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Monday, April 21, 2008

Improve iPhoto With Keyword Manager

iPhoto is one of the Mac’s workhorse applications. Nearly every Mac user with a digital camera uses iPhoto. Once you get a few thousand photos into iPhoto keeping track of where they are can be a pain. Keyword Manager eliminates the pain, organizes your photos fast.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

iGTD: The Drug That Makes Mac Users More Productive

Getting things done these days is a challenge for all Mac users, despite oh so many tools designed to help. The most important aspect of any Mac tool is how we use it to get done what we want. From simple to-do lists to mini-project manager utilities, Mac users have many choices. One of the best is also free.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Wow! A Mouse Pad That Makes A Difference

My mouse pad died. Wherever old mouse pads go when they stop doing their job, mine went there. I’ve had my smiley face mouse pad for four or five years and it was showing it’s age with spastic, sporadic, almost arthritic like convulsions when tracking the mouse pointer across my Mac’s screen. I buried the old pad and went to search for another.

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Adobe Media Player: Flat and Black is Back

Adobe has an agenda with their new media player. One objective is to get Flash technology off the web page and on to the desktop. Version 1.0 of Adobe Media Player takes that giant step forward with a couple of giant steps backwards. While pretending to be chic and hip, AMP actually is flat, black, clumsy, and chatty.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Beauty Of iCal Simplicity In A Widget

Despite my allegiance to Entourage, I still use Apple iCal. It’s my way of keeping a separation of church and state. Entourage is for business. Mail, iCal, AddressBook is for personal use. iCal has a simple charm and beauty that is aptly expressed in Ben Kazez’ Dashboard Widget, iCal Events.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

xScope: Indispensible Design Tool

When I find a good application or utility to use on my Mac, I become an evangelizer. While I’m not new to web site design, I’ve never had the pleasure of using all the tools needed to build a web site—until PixoBebo. Now I have half a dozen ultra favorite tools that I use on PixoBebo. Near the top is IconFactory’s xScope.

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