Software

With Marco Arment’s piece on Apple losing the functional high ground gaining widespread visibility this week I find the timing of a recent fiasco with my iPad to be a perfect opportunity to throw in my two cents.

Dropbox Pro has just been updated with more space and better control over shared files and folders. The biggest upgrade is that Pro accounts now receive 1TB of space as compared to the previous 100GB. That’s 10 times the space that they used to receive. Clearly Dropbox wants to house everything you could possibly use on a day to day basis.

 Update: If you’re upgrading from the alpha I would recommend clearing out all support files using a tool like AppZapper, Hazel or CleanMyMac. My favorite podcatcher for iOS has been in alpha for the Mac over the last few months and as of this morning is out in public beta. Martin and his team at Vemedio have been working hard and iterating quickly on the Mac version of Instacast and it’s really matured throughout the alpha. The initial design was scrapped and they’ve been listening closely to users for feedback and to make the best podcatcher for OS X.