I just (finally) upgraded my iPhone OS to the new 3.0 and thought this might be a good opportunity to go over some of the apps that I keep on my iPhone’s home screen. I won’t deal with the native iPhone apps, just the third-party gems that I can’t function without. (All application links go [...]
I love TextEdit. For those who aren’t familiar with TextEdit, it is essentially Apple’s version of Microsoft’s Notepad (or more accurately WordPad). With Quicksilver installed I am only one quick keystroke away from having a new document open and ready to receive whatever information I need to throw at it–a phone number, a quick list, [...]
I hope you are enjoying all of the apps that I listed back in part 1 because surely you’ve already read that post and downloaded those life-changing gems. This set of apps is a mixed bag of goodies that I think you will find useful. The theme today is free–something I don’t think anyone will [...]
It seems today that Twitter has hit the mainstream. This means that there will be a lot more businesses using Twitter as a means to pimp themselves and there will be many more annoying people using Twitter to post every meal they eat and every thought they think. However, this also means that the Twitter [...]
I really like Evernote. I suggest it to a lot of people, especially anyone who owns an iPhone. Evernote makes it so easy to take a picture, write a note, or record some audio on your iPhone and retreive it later on your Mac, PC, or even online. This has so many potential uses from [...]
(Continued from Part 1.) In the first post I talked about instant messaging, e-mail, information organization, task management and calendar syncing all from within that small white-ish bar across the top of my screen. That covered the first five icons in my menubar. Let’s see what we can accomplish with the rest of the menubar [...]
The menubar in OSX is a wonderful place for unobtrusive apps that make computing both enjoyable and productive. Today I am going to run through some of the menubar apps that I currently have installed and running in hopes that you will discover new ways to increase your own productivity and possibly even enjoy using [...]
I have recently had the need to keep up with documents, notes, links, webpages, and other seemingly random bits of information on my Mac. Thankfully, I am not the first person to have such a need and so there are plenty of solutions that exist in the Mac universe. The problem is finding the perfect [...]