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Click 2 Crop: the fast and easy Mac photo editor

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | How To

No carpenter or mechanic or plumber uses only a single tool to perform all their work. So it is with photo editing on your Mac. Sometimes, simple is better.

Tracking Macs for fun and profit

Friday, September 4, 2009 | How To

Your Mac has a history. Literally the only way to track a particular Mac’s heritage is through Mactracker, the little Mac utility that tracks information on every Mac model ever made. So, you want to know something about that old Mac classic sitting in the garage? Here’s how it stacks up to today’s Mac models.

Is Perfect Keylogger for the Mac perfectly ethical?

Thursday, August 20, 2009 | How To

Is Big Brother watching what you type on your Mac’s keyboard? If you work in a business that uses Macs, does your company utilize a keylogger to track what you enter on the keyboard? After trying out a few keyloggers I found Perfect Keylogger to be attractive and useful in the right situation. Is it perfectly legal and ethical?

How to cut your daily intake of spam

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | How To

I like Spam. I hate spam. Interestingly, the good kind of Spam is probably bad for you, but the bad kind of spam—email—is worse. There are more than a few ways to reduce your daily intake of spam.

The outliner for Mac users who hate outliners

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 | How To

Remember outliners? They’re built in to many word processors and help us organize our thoughts, projects, plans in a logical, straightforward way. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen anyone using an outliner on a Mac. Why? There’s a learning curve. All those indents and options get confusing. Spend a few minutes with Tree and you’ll see an outliner that’s fun to use.

How Bento Exchange helps Mac Bento users

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | How To

I used FileMaker Pro before Apple bought it back in the last century. That’s how old I am. FileMaker Pro is the little Mac database that grew up. It’s easy to use, as databases go, and runs on both Mac and Windows. Like many databases, FileMaker Pro also became complicated; so much so that FileMaker introduced a new desktop database called Bento, which only runs on the Mac and the iPhone. Now, there’s a web site which lets Bento users exchange templates with other users. Cleverly, it’s called Bento Exchange.

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