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Accessories

Waferbaby looks at Mac setups

January 23, 2009

I love reading about how other people work: what software they use, what hardware they use, their office setups, how they go mobile, etc.

One of my favorite features is Workspace of the Week over at Unclutterer. I’ve found several tips reading this feature.

Now comes a round of interviews by Daniel Bogan at waferbaby.com called The [...]

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Choosing a back-up battery for your iPhone

January 23, 2009

A colleague of mine was sporting a Richard Solo backup battery for his iPhone yesterday. After listening to him rave about it, I was set to buy one.

Then this morning, before I headed to the Solo website, an article from Cult of Mac popped up in my RSS feeds featuring a new backup battery that [...]

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TweetDeck gets the nod over Twhirl and Twitterific, for now…

January 22, 2009

There is no “best” Twitter application, this I’ve decided. It seems that of the three I use, one has a feature I long for when not using it.

Twitterific

Twitterific is simple, straight forward, I can post from NetNewsWire and it has awesome keyboard shortcuts. Plus, the icon is the best of any of them, for what [...]

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Mail Act-On 2: Going back to an old favorite

January 22, 2009

Before I started using Google Apps for Your Domain, I was a power user of MailTags and Mail Act-On, both apps developed by indev.

Not too long after moving to a Google-based system, I abandoned MailTags, which is a terrific app. At the same time, I stopped using Act-On as much. When I switched over to [...]

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ScanSnap cousins: The S300M vs. S510M

January 21, 2009

I’m in the market for a scanner that will serve one purpose: Transform paper files into pdf’s. That’s it.

At one of my newspaper stops, I used the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M, which is the standard-bearer of pdf scanners for Macs. It’s where I was headed, until I stumbled across the S300M model.

What holds me back from [...]

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Adium does Facebook chat well

January 19, 2009

I’ve never been a power user of either iChat or Adium. I use both from time to time, and I favor iChat for their interface. But Adium has some useful features that iChat would do well to duplicate.

One of those is being able to use Adium for Facebook chat. Truth be told, most of the [...]

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