In Makalu Interactive, we use two Mac OS X applications—Daylite and Direct Mail—to manage customer relationships and communications, within a context of both client services and the selling of our own products.
The path less traveled.
In Makalu Interactive, we use two Mac OS X applications—Daylite and Direct Mail—to manage customer relationships and communications, within a context of both client services and the selling of our own products.
I’ve been having the strangest (and most annoying) problem with my Mac. Here’s the story.
I’ve been telling friends and family for years to think twice before using a Gmail or iCloud email address — or even worse, the email address provided by one’s ISP. Here’s why.
A useful script for deleting those annoying duplicate versions of apps you see when using the MacOS X Finder to “Open With…” anything other than the default application.
This article explains how I use the wonderful CrashPlan product to backup our family’s network of Mac OS X computers.
This article shows you how to use Keyboard Maestro to automatically access your Harvest timesheet report for the previous month. Enjoy!
Update — Since writing this article, I’ve switched back to OmniFocus.
When CulturedCode finally announced the public availability of their cloud-based syncing system, I decided to switch back to Things, from OmniFocus, for my task-management tool. Although I’m quite happy with the switch, there’s one killer feature that (for me) is missing from the app, which I’ll describe in this article.
If you use SpamSieve to keep your Mac’s inbox free of spam, and would like to automatically clean your corresponding spam folder, this article shows you how.
This article describes how I use the SpamSieve product for Mac OS X to provide server-side spam filtering.
I’m a first-time e-book self-publisher, and have a problem I need some help with. My source content is in a Pages document, on the Macintosh.…
After upgrading to a 2012 11″ MacBook Air, I discovered that it’s not possible to encrypt the 500GB G-Drives I had purchased to serve as bootable backups.
For future reference, I noted the issues I ran into while migrating from a 2011 to 2012 MacBook Air.
Use Keyboard Maestro to help remind you to turn on your time tracker.
Notes I took while reading an interview with Notational Velocity’s, author, Zachary Schneirov.
I would have never imagined, but this article about batch processing videos with HandBrake is one of the most popular on my blog.
This post is about a critical problem that I’m having with MarketCircle’s Daylite product, and is mainly written for Google, so that other people who…
Marketing and advertising have long been important ingredients in the success of commercial products. What has accelerated those industries forward over the decades has been…
Although it was signed by @stop, this post to the Twitter blog wasn’t written by the same Doug Bowman that’s been writing over at stopdesign.com…
This article discusses my use of Hazel on my home MacOS X server to make network transfers to my Drobo archive much faster, taking full use of my gigabit network.
I really enjoyed watching this video of Paul Graham at the 2009 Business of Software conference, in which he discusses 21 future trends he believes…
As a consequence of the nightmare I’ve had with Vodafone trying to contract an iPad data plan, I happened to discover a more attractive alternative…
Yesterday, the SSD startup drive in my OS X MacBook became extensively corrupted, such that the computer would no longer boot from it. The process of recovering and repairing the drive revealed a number of important lessons related to recovery preparedness.
Varied reasons for following people on Twitter (including sheer imprudence) has resulted in a stream disproportionately populated with tweets from people that I’m either not…
Having long switched to better solutions — e.g. Dropbox and Backblaze — I’d kept my JungleDisk account around because, uh… well, I’m not really sure anymore. Anyway, that’s besides the point. This morning, I logged into the JungleDisk billing interface to change my billing method from one AMEX card to another AMEX card. Simple enough, right? Wrong.
This morning I tried to connect from my MacBook to another Mac using OS X’s Screen Sharing application, and ended up staring at an unsuccessful connection window, that couldn’t be canceled. Skitch, the screenshot capture, annotation and upload tool, unexpectedly solved the problem.
