I’m on an OmniKick lately. I’ve been learning and tinkering with OmniPlan as a possible solution for step-one in my group project management workflow. I’m hoping it will help me map out overall time and scheduling of large-scale projects, as well as help me give clarity to others about where the time is spent.

This review of OmniPlan from “Relative Sanity” is nice. I very much like articles and reviews like this. It’s not a feature list, it’s a “how I actually use it” piece.

If you want a feature list and how-to overview, the

(http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniplan/videos/) on Omni’s product site are great.

Many thanks to Alarms for sponsoring the world’s best RSS Feed this week. Alarms is a timer and to-do app that sits in your Menu Bar. Click and drag on it to set an instant timer for, say, 30 minutes of intentional writing, or to reminder yourself in 4 minutes that the French Press is ready. Moreover, you can drag files, emails, URLs, and other items onto the menu bar icon and save those items as to-dos. A calendar slides down and lets you schedule a concrete time to hash out a that action item. You can try out Alarms for free for two weeks.

Dan Byler has a handful of very useful AppleScripts for getting around a few of the due-date quirks of OmniFocus. Like, you know, when you’re trying to change the due dates of nine unique action items to all be due on Monday instead of today? With Dan’s scripts you can hammer that out in seconds instead of minutes.

A useful tip for when you’re on a site that doesn’t offer a print version of its multi-page article. (Via Brooks.)

If you want to read a bunch of facts and figures, see AnandTech’s 11-page review. If you want to read a well-written narrative about how a real person uses the new Air in real life as their one and only computer, read Ben’s review.

Speaking of posting images, FancyZoom is what I use for that cool pop-out-and-zoom effect.

Though I don’t post screenshots or images that often, when I do, I often use an Automator workflow which, when run via the contextual menu, duplicates the selected image and resizes it to 463 pixels wide (the default image width I use for this site).

Many thanks to DomainBrain for sponsoring the RSS Feed this week. DomainBrain is an app which honors that great and glorious tradition of software tools which do one thing and one thing well. It’s a clever and attractive, one-stop app for storing all the credentials for the websites you own and/or operate (but don’t mistake it as just another password manager).

You can download and try DomainBrain for free. If you own more than one URL give it a look and I bet it will prove its usefulness.

Click to find out.

Daniel is one of the good guys. He’s friendly, cares about his work, and just so happens to make a few of the best applications available for your Mac. I also had the privilege of interviewing Daniel in 2008.

Brilliant thoughts on the Mac App Store, Finder, and more.