If you visited the Affinity user forums over the past few months, you know that after eight years, something new was coming. Today, Serif, the company that develops and markets Affinity products, launches Version 2 of its award-winning Affinity creative suite and this time they’re asking for a — quite small — contribution. … Read More Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher version 2 launch
For its 25th version, Ulysses has a few minor improvements on the Mac, and some new stuff on iPadOS and iOS. If you’re using Ulysses on an iPad or iPhone, you can now choose fonts from third-party font apps such as Creative Cloud or iFont installed on your device. Choosing your own font was possible… Read More Ulysses 25, a text editor refined
External SSDs are becoming increasingly popular, faster and bigger. Crucial sent me their 2TB X8, a 110mm model. It’s not their newest, that would be the X6 which is even smaller at 70mm and available in sizes up to 4TB, but it’s the fastest with a performance that reaches 1050MB/sec. Both X models are drop proof to 2.30m on a carpeted floor, made from aluminium and formatted with ExFAT for use in any device, including Macs, iPad Pros from 2018 onwards, Windows, Xbox One, PS4 and Android devices.… Read More Review of the Crucial X8 portable SSD
The Mac’s Spotlight feature is powerful enough to find any file on your Mac, but its functionality is limited. You could index your documents using a database app like DEVONthink Pro and then search within that database, but that isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it game. There’s a much more powerful search app that is in a league of its own: FoxTrot Professional Search.… Read More Foxtrot Professional Search discovers content you didn’t know you had
In my pursuit of note taking apps for the zettelkasten method, I stumbled across a new app that I had briefly seen going by sometime around the end of 2020. Back then, I thought that it was yet-another-app like Bear and Notes and Drafts and… As I wanted to write an article on software that fits a zettelkasten system, at this point in time I thought I’d give it a go. It wasn’t love at first sight, but upon digging deeper, I found a true gem and one that shines for zettelkasten purposes too.… Read More Craft, the note taking app that combines a beautiful design with powerful functionality
The people who develop Ulysses have done it again: they updated, or rather upgraded, one of the very best text and markdown editors available on the Mac platform. If you ever doubted if a subscription licence can actually work out well for the user, the Ulysses subscription is proof that it can.… Read More Ulysses 22 text and Markdown editor, ever more power in your writing hands
The release version of Agenda 12 will launch on January 19 and, as usual, will have support its users have expressed a need or desire for. This time it’s one of the most requested features that will be added: tables.… Read More Agenda, the fully featured note taking app for Macs introduces Tables within notes
There were rumours among users that Illuminati Instruments went out of business, but the company is very much alive. Except for its QC devices, it released the IM-150 Bluetooth 4.0 light meter and significantly updated its iOS app.… Read More Review: Illuminati Instruments IM-150 light meter and its new app
Many of us use a task manager to manage our daily workload. Sorted 3 takes a unique approach others don’t. Instead of managing your workload with what are in essence lists, Sorted 3 uses scheduling and claims it’s based on a number of — disputable — psychological effects of procrastinating. Currently, Sorted 3 is available… Read More Sorted 3 vs Fantastical 3
With iPads and iPhones now capable of accessing data on external devices, I reckoned it was time to try out that new feature, so I got myself a test unit of a SanDisk iXPand Flash Drive, a USB memory stick with a somewhat flexible Lightning connector at the opposite end.… Read More SanDisk iXPand Flash Drive gives your iOS device instantly available extra space
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