Archive for the ‘tools’ Category
Monday, July 14th, 2008
The arrival of iPhone 2.0 has changed how I use my iPhone more than I imagined it would. But I did anticipate one thing correctly: OmniFocus for iPhone has tripled the usefulness of OmniFocus for me.
Some have been unhappy that OmniFocus is charging $20, but I gladly paid it. And ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
You, like me, might be angling toward a MobileMe membership.
We already have a .Mac account, but with iPhone 2.0 coming out later this week, I'm realizing that a family pack will be useful for the two iPhones in our house. Amazon has the .Mac family pack for $120 while ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Some of my favorite news out of WWDC this week -- OmniGroup is offering some more info about OmniFocus for the iPhone. My favorite feature: "Synchronized with your Mac via .Mac or WebDAV. Live. Automatically." I had every reason to expect that OmniGroup would get this right, and they ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I'm an avid reader. I set a goal each year to read an average of a book a week. I enjoy reading, but it is also a discipline of creative work. Ideas rarely initiate out of nowhere. Some of my most creative thoughts cascade out of other ideas, and reading ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Yesterday, Lifehacker linked to a post on MacApper highlighting a few Quicksilver interfaces. Now, before I rave about my new Quicksilver interface, let me give a little love to MacApper -- I'm now a subscriber.
Now, on to SilverFlow. This is a lovely plugin that is modeled after, well, CoverFlow. ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
A few days ago, I stumbled on oneword. Here's a description of the site:
simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following page.
you have sixty seconds to write about it.
as soon as you click 'go' the page will load with the cursor in place.
don't think. just write.
Sometimes, when ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Since I first talked about Blinders, there has been a common theme around here of finding ways to streamline and eliminate distractions. A few weeks ago, I mentioned turning wireless off. For a little more drastic measure, you might (and I might!) consider a program a a friend told me ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
I've been evaluating Evernote for the last few weeks. I like it. A lot. So much that I'm tempted to change over from Yojimbo.
But not yet.
Here's what I like:
Without a doubt, my favorite feature is Evernote's ability to recognize text in an image and make it searchable. I can ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
An ad in the latest MacWorld magazine is promoting another MacUpdate bundle. Starting April 16, MacUpdate will have a new software package available. I mention it here, because at $64.99, it will include both Leap and Hazel. These are the two key software pieces I used to organize my documents ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
I think it is pretty clear around here how important Yojimbo is in my workflow.
However, Evernote looks promising. They have both a Mac and Windows client that syncs notes to a server so they can be viewed online or on a mobile device. Plus, there is text recognition for ...
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