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App Love: PicFrameI thought I would share a favorite app today. I discovered PicFrame for iOSawhile back which is a…View Post

App Love: PicFrame

I thought I would share a favorite app today. I discovered PicFrame for iOSawhile back which is a…

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Damn You, Art School and Procreate (it’ll make sense when you read the whole article)Damn You, Art Schoolis a web site organized by art school disciplines like architecture, fashion,…View Post

Damn You, Art School and Procreate (it’ll make sense when you read the whole article)

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Best Apps

Lifehacker has rounded up the best FREE Mac apps and a great collection of iPad apps (not all those are free). Don’t forget the recent round-ups they did on iPhone apps and Linux apps, Windows apps and Android apps. Pretty much just bookmark Lifehacker. You’ll thank me for it.

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Worskpace Show and Tell Pool

Lifehacker asked their readers to post photos of their workspace on Flickr in the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool. There are dozens of images of massive monitor stacks but their are also a few gems in the group too. If you’re looking for real-world workspace inspiration, this is a great resource.

(image above by MattsMacintosh found in the pool)

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Four months ago, I mentioned a new app discovery called Alfred. I thought I would follow-up to let you know, I cannot live without it now. The simple act of clicking Option+Spacebar and keying in the first few letters of anything has shaved so many seconds of clicking around on my computer that I think I’ve added at least a day of productivity to my life. Really. Add to the free app with the PowerPack (£15 or $24) and you can do even more than just locate files, calculate, spell and shutdown (favorite feature!). With the PowerPack, once you’ve located an image or file, you can immediately email it or open it with a specific application. There is an iTunes mini player controller, ability to find a contact in your Address Book quickly and access clipboard hisories. There are opportunities for even more functionality with scripts and more but that’s outside my realm of expertise. So, try out the app and see if you find it useful. If you do find it useful, try out the PowerPack and really blow your mind! My fingers hardly ever leave the keyboard now.

Four months ago, I mentioned a new app discovery called Alfred. I thought I would follow-up to let you know, I cannot live without it now. The simple act of clicking Option+Spacebar and keying in the first few letters of anything has shaved so many seconds of clicking around on my computer that I think I’ve added at least a day of productivity to my life. Really.

Add to the free app with the PowerPack (£15 or $24) and you can do even more than just locate files, calculate, spell and shutdown (favorite feature!). With the PowerPack, once you’ve located an image or file, you can immediately email it or open it with a specific application. There is an iTunes mini player controller, ability to find a contact in your Address Book quickly and access clipboard hisories. There are opportunities for even more functionality with scripts and more but that’s outside my realm of expertise.

So, try out the app and see if you find it useful. If you do find it useful, try out the PowerPack and really blow your mind! My fingers hardly ever leave the keyboard now.

Safety Week: Require a password

Step number one in Safety Week. If you have a portable computer (or really any computer for that matter) go into your preferences right now and set your computer to require a user name and password upon restart, waking from sleep or waking from screen saver. It is your first line of defense for identity theft. It makes it harder for someone to get your data (be it your email address, credit card number or baby photos) and they will be more likely to just wipe the drive than try to hack it. It sucks either way but it’ll suck a whole lot less knowing thieves cannot access your data.

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Step number one in Safety Week. If you have a portable computer (or really any computer for that matter) go into your preferences right now and set your computer to require a user name and password upon restart, waking from sleep or waking from screen saver. It is your first line of defense for identity theft. It makes it harder for someone to get your data (be it your email address, credit card number or baby photos) and they will be more likely to just wipe the drive than try to hack it. It sucks either way but it’ll suck a whole lot less knowing thieves cannot access your data.

Step number one in Safety Week. If you have a portable computer (or really any computer for that matter) go into your preferences right now and set your computer to require a user name and password upon restart, waking from sleep or waking from screen saver. It is your first line of defense for identity theft. It makes it harder for someone to get your data (be it your email address, credit card number or baby photos) and they will be more likely to just wipe the drive than try to hack it. It sucks either way but it’ll suck a whole lot less knowing thieves cannot access your data.

AP Obituary for Steve Jobs

A very thorough article about the life of Steve Jobs and his influence.

I couldn’t think of a more fitting tribute for Steve Jobs than this. His influence and vision has shaped the last 20 years and his impact will live on indefinitely.

For years, I’ve been using a launch app called Drag Thing  on my Mac. I’ve used it for so long to keep my application icons organized and easy to access that I never really bothered to look for something better. Until today… Today, I discovered Alfred. Using a simple key command, you call up a search box on your desktop. It can find a web site, folder, application or just about any other thing you can think of. Then type in what you want. For example, I want to find out more about the movie The Help. I click the option+spacebar and Alfred pops up. Then I type “IMDB ‘the help’” and voila! Alfred has taken me to The Help page on IMDB and my fingers never left my keyboard. Then I need to open a client file. I type click on option + spacebar again and Alfred reappears. I type “open SKG tee” and the file pops up with the Illustrator icon next to it. Foosh! My file opens, I can make changes and keep going. Now I need to email the file. I can option + spacebar again and type “Mail” to get to my email client. If I were to add the Powerpack (£12) to Alfred, I could just use the find field in Alfred and locate the file again and select the “email ….” and whoosh! another task completed without clicking through folders. Another fun feature is the ability to play a song from your iTunes by simply option + spacebar and typing “play (fill in song title)”. I’m surprised how quickly I was taken with this application. I want everything on my computer to work as seamlessly as Alfred and I’ll definitely upgrade to the Powerpack, even though I know very little about Shell scripts and Applescripts, I’m looking forward to the other features it offers. The Powerpack adds options for “open with…”, “email file”, iTunes mini player, address book access and many other features. (via Alfred App)

For years, I’ve been using a launch app called Drag Thing  on my Mac. I’ve used it for so long to keep my application icons organized and easy to access that I never really bothered to look for something better. Until today…

Today, I discovered Alfred. Using a simple key command, you call up a search box on your desktop. It can find a web site, folder, application or just about any other thing you can think of. Then type in what you want. For example, I want to find out more about the movie The Help. I click the option+spacebar and Alfred pops up. Then I type “IMDB ‘the help’” and voila! Alfred has taken me to The Help page on IMDB and my fingers never left my keyboard. Then I need to open a client file. I type click on option + spacebar again and Alfred reappears. I type “open SKG tee” and the file pops up with the Illustrator icon next to it. Foosh! My file opens, I can make changes and keep going. Now I need to email the file. I can option + spacebar again and type “Mail” to get to my email client. If I were to add the Powerpack (£12) to Alfred, I could just use the find field in Alfred and locate the file again and select the “email ….” and whoosh! another task completed without clicking through folders.

Another fun feature is the ability to play a song from your iTunes by simply option + spacebar and typing “play (fill in song title)”.

I’m surprised how quickly I was taken with this application. I want everything on my computer to work as seamlessly as Alfred and I’ll definitely upgrade to the Powerpack, even though I know very little about Shell scripts and Applescripts, I’m looking forward to the other features it offers. The Powerpack adds options for “open with…”, “email file”, iTunes mini player, address book access and many other features.

(via Alfred App)

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