![]() Finally I can discover new typefaces, designers, and foundries wherever I go, offline, just with my iPad. Hence after I saw the introduction of FontBook by FontShop (which was recently updated to version 2.1 with a Retina-optimized UI), the app was an instant-buy for me. Since I watched Gary Hustwit’s “Helvetica” documentary film, I constantly follow several type foundries and blogs (of which I consider I Love Typography and Typedia the top-notch sites) to keep myself updated on the latest news and typefaces. ![]() (thanks, : A better version of the macro is now available here. Update : Here’s an updated version of the “Combine iPhone screenshots” macro for the new iPhone 5 resolution. Check out the app’s tour, full documentation, then buy it from Stairways Software for $36. Keyboard Maestro has a lot to offer, but that’s up to you. I don’t need to manually switch between apps anymore as everything’s automated, and takes 2 seconds, literally. Enter Keyboard Maestro 5.3: I rename the images I need to use “1” and “2”, respectively (“1” goes on the left side) I tell Keyboard Maestro to run an Automator workflow to scale them Keyboard Maestro creates a blank image in its clipboard, composites files 1 and 2 onto the image at a specific pixel position, and creates a new. I came to the point where the process took less than a minute, but still it required a manual and boring effort on my side. Until today, I had to manually drag the image out of Photo Stream (or use Scotty), resize them with Preview, create a new image in Acorn, drop the images in there, adjust their position, and save. For iPhone apps, I like to take two screenshots, place them side by side, and generate a single image. png and renamed with (previously copied to clipboard) front window’s file name. Firstly, the image above: taken with Keyboard Maestro, set it to a specific clipboard, modified with the addition of a pre-defined watermark, saved as. Let alone the other improvements of version 5.3 (here’s the full changelog), let me quickly focus on the image capabilities of the app, as I have set up two new macros that are going to substantially enhance my screenshot-taking duties for the site. You can also capture the screen or a window to an image, or highlight a location on the screen. Version 5.3 adds a bunch of new Image manipulation actions, allowing you to create new images, flip, rotate, resize, and crop images, composite images, styled text and shapes onto images, display images, get the size of images, and even find the image on the screen. With today’s 5.3 update, Keyboard Maestro gets even more powerful, and adds support for one specific area that is going to dramatically speed-up my workflow once again: image manipulation. Keyboard Maestro offers an infinite amount of possibilities, because it is capable of automating almost every aspect of OS X. I have covered Keyboard Maestro in the past on MacStories, and after using the app for over a year now, it still feels like I’m just getting started with it. It is one of my most used OS X utilities – I use it every day, I rely on it to automate processes and tasks that would take repetitive and tedious clicks and selections otherwise, and my work is ultimately faster and more efficient because of it. These add to the new icon, fixes, and Dropbox support that came in Drafts 1.1.ĭrafts is available at $0.99 on the App Store. Other improvements in Drafts 1.2 include a new “new draft after success” setting, support for calendar event creation, and integration with OmniFocus notes and Due. Those of you that use the Facebook app know, launching it and waiting for it to load to post an update is cumbersome – now you have a quick alternative. The first time you post you will have to go through an authorization process, allowing Drafts access to your wall – from then on out it’s a simple tap. Like Drafts’ existing twitter features, this update adds the option to post drafts to Facebook. I don’t post to Facebook much, but the integration sounds handy as well: ![]() Previously, I used FastEver for this functionality. As an Evernote user, the addition is more than welcome, as I now have the possibility of quickly saving a time-stamped note into my account in seconds. Agile Tortoise released version 1.2 of its “quick note-taking” app Drafts today, adding support for Facebook and Evernote. ![]()
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