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How To Take Advantage Of Your Widescreen Apple Display [Mac OSX]
I didn't realize until I unpacked my 27" iMac just how much screen real estate I had to work with. Sure, it looked large in the store, but opening numerous applications and windows on it, stretching out the Dock with more apps, and slightly tilting my head up to look at the menu bar made me realize even more just how much space I have to work with.
15 Ways To Avoid Hassles And Save Time Using Your iPhone
In my humble opinion, technology should save us time and make getting things done more efficient, but I constantly run into people who are not making use of the tools and features, of say their iPhone, that could reduce the amount of time and hassle it takes to carry out tasks or daily routines. In fact, the excuse I give for buying an iPhone is that it's a money maker for me. It actually saves me time, and thus money.
Whitelines Links Combines Real Paper, A Quick Scanner & Digital Notes [iPhone]
I'll admit it, I download journal and notebook apps like some people collect baseball cards. Seems like nearly every new notebook or journal app offers something fresh or stylish that I want to try out. The latest offering is Whitelines Links, a notebook app which scans and captures notes you make on specially designed paper. Whitelines may prove useful for those who still like to write or draw on paper, but also want to save notes and drawings in a digital format.
Top 10 Uses For Dropbox You May Not Have Thought Of
For many advanced computer users, Dropbox is the premiere cloud-based storage and sharing document service. It has replaced the Documents folder on my Mac, and is the primary way I sync files between my devices. Similar and equally useful free services include Google Drive and Box.com. We've already covered some awesome ideas for using Dropbox, but here are a handful of other ideas for new and maybe more experienced users of Dropbox.
How To Build Your Family Tree With MyHeritage.com
From the day we're born, each of us becomes a part of a family tree that is often larger than we imagined. The personal genealogy site, MyHeritage.com is a powerful, and easy-to-use set of tools that helps you keep track of your family heritage and kinships by providing tools for building and growing personal family trees, with timelines, photo sharing, and event web pages. MyHeritage looks to be the largest site of its kind and it includes a good basic free plan to get you started.
Springpad vs Evernote: Why Visual Orientation Matters in an Online Notebook
It's easy to understand why there are tons of online and software notebooks out there to choose from: mainly because there is so much information to manage, bookmark, and share in our online and mobile file cabinets. Clearly Evernote serves this purpose as a cross-platform notebook. It is supported by hundreds of other Internet services, mobile apps, and tools. But no matter how many times I've started using Evernote, I've never been totally happy with it. For me, it lacks the visual orientation that I find appealing in Pinterest, and now Springpad.
How To Save And Share Text Documents Using iCloud
iCloud has been most useful for updating email, contact, and calendar data across Mac and iOS devices. But now it includes additional features for document files, for both Apple native and third-party applications. In this article I explain many of the pros and cons of saving text documents to iCloud.
Mix Your Diary Or Journal With Your Social Network Activity Using Loccit
Let's face it, for many of us, our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram streams are our public diaries or journals. They may not expose much of our dirty laundry, but they represent a lot about who we are. In my ongoing quest to find and use the perfect digital diary or journal, I think the private online and mobile diary and journal site Loccit may be just everything I need in this regard.
5 Free Well Designed & Useful Mac Store Apps [OSX]
Every so often, I open the Mac App Store in my Dock to see which new free apps I can try, and I'm rarely disappointed. Since you can't download trial versions of apps in the Store, developers often provide free versions of their apps alongside the Pro versions that offer a few more enhanced features. The apps I selected for this article have only thing in common - their style and design.
5 Apps For Snapping Self-Portraits On Your Mobile/Tablet [iOS]
Taking a self-portrait with your iPhone or other camera-supported iOS device is probably one of the easiest ways to capture yourself in a photo. Tap the little camera icon in the upper-right side of the camera screen (to activate the front-facing camera), and you're ready to snap a selfie. For a smartphone, the iOS camera is actually very good and powerful out-performing many point-and-shoot cameras.
Chatter.com: The Private Facebook For Companies & Organizations
As quick as emails can be for communicating information, I still long for something more efficient with less clutter, especially when it comes to long threads of email correspondence. In looking for something different, I stumbled upon Salesforce's Chatter.com. Chatter is not a new service, but if your company or organization doesn't know about, it could be a useful alternative to traditional email and forum threads.
Doo Automatically Uploads Your Files To The Cloud Then Tags & Manages Them
If your computer document filing system is more in the cloud than on your actual computer, you're going to be interested in Doo, currently a Mac app that syncs documents on your computer to the cloud, where they can be shared with other supported computers and mobile apps. The developers say Doo, which is in beta, will also be available soon for Windows 8, and later for Windows Phone, iPad/iPhone and Android.
From Sitting To Standing While Typing: Why You Need To Change Your Working Habit
Writing full-time keeps me sitting at a desk nearly eight hours a day. My office chair is not one of those Lexus ergonomic models designed to take away the pain of sitting, and though I’ve tried using “take a break” apps like Time Out, I often sit way too long for my health. So after reading articles and studies about standing while typing, I decided to try it for myself. This article is about my experiment with changing a habit we take for granted.
How To Create A Google+ Page For A Business, Club, Or Yourself
It should be clear by now that Google+ is definitely not going anywhere. It's gaining in popularity and is a great complement or alternative to Facebook. If you're already set up on Google+, you might want to look into adding a Google+ page for your business, organization, club, or just good old personal self-promotion. Setting up one or more pages is easy, but you should of course put some thought into how to make it distinctive.
Tips On Planning & Holding Effective Meetings With Google Hangouts
With today's Internet technology, holding online meetings can be both efficient and cost-effective especially if you pre-plan them and make use of time-saving tools. For the last couple of months I've participated in online meetings using Google Hangouts. Though it has limitations, the voice and video platform is fairly easy to use, and it includes extra features useful for holding meetings.
Design & Lay Out Your iOS App Ideas Using iRise Studio
Even if you don't know any iPhone app development code, it doesn't mean you can't design your idea and find a developer to build it for you. For designing, this where iRise Studio comes in. It is a powerful Mac and PC platform containing graphical tools and assets you need to create your mobile simulated app.
4 Ways To Keep Tabs On Amazon's Daily Deals [Digital Dollar]
One of the best ways I know of to save money is to shop on Amazon.com. Time and time again when I go shopping, Amazon always seems to offer 10-30% off the price of retail store products (not just books) that I typically buy. And on top of regular markdown prices, Amazon also offers daily discounts that can be up to 90% off, or even free.
Setting Up Kindle On Your iPad & Other iOS Devices
The iPad makes for an awesome paperless device, for reading eBooks, webpage articles, PDF documents and the like. Likewise, the Amazon Kindle Store offers probably the widest, relatively affordable selection of eBooks for iOS devices. Amazon has made some significant updates to its e-reader and online Kindle Store. But there are limits and challenges you need to know about.