Now with background sync completion. The iPad version got it too, last week.
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Notesy →
Many thanks to Notesy for sponsoring the RSS Feed this week. Notesy is an iPhone note-taking app with pizzazz. It has a simple and minimal feel yet still comes with some attractive options, especially related to typography. Moreover, Notesy works with Dropbox so it’ll sync your notes with Notational Velocity and any other note-taking app you have that syncs to Dropbox.
Notesy is just $2 in the App Store, and if you pick it up now you’ll get the iPad update for free once it ships.
Dave Caolo “Downgrades” to a G4 →
Amazing what you can get done with the bare necessities and a clean quiet room.
Steve Jobs’s Sweet Mac Setup →
A couple pictures of Steve Jobs at his home office from Diana Walker’s 2004 photo shoot. I can’t believe Steve didn’t clear off his desk to be all neat and tidy before taking these photos. (Thanks to reader Michael Soderstrom.)
Astronut from The Iconfactory →
The Iconfactory’s newest iPhone game, Astronut, just came out last night and it is a blast. And clearly, no detail was overlooked when crafting those fine graphics.
Intrvws →
Ian Hines has an uncanny ability to conduct an email interview. This is the rare breed of site you subscribe to in Instapaper.
Dave Caolo on iOS 4.2 on the iPad →
A nice overview of the most notable features to the iPad update which is coming any day now. For a super-detailed look, see Rene Ritchie’s walkthrough.
Sparrow Uses iOS UI Elements, Too →
And, so long as we’re on the subject of Mac apps borrowing UI elements from iOS, Sparrow — the minimalistic Mac mail app — seems to pull it off splendidly. (Via Greg Brown.)
Flight Control is Coming to Mac →
Another app that started on the iPhone, added an iPad version, and is now coming to OS X. (Via Federico.)
MG Siegler’s Preview of Reeder For Mac →
I’m sure there are others, but Reeder is the only app I know of that started on the iPhone, added an iPad version, and is now coming to OS X. It is also the only app I know of that’s using elements from iOS in its desktop UI.
The Ultimate Dropbox Toolkit & Guide →
Jarel Remick put together a whopper of a post on just about everything you could ever want to know about Dropbox ever. What sold me on Dropbox earlier this year was figuring out what a great tool it made for keeping real-time backups of your Documents folder. I have a Current Projects folder that sits on Dropbox, and that’s where I store all of my day-to-day files.
Also, by using Symlinks, I have the Application Support Folders for my most-used apps (MarsEdit, Yojimbo, 1Password, OmniFocus) sitting in Dropbox as well. Which means if didn’t backup my laptop a week or two, chances are good I would hardly lose anything important. And if I drop my laptop on the way home from work or while walking to the living room, I for sure won’t lose anything.
Paste Interactive →
Many thanks to Paste for sponsorsoring this week’s RSS Feed to promote their sweet suite of productivity and project management web apps. Paste wins the prize for most clever and targeted sponsorship yet. The copy they wrote for their sponsorship post on Monday was incredibly enticing (huge props for referencing the SR-71 Blackbird). And the landing page for their sponsorship has been written just for you guys — the readers.
Paste describes themselves as a small app studio making cool, smart tools to help us work better, simpler, and faster. I describe them as a team of guys who have thought things through and who sweat the details. If you build websites, work with a team, or are on the hunt for a better project management software, then check out their suite of apps.
Jumpchart in particular is a great tool for people who build websites. It’s a web app to help you build, organize, swap, edit, and agree upon the content, design, and information architecture of a new site. Then it’ll export your outline and pages of content to HTML (or even to WordPress).
Instapaper 2.3 →
A huge honkin’ update to one of the most beloved apps on my iPhone and iPad. And now with 100% more OmniFocus integration. If you chose to Share an article from Instapaper, you’re given an option to send it to OmniFocus. Tap it and your device will switch to OmniFocus with the quick-entry panel open, the title of your article as the title of the item and the URL in the item’s note.
“Even More iOS-Like Than You Imagine” →
I very much agree with Dave Caolo’s Mac OS X 10.7 predictions.