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Mac polish

Fantastical sweats the details of ‘hour’ or ‘hours’

20 Feb 2013
David Chartier
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calendars, Fantastical, iOS polish, Mac polish, polish
When you change your alarm time in Fantastical for Mac (as well as Fantastical for iPhone), a truly fantastic replacement for Apple’s
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Safari gets your mouse out of the way

07 Dec 2012
David Chartier
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Mac polish, polish, Safari, Space Bar
When you scroll down a page in Safari using the spacebar, the cursor disappears from sight so you have an unobstructed view of the content.
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Calendar in Mountain Lion automatically adds times for some events

29 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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Calendar, iCal, Mac polish, OS X Mountain Lion, polish, productivity
If you add a Quick Event to Calendar (formerly iCal) in Mountain Lion with the right name, Calendar will automatically assign it a time. For
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DaisyDisk’s icon animates as it scans your drive

09 Jul 2012
David Chartier
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animation, DaisyDisk, icons, Mac polish, polish, utilities
While scanning your drive with DaisyDisk, a fantastic utility that helps you clean up your drive and reclaim free space, its Dock icon subtly
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Coda’s icon also got an upgrade for version 2.0

06 Jun 2012
David Chartier
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Coda, Coda 2, iconography, icons, Mac polish, polish
Features weren’t the only thing to get a major upgrade in Coda 2, Panic’s fantastic web development suite. Coda’s icon also
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VoodooPad’s feedback window works voodoo on your spelling

05 Jun 2012
David Chartier
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Mac polish, polish, spelling, VoodooPad
If you open VoodooPad‘s feedback window (Help > Report Bugs or Feature Requests) and misspell its name as “VooDooPad,”
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If your Chocolat trial expires, its font changes to Comic Sans

22 May 2012
David Chartier
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Chocolat, Mac polish, polish, trials
+10 points for a sense of humor when it comes to selling trial users on buying a license. Kudos to Alex Gordon and Jean Nicolas, the developers
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14 May 2011
David Chartier
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Google Reader, icons, Mac apps, Mac polish, polish, Reeder
Reeder for Mac, a Google Reader client (get it here while it’s still in beta), can display its unread count as a typical red icon badge, or it
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TotalFinder makes sure you know which Finder you’re using

03 Oct 2010
David Chartier
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Finder, icons, Mac polish, plugins, polish
TotalFinder from BinaryAge adds various features to the Finder, including tabs and a dual-pane mode. It also tweaks the Finder’s Dock icon to
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Snow Leopard Text to Speech pronounces “OS Ten”

13 May 2010
David Chartier
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Mac polish, OS X Snow Leopard, polish, text-to-speech
Apple’s Text to Speech in 10.6 Snow Leopard—and likely older versions of OS X—correctly pronounces ”OS X” as “OS
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