May 2013
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Adium Reborn →
I can’t wait to see the screenshot above becomes available. Dawid Liberadzki and Oskar Krawczyk have made a gorgeous Adium interface that matches the level of Adium’s engineering. The combination of matte background and subtle pattern turns Adium’s dullness into more elegant.
Adium is one of the most worthy chatting application you can find for Mac. I’ve used it since I got my first Mac. It...
April 2013
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Spice Up OS X Mission Control
Modification is rarely recommended for new OS X users. You don’t want to spend your time struggling reverting system to default settings. However, with little personalization, you can dramatically change the way how your Mac looks, especially when it’s the workspace you use every day.
Mission Control with its linen background becomes boring if you’re used to all the linen in OS X. What if we...
January 2013
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Light 2, Stylish Flashlight for iPhone
There is always a way to craft an app that is both stylish and simple. A good design is not always how it works, but it also requires an enticing user interface.
Light 2 is the most stylish flashlight app I’ve seen in App Store. It’s rare to see developers put their heart into making beautiful UI for simple tool such as flashlight app. In fact, I haven’t installed any flashlight apps yet. I...
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Yellow Butterfly
It may not be possible for you to picture my writing environment right now. With windows widely open behind me making use of the moon reflection as the only source of light, surrounded by the vast amount of water with limited electricity, and the endless rain increasing the water level, I don’t think many properties are able to survive this flood.
Each house has their own system to keep water...
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Sleep No More →
Sleep No More is a tiny menu bar application, that allows you to prevent your Mac from sleeping for a specified amount of time. Enjoy modern animated interface with a rotary time-setting dial. Prevent computer sleep, display sleep or both of them simultaneously. Automatic launch at system login option is also available. Should we mention its completely free?!
Don’t miss this beautiful tiny...
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OS X Toolbox Workflow for Alfred 2
My favorite productivity tool, Alfred, has entered its second version and released the beta for every Mega Supporters last night. The most useful feature in Alfred 2 is workflow that allows you to create a series of actions to complete a task.
The extensions support in the first version of Alfred were great but limited in term of creation. However, with the new workflow, everything are more...
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Aaron Swartz and Tangled Wires
I followed Aaron Swartz on Twitter last year after seeing several mentions of him on my timeline. I realized at once that he was a person that everyone look up to, mainly due to his contribution to technology at a very young age. He co-wrote the RSS specification when he was 14 which we still use nowadays. He helped to improve popular Markdown I use to write this post. He was a gifted kid every...
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PlaceIt by Breezi →
I really need something like this. You can create a realistic screenshot of your iPhone app easily. The screenshot above is one of the many available templates. Furthermore, you can use it for commercial purpose.
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Reset and Remove Applications in Location Services...
One of the best features in OS X Lion is a better privacy control which allows you to see all the applications that have access to your information. Some example of those informations are your location, contacts, and Twitter account. They can be found in System Preferences under Security & Privacy pane.
If you’ve installed Tweetbot for Mac before and removed it from your Mac, then now you...
December 2012
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Reduce for Photographers
I’m not a photographer. I don’t take photos daily; not even with my iPhone. I believe photography is one of the activity that can develop one sense of beauty. The art of composition in expressing the moment from a single image is brilliant. It’s a craft which requires thousand hours of practice to be good.
One of the iPhone application I’ve discovered recently is designed for photographers. ...
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Bark: Growl Properly in Notification Center →
Previous solutions to integrating Growl with Notification Center have involved forwarding all notifications, whether you wanted them or not. Others have everything appear as “Growl.” Not with Bark. We work around Apple’s limitations. Sonora is Sonora, just as it should be.
Recommended.
November 2012
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No Amount of Apologies Can Correct Misinformed...
As someone who check out1 news from major tech blog regularly, the ability to filter and verify the validity of news is important. Blogging is easier with the access of information and the help of technology. One can write a summary of news from the press release or a thread in Reddit without confirming first.
Yesterday, we had a pile of false reporting from major tech blog. Most of them didn’t...
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The Industry →
We are an independent news entity and strive to be a positive force in our community. Our content is produced by a team of designers and writers that are dedicated to sharing quality news with our readers. Founded in November of 2011, our goal is to shed light on those overlooked by the mainstream media.
I happen to know this site after following Chris on Twitter. It has become one of my...
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The Most Beautiful Folder Icons Replacement for...
I’ve never customized the folder icons on Mac. There is a reason behind this decision. Most of the icon sets take away the natural beauty of OS X. They usually stand out by themselves, ignoring other UI elements, and turn the whole OS X into a bizarre state.
De Anza is the latest folder icons sets designed by Louie Mantia, a former Apple and Square designer. Consisting of 2 color schemes with...
October 2012
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Your Children Are More Important →
In all of this, you will have to decide where your priorities lie. Is launching a new application, store, blog more important than building up your children? Do you find yourself watching the clock between 5 and 8 PM, waiting for the kids to go to bed so you can get in a few more hours of sketching, coding or PhotoShop?
I remembered vividly that my father would spend time with us watching TV...
September 2012
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Move Entire iPhoto Library to Dropbox
If you’re interested to move your entire iPhoto library to Dropbox, then the tutorial written by Viticci should be enough to walk you through the process. The tutorial serves as the basic to create your own photo management system in Dropbox. There are some steps that can be simplified, especially the part where additional applications are required to keep the photos metadata intact.
I’ve never...
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Use Plain Text on Your Mac →
Very useful guide on how to use nVALT to deal with plain texts by Michael. You can use it as a guide to start utilizing plain texts in your workflow. But don’t expect to completely remove folders with this method. It does reduce the number of folders.
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Droplr Referral Program →
For every new person you invite to use Droplr, once they’ve registered a free account, we’ll reward both of you with an extra 200mb in storage. We currently let you invite up to 20 people, which means up to 4GB of extra space.
I’ve mentioned how much I adored Droplr as my chosen link shortener and file sharing service. I’ll be glad to have another 4 GB in additional of current...
August 2012
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The New MacBook Air
When Apple first announced MacBook Air in 2008, I know it’ll be my only Mac. I didn’t force myself to get one immediately. There were many limitations with the first-generation MacBook Air. It needed time become mature enough to act as a primary machine. It happened sooner than I thought. Apple replaced MacBook’s role with MacBook Air in 2010. Since then, MacBook Air is getting better.
The right...
July 2012
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Clean Your Menu Bar, Sweeten Download Stack
Things I enjoy writing the most are anything related to customization. Browsing the Iconpaper for a new icon replacement, a new theme for Adium, and a gorgeous wallpaper. A desktop can be both useful and beautiful. It’s as easy as writing a blogpost to deliver this message.
Mountain Lion, the latest OS X released by Apple recently, fixes most of the annoyances in Lion and shows the refinement...
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Thoughts on Sparrow Acquisition
When I heard the news that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, I could only let out a deep sigh as one of the Sparrow user. You can’t avoid being disappointed when you’re looking forward for what they’re going to build into their next release. No one can blame their Sparrow for their decision when they’re offered an opportunity gain more income supporting their family while building a product...
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Apple Can Shrink The 30 Pin Dock Connector →
The 30-Pin Apple Dock Connector is one of the most efficient, versatile, future-proof and forward-thinking gadgets Apple has ever made. Even today, the principle behind the Apple Dock Connector is inherently sound, and much more empowering to both accessory makers and consumers alike than micro USB.
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Tweetbot for Mac Public Alpha →
The great folks over Tapbots has released the public alpha of Tweetbot for Mac. I don’t really have much interest in reviewing it. Not until it hits official release. Although it’s alpha version, you can use it for without problems.
If you’ve been wondering which Twitter client to get on OS X. This is the right time to get a taste of Tweetbot. Image courtesy of: iMore
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Wthr →
I think I’ve spent too much on the weather apps recently. I have no problem figuring out the weather condition from the window. I can only blame this on the urge to use beautiful apps.
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This Is…
Every emotion you feel can be neutralized with “This is …”.
From time to time we can feel pain and sadness. With a few simple words and change it into “This is pain” then you can view this emotion by separating from the context of “self”. You’re no longer linking the “pain” with yourself. Instead, you stay aware of this feeling and watch it from the corner. No need to fight against it, what you...
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Weather Neue →
Aside from being minimalist. This app shows the exact location of where I’m using the GPS. No fancy configuration, no need add your location. It does one thing.
It shows the weather condition of your current location.
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Checkmark →
Reminders → Checkmark
Although I don’t have the access to the beta, you can read the review written by Shawn Blanc.
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Tynan’s Rules →
When buying things, buy the best or something temporary and disposable. If the purchase is replacing something (and given how minimalist I am, it pretty much always is), it should be smaller and lighter than whatever it replaced.
That should give you a reason to get the best, and also stop you from impulsive buying.
June 2012
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Magical Weather: Gorgeous Weather Station
It’s not just stunning. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Magical Weather is crafted by Sophia Teutschler, a designer and iOS developer, who keep pushing many beautiful apps under her own brand Sophiestication. Without doubt, Magical Weather carries the essential of “great design in simple app” that I can’t stop myself from not writing about it.
Weather Exposé displays your current location weather...
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DragonDrop Makes Dragging and Dropping Easier
I can hardly tell the DragonDrop’s purpose from the its description. The developer describes DragonDrop as a utility that makes dragging and dropping easier on your Mac. One thing is true. The process of dragging and dropping on Mac is difficult. There are many times where I need drop the files into “Open File…” window and miss the hold state during the process.
Out of curiosity and also the due...
May 2012
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Feather Lighten Web Version of Twitter
Rebounding my post from last year. A small update for the Minimal Safari extension. The latest Feather is beautiful for your web version of Twitter.
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Don’t Pick, Use Both Instapaper and Pocket
Among the services that clean away online clutter I know so far, Instapaper and Pocket come across to be the most used services. Instapaper is designed with the sole purpose for you to store, read later, and discard/archive. Pocket, formerly Read It Later, comes out with a concept of save later for everything including articles, images, videos, and webpages.
The sudden change of approach, backed...
April 2012
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Slave’s Desire
One doesn’t merely allow desire to take control of himself. Becoming aware of self, acknowledging the existence of ego, and continuously look into the origin of desire can allow one to see the impermanence and unsteadiness of desire.
Yet the desire, despite how fragile and unsteady, continuosly to occupy one ability to think. The thought of fulfilling desire will attempt to seek — or even make...
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Fast Action Button on Flipboard for iPhone
I’m a fan of sending article to my favorite Read Later application, Instapaper. Sending articles from Flipboard to Instapaper usually requires at least 2 steps.
Recently, I discovered a small neat built in Flipboard for iPhone feature that works very well. Fast Action Button, which can only be enabled for Twitter account, allows you execute quick action by skipping the share button. By...
March 2012
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Zynga, Shame On You
Cult of Mac:
Pierce had such a project: a little game called Connectrode, a Dr. Mario style puzzler he had created for his wife. He had made it before joining OMGPOP, and it hardly made any money, but Pierce had sentimental attachment to the game.
When Pierce asked for an addendum to that contract, specifying that he be able to continue offering Connectrode on the iOS App Store, Zynga...
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No Longer Illusion, Meet Harpoen
This silly idea1 I came up with few months ago is no longer an illusion. Meet Harpoen.
Aulia Masna on DailySocial:
Harpoen lets you leave notes, photos, remarks, comments all over the city, virtually. This digital graffiti app lets you put up what the developer calls “harps” all over the city which can be placed permanently or temporarily, as you can set these harps to disappear after a...
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Apple’s Battery
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ post on ZDnet:
Between the release of the iPad 2 last year and the announcement of the new iPad yesterday, Apple has nearly doubled the capacity of the battery, taking it from 25Wh to a massive 42Wh. Measured in milliamps this boosts the battery from 6944 mAh to a monstrous 11,666 mAh.
That’s one important thing. It means Apple has found a way to maintain battery...
February 2012
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Illusionary
Sites I love are Twitter and Tumblr. Sites I hate is Facebook. So from the hates and loves, I get Illusionary.
Illusionary requires your username, email, password to sign up. That’s all we need. You can delete your account completely with a simple email verification.
What does this app do? Let’s pretend you’re having a great meal in one of the restaurant near your house, and...
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Your Paper and Pencil, Clear for iPhone
I’m not a big fan of to-do apps in general. Creating to-do apps can serve as a good project for new developers. It’s not surprising that the app market is flooded with to-do apps. The problem with those to-do apps are their target audience. Unlike OmniFocus that is primarily designed for long term goals and large scale project, most of the existing to-do apps fall into the region of...
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On Being a Writer
I’ve never expected writing will become part of my life. I started writing when I had internet access in 2007. That was the time when I didn’t even know that “I” should be capitalized.
I’ve made numerous amount of mistakes. But, no one read my writing that time. No pressure, so I keep writing. Writing makes me think and I enjoy arranging my thought into a piece of writing.
The thought of...
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Journaling with Day One
It happens all the time. I notice an app, pin it, and toss it aside at Pinboard. A friend of mine mentioned Day One to me few days ago, so I took a closer look to this app. My thought on this app? Totally in love with it. It’s definitely a beautiful tool for you who take pleasure in writing down your thoughts in diary.
“Make sure you write your feelings and thoughts about things going on in...
January 2012
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Sync iCloud Contacts and Calendar on Snow Leopard
Syncing iCloud to Snow Leopard is relatively simple. The information you need are your iCloud ID, usually in number identified as 1473233284, and the iCloud Server Number, usually labeled as pXX-caldav.icloud.com.
To find out your iCloud ID and iCloud Server Number, you need to run Safari and sign into your iCloud account.
Pick Calendar or Contacts and choose Windows —> Activity from menu...
December 2011
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Making Choice Between Droplr and CloudApp
CloudApp and Droplr are without doubt well known file sharing services. They separate themselves from many competitors in this industry by delivering a high standard of web interface, providing native apps that run seamlessly on Mac OS X.
For those of you who may not be familiar with how they work, CloudApp and Droplr allow you to upload your files to their server by either:
dragging files...
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How to Remove Spotlight Icon in Menubar
If you choose Alfred over Spotlight, it looks better without menubar icon. Paste the code below into Terminal.app and enter your admin password.
To Hide Spotlight Icon
sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search && killall SystemUIServer
To Show Spotlight Icon
sudo chmod 777 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search &&...
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Memories in Small Town
As someone who has experienced the life without internet connection, I find the way people spending their time has changed a great deal.
Companion is no longer the factor within consideration. In fact, most people prefer to spend their time watching people creating noises.
Coming from a small town where commuting took less than 15 minutes from one place to another. I could visit several places...
November 2011
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16 Tips in Dealing Information Overload
Only use the services you need. Deactivate and delete unneeded services.
Don’t read news.
Don’t watch TV.
Don’t share your private information online. Keep them vague.
Read only well written works.
Don’t make noise, talk at appropriate time, same thing apply to status update, comments, and tweets.
Stop finding out what your friends are doing or just quit Facebook.
Pick several role models...
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6 Basic Alfred App Extensions
The release of Alfred 0.9.9 has added a feature for users with experience in Apple Script, Shell Script, and Automator to extend Alfred capability beyond what it can do. If you’ve made a switch from Spotlight to Alfred, I hope this list adds another reason for you to get Power Pack upgrade. Even without Power Pack, you should also try Alfred.1
Connection Speed measures your connection speed and...
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Care Less
Children can be so carefree is simply because they care less.
The problem with adulthood is we care too much. We care too much how people will view us as an individual. We care too much how successful other people compared to us. We care too much how cool other people compared to us.
We care too much so we stop to learn.
We lose ourselves in the midst of this world where majority...
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Day-0, Menu Bar Clock with Calendar
Well, if you’re not a fan of FuzzyClock.
Download: Official | Alternative
October 2011
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Denotification
“Someone has sent you a message”, “Download is complete”, “Clara is typing…”, “Connection to FTP has failed”. Those messages are known as notifications. They are always there, whole time, notifying what is happening with your Mac if you have Growl installed.
Most applications, by default, enable the notification. And by having all the notifications together, we end up with a pile of useless...
