November 9, 2011
Far too many PC users fail to properly back up their systems and their data. Because of that, I’ve often found myself in the position of having to tell family and friends that all of the family photos and financial information they’ve stored on their computer is completely lost. There are so many free and inexpensive ways to set up regular backups, that there is really no excuse.
August 8, 2011
Let’s say you just want to schedule a few little daily or weekly tasks on your Mac and you don’t feel like hauling out Automator or figuring out a script in AppleScript. Well, a small utility called Task Till Dawn might well do the trick. You can use Task Till Dawn to set up and run daily tasks for automatically opening files or scheduling iTunes to download the newest Podcast at a specified time.
July 13, 2011
Windows has a way of collecting virtual dust, a circumstance that has not changed considerably in Windows 7. These obsolete files take up space and contribute to hard drive fragmentation. While neither of this is a big issue, it is an annoyance, one that you can easily take care of.
June 20, 2011
Buffer App offers you the ability to drop links into your Buffer account and the tool queues them for future publishing in your Twitter account. This way you can still enjoy your spontaneous tweeting without stuffing your Twitter stream with multiple updates within a short period of time. With Buffer, you set your schedule once and then let all your tweets get published based on your schedule.
October 20, 2010
While Apple”˜s iCal is a very useful alarm and to-do application, it can be somewhat tedious to launch it and set new alarms, especially for minor tasks and reminders. Setting iCal reminders works best when setting up alarms from within Apple’s Mail application, but not from within other applications. This is where a little third-party [...]
October 16, 2010
Owning a smartphone that allows you to check your email no matter where you are can sometimes be counterproductive. One of the biggest mistakes I make is to check my email when I know that I don’t have the time to reply to the emails I read. If I don’t reply to them on the [...]
August 26, 2010
Computers usually do what you tell them (or try to). That is the deal, of course, when you’re actually using a computer. However, you may sometimes want to your computer to do something when you are not using it. Obviously, this presents a bit of a challenge. Enter TimeComX. This nifty, light-weight piece of software [...]
July 28, 2010
No matter what your job is, usually everyone at some point has to email a boss or supervisor with daily, weekly or monthly status reports. A lot of time this is nothing more than sending over a spreadsheet of data, logfiles or other reports that are usually automatically generated. Gathering the data and generating reports [...]
February 8, 2010
One of the issues that I deal with often, and have yet to find a good solution for, is personal organization while I’m on-the-go. I’ve used Google Calendar, iDailyDiary and even Excel. However, one problem that I always have is that when I have to travel a lot, or I’m racing from place to place, [...]
January 21, 2010
With 100,000+ apps in the App Store, we can find apps for a variety of uses, such as turning your iPod Touch/iPhone into a professional camera/photo editor (for iPhone), an external hard drive, a reference book, or a radio, yet productivity apps that integrate with Google services, which are free and which we can use [...]
