Category: Productivity and Organization
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Gadget Links: Post Memorial Day Weekend Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sixty-Six on Daring Fireball: “The idea that Apple now sells two-thirds of retail computers costing $1000 or more is simply stunning. I (along with many others) have long argued that a simplistic “overall PC market share” number has never been a good metric for gauging the Mac’s success because the…
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MacBreak Video Shows Finer Points of Quicksilver Utility for the Mac
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the utilities programs that veteran Mac users swear by is Quicksilver which at first glance appears to be a keyboard-based application launcher. It turns out that QuickSilver can be used for a great deal more than application launching, but a lot of the productivity that you can gain from…
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Why I Updated to MacOS X 10.5.3 Right Away
Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple released MacOS X Version 10.5.3 earlier today. I first learned about the release when I was checking out Summize for the first time and saw references to Mac OS X and Leopard on the home page as “trending topics”. MacWorld has a good summary of the important fixes and…
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Twitterific vs Spaz: The Twitter Client Face-off on My Desktop
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve been using Twitter for several weeks, because there are things that friends of mine might be interested in hearing about that will never make it into an email or an Operation Gadget post. Twitterific vs Spaz: These two desktop Twitter clients that run on the Mac are competing for space…
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Smart Playlists Suffer Because of Logical Limitations
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the best techniques for using an iPhone with a large iTunes library is to use Smart Playlists to automatically select tracks from your library according to logical rules. I discussed this in Use Smart Playlists for Endless Combinations of Christmas Music. I wanted to provide an update because I…
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Gadget Links: Running Amok Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Eat Healthily at Top Chain Restaurants on Lifehacker: “The food experts at Health magazine have scoured the menus at popular restaurant chains in search of the healthiest foods on the menu, rounding up several healthy menu options at otherwise unhealthy chains.” They found reasonably healthy choices at Denny’s, Ruby…
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Looking for a Way to Automatically Secure My MacBook Pro
Reading Time: 2 minutes On our trip to Buffalo this weekend, Kathleen, Jimmy, and I stayed in two Marriott properties that had public WiFi networks. The thing I didn’t like about them is that they are wide open networks which means anyone can join and do pretty much anything they want locally. I have my…