The FastScripts giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Juan Alejandre You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but FastScripts is s … | Continue reading
I’ve started creating Dimspirations again, my depressing-but-actually-realistic collection of “inspirational” posters. You can follow the hashtag #dimspirations on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, or Instagram for new posts. I’ve also automated the process of creating wallpaper-forma … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with MindMeister, the best collaborative mind mapping software out there. Find Any File I’ve mentioned HoudahSpot plenty of times, but there’s an app that’s been around since about 2005 that has been continually updated and only cos … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a license ($39.95 value) for FastScripts. FastScripts puts all of your scripts in your menu bar, accessible with keyboard shortcuts and instant search. It even improves the efficiency of scripts by executing them in their own processes in p … | Continue reading
The HoudahSpot giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Neil Hart Floris van de Sande Dennis Misener Markus Struck Evan Grote You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I d … | Continue reading
I’ve been working with a former nvALT user who stored all of their files in RTF format. Ideally, people switching from nvALT to another app — be it nvUltra, Obsidian, or anything Markdown-based — would already be storing their notes as individual text files. If nvALT is still wor … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($34 value each) for HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot is basically Spotlight on steroids. All of the power of Spotlight file searching, plus some tricks that Spotlight can’t even do. Results are presented in a fully-fledged file management … | Continue reading
The MarsEdit giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Lowell Burnham You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but MarsEdit is still w … | Continue reading
Ok, so I wrote yesterday about a solution for checking your VPN connection via a network interface change, but it turns out there’s a better way to do it. I discovered it shortly after posting (StackExchange thread), and received a few comments mentioning it. So here’s part two. … | Continue reading
I got a question from a reader about how to test if a VPN connection is active and terminate an app if it isn’t. There’s probably a way to do this with Keyboard Maestro or BetterTouchTool or something, but to keep things interesting, I wanted to find a way to do it with just shel … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a license ($59.95 value) for MarsEdit. Using web-based editors for blogging is frustrating in so many ways. MarsEdit makes writing for the web easy and elegant, like any good Mac app should. Plus, great Markdown support (it even works with … | Continue reading
The OmniFocus giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! There were a record number of entries this time, so the winners are extra lucky with 1:330 odds! The winners! Congratulations to: Koichi MATSUMOTO Markus Ackermann Joshua Guthman You should have received an em … | Continue reading
Thanks to ScreenFloat for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I was a frequent user of the original version, and I’m very excited to see version 2 released. It’s chock full of new features and tools that set it apart from the competition. … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, three 1-year Standard licenses for all platforms ($99.99 value) for OmniFocus 4. If you’ve played around with productivity apps on Mac or iOS, you’ve seen OmniFocus. It’s the most complete task management system available on macOS and iOS. … | Continue reading
The Bartender giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: tosh sasaki Doug Kriel Michael Smith Apostolos Troulitakis Tom Tensfeldt Matthew Jachimstal Giuseppe CArlino Mark Hulme G Kolstad Tim Graves You should have received an … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Backblaze. Back up everything. Eternal Storms Software - ScreenFloat Matthias Gansrigler has released v2 of ScreenFloat, one of my favorite apps from years ago. A lot of its functionality was replaced by CleanShot X for me in r … | Continue reading
I’ve been putting a little more time into CurlyQ this week, as I’m able. First thing to note is a breaking change: it will always return an array now, even if there’s only one result. I had waffled on this a little, but for predictability in scripting it really always needs to be … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($16 value each) for Bartender. Bartender tames your Mac menu bar. You can move all the stuff you don’t always need to see into a secondary menu bar, navigate the menu bar(s) with shortcuts, and even control menu bar items like … | Continue reading
I've been meaning to create a command line utility for Hook.app for a while now. I've mentioned Hook before, but if you haven't heard of it, it's a powerful Mac productivity tool which creates and | Continue reading