Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

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Microsoft Arc Keyboard Review

As a programmer I sit in front of a keyboard for at least 8 hours a day. Since I love what I do I often work on personal projects or contribute to open source software after formal work hours. That means a lot of typing and for a lot of typing you need the right [...]

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Henge Dock Review

About 6 months ago I purchased a Henge Dock for my 13” MacBook Pro and today it’s about time I give you my opinion on it. The Henge Docks are a beautiful piece of kit designed to vertically dock your Mac laptop. All of the cables route out the bottom of the dock so everything [...]

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Reviewing WriteRoom and PlainText for iOS

As I’ve been looking at minimal writing apps on OSX and switching over to judicious use of text files I’ve also been on a quest for a great iOS app to edit plain text files. Since I’m a fan on WriteRoom on OSX already I figured the iOS version was worth a look as well. [...]

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Harvest Online Invoicing & Time Tracking

I wrote a while ago about Billings and how it’s pretty okay but it’s missing a few key features that make it a half baked solution. The biggest selling point of Billings was that it doesn’t incur a monthly fee. One of the biggest issues with Billings is the crappy reporting features and I’m certainly [...]

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Sparrow Mail

Today we’ll look at Sparrow Mail as a third entry in to our series of looks at email clients. If you’re interested in the other two here is a look at Mailplane and Postbox. Features Sparrow is one of the newer entries in to the OS X email market and is made by Cactuslab, a [...]

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Hyperspaces – Gives Spaces some more Options

Spaces is one of the signature features of OS X, letting you create virtual desktops to organize your applications. The downside for some heavy users is that having lots of spaces can make figuring out where things are a bit difficult. Hyperspaces looks to solve that issue by allowing you to customize your spaces. Hyperspaces [...]

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Using Delicious Bookmarks with Chrome

Like many people today I’m a Chrome user. It’s simply faster and more stable than Firefox and all of the thing I really have to have for extensions are present in Chrome. Sure I’ve got Firefox (and all other browsers) around because I build websites for a living and need to test things but Chrome [...]

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Finding the Right Twitter Client – Echofon

Before Twitter had their own app I tried many different options like Tweetdeck (way too busy), Heltweetica (meh), and Echofon all of which needed to be revisited when Twitter announced their new application policies. Today we’ll look at the features of Echofon. I suppose it’s also worth noting that since Twitter has made their announcement [...]

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Email with PostBox

Email is something 99% of us do every day. Certainly if you’re an online worker (designer, programmer…) then email is a huge part of how you run your business. Gaining efficiency in your email sorting/writing/deleting can reap huge gains in overall daily productivity. The Contender In steps Postbox to help you battle the deadly time [...]

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Finding the Right Mail Client – Mailplane

For a while now I’ve been using Sparrow to access my email both work and personal since they’re on Gmail or Google Apps. Unfortunately a recent update that added support for other IMAP client has slowed Sparrow down lots and meant I’m in the market for a new email client again. I’ve wanted to try [...]