Mac Power Users Episode 75, Remote Access, is live. This show explains how to remotely control Macs and PCs with your various bits of Apple technology. Get the episode over at 5by5. Also, don’t forget to subscribe in iTunes.
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Denso is a video app for people who don’t know what to watch. Create personalized video channels by connecting your Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Google Reader accounts. Connect your Instapaper, Readability and Evernote accounts to Denso so you can bookmark videos from around the…
Continue reading →Shrink and Expand Save Dialog
Command + “=” I never new that.
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Stephen Hackett turned me on to this fun website looking at the original Mac. I had to smile at the post with the original control panel. I can identify the very moment that my love of the Macintosh began. Having used a succession computers…
Continue reading →Hazel 3.0? Yes please.
One of my all-time favorite Mac utilities, Hazel just turned 3.0. I’ve been using the beta for several months and today I’m paying my $10 upgrade fee gladly. ($25 for a new license is also a steal.) Paul, not surprisingly, did an amazing job…
Continue reading →iPad AirPlay to a Mac with Reflection
Wow. A new Mac app that turns your Mac into an AirPlay receiver. That’s right. You can wirelessly display your iOS screen on your Mac. A game changer. In initial testing, it looks pretty good but I’m not sure yet if it is a…
Continue reading →iThoughtsHD Update
As much as I like iThoughtsHD, I’ve never been happy with its color options. The latest update fixes that with several useful palettes, including solarized. A damn useful app just got pretty. As an aside, the image is my original pass at a mindmap…
Continue reading →Moom 2.4
Chained commands. My love of this window resizing utility blooms like flowers in spring.
Continue reading →More on DuckDuckGo
It’s been about a month since I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo for my search engine. This far in, I’ve found the search results to be slightly slower (not enough to matter) and sometimes different from Google’s. In some case different means worse. In…
Continue reading →iCal 2 Week View
It always made me crazy how iCal can’t show a two-week view. With a one line terminal command, you can fix that.
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