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Agen Schmitz

Agen Schmitz

Agen Schmitz has worked within the Apple eco-sphere since helping manage conference speaker content for Thunder Lizard Productions in the mid-90s. After spending time at Amazon in the early 2000s (as senior editor for the Electronics, specializing in PDAs and MP3 players—he still has his original pre-release iPod), he has continued to focus on e-commerce content and works with a variety of brands across the e-retail landscape. Agen lives in Seattle with his wife and son (who, sadly, has moved onto Windows for gaming), loves making monthly music mixes, and is always dreaming of Iceland.

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DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.7.7

Adds support for Swift source code files and now requires OS X 10.7.5 Lion. (All updates are free. DEVONthink Pro Office, $149.95 new; DEVONthink Professional, $79.95 new; DEVONthink Personal, $49.95 new; DEVONnote, $24.95 new.)

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Paprika 2.0.4

Brings a number of handy additions and fixes to the popular recipe manager. ($19.99 new, free update, 3.5 MB)

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ChronoSync 4.5.2

Large assortment of fixes for the synchronization and backup app. ($40 new, free update, 41.6 MB)

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Mellel 3.3.6

Adds support for Traditional Chinese DOS encoding and fixes the “mysterious” systemParStyle paragraph style bug. ($39 new, free update, 101 MB)

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OmniFocus 2.0.2

Small maintenance release that fixes several bugs in the GTD-inspired task management utility. ($39.99 new, free update, 44.2 MB)

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TinkerTool 5.3

The free under-the-hood customization system utility adds several handy new settings. (Free, 3.8 MB)

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Default Folder X 4.6.8

Adds compatibility for the public beta release of OS X Yosemite. ($34.95 new, free update, 10.6 MB)

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Audio Hijack Pro 2.11.0, Nicecast 1.11.0, Airfoil 4.8.7, and Piezo 1.2.5

Rogue Amoeba adds support for OS X Yosemite to most of its roster of audio applications. (Free updates)

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MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.9

Addresses two issues with waking from sleep for MacBook Air models released in mid-2011, but is reported to have several issues with applying the firmware. (Free, 4.1 MB)

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Marked 2.3

Sandboxes the Markdown previewer and brings it to the Mac App Store. ($9.99 new, free update, 16.7 MB)

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DEVONagent Lite, Express, and Pro 3.8.1

Express and Pro editions add support for Open Graph to match HTML pages and improve the Twitter Accounts scanner. (Free/$4.95/$49.95, free updates)

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Typinator 6.1

Adds new markers that can temporarily pause the text expansion tool to define exceptions or suppress the next replacement. (€24.99 new, free update, 7.2 MB)

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PDFpen and PDFpenPro 6.3.1

Small maintenance release for the all-purpose PDF editing apps offers a few bug fixes. ($59.95/$99.95 new, free updates, 52.0/52.8 MB)

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Voila 3.8

Adds several new features to the screen capture utility. ($29.99 new, free update, 23.5 MB)

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Parallels Desktop 9.0.24237

Fixes a couple of issues related to the upcoming OS X Yosemite. ($79.99 new, free update, 361 MB)