Task Management Apps

So I have licenses to OmniFocus, Things, and The Hit List. On a rainy Sunday, I decided I needed to finally get around to capturing all of my projects and tasks, organize and prioritize them, and otherwise get on top of my life. But which to use?
I absolutely LOVE The Hit List. But its not [...]

Booting from an External Hard Drive

So here’s something that is incredibly useful. The internal hard drive on my MacBook Air self-reported that it was failing, and asked me to make sure I had an up-to-date backup. Now that’s useful… giving me a heads up before a catastrophic loss of data. So I made sure my Time Machine backup was current, [...]

Coffee Makers

Does every coffee maker on the planet suffer from the same poor usability design? It goes something like this:

Make yourself a pot of coffee and enjoy.
Wake up the next morning to repeat the process.
Raise the lid.
Condensation the formed on the inside of the lid pours down the back of the coffee maker and onto the [...]

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Wordpress + Wufoo + Campaign Monitor

Just amazed at how quickly and inexpensively you can set up a pretty cool website these days. Cheap or free hosting, plus the free Wordpress blogging/content management platform makes for easy setup of a marketing website. Add up to 3 free forms from Wufoo using their embed code in a page or post, and you’ve [...]

2 things I don’t understand

These 2 things are not necessarily related to the primary topic of useful/usable, but what the hey? I need to put them out there. So here goes.

What exactly are the markets expecting from governments right now? The market dropped 5% on news of an $800 billion stimulus package and retooling of the balance of TARP [...]

Last Minute Macworld Predictions

I no longer write a blog focused exclusively on Apple, but I am still a huge fan, follower and customer of the fruity consumer electronics company. And though Steve Jobs is not delivering the keynote this year, I’m quite interested in what Phil Schiller will announce today. Here are some random thoughts.

Snow Leopard: This will [...]

Tweetie Worth It. At Twice the Price.

Tweetie is the latest in a long line of Twitter apps for iPhone. But its also the best. It offers a very intuitive and simple but visually appealing user interface, and a boatload of features. Scrolling is crazy fast, even faster for me on the iPhone that Twitterific on the Mac. And almost everything you [...]

I Love LittleSnapper

For years now, perhaps the most common consulting project I’ve gotten is to do an analysis of someone’s website or web-based apps, and make recommendations about how they might make them better. I’ve used a combination of SnapzPro X, iPhoto, Keynote, and the iLife Media Browser to make this process as efficient as possible. That [...]

Cruzapp a great browser for Mac

I’m using Cruz, the new web browser for Mac. Why? The BrowsaBrowsa plugin is very cool: I’ve got Ping open in the left sidebar so I can post to the social nets, and PocketTweets open in the right so I can watch the incoming stream from Twitter. Tabs still work for the main browser pane, [...]