Brett is doing something I do, which is using Sync for a personal cloud because we have Mac minis in a colocation facility. It works exceedingly well for me.
It’s also amazingly fast. Sitting at home I can upload something I save to my server from my iPhone (via the new Transmit iOS app) and it syncs for that Mac mini server back to my MacBook Pro almost instantly. It’s quite incredible.
(I use the Mac mini server because it is always running. Also the Sync iOS app is really slow in my use.)
Some weeks back now, Tom Bihn asked if I would like to try out some of their new gear. I looked over the list and was immediately drawn to two items: Aeronaut 30, and the Travel Laundry Stuff Sack. Both seem to fill real needs in my travel bag setup (well, not if you ask my wife).
Austin Mann:
It’s now super easy to slow down your iPhone Slo-Mo footage on your Mac: just open the slow-motion video file in QuickTime and drag the sliders on the timeline below. This process will be familiar as it’s exactly the same as the process on your iPhone.
Oh, I had no idea. That’s cool.
I downloaded Flare 2, having not used the first version, and I like it quite a bit. I think with some patience it will replace Lightroom for me — but that’s a long post for another month.
Shot from my iPhone, processed in Flare 2 on my Mac. Expired Fujifilm effect, customized to remove the border crap Flare loves to add.
I am pretty sure I may have found a workflow that gives me 90% of the photo editing power of my Mac, while doing all edits on iOS. This could be very cool.
Marco Arment:
They’re not obsessed with messing with developers’ heads — we’re just innocent bystanders getting hit whenever this fundamentally insecure, jealous, unstable company changes direction, which happens every few years.
I don’t think there is much money in developing things for Twitter, which is too bad because I love Twitter.
Despite what most say, I still think a new iPad is the best computer you can get.
System Preference:
At first glance, Ulysses III’ features read like a set of common sense additions to Writer’s spartan feature set. And yet beyond the obvious lies a set of decisions that manage to augment productivity in meaningful ways while sacrificing as little as possible of Writer’s opinionated tabula rasa.
This post, more than any other, perfectly encapsulates why I love Ulysses III so very much.
Justin Williams:
We tend to give Apple grief when things are buggy or don’t work as well as we’d hope. It’s things like this lunch purchasing experience that are why I use and champion their products. When it works, it really works.
Apple Pay and HealthKit are two of those things that will only be really great when they are fully implemented and accepted. I can’t wait for that day.
Files can now match multiple rules. Use the new “Continue” action to have Hazel continue evaluating rules if the current rule matches and hasn’t been moved out of its folder.
Oh, now that is going to be neat.
In my recent Airmail review, I talked about how I needed to wait for official Yosemite apps to make the final call between Airmail and Mail.app. Well, I now have both and Airmail got a big 2.0 update in the process.
I had a crazy idea a while back: why not do my own TabDump now that it is gone? Well, I partnered up with Bradley Chambers and created just that. We will be covering a lot more than just tech news, so come look and let me know what you think.
Also, Conor McClure, Steven Owens, and Yuyang Guo are contributing to the content daily. Big thanks to them.
Simply gorgeous new standalone Mac app: Deliveries. I use this app all the time on my iPhone and in Dashboard and this new version is top notch.
Looks like a great book for fiction writers, I read through the preview version of the book and it has some great tips for people getting started with Ulysses III.
Pretty clever move. I reserve my top row on the iPhone 6 for things that I rarely use. Smith has a clever solution too, but it looks too off-putting to me.
MacStories has the detailed review of Drafts 4. Personally I have been using the app now for a week plus and it’s quite the app. It does a hell of a lot of stuff, and it actually quite complex. For me the best part of Drafts 4 is that I don’t have to figure out how to do too many things as the workflow exchange helps quite a bit.
While I like Drafts 4, these types of apps have really fallen by the wayside for me of late. The best use I have for it as of right now: a Birdhouse replacement.
Powerful app, and there is no doubt in my mind that some pretty cool stuff will come of people using it.
Alex King:
Inspired by Brent’s consideration of an off-the-shelf blog engine, Santiago Valdarrama has written a post outlining the problems he has with off-the-shelf blog engines. What was so interesting to me about this was that a self-hosted WordPress site addresses nearly every one of his concerns.
First things first: I’m not a headphone guy. By that I mean I don’t listen to a ton of music, or a ton of podcasts — I typically just listen to the environment around me. I do, however, find myself wearing headphones a often, so I need to have a pair on hand, but they need to travel with me.
In the past I’ve followed Marco Arment’s recommendations, and I’ve liked them. But I’ve broken them all, or never carried them. What I really needed was some earbuds, and some that I liked because I use them so infrequently, why not like looking at them as they kick around the bottom of my bag?
I bought Transmit for iOS when it came out, setup my servers and then left it. I never used it and never saw where it was useful. And then I read this post from Gabe and saw that the power is in the iOS extension. Essentially allowing you to send any file to a web server for saving.
Now do that, and then sync that folder you send stuff to over BitTorrent Sync back to your Mac — and well I am a happy camper. Awesome.