Aleh Cherp at the Macademic has a post on how he uses tags and folders with file management. I’m still figuring this out myself but Aleh’s idea of tags for reference files and folders for project files is very similar to the way I’ve been…
Continue reading →The Mysterious Character Viewer
As part of my little Automator screencast I did earlier this week, I used a special symbol in the file name. The character viewer opened during the screencast and I received several emails/tweets asking about how I did that. A lot of people don’t even realize…
Continue reading →My Very Own Technical Difficulties
I recently guested on the Technical Difficulties podcast where we talked about important things, like iBooks Author and Star Wars. If you haven’t yet, you should really check out the show notes. Outstanding. ∞
Listen & read notes →Fleksy and Alternative Keyboards
The Fleksy iPhone alternative keyboard. On the heels of yesterday’s post about alternative text selection, how about alternative keyboards? Where this type of utility was verboten on iOS for so long, Apple appears to no longer have a problem. The early leader for alternative keyboards is…
Continue reading →An Alternative Text Selection
The Thoughts 2 developer had an interesting idea for text selection. Specifically, he put right and left arrows on the text selection points that allow more fine-tuned selection. They’ve got a clever little video showing off the feature. I bet there are some pretty…
Continue reading →Screencast: Auto-Sending Bits of Text as Email
I do a lot of writing in text editors and dictation. As a result, I often have little bits of text that I want to send as an email. One day I got tired of the process of blocking, copying, opening Mail, creating a…
Continue reading →Dell Hell
Chris Brogan bought a Dell tablet and things went downhill from there. I’ve been out of the PC market for years now. Hasn’t anyone on the Windows side tried the Apple model of customer service? They should. ∞
Continue reading →The Template Problem
Last week Dr. Drang lamented the inability to share a Numbers template between Mac and iOS. He then very cleverly showed where the Mac iWork template files are buried and how to get them onto iOS. This is a problem I’ve struggled with for years. Not…
Continue reading →Around We Go With Office for iPad
I keep threatening to stop writing about this story but some part of me can’t resist. Last week Microsoft’s chief of marketing explained how there were a lot of reasons to keep Office off the iPad. Then days later, Mary Jo Foley reported we could…
Continue reading →MPU 177: Workflows with Gabe Weatherhead
In this week’s episode, Gabe Weatherhead joins us to talk about being a Mac geek in a PC office, DEVONThink, and automation. It’s a great episode. As an aside, there was a limited problem with the feed where some people didn’t get this show.…
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