Frank Eves’ Essential Mac OS X Apps
In August 2009, I wrote about the apps I intended to install when Mac OS X Snow Leopard was commercially available. My intention was to dramatically slim down my system. Here’s a list of the applications I’m using today. New additions: Acorn DEVONthink Pro Office ForkLift Skitch Wave Editor. Reinstated: Aperture. Still out: Adobe Creative [...]
Mac OS X 10.6 – Apps I’ll Install
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be released in the next few weeks. I enjoy playing with new things, so it’s a given that I’ll be installing it as soon as it’s available. I haven’t done a clean install since 10.3, but, for no good reason, I’m going to start fresh with 10.6. After [...]
MobileMe – My Enterprise is Me
Will Apple’s MobileMe change everything? Clearly, that’s a ridiculous question, but the announcement of MobileMe has already changed the apps I’ll be using to manage my calendars contacts and email. Background: CRM/contact/calender apps I’ve purchased for the PC (Act, FileMaker, GoldMine, Maximizer and Outlook) and Mac (Contactizer Pro, Daylite, FileMaker, Now Up to Date and [...]
Mac Contact Managers
Small business owners who have chosen to use a Mac often wonder, “What’s the best contact manager for the Mac?” The answer, obviously, is, “It depends on your needs.” I’ll describe my situation and decision, my hope is that you might find my story helpful. I’m a retired medical doctor. I run a small business [...]
Airport Extreme Network Printer
This is a brief tech note blog for my fellow Mac users. I recently connected an inexpensive monochrome laser printer (Brother HL-2070N) to one of the Ethernet (10/100 LAN) ports on my Apple Airport Extreme Base Station (802.11n – the square one). Setup was quick and easy (Two iMacs, 1 PowerBook and 1 MacBook all [...]
Coda™ is brilliant!
Have you ever watched ABC TV’s ‘Extreme Home Makeover?’ If so, were you struck by how many times the family members said, “Oh, my God!” when they viewed their new home for the first time? A company called Panic presented me with a new home, of sorts, yesterday. My home is a new Mac OS [...]
Organize Your PDFs
Have you ever asked yourself, “How can I organize all my PDFs?” Consider using Yep. On first launch, Yep locates all the PDFs on your Mac, and shows them to you in a simple iPhoto-like interface. Yep then displays your PDF documents in one place. It’s a simple, intuitive, but amazingly powerful, PDF management system. [...]
Daylite Makes Productivity Fun!
Has anyone ever engineered a computer software program just for you? It feels like Marketcircle did exactly that when they released version 3 of Daylite. Daylite fits my business needs perfectly. I’m told there are approximately 13,000,000 network marketers in North America. If we assume they all own a computer and we accept that Apple’s [...]
Mac OS X – Browsers and Bookmarks
When I last wrote about my use of web browsers and bookmarks in Mac OS X I was actively using Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari and testing Shiira. I’m no longer using OmniWeb, Opera and Shiira. Safari has become my primary browser. I use Firefox or Camino, in the increasingly rare circumstance, when I encounter [...]
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