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Tracking Time For Fun And Profit On Your Mac 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
As a former student athlete I often heard the phrase, ‘Performance measured is performance improved.’ The idea seems to be that if you know how you’re doing, and it’s measurable, you can work toward i...
Calculate With Text: The Most Amazing Mac Calculator Ever 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The master of the checkbook at the O’Brien estate is yours truly. I track the money that comes in, and I track where it went. Any one of a dozen Mac money management apps can do that for you and you w...
This Is The Better Way To Take And Manage Notes On A Mac 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Allow me the privilege of generalizing for effect. Everybody does notes. Whether it’s Post-It notes, or Stickies, or the Notes app in OS X and iOs, we all jot down little snippets of information to sa...
Dump Quicken For A Better Way To Manage Your Money On A Mac 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
My Mac has been home to Quicken for Mac for many years, and despite Intuit’s dismissal of the Mac as a viable platform earlier this century, I stuck it out with various versions, fixes, workarounds, a...
The Perfect Mac App For Bad Weather Junkies Does Level 3 Radar 8 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
We O’Brien folks are weather junkies. As life long Chicagoland residents we’ve learned to take the good weather with the bad, though there seems to be more of the latter than the former these days. Ou...
Try Minutes, The Multi-colored, Multi-timer Egg Timer For The Mac 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
When it comes to managing little tasks and projects while I’m slaving over my Mac’s hot keyboard, I try to keep it simple. Instead of running a full featured Mac task and project management app, I fin...
I’m A Snob Because I Don’t Want A Cheap iPhone 2 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Let’s pretend that you own a high end automobile, let’s say a Cadillac. It’s both luxurious and high performance. What happens to both the Cadillac brand and your own personal prestige as a Cadillac o...
The Easiest Way Ever To Clean Up Email On A Mac Is Free 30 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
What’s the killer app for the internet user? Browser? Calendar? Contacts? Skype? Nope. It’s email. And by killer app I mean it’s the app that could end up killing us all with frustration, anger, and w...
How To Protect Your Mac’s Online Privacy With A Cookie 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
After hearing about Apple’s developer site being hacked and down for a week I’m beginning to have second thoughts about security and privacy. Something needs to be done. This is where I’m starting, so...
Scapple: It’s A New Way To Think By Using Your Mac’s Screen 24 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
My husband taught me how to think. No, I’m not a ditzy blonde Valley girl who needs a man in order to think (I’m from Chicago; I can hold my own). My husband, the poster boy for geeky engineers, uses ...
