AppViz 3
AppViz is a popular sales-tracking tool for iOS developers that I believe dates back to 2009. Yesterday, The Iconfactory announced AppViz 3, the latest and greatest iteration of the service yet. The Mac app has been completely redesigned, with easy-to-understand … (More)
Marked 2 for Mac
Brett Terpstra’s awesome Markdown-preview app for Mac, Marked, has been updated to version 2. For those who don’t already know, Marked acts like a sort of extension for any Mac text editor, allowing you to preview your Markdown-formatted plain text … (More)
VSCO Film 01
The wonderful folks at VSCO, makers of VSCO Cam for iOS, have released an update to their VSCO Film 01 preset suite for Lightroom 4 & 5 and Adobe Camera Raw 7 & 8. This update adds support for pro-level … (More)
Coffitivity
Some people like to work in an office, while others – like myself – are at our creative best in a comfortable environment like a coffee shop. For those of us in the latter camp, Coffitivity is an excellent app … (More)
Downcast for Mac
Downcast has long been one of the most popular “podcatcher” apps for iOS (I’m more of an Instacast guy myself, but the fact remains). If you’ve been wishing for a Mac version of Downcast, you’re in luck because it just … (More)
Ember for Mac
Ember is a brand-new Mac App that wants to be your digital scrapbook. It’s a beautiful app made by the same guys who made the Clear to-do list app for Mac and iOS. Even the icon is gorgeous. Browse the … (More)
Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac
Dragon Dictate is one of the most well-known dictation apps for the Mac, due to its accuracy and extensive feature list. Normally it goes for $200, but the guys over at StackSocial are currently offering it at $100 for the … (More)
NetNewsWire 4.0 Beta
(Image courtesy of MacStories) NetNewsWire, one of the most popular RSS apps ever made for the Mac, has just opened up a beta version of it’s upcoming 4.0 release to the public. The guys at Black Pixel have been working … (More)
Some Awesome App.net Clients
For the uninitiated, App.net is an ad-free, subscription-based service that is being used for not only Twitter-like conversations, but private messaging, file storage, sharing, and more. If that sounds a little scattered, it is, because App.net is more than just … (More)
Chatology for Mac
Chatology is a Mac app that allows you to search your Messages and iChat history, rather than relying on the frustratingly poor search features built into each one. Essentially, it’s a well-designed front-end for your Mac’s chat logs. You can … (More)
Pixelmator 2.2 and Vectormator
About a week ago, the guys at Pixelmator released version 2.2 of their popular image editing app, code-named “Blueberry”. It was packed with new features, such as smarter shape-selection tools, a palette with drag-and-drop shapes, a new light-leak effect, and … (More)
Mini Display
The developers of the popular Screens VNC client for iOS recently released another great utility called Mini Display. The two apps are similar in that they both require a free Mac app to be running, but what Mini Display does … (More)
Briefs for Mac and iOS
Remember back in 2009 when designer Rob Rhyne unveiled an ambitious UI prototyping toolkit for iPhone called Briefs? After several years of waiting, and a couple of rejections by Apple, Briefs has (*finally*) made its introduction to the public. Briefs … (More)
Metropolis – WordPress Client for Mac
If you’re a Mac-owning WordPress user, there’s a good chance you’re also a MarsEdit user. If so, I doubt you’re in the market for any other blogging software, but if you are (or if you’re looking for a cheaper option), … (More)
Adobe Lightroom 5 Beta
Adobe Lightroom is the go-to app for many professional photographers, and it’s about to get a big update. The new version boasts better healing tools, more powerful vignette options, off-line editing and more. The beta is free, and you check … (More)
Litely – Photo Presets
Whenever I’m editing photos, one of my favorite things to do is fiddle with color temperature. Nothing drastic of course, because I prefer subtle tones over the kinds of blown-out highlights you see in HDR photography, but a slightly different … (More)
Ramotion Mac OS X Icons
Ramotion is giving away a nice little set of Mac icons to replace the built-in artwork for Safari, System Preferences, Trash and more. Whether you have a vendetta against blue icons or are just looking for some different, this is … (More)
LaunchBar 5: Application Launcher for OS X
Keyboard-centric application launchers are becoming more and more popular. There are three big ones: Quicksilver, Alfred, and LaunchBar. What many people may not know is that LaunchBar is the original application launcher — it dates all the way back to … (More)
Pear Note for iPad
Speaking of iPads and meetings, Pear Note is a brand-new iPad app that was made for exactly that. This note-taking, audio-recording, Dropbox-syncing, iPad app is built with one thing in mind: taking notes while at meetings and events. It records … (More)
Instacast iPhone App
Instacast is not the first iPhone app dedicated to managing your podcasts, but it is the first I have ever truly liked. Its most notable feature is that it offers over-the-air updating of your podcasts. You can update all your … (More)