No, I’m not Italian.
Italian Museum Cops Apple’s Cover Flow for Touch Screen Paintings
How To Export Notes from Yojimbo and Convert Them to .rtf
You know how much I love Yojimbo. It’s great information organizer for Mac OS X which lets you store all your data like text, photos and password in one big Library. I wrote a couple of posts about Yojimbo here and here, be sure to read them to get an overview of this amazing application.
Anyway, Yojimbo has one drawback: sync and export. The developers (BareBones Software) don’t seem to be willing to release an iPhone app anytime soon, so the only way to “sync” Yojimbo would be that of exporting the whole database to Dropbox and import it later on another machine. But still, this is not a real sync, nor ax export feature: you can’t view single items in the database.
So, I wrote an Automator workflow to export notes from Yojimbo and convert them to .rtf. It uses the textutil shell script (which should come by default on any Mac OS computer) and lets you view and edit all the notes you have in Yojimbo in external apps such as TextEdit. It has some limitations anyway, we’ll see them together.
IconGrabber Quickly Grabs and Converts Mac Icons
When I was new to the Mac, I wished there was a simple way to get the full size applications icons. They were beautiful and well designed, so I wanted to look at them at a full resolution. But as I said, I was new to the Mac, and I didn’t know many tricks to get the .icns file and convert it to a .png.
If you’re in the same situation now, IconGrabber is for you.
Ommwriter: Welcome Back to Concentrating
“Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.
Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, reinvindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.”
This is what you can read on Ommwriter official website. And that’s what Ommwriter really does.
Plex Gets Spotify Integration
Phil Schiller Defends App Store Approval Process
“We’ve built a store for the most part that people can trust,” he says. “You and your family and friends can download applications from the store, and for the most part they do what you’d expect, and they get onto your phone, and you get billed appropriately, and it all just works.”
Hey Phil, do you understand that the problem is in the backend, with the developers? I know that the apps I download do what I’d expect, but go tell this to those devs who had to wait 4 months for their app to be accepted.
You know, it’s the approval process that doesn’t work as I’d expect.
Configure Gmail IMAP accounts properly in Apple Mail and on the iPhone
It saved me.
The Apple Tablet OS & User Experience
“For example, the simple act of entering text via an on-screen keyboard. When holding the device in portrait orientation then the on-screen keyboard could be essentially the same as the iPhone’s in concept, but what about when you’re holding the tablet horizontally with two hands? How does the keyboard work in that scenario? If you stretch the keyboard across the device’s screen when in landscape orientation then your thumbs won’t be able to hit the middle keys without stretching and reaching. This orientation works on the iPhone because the screen is only 480 pixels wide but what happens when the horizontal dimension of the screen is 800px or 1200px? This same layout just doesn’t work.”
Great read. Though I believe the OS will be something entirely different, both from iPhone OS and Mac OS. Apple doesn’t like to mix stuff, usually.
Favorite Tweets of the Week Nov 15-Nov 21, 2009
I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.
To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.
You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.
Enjoy!