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Monday, May 12, 2008

Does your Mac need a CheckUp?

I’m a sucker for a little glitter and glamour. I fall in love with handy Mac utilities that go bling in the night. One of my co-workers turned me on to a handy Mac utility which, on the surface, appears like a Fisher-Price utility for monitoring your Mac. It’s called CheckUp.

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Friday, May 9, 2008

View news from 100 web sites without Safari

Every week I bump into someone who complains about how much time they spend each day looking at web sites in their browser. In each case they tell me they’re just trying to keep up with what’s going on in the world. I ask them to spell R S S for me. It’s nearing the middle of 2008 and yet quizzical looks abound. Here’s how to view the news from 100 or more web sites without using Safari, without devoting hours to the job.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Manage recipes and cooking with YummySoup!

Cooking is one my passions in life and I get my Mac involved by using YummySoup! The Mac has only a few recipe management applications and YummySoup! is one of the best. Why? Four words: Organizing, sharing, cooking, and shopping. Oh, and there’s a handy Wine & Spirits manager, full screen view for cooking, and user recipes available in an online library. What’s so yummy?

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

The ultimate launcher for Mac users

Face it. Our Macs have become complex, complicated, cluttered little beasts. Files are everywhere. We load up our Macs with applications, utilities, shareware, documents, movies, music, and more. How can we navigate through the messes we make? One word. DragThing. Here’s how…

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How to rename files on your Mac with Renamer4Mac

Here’s the deal. Renaming files on a Mac is something of a pain in the rear. In Leopard you can select a single file, hit the Return key, which highlights the file’s name, then type in a new name. If you have 150 files to rename—photos, documents, music—repeat that pain 150 times. Or, use Renamer4Mac. It renames without the pain.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Use TextExpander or waste time typing

I’m an adequate typer, made better by spell checking on my Mac. Thanks to TextExpander, I’m now a quick typer for a couple of reasons: 1) I don’t have to remember what to type, and, 2) I don’t even have to do the typing. A good Mac utility should do the work for you, right?

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