More than two years ago I wrote about a little menulet that I really like: Spirited Away. It automatically hides applications that you haven’t used in the last minute and so keeps your desktop decluttered. Unfortunately it’s already a bit dated. Nial Giacomelli to the rescue! He has written Houdini which also hides unused apps but, despite his company name Ugly Apps, comes with a much more elegant user interface and the ability to set the individual hiding intervals for each app....

Heavy-duty DEVONthink user and workflow addict Kerry Dawson wrote a nice piece on his blog dailymacview.com about going paperless with the Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 and DEVONthink Pro Office: Having accomplished all of this and gotten on the road to a cleaner and more organized work environment its time to pat yourself on the back for a job well done. You’ll definitely appreciate having your documents stored in DEVONthink. A cleaner workspace and knowing your documents are all stored together in...

Already two years online but definitely worth watching: Power user Matthew McCullough shares how he uses DEVONthink Pro Office for easily capturing information from the web for offline use and research. Matthew about his screencast: If you are an IT worker and having a hard time keeping up with the stream of knowledge, give DevonThink a try. I use it to capture a permanent archive of all my RSS feeds, which are typically generated via “favorites” and “stars” from Google...

Historian and power user Rachel Leow has recently published a thorough review of DEVONthink Pro Office in Perspectives on History. She explains how she uses our software for her research and where the obstacles are when trying to reach the Holy Grail, the paperless office. Rachel introduces us into this conundrum: With the increasing ubiquity of digital archives has come the expectation that we must use them; with rapid advances in search technology has come the requirement that our research...

If you are a user of the popular productivity application Alfred you might like this workflow created by our forum user danielsh. You can navigate your databases or create new notes with just a few keystrokes.  Here’s what the author says about it: With Alfred’s new feedback system for workflows, you can navigate through your databases and find the group you’re looking for, then enter a space and start typing your note. If it’s much in demand, I’ll add things like...

Recently we had to pull the freeware application Grid from the App Store. Grid allows you to position windows using your keyboard and an on-screen grid. Unfortunately Apple’s strict sandboxing rules no longer allow third-party apps access to e.g. the Accessibility kit which Grid needs to move the windows. Grid’s author, Rob Rix, has now made the app open-source and published it to GitHub. Feel free to download the source code and participate in its development.

Susan Young at the technologyreview.com: DNA can be used to store information at a density about a million times greater than your hard drive, report researchers in Science today. George Church of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report that they have written an entire book in DNA, a feat that highlights the recent advances in DNA synthesis and sequencing. [more] Today a book, tomorrow a DEVONthink database completely encoded in DNA?

While we’re offering DEVONagent Express and DEVONsphere Express in our online shop as an exclusive bundle for US $4.95 (instead of $14.90) this weekend, our friends at mupromo.com give you also the opportunity to jump onto the DEVONnote/DEVONthink bandwagon. Jump over to them and get DEVONnote for only US $12.49! And of course it’s fully upgradable to DEVONthink for just the difference between the official store prices.