Macdrifter is a blog on Mac and iOS software, writing tools, backups, and workflows.
HN commenters link it for app and workflow details such as DEVONthink To Go and MailMate, and one agrees that blogs have replaced magazines.
I think he nailed it when he indicated that the Blog has done a great job of replacing magazines.
I used to be a huge newspaper/magazine junkie - I haven't purchased a physical instance in 4+ years. What has replaced it:
o xkcd
o wsj.com
o nyt.com
o HN
o daring fireball
o theverge
o Yahoo Finance (Stock Portfolio)
o macrumors/appleinsider/loopinsight
o asymco
And, somewhat less often:
o Techcrunch
o parislemon
o dpreview
o pandodaily
And, for some reason, I keep tripping over interesting articles here:
o http://www.vulture.com/
I won't even get into how TV has been replaced with iTunes, and Radio has been replaced by podcasts (See http://www.macdrifter.com/2012/03/more-on-podcasts-changing-of-the-guard/ for a good collection of many of the ones I listen to)
I've _tried_ to purchase these magazines on my Gen1/2/3 iPad - Wired, NatGeo, Economist, various Zino instances (horrible experience), Popular Mechanics - but Colbow has it nailed - you always feel like you are reading a broken PDF, and you are never certain that you've read all the content)
Other than blogs in web format, NYT has recently (finally) started doing a good job of presenting their content in a readable format on the iPad. I still balance it out with the web version, but I find, for long reading, more often sinking back for an hour or so with the Application.
Who knows, maybe we've seen the future of magazines, and it's the blog.
I agree that for the past 8 years or so the community aspect of BBEdit has been in a coma. The email lists use to be very active years ago.
However, in the last year that has begun to change. TidBITS recently released "Take Control of BBEdit". There is increased activity on GitHub. And number of new blogs are talking about BBEdit.
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit
https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q=bbedit&type=Everything&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1
http://www.macdrifter.com/?s=bbedit&x=0&y=0
http://bbedit-hints.tumblr.com/
Amazon's desktop app supports batch uploads and downloads, but not sync to/from Amazon Cloud Drive.
However, there are 3rd-party options for this:
• Arq: https://www.arqbackup.com/
• odrive: https://www.odrive.com/amazon
• Synology Cloud Sync: http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/06/synology-cloud-sync-adds-amazon-cloud-drive.html
They use a URL Scheme to check for the existence of previous versions on the device, and depending on the result, offer one of three in-app purchase prices for the same result: activating the new version. See also http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/10/an-interesting-ios-app-store-upgrade-example.html
A subset is available on iOS, including a web/file scraper with full text indexing and search, tags, markdown notes, plus WebDAV sync to other iOS or Mac devices, http://www.macdrifter.com/2016/09/the-all-new-devonthink-to-go-for-ios.html
A couple of reviews from folks who have been beta testing for months:
http://www.macstories.net/stories/editorial-for-ipad-review/
http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/08/editorial-for-ipad-a-landmark-in-ios-text-editors.html