OmniOutliner: A Mature Outlining Application
When it comes to organization, one of the most simple things you can do to organize data is create an outline. OmniOutliner is an application that allows you to create an outline without hindering your thought process. Many of you have probably heard of OmniOutliner and may even have it on your Mac if you bought a MacBook when Apple was packaging OmniOutliner with them.
The main window of OmniOutliner is quite minimal, opting to have many of the formatting control etc., in an inspector. This makes for a very clean and distraction free window with only 5 buttons (7 in the pro version). The inspector has 5 parts to it, Appearance, Row, Column, Document and Style Attributes, each with it's own options for editing an element of your outline.
Flock 2 Beta: Firefox on Steroids
The goal behind Firefox was simple: a lightweight browser with the basics for a satisfying Web surfing experience, but the groundwork for a user to customize their feature set by installing add-ons. On the other end of the spectrum is Flock. Out of the box Flock can do just about everything you can imagine you might possibly (one day) use, and a little more.
Flux Giveaway Winners
A few weeks ago I reviewed an application called Flux, which is a website creation tool using the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) concept. Shortly after the review was published, we had a 3 license giveaway, and today we have the winners (randomly chosen) of that giveaway.
The winners were:
Simon
Phillz
John Wells
The winners have been notified.
Thanks you for your comments, and stay tuned for future giveaways.
RapidWeaver 4: Overhauled for Leopard
As you may remember me saying at the beginning of my review of Flux, I am a big fan of the WYSIWYG concept (What You See Is What You Get). It was RapidWeaver that originally introduced me to the concept, back when I received a license as part of the original MacHeist bundle.
Since v3.6 (the last version, reviewed by myself on MacApper), RapidWeaver has undergone a major Leopard overhaul (as a free upgrade) to improve on everything from interface to publishing.
Iris: Image Editing Without Palettes
There are many image editors available for Mac, but most of them use many palettes, which many people don’t prefer. Recently Iris was released, which is a one-window image editor that looks a lot like Apple’s Aperture. It combines all the elements of a image editor into one clean window.
Make Your Own Menubar SSB With Fluid
We at MacApper are big fans of Fluid, the Site-Specific Browser (SSB) creator application from Todd Ditchendorf. This handy little app, which we’ve discussed before, allows you to take your favorite websites and turn them into applications in and of themselves. Basically, you get a fully functioning browser without all the clutter of toolbars and icons of your conventional browser (although you can get that stuff back if you want it). However, with the latest version of Fluid 0.9.2, a couple of new very useful features have been added. In this MacApper tutorial I’ll be explaining how you can create your very own SSB, which you can choose to put in your Menubar as a menubar item or actually on your desktop. Click on after the jump to see how to get started.
Evernote Launches Open Beta
For the past month I’ve been privately testing Evernote, a feature rich note-taking application. I don’t normally glean much enjoyment from closed betas, as the apps often have too many bugs to be practical. I find myself least trusting of notes apps because it’s never wise to devote my most important information to untested software that’s liable to implode at any time, taking all of my data with it.
Firefox 3: The Browser War Just Got a Lot Hotter
Firefox 3 released to much fanfare Tuesday with millions of downloads, earning the browser a place in the record books — literally. Firefox achieved the Guinness World Record for most downloads in a day. Excitement for the software launch bordered on the ridiculous, with thousands of people attending and hosting Firefox 3 launch parties. But behind all the hype, there really is a great deal of substance. Firefox 3 is fast, stable and packed with features.
Server Problems
As you have probably noticed, we have not posted any articles in the past few days. This was due to a server issue with our back end. The problem has been solved and we are ready to go! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Squirrel: Simple, Organized Finance Management
Last week, at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced the 2008 Apple Design Award winners. The winner for best student project was Squirrel, a new finance management application. Although there are many other financial applications for Mac OS X, Squirrel has a great design which helps make the application very user friendly.
