Yes, There Is An Easier, Better, Faster Way To Edit PDFs On Your Mac
Business and education have one thing in common. PDFs. Adobe’s ubiquitous Portable Document Format file format for documents. PDFs are everywhere and almost no one likes to muck with them. It seems as...
View ArticleA New And Juicy Way To Manage Color Palettes And Schemes On A Mac
When it comes to graphics design and color I have a good eye. For monochromatic color schemes. For anything beyond a few shades of gray, I need a tool and my Mac is blessed with more than my fair share...
View ArticleCalendar On Your Mac Is Great But Here’s An App That Makes It Better
When it comes to applications, Apple gives us the basics. Browser. Email. Contacts. Calendar. And then we get a few which make Mac life interesting and somewhat captive to Apple’s way of life. iTunes....
View ArticleUse Your Mac To Create A Little Magic For Your iPhone With A Personal iTunes...
Who does not love a long list of ringtones for their smartphone? Let me see a show of hands! None? Why? Because we love to attach a different ringtone to specific callers. Or, simply customize our...
View ArticleHow To Add Harmony, Tranquility, And Big Fat Goldfish To Your Mac Life
Chicago weather can be brutal on barnyard animals, hence the O’Brien family homestead is not a refuge for creatures that enter the food chain. Our clan isn’t even much for pets. There are a few dogs,...
View ArticleThe Better Way To Do Email On The Fly Notifies And Responds Instantly
Most Mac users have a love hate relationship with email. We hate it. We love to hate it. But we don’t love it. As apps go, Apple’s Mail isn’t all that bad and comes with plenty of bells and whistles,...
View ArticleA Mac App That Could Be One Of The Most Valuable Apps You Can Give
Looking back on my school years I can point to four or five classes which helped to shape my adult life. Math. Reading. Science. And Typing. Typing? Yes. Typing in the future might be completely voice...
View ArticleHow Your Mac Can Help You Layout The Furniture In Your House
You know what they say? ‘You get what you pay for.’ Well, sometimes that’s true and sometimes it’s not. This branch of the O’Briens are condo dwellers. What we want is a home and a backyard and a...
View ArticleApp of the Week: How This Mac App Adds New Meaning To ‘In The Zone’
You know what it’s like to be ‘in the zone,’ right? The zone is when your focus is highest and most intense, and everything is going well. Zoning out is the opposite. You’re still focused, but no one,...
View ArticleThe PDF Toolbox Gives You PDF Tools To Edit PDFs On Your Mac
Do a quick search through your office or the Mac App Store and you’re likely to find a few things in common. PDF apps. When I visit with friends over lunch and ask them about their PCs or Macs there...
View ArticleThe Free Way To Use A Multiple Clipboard Manager App On A Mac
Today’s app tip might be one of the most productive and useful utility apps ever. It’s a multiple clipboard manager app. The Mac’s clipboard is what stores whatever you copy or cut within a document or...
View ArticleTry A PDF Reader On Your Mac That Annotates, Takes Notes, And Speaks To You
In an attempt to avoid any applications made by Adobe, Google, or Microsoft, I’m searching for basic replacements. I haven’t updated Adobe Acrobat in years, and recently stopped using the Adobe Reader....
View ArticleOne Of The Mac’s Coolest, Most Useful Apps Ever Is Missing One Thing
For about a week I’ve been using an app on my Mac that I dearly love to use and I’d keep using it if it could do just one more thing. The app is called Caboodle. Chances are good you’ve never heard of...
View ArticleA Free Fix For The One Problem Every iPhoto User Wants To Get Rid Of
For the average Mac owner with a digital camera there just isn’t much to not like about using iPhoto. It stores tens of thousands of photos. The entire collection can be categorized by Events and...
View ArticleHow To Turn Your Mac’s Desktop Wallpaper Into Something Useful
Here’s a great ‘light bulb’ idea. Turn everything that’s not useful or productive into something that is. Sounds good, right? Except I’m torn between the need to stop and smell the roses, and the need...
View ArticleGot Email? Try An Email Message Notification That Thinks Different
Apple brought the Notification Center to OS X Mountain Lion so we get quick pop up notices whenever a new email message arrives. Boring. This is a perfect opportunity for customization and Apple let us...
View ArticleIs It A Todo List? A Task Manager? Or Project Management App? Or All 3?
Isn’t graduating fun? No, not from school, though that had its moments. In this particular case I’m about ready to graduate from the standard todo list and venture into a Mac and iPhone app that can...
View ArticleIf You Could Have Only One Inexpensive Photo Enhancement App This Is It
Allow me to say that Apple may have done more for digital photography than any other company besides digital camera manufacturers. How so? iPhoto. And the App Stores. For most Mac users, iPhoto is the...
View ArticleAre Mac Users Ready For The Modern, Cloud-based Daily Diary?
Did you read about how many iCloud customers Apple has already? The number is over 300-million. That makes Apple a significant player in cloud storage services. Are we ready to use the cloud for what...
View ArticleWhat’s More Fun Or Useful Than A Clock In The Mac’s Dock?
Customizing and personalizing the Mac is limited by Apple’s freakish control over the user interface. How many ways can you customize your Mac? Not many. Desktop wallpaper. Menubar. Dock placement....
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