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BusyCal 1.5 Releases

posted in Uncategorized on December 1, 2010 12 Comments

BusyCal 1.5 is now out officially supporting MobileMe’s CalDav protocol letting users once again use BusyCal with their MobileMe calendars. I’ve been using the beta for several months and approve. Some would argue BusyCal’s utility is diminished with MobileMe now including calendar sharing. I…

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Win the Smile Productivity Suite

posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2010

The Mac Power Users and Smile are sponsoring a contest where you can win a free copy of Smile’s Productivity Suite including PDFpen Pro, TextExpander, DiscLabel and PageSender – a $129 value. In order to enter, download Smile’s DiscLabel and make some labels. Send…

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Mac Power Users 38: iTunes Intensive

posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2010

Mac Power Users Episode 38 is live. Katie and I cover media management and iTunes including playlists, media storage, and other iTunes power tips. You can get it on iTunes here or on the web right here. Enjoy.

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SSD Performance Degradation

posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2010

Allan Morris ran an interesting series of benchmarks on his Crucial SSD when it was new and then later after use and found performance remained largely the same. I’m curious to see if the MacBook Air’s SSD holds up as well.

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The New MacBook Air

posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2010 41 Comments

I suddenly find myself driving a shiny new MacBook Air and am scratching my head as to how I ended up here, again. So here I am to share my impressions of this bit of squashed genius and how it fits in the Apple…

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Symbolic Link Service

posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2010 7 Comments

Creating an Alias in Mac OS X is easy. Hold down the Option + Command keys and drag a file to some new location. Just like that you’ve got an Alias, which is, essentially, a pointer to the original file. The truth is, however,…

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More on Facebook

posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2010 5 Comments

Ben Brooks is spot on about Facebook. The only thing I’d add is a rant about the devious way Facebook hides privacy settings for its users. I recently helped my 14 year old get a Facebook account (I know!). After we had the long…

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Office 2011, It’s Faster

posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2010 5 Comments

I was on the Microsoft Office 2011 beta and they made a lot of progress with this release. I’ll be writing up my thoughts in more detail in the future. In the meantime, take a look at MacTech’s benchmarks showing how much faster Office…

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Star Wars Weather Widgets

posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2010

Because I can’t help myself. (via Kottke)

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Mac Power Users 37: Markdown and MultiMarkdown

posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2010 5 Comments

Mac Power Users Episode 37 is live. Katie and I talk at length about Markdown and MultiMarkdown. Specifically, how we incorporate these tools into our writing. We also enjoyed an interview with MultiMarkdown author and all around nice guy, Fletcher Penney. You can catch…

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