As the weekly TidBITS issue returns from its Memorial Day hiatus, we have a bevy of news to share. Apple updated the Apple Watch’s operating system to version 1.0.1, and Josh Centers explains how you…
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Notable software releases this week include OS X Server 4.1, Nisus Writer Pro 2.1.1, OmniOutliner 4.2, Tinderbox 6.2, LaunchBar 6.3, Final Cut Pro X 10.2, Compressor 4.2, Motion 5.2, and OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Supplemental Update 1.0.
Adds new Staging superpower, which enables you to create and work with multiple selections. ($29 new, free update, 10.0 MB)
Notable software releases this week include DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.8.5, Audio Hijack 3.1, PopChar X 7.1, BBEdit 11.1.1, Little Snitch 3.5.3, OmniFocus 2.2, LaunchBar 6.4, and Microsoft Office 2011 14.5.1.
Notable software releases this week include Evernote 6.0.8, iFlicks 2.2, Fantastical 2.0.2, TweetDeck 3.9.482, LaunchBar 6.2, and ChronoSync 4.6 and ChronoAgent 1.5.1.
TidBITS is celebrating its 25th year of publication, and Adam Engst looks at some of the key inflection points in our history. We’re also celebrating the release of Sharon Zardetto’s “Take Control of Numbers,” a…
Maintenance release for the new contact manager app. ($49.99 new, free update, 5.4 MB)
Settle in for a practical, privacy-focused issue of TidBITS! Josh Centers brings us two how-tos on maintaining your privacy, explaining how to opt out of Verizon Wireless’s “supercookie” and how to make your Twitter history…
Adds support for Safari History indexing for OS X Yosemite, plus a smattering of improvements and fixes. ($29 new, free update, 10 MB)
Adds several new text transformation actions to the keyboard-based launcher and shortcut utility. ($29 new, free update, 10 MB)
The second edition of Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal” adds 50 pages with more advanced topics and showcases 52 real-world “recipes” for tasks that are better done at the command line. It’s an essential reference for any Mac user who wants to work more effectively with Unix commands.
Happy New Year! Looking forward, we put our heads together to share where we’d like to see Apple devote energy in 2015 — please join in with your suggestions in the comments! Joe Kissell looks…
Improves the Open Location feature for use with Web browsers to enable switching between secure and non-secure URLs. ($35 new, free update, 5.6 MB)
Objective Development has released LaunchBar 6, a major upgrade to their popular keyboard-based launcher and shortcut utility. It boasts a clean new look, new indexing rules, live suggestions, instant feedback, and usage reports. Lastly, users can now write their own actions for LaunchBar using a wide variety of scripting languages.
