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Continue reading →: ExpanDrive
ExpanDrive allows Mac users to mount remote storage as though it was local. While this alone isn’t rocket science, the variety of supported remote storages and the reliability of the software have made it a nearly indispensable tool. I routinely use it to mount: the home directory on my linux…
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Continue reading →: Filing email on your Mac
Every now and again you find a little piece of software that, in hindsight, you wonder how you lived without. A while ago I found just such a piece of software, MsgFiler. The developer recently released an upgrade exclusively through the Apple App Store which provoked me to purchase the upgrade…
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Continue reading →: Caffeine for your Mac
Sometimes it’s the small things that make a difference. In this case a friend of mine referred me to a very clever little utility called Caffeine. From the product’s webpage: Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent…
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Continue reading →: Hard Drive Upgrade
It’s a drag to constantly watch your hard drive space and be in a constant state of housekeeping. Add to this the get-a-bigger-5400-rpm-drive-instead-of-a-smaller-7200-rpm-drive mistake I made a year ago and you have my recipe for a hard drive upgrade. As part of my move to Leopard I wanted to take…
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Continue reading →: Some bookmark sanity
Since my “clean” installation of Leopard I’ve been making a point to avoid making a mess of my “personal information space.” One area of marked progress has been my bookmarks. A lot of my time is spent demonstrating our products. In various situations I use Safari (of course), Firefox, Opera,…
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Continue reading →: Leopard
I am finally a Leopard user! I had been holding off pending the release of what I’d hoped would be a final release of my contact manager (Daylite from Marketcircle). Unfortunately, I was faced with waiting until mid-January (the next time I’d have the time to do something like this)…
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Continue reading →: Getting Things Done & OmniFocus
As a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (aka GTD) approach to task management I was eager to see a “proper” implementation. I’ve experimented in the past with kGTD (the creator of kGTD has joined OmniGroup in a marketing capacity) and EasyTask. Neither had the desired level of polish…
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Continue reading →: FIOS
Verizon has finally seen it fit to offer FIOS in my subdivision! We (and many other households in the area) have been waiting for this for at least three years when rumors of FIOS in Fredericksburg first started swirling.
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