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 [...]

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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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If you’re like me and don’t have a Leopard Preview, and if you haven’t seen the Leopard Developer Application Technologies Overview, you should take a look. There’s some pretty interesting stuff coming down the pipe. I like the Calendar store, which lets any application work with the iCal calendar info in much the same way [...]

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The GTD App Midnight Inbox 1.0 was released recently, and it has a number of interesting features, including automatic harvesting of ‘inbox’ materials like email and desktop files, and reminders to get back to work. I also really like the graphics and typefaces in the UI – I really wanted to love this program. I [...]

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I’ve updated AddressService to a Universal Binary, and relicensed it under the LGPL. AddressService is an OS X system service that lets you select a part of a person’s first or last name and replace it with their addresses or phone numbers. It’s handy for quick entry into an email or chat session. I haven’t [...]

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It’s been mentioned before, for example on Digg, but iTunes 7 has a new feature that counts the number of times you’ve skipped a track, which is defined as playing the song for at least two seconds but no longer than twenty (after which it is counted as played fully). I’m curious how they chose [...]

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My Powerbook’s been back for a couple of weeks now, and I had a good overall experience dealing with OC Data Recovery to get my data off the drive. Their San Diego Location is in Sorrento Valley. I didn’t test their speed, since my main concern was cost, but they managed to get about 98% [...]

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Thanks to Gus, I took a quick tour through the MyDreamApp finalists today, and voted for two of them, Portal and Blossom. Portal is a long shot – it’s basically proposing to solve multi-computer file syncing seamlessly, but it would be great if done right. See Wil Shipley’s comments for why it’s hard. Merging is [...]

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