When you share photos from iPhoto on your Mac how do you manage the picture frames? The answer is easy. Frames? What frames? Exactly. In iPhoto you can share photos, upload photos, add photos to a book or card, but … Continue Reading »
Finally, A Mac App That Organizes And Manages Your Books And Papers
By - Friday, May 11, 2012
My wife is a teacher and a writer. Not necessarily in that order. That means our household is paper bound. We have books, more books, and dozens of notebooks, and binders full of papers, research papers, and more paper. So … Continue Reading »
Feed Your Mac A Video And Let A Magic App Convert It For iTunes Automatically
By - Friday, May 4, 2012
Chances are good you have plenty of videos. If not iMovie clips, then TV shows or movies you’ve downloaded from the web (or, ripped from your DVD collection). Getting those movies into iTunes and ready for iPhone or iPad used … Continue Reading »
Review: The Cheap Super App Converter For Mac (money, units, and calculators)
By - Friday, April 27, 2012
How many calculators do you own? Most families have plenty of calculators. There are plastic calculators, wrist watch calculators, and both Mac and iPhone have digital calculators. One of my favorite iPhone apps is a unit converter. There’s a Mac … Continue Reading »
A Crazy, Cheap, Fun Way To Make The Photos On Your Mac Look Horribly Ancient
By - Thursday, April 26, 2012
The Mac App Store is making a trinket collector out of me. In the past month I’ve grabbed half a dozen cheap Mac photo enhancement apps. Each doesn’t do much, but what they do, they do well. And, cheap. Sometimes … Continue Reading »
A Cheap, Fun, Easy Way To Drag And Drop To Password Protect And Encrypt Mac Files
By - Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Protecting files and folders on your Mac shouldn’t be a strain on your daily workflow. It should be easy. We backup our Macs using apps that work automatically. Why can’t we protect and encrypt important, sensitive files just as easily? … Continue Reading »
A New And Easy Way To Use Your Mac To Focus More On Your Writing
By - Thursday, April 19, 2012
If there’s one thing most of us can agree upon, modern life is complicated. The distractions are numerous and increasing at an alarming rate. Henry David Thoreau would look aghast at our society. So it is with one of the … Continue Reading »
Use This Mac App To Become A World Famous Comic Strip Creator
By - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
There once was a time when I aspired to be a starving artist. Food and clothing were secondary to my art. My art? I wanted to be comic strip artist. The dream lived on for a few years as I … Continue Reading »
Why You Need To Shop For Mac Apps At An App Store That’s Not Apple’s Mac App Store
By - Monday, April 16, 2012
Competition is a beautiful thing. Everyone who sells a product is out to get your attention and money. If you’re buying from a store down the block, the store up the block wants to find a way to get your … Continue Reading »
Cheap: A Better Way To Drag And Drop On Your Mac
By - Thursday, April 12, 2012
Can you name a function on the Mac that’s more basic than drag and drop? Maybe. Click on an app icon in the Dock. Double click a folder or app to open. A few Command-key combos are basic, too. But … Continue Reading »
Why Your Mac’s Apps Need Their Own Customizable Popup Toolbar, App Switcher, Window Manager
By - Tuesday, April 10, 2012
What does every Mac user really need? Besides a free MacBook Air gift from Apple for being so loyal. We need a toolbar for each app. An app switcher you can love. And a window manager that makes it easy … Continue Reading »
On Killing A Mac Trojan Horse And Stopping Malicious Apps From Phoning Home
By - Friday, April 6, 2012
Is your Mac infected with the latest trojan horse malware? Leave it to a company that sells anti-virus and malware protection for PCs to tell Mac users their worst nightmare. There’s a malicious trojan horse out there and it may … Continue Reading »
6 Reasons To Try An Alternative To iPhoto On Your Mac
By - Friday, March 30, 2012
Admit it. You have a lot of photos in iPhoto. Most Mac users do. iPhoto is a good repository and gives you a few color and image enhancement tools, but it’s really just a big, dumb, digital photo bucket aimed … Continue Reading »
6 Reasons To Use The Mac’s Ultimate Tweaking Tool (now with more love, new name)
By - Wednesday, March 28, 2012
For all the pleasantries associated with using Apple’s gadgets, the company itself knows how to play hardball. For years there’s been this little Mac tweaking tool called A Better Finder Attributes. It tweaks Mac photo file attributes until the cows … Continue Reading »
An Easier Way To Build Super Keyboard Shortcuts On Your Mac
By - Friday, March 23, 2012
Are you a creative Mac user? Or, a logical Mac user? My wife and I have this whole left brain right brain thing going. She’s the intuitive and creative member of our children’s parents. I’m the logical, reasonable, rational, analytical, … Continue Reading »
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