The other day, I had a big outline on a wiki that I wanted to edit in OmniOutliner so I could hide and move things around with a real outliner, then export it back out to the wiki.

I managed to get it into OO with copy and paste and a lot of RSI-inducing tabbing, but [...]

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The excellent “Take Control” series of Mac ebooks has updated “Take Control of OS X Backups” to version 2.0.

I have gotten a lot of use out of their other books. “Take Control of Your Airport Network” saved me a lot of frustration setting up a network for my roommates, and “Take Control of Spam [...]

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This is about building an iTunes store-style interface to the web’s bibliographic information.

I’ve been pushing along the hCite Microformat process, which will set a standard for HTML publishers to add simple semantic markup to their pages that programs like BibDesk can read as citation metadata.

In stark contrast to great but complex things like Z39.50, [...]

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I love reading about how people use BibDesk. Over on the bibdesk-users mailing list, James Howison explains in detail how Alex Montgomery’s OpenURL script is making him happy. The short version: “Zero typing of the bibliographic details :)”

As he explains, you can find some great scripts for BibDesk on the wiki at BibDesk Applescripts.

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BibDesk 1.3 was just released (see here for very complete release notes), and this release adds a few features that were requested four years ago – searching PubMed and libraries with Z39.50 support. If you use those resources, this means no more downloading files to import references – just search from within BibDesk, and your [...]

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I couldn’t make it to WWDC last year, I’m not at Macworld this week, but I will be making it up to LA on the 19th for the Leopard Tech Talk, to catch up. I’ll probably be there the day before, owing to traffic and an inability to wake up early.

If any area mac devs [...]

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If you’re wondering how well the multitouch-screen will work on the iPhone UI, especially for typing, assuming that Apple really did buy Fingerworks, I can testify that the technology they developed to auto-correct typing on a keyless sensor surface works much better than you would expect. It really is the kind of thing you need [...]

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