The pricing of TapNote
Once I’d finished up the basics for TapNote 1.0, I faced the difficult task of choosing a price for it. After much deliberation, I settled on an asking price of $4.00. This price appealed to me because...
View ArticleTouchNote is now TapNote
Although I hadn’t expected to have an issue with TouchNote.com, they evidently didn’t like my use of the word “TouchNote” (despite using it for a completely different purpose on a platform they don’t...
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Snippets.sugar for Espresso
I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of a program for storing code snippets, but I’ve never found one that I could put to any practical use. I inevitably would end up storing a few snippets in it,...
View ArticleLove letter to WebOS
When I pick up my Palm Pre, flick it on, and consider it I realize that this is the most amazing device I have ever owned. Sure, the hardware has some problems (why the hell won’t the damned “H” key...
View ArticleFrom iPhone to Palm Pre: a comprehensive review
(Author’s note: I wrote the bulk of this review two months after I picked up a Palm Pre, and then forgot it in my drafts folder. Now, days after Palm’s announcement of the Pre2 on Verizon and the Pre3...
View ArticleI am done wasting money on Adobe software
I first discovered Photoshop in high school when my friend showed me a doctored photo he had created, and it was a life-changing moment. Photoshop took something supremely boring to me (taking photos)...
View ArticleSay “hello” in Linkinus
I’ve been using the Linkinus IRC client for Mac OS X a lot recently, and one of the things I dislike is needing to think up a different greeting every time I join a chat room (I hate using the same old...
View ArticleTapNote 1.2 for WebOS: now with Dropbox sync!
Quick and dirty: if you want to view the TapNote short description or see a video of it in action, check it out in the Palm App Catalog or take a gander at the official TapNote webpage. Otherwise, read...
View ArticleWhy did two buttons take so long? The backstory behind TapNote 1.2
As anyone who follows me on Twitter or this blog is no doubt sick of hearing, TapNote 1.2 is now available and includes Dropbox sync! And to help my readers maintain their sanity, that’s all I will say...
View ArticleIntroducing TapNote 1.3 and TapNote Lite
Back on February 9th, although HP announced some awesome-looking new products they also slipped in the fact that their current development framework, Mojo, was being deprecated on their upcoming...
View ArticleWhy nothing Apple does should surprise me
I do not—and have never—used Final Cut Pro. Or really any version of Final Cut. I remember one day I was sort of bumming around, looking at software, and I wondered briefly if the slimmed-down version...
View ArticleEspresso 2.0 pre-release version is out!
As you may or may not know, I am an employee of MacRabbit, the company responsible for CSSEdit and Espresso. I typically don’t like to mix work and pleasure on my personal blog, but today MacRabbit has...
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Introducing TapNote 1.4: TouchPad edition
I am very pleased to announce that TapNote is available on the HP TouchPad from launch day! Not only that, but it features a gorgeous new interface (and one awesome new feature) to take advantage of...
View ArticleHP’s TouchPad: the App Catalog at launch
As you are doubtless aware if you have either read a review or seen a TouchPad yourself, the hardware is heavily inspired by the iPad. This is a good thing: the iPad’s size and screen resolution are a...
View ArticleHandy.sugar and Espresso 2’s JavaScript API
Although you are likely aware if you follow my antics online, we at MacRabbit released Espresso 2.0 recently. Whoo hoo! A whole lot of things are new and improved in Espresso 2, but hands-down my...
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Slicy 1.0
If you’re a busy person, here’s the short version: we at MacRabbit just released an awesome new app called Slicy that is absolutely essential for anyone who ever needs to export an image from...
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My first iOS app: TapWatch
I am very pleased to announce that TapWatch, my simple and beautiful stopwatch app for iOS, is now available! View it in the App Store here or check it out in all its minimal glory: Not that long ago,...
View ArticleVoodooPad 5 released
VoodooPad 5 is out, and it’s awesome. Here’s some of what makes me excited about it: All-new file format allows synching via Dropbox or version control (like git) Markdown pages (with syntax coloring,...
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Affiliate Me Not
A while back, I experimented with using Amazon affiliate links on Beckism.com whenever I wrote up a short review of a product. I figured as long as I was linking to products anyway, I may as well get a...
View ArticleBuying Adobe Photoshop CS6 (or not)
Evidently a guy named Pat Dryburgh had some trouble buying Photoshop. His trial ran out, and when he purchased their Creative Cloud option to continue working, he discovered that his license number...
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Shuffling files around with Dropbox
One of my abiding problems is how to easily and quickly transfer files between my two computers. For the past several years, I have used an iMac as my work computer, and a MacBook Pro for my personal...
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Archiving tweets using IFTTT and Dropbox
Update (Sept. 28, 2012): the method for archiving tweets using IFTTT and Dropbox describe here no longer works thanks to Twitter cutting off IFTTT’s access for anything except posting tweets to...
View ArticleWhither webOS?
My house is littered with webOS devices I no longer use. My Pre+, the phone that hooked me on webOS as a user and later tempted me into app development, lies facedown on top of a Pre 2 that I received...
View ArticleCustom file extensions and Espresso 2
A fair number of people write into MacRabbit support asking how to add support for a custom file extension to Espresso (common requests being for LESS or SCSS mapped to CSS, various templating...
View ArticleEspresso 3 beta is out!
Hooray! Espresso 3 is at last available as a public beta! I’ve been one of the few people using this version of the app for a while (yikes, is it years now?), and I think you’re going to love some of...
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