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Duplicated text with Notational Velocity and SimplenoteI use Simplenote pretty much every day. I add text to these notes in Notational Velocity maybe once a week. I love both programs. However… I get text repeating in Simplenote, often when using it when I’m on 3G. You can see the way the sentence “Listen…” below gets duplicated… What’s WORSE is this: you’ll... [Read more of this article]
Snapheal review: remove objects or people from an image
I recently reviewed an application for the Mac called Inpaint which helps you to clean up images by removing unwanted objects. Today I’m going to show you a very similar, but more sophisticated application for the Mac, called Snapheal. Here’s a video I created to show you what it can do… In this second video I show a number of photos... [Read more of this article]
Alfred for super fast application launching
Would you like to speed up the way you use your Mac? Alfred really helps – and the ‘standard’ version is free!! Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. What’s extra great is that Alfred learns which apps you use often and prioritises them when... [Read more of this article]
Review: Air Display for iPad: more screen real estate
Do you wish you had a bigger screen? Or are you debating whether to get an 11-inch, 13-inch, 15-inch or 17-inch MacBook? You may want to consider getting an iPad 2, if you haven’t already got one, and the low-cost Air Display app. This app enables you to site the iPad 1 or 2 to the right or left of your MacBook (or PC laptop for that matter) –... [Read more of this article]
How to choose a MacBook
I wrote the text below for a friend who wanted to upgrade his ageing MacBook, but wasn’t sure which of the new models to get… MacBook Air 11-inch. 64gb storage, 2gb of RAM. £849. This is a basic model. I don’t think you can do much with 64gb of flash storage. And 2gb of RAM isn’t enough if you plan to open a few apps at once. MacBook... [Read more of this article]
Review: Day One diary app for Mac, iPhone and iPad
I love buying software for my Mac and iOS devices. What keeps me buying is often noticing I have a problem, and wanting to fix that. I have kept a digital daily journal for about 12 years. I have typed more than 300,000 words, mostly detailing the things I did each day. I started entering text into a Palm device which slotted into a folding keyboard,... [Read more of this article]
Dragon Dictate review: speech recognition from Nuance for Mac
I’m using version 2.5.2 of Dragon Dictate for Mac with a Plantronics noise cancelling headset I bought from ebay. My MacBook Pro is new as of June 2011, has 8gb of RAM and a 512gig solid state drive. It has a 2.3Ghz i7 processor. So it’s very fast. Dragon Dictate’s speech recognition is excellent. Really excellent. However… there... [Read more of this article]
MacSpeech Scribe review: transcribe audio files with your Mac
MacSpeech Scribe is a companion application to Dragon Dictate from Nuance. Dragon Dictate only transcribes live audio. You cannot ask it to transcribe from an audio file like you can on Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. So if you have a device like an Olympus digital recorder and you want to dictate onto that and have it transcribed,... [Read more of this article]
How to send bulk emails on a Mac
[Very early first draft, written Tuesday, October 04, 2011] Do you have a list of people you’d like to send a personalised email to? Would you like to send an email and be able to find out if the recipient ever opened the email and, if so, on what day and time? Would you like to send an email to a friend or colleague with a link to a page on the... [Read more of this article]
Create a list of file names from a folder on your Mac
Would you like to generate a text file listing all the files in a folder or series of folders on your Mac? There are 2 ways I know to do this… 1. Using a free program called Text Wrangler 2. Using an AppleScript. The second option is the easiest… Open your Applications folder. Open the Utilities folder. Launch the AppleScript Editor application. Paste... [Read more of this article]
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