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{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate1.start }} Find Any File I’ve mentioned HoudahSpot plenty of times, but there’s an app that’s been around since about 2005 that has been continually updated and only costs $6-10 that’s worth checking out if you constantly run into hard-to-find files. One major benefit of Find Any File is that it can search your…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a license ($39.95 value) for FastScripts. FastScripts puts all of your scripts in your menu bar, accessible with keyboard shortcuts and instant search. It even improves the efficiency of scripts by executing them in their own processes in parallel. It’s a tool no aspiring productivity enthusiast should be…
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The HoudahSpot giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Neil Hart Floris van de Sande Dennis Misener Markus Struck Evan Grote You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but HoudahSpot…
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I’ve been working with a former nvALT user who stored all of their files in RTF format. Ideally, people switching from nvALT to another app — be it nvUltra, Obsidian, or anything Markdown-based — would already be storing their notes as individual text files. If nvALT is still working for you, make that change now…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($34 value each) for HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot is basically Spotlight on steroids. All of the power of Spotlight file searching, plus some tricks that Spotlight can’t even do. Results are presented in a fully-fledged file management window, plus file previews, result filtering and saved searches. From the…
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The MarsEdit giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Lowell Burnham You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but MarsEdit is still worth checking out. If you’re a blogger,…
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Ok, so I wrote yesterday about a solution for checking your VPN connection via a network interface change, but it turns out there’s a better way to do it. I discovered it shortly after posting (StackExchange thread), and received a few comments mentioning it. So here’s part two. The command is scutil, used for managing…
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I got a question from a reader about how to test if a VPN connection is active and terminate an app if it isn’t. There’s probably a way to do this with Keyboard Maestro or BetterTouchTool or something, but to keep things interesting, I wanted to find a way to do it with just shell…
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I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a license ($59.95 value) for MarsEdit. Using web-based editors for blogging is frustrating in so many ways. MarsEdit makes writing for the web easy and elegant, like any good Mac app should. Plus, great Markdown support (it even works with Marked). Developer Daniel Jalkut is a legend among…
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The OmniFocus giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! There were a record number of entries this time, so the winners are extra lucky with 1:330 odds! The winners! Congratulations to: Koichi MATSUMOTO Markus Ackermann Joshua Guthman You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear…