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I wrote up my favorite new music player, VOX , this morning for TUAW . After working with the developers on the beta for a while, they’ve offered my readers a special promotion.

Thanks to everyone for entering, that was a record turnout. I’ll be running some more giveaways in the near future, but the Giveaway Robot has requested a little vacation time.

Thanks to a catch and fix from Nathan Henrie , the SearchLink service has been updated to 1.6. It was snagging on matches where a preceded a Searchlink type of link and combining the url with the

I did some hacking on the excellent “Extra Info” script from Pedro Lobo. I wouldn’t say I greatly improved it, but I did make a fine mess of the code. My goal was achieved, though: special tags

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I haven’t gotten my Curio brainstorming article together yet, but I did want to mention that there’s a sale on it right now until August 31st. You can use the code BACKTOSCHOOL at their online store

Is the built-in OS X Calendar app not doing the trick for you? BusyCal is a great alternative that won’t make you sacrifice the system integration you’re used to. It adds full support for iCloud,

ForkLift is a file manager which — in my opinion — doesn’t get mentioned nearly often enough. It combines the best features of file managers such as Path Finder, Finder extensions like TotalFinder,

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Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for BusyCal 2.5. The lucky three winners are:

Thanks to everyone who entered. If you didn’t win, you can still check out ForkLift on the Mac App Store or direct from the BinaryNights website .

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There are quite a few apps on my machine that run in the background, waiting for that moment when they get to shine. These apps augment the OS X experience in ways that I’d have trouble functioning

Thanks to notes from Jeremy Mack and die_krabbe , SearchLink is restored to its former glory, complete with a working iTunes API search for the Mac App Store. It’s also now Mavericks-compatible and

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The TextExpander Tools have been updated to fix many of the snippets in the Tools group, including the URL shortening and creation snippets. You can download them from the TE-Snippets page , and if

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One step at a time, I’m updating as many of my tools as are still relevant to work with Mavericks. Up for review right now are the Markdown Service Tools . This update should fix all of them, but if

For those of you using the Geeklet to display your top RAM processes on your Desktop, I’ve updated the script located here with a version compatible with Mavericks and Ruby 2.0.

As you might expect, I’m enthusiastically exploring Mavericks’ file tagging. I looked into the state of the OpenMeta transition yesterday and found that many of the best OpenMeta tagging apps already

I’ve actually begun work on a book about tagging, and Mavericks in particular. It’s a subject I truly enjoy, and so far it’s kind of been writing itself. I hope to wrap it up faster than some of my

I’ve finished the biggest update to Planter thus far, and bumped it to version 2.0. I don’t know how popular this project is or ever will be, but I still find it useful enough to keep in good shape.

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I’ve updated the icon grabber script to allow you to specify what type of application you’re looking for, be it iPhone, iPad or Mac. In case you’re not familiar, this script uses the iTunes API to

I’ve finished a tag-based filing system I started working on before Mavericks. I personally think it’s flexible enough to be shared, but others may balk at the apparent complexity. It does take some

If you want to run the Tag Filer script , but don’t have Hazel handy, you still have everything you need to get it done. One option is to run a “cleanup” command at intervals using .

It’s been a good year for software. I’ve had the pleasure of using and exploring a ton of new apps. I took inventory of the apps installed on my main Mac, ran it through SearchLink and put together

There’s a lot to remember when you’re preparing to record a screencast or a podcast. Quitting some apps, launching others, changing settings… I find it easiest just to script everything. That’s

This year I Launched the new brettterpstra.com on a Jekyll platform (I’ve written about a few of my Jekyll adventures ). Since then I’ve had a couple of projects ship, so I thought I’d take time to

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