A new $40 desktop email client for Mac and Windows that boasts some tall-order features, such as a Gmail-style conversation view and the ability to search through attachments only.

This Quicksilver interface is, in my opinion, the best Quicksilver interface. It broke on QS version B56a7 for Snow Leopard, but Ben Cochran has updated it. (Via Julius.)

Steven Frank: “The next stop for Coda is 2.0.”

Also, Colin’s input from web developers regarding text editors is right on par with what’s seen in the Mac Setups: by far the most-used editor is TextMate.

And the move to LaunchBar gets easier and easier.

A very likable short film based on the story of the Lumiere Brothers and the invention of the cinema as we know it.

Also worth watching (if not even more so than La Premiere), is The Butterfly Circus.

The long-awaited, somewhat-doubted update to Yojimbo. It’s $20 to upgrade, unless you bought version 1.5 in the past 9 months.

Yojimbo 2.0 comes with a polished UI, a new icon, and a slew of well thought-out usability additions related to how info goes in and how it comes out. You can read the release notes here where you’ll see there are no flashy new features, and no mention of an iPhone app.

What the Bare Bones team decided to add, and what they decided to leave out, says a lot. Version 2, as I see it, isn’t trying to win people over from Evernote. (If it was, there would have been an awkward iPhone app.) This is an update for current Yojimbo users, and for people who’s lives don’t hinge on having an info management app that syncs to their iPhone. Your milage may vary, but from where I’m sitting, almost every addition in version 2 meets an actual need in my day-to-day usage of Yojimbo.

The reason it’s not a 1.6 update is because of the fundamental concept behind Yojimbo: minimalism; ease of use; “low friction data collecting”. Bare Bones didn’t lay new tracks, they greased the skids even more. And that is precisely what makes or breaks an app like Yojimbo.

Jon Hicks and Minimal Mac join the network. Nice.

For a moment I thought this was a new menu item in Snow Leopard. But no. Apparently I’ve been glossing over it for three and a half years — “Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder” was a new menu item in Tiger. Just because it’s old, however, doesn’t mean it’s not a clever idea. Though I still use Yojimbo to store all my receipts so I can tag and, if necessary, encrypt them.

(Tip: If you have used, or start using this automator workflow, you may want to read this first, so you don’t overwrite previously saved PDFs.)

Screenshots, release dates, and more from every Mac OS X release in the past nine years other than Snow Leopard. (Via David Kaneda.)

John Gruber’s age-old advice for upgrading to a major new OS release.

So, in short:

1. Do a complete backup clone to an external FireWire drive.
2. Test that the backup is indeed bootable and up to date.
3. Unplug the backup drive.
4. Boot from the installer DVD and perform a default upgrade.