Pick of the week: DocScanner™

Posted on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, iPhone, OCR, Scanner

I seem to have fallen behind on my weekly picks, Christmas, $work and life in general have kept me very busy lately, but I'll try to get back to my weekly1 schedule again.

This weeks pick is DocScanner, an iPhone app that allows you to have a flatbed scanner …


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Pick of the week: Tweetie 2

Posted on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apple, Apps, MacOSX, Tweetie, Twitter

Tweetie 2 icon I have blogged about this weeks pick before but I never made it a pick of the week before. The recent update to Tweetie rocks, so if you are into Twitter1 I suggest you head over to the App Store and pick up a copy.

The first version of …


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Pick of the week: Pixelmator

Posted on Sun, 04 Oct 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, Graphics, Image editor, Pixelmator

Pixelmator This weeks pick is a mac app called Pixelmator. Pixelmator is a lightning fast image editor for the mac - kinda like a Photoshop lite but unlike Photoshop ((With each new version of Photoshop it seems to move further away from being a true mac app.)), Pixelmator really feels like it …


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Pick of the week: Autodesk SketchBook Mobile

Posted on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apple, Apps, iPhone

Autodesk Sketchbook MobileA recent tweet by @drwave from Pixar prompted me to check out SketchBook Mobile from Autodesk, and boy am I glad I did! I have always wanted to get better at drawing, but I have never set aside the time it takes to master this creative skill. As with all …


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Pick of the week: Prowl

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, Growl, iPhone, Perl, Unix

ProwlThis weeks pick is another iPhone app by the name of Prowl. Prowl promises to bring Growl from your desktop to your iPhone. When I first heard about Prowl I thought that this was surely the stupidest app ever! - Why on earth would you want your Growl notifications on your …


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Pick of the week: My iPhone

Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Hi3G, iPhone, MacBook Pro

iPhone 3GSThis weeks pick is late, so late that it is actually a pick for both this week and last week. As you might have guessed from the picture it's my iPhone. While on vacation in northern Jylland myMacBook Pro died :-(. So for the past 2 weeks my iPhone has …


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Pick of the week: Snow Crash

Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Snow CrashThis weeks pick is a book - you know those analog ((If you prefer digital you can get it from Audible.com or from iTunes)) thingies that doesn't require batteries. My pick is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and this is quite possibly the best science fiction novel I have ever …


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Pick of the week: xScope

Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, MacOSX, Tools

xScopeThis weeks pick is cute little utillity app from the Iconfactory ((You know, the ones with the Twitter bird icon that everybody copies)) called xScope. If you do any kind of design work xScope will most certainly help you in your day to day work. xScope is really a compilation …


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Pick of the week: PTHPasteboard

Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, Copy, Cut, MacOSX, Paste, Writing

PTHPasteboardThis weeks pick is an oldie, but a goodie. It is a Mac app that I can't live without. I work with computers all day long developing software for various $clients. When developing software I spend a great deal of time in a text editor ((Preferably Emacs, TextMate or Xcode …


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Pick of the week: trioBike

Posted on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Bike, Environment, Green, trioBike

Triobike all three configurationsThis weeks pick comes a bit later ((And it should have been a Mac app I use every day, but you'll have to wait until next week for that one.)) than usual. This is because we have been out using it ever since we got it on Thursday evening. As …


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