March 19, 2010
Most of us don’t have the skills or the time to create our own custom applications or plug-ins, but when Apple produced Automator, a program installed in the latest versions of Mac OS X, it enabled users to create little time saving applications and Mac Automator workflows that can be customized for personal user needs. [...]
February 3, 2010
Apple’s Automator is probably one of the most underused but powerful applications that comes installed with the Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. It enables you to build custom automator workflows for repetitive tasks you perform on your Mac. Here’s a set of Automator hacks articles we’ve previously published on MakeUseOf. This how-to article focuses [...]
January 13, 2010
Hey you wanna-be Mac Power users, this article is a follow-up to Your Quick Guide To The Services Menu On Snow Leopard published on Monday. While Apple has improved its Services Menu in Snow Leopard, it’s not very useful unless you have items in it that you can use. Some 3rd party applications will automatically [...]
September 24, 2009
These days, almost everybody is connected to more than one computer. The common scenario is: one computer at work and one computer at home. This configuration often requires people to move files between computers, raising the popularity of USB drives. Sometimes you find something at work that you want to download for your home computer [...]
September 20, 2009
For some people, file management can be a very horrendous task. I’m still amazed at how messy the files and folders can be. Let them loose for a while and you would find documents, archives, songs, movies and images scattered all over the place. We have discussed the usage of tags in file management, but [...]
August 5, 2009
I have had this problem many times in the past – I am developing a website for a client and when I ask them to send me images, for something such as a gallery, they’ll send me lots of images and the name for each image wont have any meaning — something along the lines [...]
