I recently had the pleasure to sit down with David Allen, Merlin Mann, and Eric Mack in the studio to record a panel discussion on technology and productivity. If you’re signed up to GTD® Connect, you can hear the complete discussion wherein we touch on a very wide range of topics sure to delight GTD …
GTD is a workflow methodology that has basically gotten me to where I am today profesionally. So, naturally, I have a keen investment in supporting the Mac community in implementing GTD. I also happen to work for the inventor of GTD. Thanks to David for blogging about this, and for giving me the opportunity to …
Using the free Gnu Privacy Guard and a USB thumb drive (which are often given away in promotionals and should be available for under $10 in small storage capacities), you can implement a strong (AES) encryption system to protect sensitive files on your computer. The process divides the means to decrypting sensitive data into three …
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Net_Monitor now supports the latest release of Net_Growl (announced yesterday). Growl is an attractive global notification and alert system for OS X. Versions 0.7 and above support remote messaging via UDP, which makes this yet another useful way to receive alerts from the Net_Monitor package about the status of many common services it can monitor. …
Sometimes, the little things in life can be so rewarding. Like not having to toggle between applications to skip a song in my playlist. I wrote three lines of AppleScript: tell application “iTunes” next track end tell compiled them as an application called ‘skip’, and popped them in my Applications folder. After a catalog refresh, …
If you’ve been wondering, like me, when podcasting would hit mainstream, today was definitely a milestone in that direction. Apple announced tight integration with podcasts in their latest (free!) version of iTunes. This means no more third-party software import-into-iTunes hassle. This could be just the boost to make podcasting a truly household word, rather than …
