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For all my good intentions, I need my todo list staring me in the face or I won’t get a thing done. After a recent update to 2.0, I’ve gone back to TaskPaper for my simple list management. Here’s how I use GeekTool with TaskPaper to keep my todos where I need them most. The […]
Backups are like insurance: you make them in the hope of never needing them. And they’re equally boring. You never see anyone get all excited about his backup strategy (except total geeks) and nobody’s really all that interested in insurance (except insurance salespeople). Usually, backups and insurance are things we want to get out of […]
Just a couple of years ago screen recording apps for the Mac were a rather rare species. Your only real “choice” was SnapZ Pro X, which, based on what I’ve read about it, is quite good but still not up to par with Camtasia, the market leader on Windows. And it has since become rather […]
Sometimes you might want to download a video from YouTube to save on your hard drive. You might be into collecting videos or you might want to play around with a video in iMovie. Anyway, you need a way to get the actual video content out of the Youtube page and onto your Mac as […]
You may not know it, but you don’t have to spend your hard-earned money on ringtones. You can create ringtones from any song in your iTunes library, as long as it’s unprotected (non-DRMed). All you need are two freeware apps and your song. Here’s how it works. The two apps you will need for this […]
I’m recommending you not use antivirus software on your Mac. What may sound like a pretty crazy proposition at first – especially these days where Apple’s growing market share is starting to make the Mac more interesting for malware programmers – will make perfect sense once you really think about it. Suspend your scepticism for […]
In my recent overview of the iWork ‘09, I mentioned the new Freeze Header feature in Numbers. This feature is basically the same as the Freeze Pane function in Microsoft Excel. It lets you set one or more rows or columns to always stay visible, even when scrolling around a large spreadsheet. Since I’ve been […]
Many Mac users were happy to see a new “AppleWorks” when iWork was first introduced, only to be somewhat disappointed of the lack of features. While it was nice to have DTP-like qualities that Word lacks in Pages, it remained geared towards the more casual user. The same was true of Numbers, Apple’s answer to […]
While we all love to swoon over the latest and greatest gadgets and apps from Apple, Mac OS has many features most of us have never really used, although they’ve been there for quite some time. One of these “hidden” features is the Finder’s Get Info window. Select any file in Finder and hit Command […]