iDocument: A Better Way To Organize Your Documents

Have you ever felt the need of collecting data into one single application? I have. To tell the truth, sometimes I wish there was an application that could collect everything (links,images, videos, music, documents) into a single interface, but I recognize that might end up being a nothing more than HD.app. So, here come database driven applications like iPhoto for images, iTunes for music or Yojimbo for..anything else. You should how much I love Yojimbo (here’s my post of some months ago about it) and you should also know how much I wish the developers of Yojimbo listened to the users. Yojimbo it’s great, but as you keep using it you realize it’s somehow outdated. Bookmarklets work fine, the Quick Input panel is useful, same applies for the Drop Dock…but it’s not fluid. Particularly after many months of serious usage, my installation of Yojimbo is starting to fall under the huge amount of data I’ve put into it. So I’ve come to a conclusion: certain file types must go elsewhere. I hence decided that documents, in the form of .PDFs and iWork files, should have been stored into another app. But that wasn’t easy you know: I wasn’t able to find an app that was exactly meant for collecting documents or at least, I wasn’t able to find the right app for me.

*fast forward 30 days*

iDocument totally came out of nothing. A follower of mine replied to me on Twitter saying “Hey, check out this app!”, and there I opened the link. Is iDocument really worth your money? Or, can iDocument really save you from those hundreds of documents cluttering you hard drive?

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Firefox 3.7/4.0 Alpha Available for Testing

From Mozilla.org: (via Neowin)

“Gecko 1.9.3 Alpha 1 introduces several new features which can be tested by using this Mozilla Developer Preview. Many of these features are still in development, and while they will likely appear in some future version of Mozilla Firefox, some may be in earlier versions than others.

- Support for CSS Transitions. This support is not quite complete: support for animation of transforms and gradients has not yet been implemented;

- Support for SMIL Animation in SVG. Support for animating some SVG attributes is still under development and the animateMotion element isn’t supported yet;

- Support for WebGL, which is disabled by default but can be enabled by changing a preference;

- Support for the getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect methods on Range objects. See bug 396392 for details;

- Support for the setCapture and releaseCapture methods on DOM elements

- Support for the HTML5 History.pushState() and History.replaceState() methods and the popstate event;

- Support for the -moz-image-rect() value for background-image.

It also contains several other significant changes:

On Mac OS X, we render text using Core Text rather than ATSUI.

We rewrote major parts of the code for handling scrolling.

We made various architectural changes to improve Web page performance.”

Finally?

Office 2011 for Mac Announced

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“The software—not surprisingly, given the sudden ubiquity of sites like Facebook and Twitter—is big on collaboration and social networking tools.

Mac Office 2011 also offers a direct connection to Microsoft Office Web Apps, the company’s cloud-based version of the desktop suite. Users can store and access documents created on their desktop from any location with an Internet connection by uploading them to Web Apps.

Web Apps will debut alongside Office 2010, the next Windows version of the product. Office 2010 is scheduled to ship in June.

Mac Office 2011 will also feature a revamped interface. The company’s frequent GUI redesigns are often a source of frustration for customers who’ve mastered previous versions, but the software maker insists the new changes are subtle and worthwhile.

Microsoft said Mac Office 2011 “will be available later this year,” but did not provide a more specific release timetable.”

Subtle and worthwhile. Microsoft style.

Today 2.1 Available - Adds BusyCal Support

Today, which we reviewed some days ago here, has been updated to the 2.1 version. The updates introduces support of BusyCal, the popular calendaring application. Here’s the full changelog:

- Added support for opening events and tasks externally in BusyCal;

- Added support for Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopard;

- Darker events should be more legible now;

- Pressing enter in the notes field on a new event or task no longer creates the event or task;

- Resolved issue where new event and task windows wouldn’t pop to the top;

- Resolved issue where registration fields were editable after licensing;

- Resolved some unsightly default layout issues in a few windows;

- Updated the localization of each xib to hopefully have a nicer layout;

- Resolved issue where toggling the splitview would clip the tasks lists in some instances;

- Added x-today2-reg:// URL scheme for handling registrations;

- Added newsletter signup prompt.

In case you haven’t yet, go download Today. A great app.

Bitspace: It’s Your Music, In the Cloud. Powered by HTML5.

Since I started the “It could be a Mac app” series on MacStories I discovered a lot of new web applications. Some have a cool interface but are unusable, some are ugly and useful, some are stunning in every single part. Indeed, I try to focus on this kind of apps, beautiful online services that combine a great UI with great features. Now, I’ve also been talking a lot about “the cloud”. Well, most everyone in the web community is talking about the cloud, as it’s what we call “the future”. Data is moving to the cloud, applications are moving to the cloud, we are indeed moving our workflows to the cloud.

But apparently, what is keeping people to entirely move to cloud-powered apps is the most obvious reason: the reliability and speed of internet connections. How much time would uploading a 50GB media library require? Hours, or days for many people. That’s why people are still skeptical about “the future”, because they can’t trust their means, and sometimes they don’t even trust the services they’re sending data to. But, this doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t try cloud apps now at small doses. Or, in an ideal scenario - at large doses.

Today I’d like to talk about a web application that it’s slowly changing my way of consuming music. It’s called Bitspace, and I believe it’s what iTunes will probably look like in a matter of a few years.

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SublimeVideo Now Supports Firefox

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“SublimeVideo on Firefox has pretty much all the basic features of the WebKit (Safari/Chrome) version, however there’re some secondary features which couldn’t be implemented because of Firefox limitations.

Here are the features that are currently missing:

- Sleek Zoom-in/out transitions when entering/leaving full-window mode;

- Playback speed controls (when in full-window mode);

- Other minor fade-in/out effects to highlight the poster frame and reveal the controls when mouse-hovering over the video.”