If like me you are a big fan of Omnifocus then you may want to take a look at this book. Aimed at the novice and advanced user alike, this book will show you how to make Omnifocus sing.

Even Merlin Mann, who is one of Omnifocus' biggest fans, adminited on a recent episode of Mac Power Users that he learnt a trick or two from it. If you haven't heard the episode I would recommend you give that episode a listen as well, classic Merlin!

Really good video about Scrivener 2 and how Yuvi Zalkow fits this into his workflow.

Pretty amazing when you consider that VAT has also gone up since the last one was launched. The great news though is that you can now you can get your hands on a shiney new 16Gb Wifi iPad 2 for a smidgen under £400.

Apple Stores will open their doors at 5pm Friday evening and online orders can be placed from 1am Friday but its anybodies guess when you will receive them, with 4-6 week delivery times being quoted in the US at the moment.

Its probably also worth checking out other retailers such as PC World which are also likely to stock them from Friday, as they did on the original launch day. Just don't expect all the whooping and clapping from PC World staff as you make your purchase

Mr Sarver, head of platform and API at Twitter, used the company's software development discussion board to outline its changing policy.

In it, he said, Twitter's growth in the last year from 48 million to 140 million Tweets per day had forced it to think about how users get at the service.

Before now, many people have spurned the official Twitter application or client in favour of alternatives such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, Echofon, HootSuite and others.

In the blog post, Mr Sarver posed the question of whether building Twitter clients was going to continue to be a good business to be in.

"The answer is no", he wrote.

As somebody who actively chooses to use third party applications over the official twitter ones, so as to support third party developers, statements such as this are extremely worrying. While the Twitter app on both the Mac and iPhone, formly know as Tweetie, are extremely good, there are other equally good if not better solutions out there. With Weet (iPhone and Mac) and Twitterific (Mac) my current personal favourites.

Imagine if this was Microsoft or Apple making statements such as this about their platforms, there would be complete uproar!

While I am sure there will be suitable ranting over this statement it does point to a worrying trend for web start-ups who opened up their service to gain traction and wide spread exposure but are ultimately struggling to monetise their success.

I have every sympathy with Twitter and their situation but cannot believe that they are seriously considering this dramatic change of course. My guess is they are putting out this extreme position to then allow them to rail back to something less aggresive which people would then be prepared to accept, which they wouldn't have it it was the original suggestion. This is a tactic we have seen used by other larger organisations in the past to great success.

My guess would be changes in the T&C's of the API to force third party apps to use Twitter driven advertisements for instance within their timeline for instance, with a potential share of the profits to pasify them. This could see the end of free clients on most platforms which rely on advertising to support them but as always time will tell.

Byword

Your minimalist typing interface.

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If you want a minimalist typing interface on your Mac, then Byword might be just the thing for you. It looks great and reallys offers a relaxing and clean environment in which to focus on typing and nothing else.

Available on the Mac App Store now. Find out more at their website.

Check /Volumes/. This has caught me a couple of times. Here's what happens: you're copying files to an external drive, or making a clone of your boot drive, and something goes wrong. The drive disconnects, but the operating system doesn't notice, so it creates a folder in /Volumes/ and copies the information there. You think it is going onto the external drive, but in fact it's just being copied onto your hard drive.

You can easily navigate to your Volumes directory in the Finder: go to the Go menu, choose Go to Folder, type in "/Volumes" and hit Return.

While I was aware of 5 of the 6 steps, I'd completely forgotten about the one above. Naturally I was over the moon when it freed up a whopping 60Gb on my Macbooks hard drive, which was practically bursting at the seams.

Thanks TUAW!

Apple releases Xcode 4; free for developers, $4.99 for everyone else

by Michael Grothaus (RSS feed) on Mar 9th 2011 at 3:30PM

Apple has released Xcode 4 for free for all registered developers. The new Xcode offers a streamlined interface "that integrates UI design, coding, testing, and debugging, all within a single window." In addition the embedded Apple LLVM compiler underlines coding mistakes, much like Microsoft Word underlines spelling mistakes, as you type and can even correct your mistakes automatically.

Interestingly, Apple has also decided to sell Xcode 4 to anyone for only $4.99 through the Mac App Store. It is not clear the reasons Apple has decided to sell Xcode 4 on the Mac App Store, however it's possible they want to spur app creation for both the Mac and iOS app store for developers who normally wouldn't have access to Xcode (or indeed, even know of its existence).

Looks like Apple are making the effort to publicise XCode beyond their developer program by putting it in the Mac App Store. Seems like a good idea but I can't see how it will yield that many more developers than their existing developer programme.

On December 16th Yahoo held an all-hands meeting to rally the troops after a big round of layoffs. Around 11 AM someone at this meeting showed a slide with a couple of Yahoo properties grouped into three categories, one of which was ominously called "sunset". The most prominent logo in the group belonged to Delicious, our main competitor. Milliseconds later, the slide was on the web, and there was an ominous thundering sound as every Delicious user in North America raced for the exit. [*]

I got the message just as I was starting work for the day. My Twitter client, normally a place where I might see ten or twenty daily mentions of Pinboard, had turned into a nonstop blur of updates. My inbox was making a kind of sustained pealing sound I had never heard before. It was going to be an interesting afternoon.

Really interesting article by the founder of Pinboard on how they coped with the phenominal increase in traffic they experience following Yahoo's botched announcement that they would be running down their Delicious online bookmarking service.

A bit in here for everybody from tech heads to customer service rep's to people just interested in the inner workings of a succesful online service. Its a really interesting read and as one of the thousands who jumped ship over that weekend and moved to Pinboard, I have to admit to feeling a little guilty about the sleepness nights we all caused.

Its a great service, so if you haven't tried it all ready I strongly recommend you take a look at Pinboard.in or read the article in full on the Pinboard Blog.

Looks like Microsoft are joining the rest of us in crying out for the world to final ditch this ancient and limited browser for newer technology