Handy new app that allows you to visually build CSS3 styles and generates the relevant styles for you to use. It’s $13.99 on the Mac App Store.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been using AntiRSI - a free OS X app - to methodically enforce wrist-rests after a couple of painful spells with RSI. AntiRSI functional and clever (detecting time spent too-near the trackpad, and building natural breaks in typing into calculations of when you need to take a break). But it has a problem: it’s not the most beautiful app out there. It’s free, and useful sure, but it’s always something I’ve been keen to better and build an app of my own [the irony of an RSI-sufferer sitting in front of their Mac to code their own Anti-RSI app isn’t lost on me].
That is, until Shawn Blanc tweeted about BreakTime this afternoon. I’ve been using it for a short while this evening, and whilst it lacks some of the smartness of Anti-RSI it certainly kicks AntiRSI in terms of aesthetics. In testing this evening, I’m pretty impressed with it. My favourite feature: the ability to easily re-schedule a break - in a minute, in five minutes.
If you’re an AntiRSI user, or simply thinking that you ought to install something to regiment keyboard breaks, I’d recommend you check out BreakTime. It’s $2.99 on the Mac App Store.
Great summary from Graham Lee.
From yours truly on the Realmac blog.
Great piece by Dave Caolo. My Downloads folder is a compete mess and there’s tonnes of great suggestions for avoiding this clutter.
If Evernote’s desktop clients were written in Adobe AIR, I’d be worried right now. The immediate popularity of the Mac App Store, and the iPhone App Store before it, reinforces my belief that in a world of infinite software choice, people gravitate towards the products with the best overall user experience. It’s very hard for something developed in a cross-platform, lowest-common-denominator technology to provide as nice an experience as a similar native app.
Good lord. I honestly don’t think there’s a figure large enough. From the font rendering, to the design. I just cannot stand Windows. If anything, the only case in which I’d consider switching from Windows to a Mac would be if Apple dropped the ball and Windows somehow overtook it.
I have no idea what makes one operating system work better than another, except that I know you need to have someone in charge who keeps telling the engineers that it’s not good enough—go back and do better. And that, my friends, is why Apple, and all of us, need Steve Jobs.
Fraser Speirs talks about his recent acquisition of Changes.app (an OS X File Comparison and Diff-ing application).
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