Dropbox just continues to get more useful every day. At this point, I believe it is mandatory for anybody who wants to get work done on an iPad. If Dropbox’s own developer API, letting you load and save documents to your Dropbox space from…
Continue reading →Timeline 3d, Version 3 Initial Impression and Interview
BEEDOCS has been hard at work and recently released version 3 of their stellar timeline application, Timeline 3d. This release makes building and using timelines even easier. For instance you can now publish an interactive timeline straight to the web (or YouTube), add movies…
Continue reading →Service Sunday – The Mother Lode
This week’s Service Sunday does not feature a particular workflow but instead points you at the mother load of pre-built Mac OS X services at Mac OS X Automation. This page includes download links for a host of handy services ranging from changing the…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Dan Benjamin
This week’s Home Screen post features Dan Benjamin (Twitter). Dan has quietly built a podcasting empire at 5by5 Studios with numerous quality shows. While I’ve not had the opportunity to meet Dan in person, he guested on the Mac Power Users and I’ve listened…
Continue reading →Tom Bihn Ristretto for 13″ MacBook Air Review
Over the past year, I’ve changed up my mobile gear. I got my beloved iPad and sold my once mighty MacBook Pro in exchange for an underpowered 13” MacBook Air, which I adore. Leading up to Macworld, I decided I was going to spoil…
Continue reading →Text Expander Snippet Repository? Yes Please.
Awhile back, I wrote about how nice it would be if we put together a web site to share TextExpander Snippets. Reader Alexander took the idea and ran with it. Opening its doors yesterday te-snippets.com is going to become the promised land for TextExpander…
Continue reading →Bento 4 Released Today
Today FileMaker released Bento 4. I’ve been kicking the tires for the last week and I like it. This upgrade addresses many past user requests including label printing, exporting/importing datasets, and making it much easier to share your templates with others. The label printing…
Continue reading →Notational Velocity Naming Conventions
In last weekend’s episode of the Mac Power Users, I spoke at some length about how I name files in Notational Velocity. So how do I name files? I preface the note name with some pre-designed codes (which I hesitate to call “tags”). The…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 45: Finding Files with Brett
Mac Power Users Episode 45 is available for download. Katie and I are joined by Mac mad scientist, Brett Terpstra, and cover finding files on your Mac along with some advice about tagging and file naming conventions. You can get it on iTunes here…
Listen & read notes →Japan Relief through iTunes
When I went to pick up an iPad 2 and was too late, I didn’t care. I’d spent the day watching the tragedies in Japan and realized (again) the importance of perspective. I’m receiving e-mails now from readers and listeners who still haven’t been…
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