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Get Mac Apps allows you to select multiple apps and install them with a single Terminal command.

All images uploaded to this site are compressed in ImageOptim – free, open-source software for the Mac – after being put through Photoshop’s ‘Save for web’ routine.

Roger Johansson, in ‘How to proportionally scale images that have dimension attributes’: Allowing images to scale along with their container is an important part of responsive web design (and was so even before the term “responsive web design” existed).

Hide the dock.

This post, as the title suggests, describes a workflow that involves Markdown writing apps Ulysses and Byword, and the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress.

Metaclassy has released Byword 2.0 to the masses.

The Postbox filter described below organises then sends iTunes receipts to Evernote, ready for me to browse when it comes to completing my quarterly VAT return.

In a survey of book typography from the 18th century to the present, Dave Bricker, of The World’s Greatest Book blog, questions the authenticity of classic design work: The non-proportional digital typeface argument [for single-spacing] is an interesting…

Zotero is an open-source reference management tool.

While I was writing my previous post, Zotero for reference management, I created an Alfred custom search to make locating books in the WorldCat library easier and quicker.

Logobook is a 776-page, 5.5lb giant of a book by Ludovic Houplain, co-director of Academy award-winning animated short Logorama.

Stephen Coles’ The Anatomy of Type is also known as The Geometry of Type due to regional publisher requirements – two books, two titles, same content.

When I read Jonathan Poritsky’s review of Ullysses III on The Candler Blog last week, I thought here was a writing app that might finally better nvALT. nvALT has been my note-taking app of choice for Mac for the past couple of years.

Too many projects, too many ideas, too much going on in that bottomless chasm of tasks that’s known as daily life.

A lot has been written about the iPad as a Mac replacement.

The Bolt, shown in grey.

Founded in 2005, Slanted is a quarterly magazine, with a focus on typography, design, illustration and photography.

I’ve fallen into this trap many a time.

The Beautiful Colors Edition The latest in Field Notes’ line of Colors Editions is ‘America The Beautiful’ – three full-colour covers: ‘Spacious Skies’, ‘Amber Waves’, and ‘Mountain Majesty’.

In 2010, when Keith Houston created his Shady Characters blog, a site that shines light on the history of typographic marks, such as the pilcrow, the ampersand and the hash mark, it probably wasn’t clear that all roads would lead to here, the publication…

When I’m setting minor headings, I often use small-caps on the font-variant property.

If the designers of ebook tools followed the lead of web designers instead of book designers, maybe ebook design wouldn’t be the mess it is today.

ADN user @po has compiled a list of tips and tools to get new users of the network up and running.

First, please humour me.

This morning I enabled two-step verification on my Apple ID.

Among the many things I discovered this morning was that my default browser, Safari, doesn’t allow direct access to OS X’s Color Picker.

When I upgraded to Alfred 2, there were a number of things that didn’t transfer well from Alfred 1.

When I left the UK for the French Alps last week, I went prepared: passports, EHIC cards, travel plugs… you name it … and maps – more maps than I imagine Alexander the Great used in his quest for world domination.

Love this sign-off on blogger David Sparks’ (@MacSparky) about page: I enjoy hearing from readers and listeners.

In the 14 years I’ve been skiing, there are two questions to which I’ve always wanted to know the answers: How fast?

When I posted ‘Harbingers of editorial change’ earlier this week, I hadn’t come across Nathan Kontny’s Draft.

The week is only half baked and already we’ve seen announcements for two new tools that promise long-term benefits for editors and writers.

I read a lot about Hazel before I even bought the app.

This detailed tutorial from developer Aral Balkan (@aral) explains how to create a website, starting with a simple plain text file and ending with a site hosted on Amazon S3.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve favoured my laptop to compose a tweet when my iPhone was already to hand, and all because I wanted to use a character or punctuation mark that wasn’t immediately obvious on the standard keyboard.

I’ve come across some clever apps in my time but nothing quite like Workflowy.

Okay, so the title of this post might not exactly ring true.

Brain Pickings editor Maria Popova serves up more ‘interestingness’ in Virginia Woolf on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary.

When I returned to keeping a diary last year, it was my first attempt at doing so using electronic means.

Offscreen magazine #4, Jeremy Keith interview Offscreen #4 features some fine web folks, including Dave Greiner, Timoni West, Loren Brichter, Brad Smith and Daniel Weinand, but the reason I’ve been so looking forward to issue #4 is the Jeremy Keith interv…

Ever since reading Ethan Marcotte’s Sizing the legible letter in 2011, I’ve been taken by the rem as a proportional unit for measuring the size of type.

The thought of making my blog responsive has always struck fear where it wasn’t wanted.

In another great guest piece on the I Love Typography blog, Joanne Meister, owner and creative director of Oregon-based designmeister, recounts a chance tutelage under eminent Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann: I still remember [his business]…

Paperless GTD aficionados will quake in their task managers at the thought, but the new year brings for me a new Filofax.

If you’ve ever found yourself scrabbling around looking for that elusive readme file and a reminder of how to insert images in Markdown, or the correct syntax for inserting interactive HTML5 content in your code, Cheaters is probably what you’ve been look…

After reading Tyler Reinhard’s Getting Things Done with Semantic Notes a couple of days ago, I was keen to start implementing the system immediately.

Last night when I tapped a link in @MacDrifter’s RSS feed in Mr Reader (since closed) on my iPad, I wasn’t sure what to expect.

One of my clients uses a font that only includes the proportional figure style, but prefers figures in text to display as oldstyle.

In How I Made a 26-Hour Day, on Svbtle, Andrew Dumont describes how rearranging his day led to significant productivity improvements: Wait a minute, didn’t I just wake up two hours earlier?

This past year has been one of trials and tribulations.