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Hazel Tutorial

posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2012

Andreas Zeitler from Mac OS X Screencasts just released a 1-hour Hazel tutorial for 10 Euros. If you’re flumoxed by Haze, now is your chance.

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Home Screens – Myke Hurley

posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2012

Today is the first anniversary of the 70 Decibels Network, which hosts some of my favorite podcasts. In honor of this celebration, this week I’m featuring Myke Hurley’s home screen. Myke (Twitter) is the co-founder of 70 Decibels, the host of CMD+Space, and an…

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iGrand Piano for iPad

posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2012

IK Multimedia has a new iPad app that includes some fantastic Piano samples (237 MB worth). I’ll be putting these through their paces this weekend on my MIDI keyboard as I continue my life-long assault on the music of Thelonious Monk. ∞

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Dragon Dictate for Mac 3

posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2012

Speech recognition is one of those rare categories of software where the Mac has been playing catch-up for many years. Mac wielding dictators rejoiced when MacSpeech Dictate began using the Dragon engine and made huge strides toward reliable speech recognition on the Mac. A…

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Cleartones Organic

posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2012

I wrote about these last year. There is a new set of quality ring tones at Clear Tones and I’ve already installed them. I love my R2D2 ringtone on the weekends but when I’m at the day job, it’s Clear Tones for me. ∞

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FotoMagico 4

posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2012

There is a nice update to my favorite slideshow program for the Mac. Every time I put one of these together for a friend’s wedding, I make the paid photographer look really bad. ∞

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5by5 | Mac Power Users #106: Finder Alternatives

posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2012

In this week’s MPU episode, I talk at length about third party tools that improve upon the Mac OS X Finder. ∞

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Zuckerberg on 1 Billion Facebook Users

posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2012

“But the bigger question is, what services can get built now that every company can assume they can get access to knowing who everyone’s friends are.” Ugg. via Shawn Blanc ∞

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Sponsor: O’Reilly Titles on Inkling

posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2012

For years, those who’ve wanted to teach themselves programming have been caught between the trusted content found in books and the ease of use with online materials. Now, O’Reilly Media and Inkling have teamed up to reimagine the world’s most trusted technological resources for…

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Maps at Night

posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2012

I used the Maps app through much of the beta and never had any problems. I used it to drive from Orange County to San Diego and Los Angeles several times. It didn’t route me any different than my prior driving app, Motion X.…

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