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I wrote up the Vox 1.0 release for TUAW a little while back. It seems like it’s only been a few months (it’s been 6), but Vox 2.0 is already here. I love this powerful little music controller and

You may recall my iTunesIcon app that lets you easily search for and pull an icon from any App Store (Mac or iTunes) app. I posted a minor update recently that I forgot to mention: you can now

This command can be run in a couple of ways. First, you can add a timer and tell it to prevent sleep for a certain duration. Alternatively, you can attach it to another command to keep the computer

Arq 4 is a major step forward for the offsite backup application. Along with support for myriad new storage types (including GreenQloud, DreamObjects, Google Cloud Storage, and any Amazon S3-

I lamented on Twitter and App.net that my Dock was no longer respecting “Keep in Dock,” and hadn’t for a while now. It turned out I was far from alone I heard from a lot of people having the same

This tip from Macworld is a fun one for writers. It’s about how you can manually trigger the autocorrect popup in Cocoa text fields by hitting space after a misspelled word and then moving the caret

Sorry, the recap is a day late this week. I know you’ll survive, but I’m apologizing anyway.

There have been some questions about what’s in my menu bar as shown in my Macworld session, The Efficient Mac User ( this slide ). Here’s the list (all 42 icons). It changes frequently, but this is

I’ve gushed about the beta of this Mac app a couple of times on Systematic , and it’s finally out for everyone. Deckset is the easiest way to create a slide deck, a la Keynote or Powerpoint, and

Web excursions brought to you in partnership with CleanMyMac X , all the tools to speed up your Mac, in one app.

Sponsor: Backblaze (Apr 24th) Thanks to Backblaze for their gracious support of brettterpstra.com this week. If you’re not running offsite backups, you’re taking a big risk. Check out Backblaze

I first mentioned Yoink back in 2011 , and I’ve run it every day since. It’s a small utility that shows up when you start dragging files and gives you a convenient shelf to collect them on until you’

Congratulations to the seven winners of Yoink promo codes. I hope you find it as useful as I do!

ScreenFloat is another indispensible Mac utility from the author of Yoink . It allows you to capture any part of your screen and quickly turn it into a floating window that you can reference while

One of my favorite brainstorming applications, Curio , has just released version 9. It includes an complete revamp of the interface for Mavericks and Yosemite, along with dozens of new features and

I mentioned yesterday that Curio 9 is out, and I’m really excited about the plethora of new features and enhancements. I talked with developer George Browning and he was happy to provide two copies

This won’t affect too many people, but if you’ve installed the GNU Coreutils , you should be aware that the and commands strip extended attributes from your files. If you do any tagging in Mavericks

First, Happy July 4th! I was going to take today off from everything, but woke up early with a bug to do some more OS X tagging research. I’ll go back to bed after this…

I’ve been working on a simple solution for backing up and restoring OS X tags after catastrophes. Ultimately this is going to have to be more than a script, but I have most of the pieces in place. As

After running giveaways for Yoink and ScreenFloat from Eternal Storms, it seems only fitting that I include a third app of their’s in the giveaway lineup.

If you won and haven’t heard from the Giveaway Robot (and have checked your spam folder), drop me a line . If you didn’t win, be sure to check out Transloader and its companion iOS app . While you’

I’m a bit late in covering this major update to one of my favorite applications. I’ve been too busy enjoying it, I guess.

Marked , my Markdown previewer and writing tool, is now available on the Mac App Store . Both the direct version and the MAS version will be discounted to $9.99 for the first week as an “upgrade”

Git fans are often command line nuts. I know I am. But complex git operations can often be tedious, no matter how experienced you are. I fell in love with the Tower git client some time ago, and it

I mentioned the 2.0 release of the Tower Git client for Mac last week, and I was exited to hear from them that they’d love to give away four copies on my blog. If you use Git, you’ll want to take a

My favorite music player just got cooler. I’ve written about Vox here before , and covered the 1.0 release on TUAW . Version 2.1 is now available on the App Store .

I’ve mentioned this before, but wanted to do an official post now that Clarify fully supports Markdown and has become a great blogging tool.

If you design for the web, you’ve probably used an array of tools for wireframing and prototyping. If you haven’t tried the latest version of Antetype , though, you should take it for a spin.

I frequently forget about charging my iPhone and iPad until I’m headed out the door (or already in the car). I could add repeating reminders to OmniFocus or Calendars or something, but Softorino has