BusyCal 2.0
Adam C. Engst: Other enhancements make it easier to find and view sets of events. Most notably, Smart Filters store sets of calendars, view settings, and event filters as toolbar buttons. With them,...
View ArticleFantastical for iPhone 1.0
The iPhone version of Fantastical is now available. Like the Mac version, it’s great at creating new events. It also has a great list view. At the top is the DayTicker, a horizontal list of days...
View ArticleWhat’s Really Great About Fantastical
Dr. Drang: What separates Fantastical from these others is that its window shows both the free-form entry field and the individual time/date/etc. fields, and as you type in the free-form field,...
View ArticleFantastical 2
Fantastical 2 (App Store) is another iOS 7 update for a great app. I like the 5-day “week” view when you rotate the phone and the number and punctuation keys on the keyboard, which help with natural...
View ArticleFantastical 2 for Mac
Fantastical 2 (App Store) is a big update, though the change list doesn’t seem to be documented yet. It’s now a full calendar application, with a main window rather than just the Mini Window that comes...
View ArticleFantastical and Multiple Events
Dr. Drang: So I’ve tried to come up with ways to make entering several similar calendar entries as painless as possible. Back when I was using TextMate, I had a system in which I entered one event per...
View ArticleMap Kit Outside of the Mac App Store
OS X El Capitan Developer Beta 2 Release Notes: MapKit APIs can now be used by developers in apps that are distributed outside of the App Store. Via Rosyna Keller, who asks: Which public OS X APIs are...
View ArticleDictation Buffer Updates
Nicholas Riley: It’s been a little over a year since I started using Dragon Medical in Windows as a dictation buffer for my Mac. Please see my previous few posts on the subject for some...
View ArticleFantastical 2.2 for Mac
Flexibits (comments): The headlining new feature in version 2.2 is native Exchange support. Previously, Fantastical’s Exchange implementation was dependent upon Apple’s built-in calendar support. While...
View ArticleLost Calendar Events, Change Notifications, and iCloud
Google Calendar initially did not seem to be fully reliable with iOS, so I’ve been using iCloud’s calendar pretty much from the beginning. It worked great until about a month ago. Since then, I’ve lost...
View ArticleFantastical 2.3 for Mac
Flexibits: If you use Fantastical on a small-screen Mac, you’re going to love this feature. You can now completely hide the sidebar in the main calendar window, allowing your main calendar view to take...
View ArticleiCloud Calendar Spam
Gabe Weatherhead: A new event alarm was created in my primary iCloud calendar without my consent. Aaron Douglas: No matter what I do – Accept, Maybe, Decline – the sender of the spam appointment...
View ArticleFantastical 2.4 for Mac
Flexibits: You can now view, create, and edit attachments on iCloud and Exchange, as well as view attachments on Google Calendar. […] Set and view travel time for events, and receive automatic time to...
View ArticleDesigning Better Touch Bar Experiences
Joe Cieplinski: I used to prefer triaging email on my iPad, because filing into folders was easier on iOS than on macOS. But on iOS that process is two taps, not one. So the Mac has become even more...
View ArticleCardhop 1.0
Flexibits: Rather than writing a long blog post with lots of screenshots to tell you what it does or why you have to have it, go watch our promo video for Cardhop. While you’re there, be sure to check...
View ArticleFantastical 2.5 for Mac
Flexibits (John Voorhees, MacRumors): Fantastical now includes full support for Meetup. Add your Meetup account to Preferences > Accounts and view and respond to your Meetup events directly in...
View ArticleDetaching Safari’s Downloads Popover
Ricky Mondello: Did you know that you can drag Safari’s Downloads popover by its title into being a detached, free-standing window, so you can more easily monitor your long-running downloads? This is...
View ArticleBlack Friday 2019
My apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: C-Command Software (my apps) 1Blocker 1Password ActivityChamp Adaptivity Adobe All Apps Plan...
View ArticleFantastical 3
Flexibits: A beautiful new user interface. Feature parity on every platform. Beautiful full screen modes on iPhone and iPad (and the Mac has never looked better). Synced calendar sets (🎉). Weather....
View ArticleFantastical 3.1
Flexibits: Calendar sets have been a very cool way to automatically toggle multiple calendars on and off based on your device’s location. When you left the house for work, maybe you had set up your...
View ArticleApp Store Best of 2020
Apple (list, MacStories): The independent developer of Wakeout! brought gentle exercise to home offices and classrooms with light-hearted and inclusive movements designed for everyone. Vast fantasy...
View ArticleSwitching Back to Mac
Carlos Fenollosa (via Hacker News): Due to very bad decisions by Apple’s product marketing teams, Mac hardware and software had been in steady decline since 2016.Therefore, there has been a trickle of...
View ArticleRediscovering the Mac
Federico Viticci (tweet): As much as I love the iPad, at some point I have to face its current reality: if Apple thinks iPadOS isn’t a good fit for the kind of functionalities people like me need,...
View ArticleAtlassian Acquires Loom
Atlassian (via Hacker News): Loom is an asynchronous (async) video messaging tool that helps users communicate through instantly shareable videos. Today, almost 5 million Loom videos are created every...
View ArticleUpgrading From an iPhone 12 mini to an iPhone 15 Pro
I’ve been using an iPhone 15 Pro for a few months now and so thought it was time to write down some notes. The first impression is, of course, that it’s much larger than the iPhone 12 mini, but in...
View ArticleLaunch Day Apple Vision Pro Apps
Apple (Slashdot): More than 600 apps and games designed to take advantage of the unique and powerful capabilities of Apple Vision Pro will be available this Friday, February 2. […] Apps built...
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