Jared Kuolt:
In the end it took me about 15 minutes to decide to purchase Rivet. It has fantastic performance and options, without cost to your computer’s performance, all for a mere $18.95…
It’s not often that I spend money on software, but products like Rivet that show an unrivaled level of polish make the decision easy. [...]

One neat feature of Cyndicate is the ratings feature. As you read each article you can give it a star rating from 1 to 5. You can then sort and organize articles by their rating. The rating can be set by either having the rating column showing in the article table and [...]

Cyndicate offers another organizational tool that’s similar to the filters features talked about in the last article, smart folder. Smart folders work like filters except that filters move the article to a different folder while smart folders show all messages that match the conditions without moving the articles. The articles will automatically appear [...]

In the introduction I talk about Cyndicate giving you more control and power over your news, but where does the power come from? A large portion of it come from the combination of folders and filters. The combo of the two allow you to set up how you’d like to view the day’s [...]

I’m going to start a series on Cyndicate that will cover features of it that you might not be aware of and tips on using it. My goal is to show you the some of the power built into the app and give an look at the concepts behind it. The later is [...]

In the latest episode of The Mac Developer Roundtable, Andy Matuschak talks about machine learning as a new direction for user interfaces. One of the examples he gives of a good use of it would to tell him in the morning which of the 200 unread articles he should read in the few minutes [...]

A bomb dropped last week: NetNewsWire is now free. Well, free if you don’t mind giving up you’re privacy. Naturally NewsGator isn’t pushing that fact. It’s buried under all of the PR spin about making money off of their enterprise products and what is being said is being spun some more to make it sound [...]

All Cynical Peak Software is 20% off today (December 23th) and 10% for the rest of the month due to MacSanta visiting all the good mac users. Now’s you’re chance to get the best deal we’ve ever offered on Cyndicate and Scorecard. Use the code MACSANTA07 for today’s deal and MACSANTA07TEN for remainder [...]

Cyndicate 1.1 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users. This release is mainly bug fixes with a few nice little features added in like the ability to set what count the dock [...]

The printer setup utility in Leopard can be a bit frustrating to use. I have a headache right now from it. I’m a low volume printer. Generally I only print out reference material when I’m working on something new that I’m unfamiliar with. Because of that, I hadn’t bothered to set [...]