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Retina Mac Apps

Retina Mac Apps tracks a growing list of Retina-aware Mac Apps. And yours truly is also listed with some of his many Retina-ware Apps…

Retina Mac Apps Website

Mac 101 - Printing Envelopes

I am constantly surprised by how many people don’t know how to print envelopes with their Macs or try to figure out how to do that with Word and therefore I receive mails on a daily basis of people asking me, why Write does not offer such a feature.

So – here’s the thing: Write does not need to have such a feature. Your Mac can already do that.

The Address Book App may be ugly – but at least it is quite good at printing envelopes and mailing lists.

Just select a card (or a group) and use the print command and select what you want to print out and hidden under the details tab, you can even fine tune every aspect …

Mac applications you may not know

Today: FStream - Webradio App with small footprint, subscription management and even recording option…

Mac applications you may not know

Today: Pochade - finally a little bit of a replacement for the discontinued Tangerine (which I miss badly) …

Mac 101

Today: Restoring Color Picker Colors from another Mac

One of the best part about working with a Mac is the system-wide integration of so many useful tools and helpers. The Dictionary, the Address Book, the Font Panel and of course the Color Picker.

And in case you you have to restore a Mac or setup another – you will always end up without your often used colors.

But there is help – all you have to do its to restore following file from the old Mac or a Time Machine backup:

/Users/Your Account/Library/Colors/NSColorPanelSwatches.plist

Mac applications you may not know

Today: Code Pilot

Code Pilot is an Xcode plugin which lets you woosh through your code and save a lot (and we mean a lot) of your time.

Mac applications you may not know

Today: Objectify - Create Cocoa class implementations based on JSON content

Mac applications you may not know

Today: Obtract

Obtract is a Mac app designed to track and reduce digital distraction for small teams of knowledge workers…

Happy Birthday, Macintosh!

Well, the best often die with 27 - but I hope we will have some years to come together!