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I’ve been working on multiple “free time” projects for a while, mostly updates to existing projects. The changelogs have gotten long enough that writing them up has been an imposing task. I have a

If you missed it, you can catch my review here . Don’t forget that it’s only $14.95 for a little longer, then the price is going up to $29.95. If you have videos or audio in any non-iTunes format,

My favorite Mac mini colocation service, macminicolo , turned 10 today. There’s a great timeline post on their blog that chronicles the history of the Mac mini and of macminicolo itself. They didn’t

Spotlight is great for finding files without digging through folders. It’s great with tagging. It’s even great for finding photos and emails faster than iPhoto or Mail.app can. It has its

Once upon a time, there was a fun personal database app for Mac called Bento (from FileMaker). It’s been a long time since Bento was discontinued and there’s been a several-year gap since we’ve seen

Guess what? This is the 100th project ( see? ) I’ve made available for download on this blog. I don’t know what that means in the grand scheme of things, but I feel like I should celebrate.

For a long time I mistakenly associated CleanMyMac with MacKeeper in my head. The latter is awful, let’s not talk about them. CleanMyMac, on the other hand, has proven to be a powerful — and safe —

Use flags for the OS X terminal command “say” to customize script notifications.

I frequently use in the shell to get output to the OS X clipboard. I’m constantly using , and figured it would be worth making a little easier, so I wrote this little function this morning.

I’ve become an even bigger fan of Sync since BitTorrent released 2.0 , so I thought I’d mention the 2.0.120 update they posted yesterday.

I’ve updated my fork of Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Quick Look plugin with TextBundle support. It’s a seamless upgrade and maintains custom styles if you have one installed.

I built a quick Action Extension for OS X 10.10+ this morning. It’s called “Preview URL,” and it lets you select text containing a URL, then shows a preview of that web page in a popup.

A gathering of resources on the XARA exploits

I put together a little utility this morning to help me remember what GitHub repositories I’ve grabbed with the intention of playing with later. I often clone or fork a repo and plan to explore it

Update: Version 1.0.1 is now the current download. Fixes Safari functionality and allows the optional use of a dotfile ( with the 5-digit Dropbox user id in it) instead of modifying the script

SearchLink 2.2.2 is up. Steve Lambert pointed out a bug in the Wikipedia search where a new redirect to SSL was causing SearchLink to fail on all !wiki searches. 2.2.2 fixes this.

Creatable is running a “Mac Pick A Bundle” promo right now where you can pick any 10 apps out of a list of 30 and pay $39. The app selection has some true gems (i.e. “things I would buy at full price

I’m not using Mail.app on OS X these days (opted for MailMate ), but I received an email from Mathias Törnblom updating the database vacuuming trick I’d posted previously . It makes the script work

Thanks to Smile and TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! As you probably know by now, this is one of my all time favorite Mac utilities, and I can’t imagine working on Mac and iOS

I consider Curio to be the most expansive brainstorming application on the market. With mind maps, lists, file links, notes, full project organization tools, and much more, it’s a complete

I frequently mention the capability of OS X to assign keyboard shortcuts to Services and other functions. At its most basic, though, the keyboard shortcut functionality can enhance and customize any

I just updated iTunesIcon , my little app for grabbing icons for any App Store application. This is a bugfix release, updated to fix the recent bug that only saved the 100x100px version of an icon.

Earlier this month, this blog was sponsored by a Mac app called Magic Number , a beautiful calculator application with advanced features. Here’s a quick overview of the extensive feature list.

CleanMyMac 3 is a great app for maintaining your Mac and freeing up hard drive space (now with Photos support). I reviewed it when it came out, and as you can see on the Product Hunt Mac App of the

If you didn’t hear from The Giveaway Robot yet, feel free to contact me and request your license code.

I’m months late in writing about HoudahSpot 4.1, which is odd because it adds the one feature I’d always wanted: the ability to save HoudahSpot searches as Finder Smart Folders. I’ll get to that in

Day One 2 is out 1 , and I’m very happy to say that the team there has offered an easy way to keep Slogger working with it. If you’re not familiar with either, check out Day One on the App Store and

A quick search on this blog will reveal I’m a long-time fan of TaskPaper . The plain-text task manager has provided the simplest form of portable project management I could ask for. TaskPaper 3.0 has

ShinyFrog has offered 10 Image2icon licenses to BrettTerpstra.com readers. Enter the random drawing below for a chance to win a code that unlocks all of the advanced features of Image2icon ($9.99

The developers will be emailing the winners directly with their licenses. If you don’t hear from them, feel free to check in with me .