Category: Tools

Dave Winer on the upcoming open source release of Frontier: “Technically, the software is ready to go.” I am curious if the old Frontier developers come back to life. There have been so many threads dropped after Frontier went commercial in 1996.

Eastgate currently sells Tinderbox for $99 instead of $145. Including a full year of free updates this is really a good price for this multi-purpose information/content management software (and much more). It is almost free for a software that can make you a better human!

Ted Goranson (from “About This Particular Macintosh”) updated his detailed series of articles about outliners and knowledge tools. Very informative if you want to learn about software tools that help to think. He also published a detailed view into Frontier as its core application is supposed to become Open Source later this year.

Many independ music composers circumvent the labels completely. But publishing their music online is just one part. They need to become a hot tip also. And there are many that help by running weblogs about this music and that link to the MP3 files and videos of these artists. There are some examples collected in…

Groove Networks released version 3.0 of its application suite. Unfortunatly it only runs on Windows. Concerning the Mac version their FAQ says Right now, the vast majority of our customer and prospect base is Windows based. No wonder. When there is no version for Mac available there will be no Mac customers. But the issue…

Dave Hyatt – the core developer for Apples WebCore that drives the HTML rendering engine of Safari – is leaking some details: The new WebCore also supports HTML editing. You can specify editable regions in a page using the contenteditable attribute (which maps to a CSS property behind the scenes, so you can even set…

Now that’s a nifty idea for video conferencing: The video conferencing partner blended semi-transparent over the shared desktop like a reflection on the screen.

I haven’t seen this application before: WorldKit WorldKit is an easy to use and highly flexible mapping application for the Web. It’s a Flash based app, configured entirely by XML, data fed by RSS, and requires no programming or extra software. It’s in the style of World as a Blog, with many more features: customizable…

Eastgate does inofficially keep development versions of Tinderbox on their public ftp server. The latest release is 2.2.1 d7. Tinderbox users that dare to run on a development release may find some very useful enhancements (like better map printing). Finally images won’t be rewritten at each HTML export. These images were uploaded anytime I synchronized…

I am playing around with Wiki tools. Because Zope is the platform on my current development agenda I looked into ZWiki. It offers full Plone integration and support for the ExternalEditor Extension (which means that I can click on small pens to edit pages inside my favorite text editor instead of a textarea inside the…

MacOS X installer for TYPO3 3.6.1 ready for download! Get the updated package here. Andreas Beutel (who provided the OS X package) also wrote an installation tutorial.

SubEthaEdit is a group-enabled text editor for Mac OS X and it has been updated to version 2.0. Some of the new features: Regular Expression Find and Replace New collaboration feature: Invitations Read only access to documents Show invisible characters Autocompletion Splitview More powerful syntax modes Preferences per syntax mode 300% more efficient network protocol…

Here is a teriffic series of articles about outliner software: NoteTaker and NoteBook—May 2004 Announcing the FORE/1 Outliner—Apr 2004 Legacy Outliners—Mar 2004 Outliner User Interfaces—Feb 2004 Outliner Use Patterns—Dec 2003 Outliner Features—Part 2—Nov 2003 Outliner Features—Part 1—Oct 2003 Outliner History—Sep 2003

Frontier 9.0.1 beta 2 is released. Seems UserLand has started to work on Frontier and Manila again. That’s good news. I’d like to hear what they have in store for the Frontier application core.

Spike is a a cross-platform shared clipboard (OS X, Windows 2K+).

I have added a sample file for a ToDo list management with Tinderbox. It is basically implementing the description of “TinderDo” by Gordon Meyer. Unfortunatly he did not include a sample file to start directly. So I made one myself. You can add tasks (and nested tasks) in the ToDo container and after entering a…

Eastgate released Tinderbox 2.2. Many PC users don’t know about Tinderbox. There is a Windows version coming soon.

Today Apple released iTunes 4.5 for Mac and Windows with a number of new features: All the artist/album names and song titles in my library have a shortcut into the music store now. And there is a party shuffle mode where you can control the flow of the songs played and see which song recently…

Apple releases Apple Motion and DVD Studio Pro 3. Motion ($299) seems to be rivaling Adobe After Effects ($999). I have seen Final Cut (now with high definition support) shooting out Adobe Premiere long ago and even boiled Avid Media Composer with ease. DVD Studio Pro is to my knowledge a very good DVD authoring…

If you ever need to design a database on a Mac you should have a look at this little freeware application: SQLEditor. It offers a grpahical drag&drop way to create tables and display relations.