4 You made it!
2 More
2.1 Finetuning
Creating a Wikipedia-Application[2]

Managing multiple windows in Mac OS X Lion is done primarily using Mission Control, where you can create different desktops and assign the windows you have open to each one, according to what you’re working on. It is somewhat equivalent of working with multiple monitors, except that you don’t have all your screens displayed at the same time, and you have to swipe through to get to them. When it comes to managing display space on a single screen, it takes a lot more effort to keep things organized. Spectacle  is a Mac app that allows you to snap windows to one of four quadrants of the display, one of three parts of the height of the screen, and lets you switch to full screen, all using hotkeys.

The app comes with pre-defined hotkeys and runs unobtrusively in the system menu bar. To view and edit the hotkeys and set the app to start at system login, go to the app’s preferences.