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02.26.10 - iPhone Productivity App Picks: RemoteTap.
There are now a number of apps available for the iPhone that allow you to remotely access your Mac. My favorite of these is RemoteTap, for its ease of use, great set of features, and developer responsiveness. [Read more on Peachpit.com...]
02.25.10 - iPhone Productivity App Picks: Pastebot.
Text clippings are an important part of my daily iPhone workflow, allowing me to quickly provide detailed common responses to emails while on the go, maintain multiple email signatures, keep track of important phone call notes, and more. Recently, I discovered Pastebot, a handy iPhone clipboard manager that has made a tremendous difference in my iPhone clipping workflow. [Read more on Peachpit.com...]
02.24.10 - iPhone Productivity App Picks: 2Do.
For some time now, I've been searching for a ToDo manager that fit my unique workflow. The key requirements were that I wanted something simple, which allowed me to manage multiple categories of ToDos, and could be integrated with iCal, Mail, and my iPhone. Recently, I found 2Do, a handy app that, so far, seems to fit my needs quite well. [Read more on Peachpit.com...]
02.23.10 - iPhone Productivity App Picks: 1Password.
One reason I love my iPhone is that it has significantly reduced the amount of "stuff" I have to carry with me wherever I go. Sadly, my iPhone can't replace my credit cards, ATM card, and driver's license. Well, not yet, anyway. However, with the help of 1Password, it can help to reduce the thickness of my wallet. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
02.22.10 - iPhone Productivity App Picks: Grocery IQ.
Today’s pick is Grocery IQ, a shopping list app from Coupons Inc. It’s not just your run-of-the-mill shopping list, though. It’s a shopping assistant, and it has changed the way my wife and I shop for groceries. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.11.09 - Automator Services: Preview Selected URL.
If you're a user of Mac OS X Mail, then you may know that you can use Quick Look to preview image attachments in a message. To do so, just select an image attachment in a message and press the spacebar, press Command+Y, or click Quick Look at the top of the message. For today's Automator Service workflow tip, we'll take this concept a bit further, by creating a way for you to quickly preview URLs in Mail messages, TextEdit documents, and more, without the need to open Safari. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.10.09 - Automator Services: Merge Selected PDFs.
Today's Automator Service workflow tip involves something that I do fairly frequently, merging multiple PDF files together. Fortunately, with Automator Service workflows in Snow Leopard, this is now much easier for me than it used to be. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.09.09 - Automator for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Working with Actions.
To do anything truly useful, you need to add actions to your workflow, and you need to configure those actions to do what you want. The techniques you learn in this chapter will apply to working with virtually any action within an Automator workflow. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.09.09 - Automator Services: Apply Filter to Selected Images.
If you’ve used Automator before, then you may know that it includes actions for performing basic image manipulation tasks, such as cropping and resizing. Today’s workflow uses one of these built-in actions to apply a filter to selected image files in the Mac OS X Finder. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.08.09 - Automator Services: Merge Selected Images as PDF.
Today's Automator Service workflow tip involves image files. This workflow will receive selected image files in the Finder, and merge them together to form a multi-page PDF document. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
