mac

I just want to point out two little utilities that have been making my life much easier for the past week or two.

Window management on the Mac has always been less than perfect: the maximize button never quite does, and on apps like iTunes, it does something else entirely like switch to the mini mode. Read more »

I've always been the kind of person that has two or three todo lists going at once. If it doesn't get written down, it doesn't happen. And if I lose a todo list, a whole bunch of things don't happen.

This makes me the perfect candidate for any one of the GTD-style task management apps that have been bandied about lately. I've used both OmniFocus and Things quite extensively, and hopefully this will help other people figure out which one is right for them. Read more »

At some point in our lives - let's call it "college" - many of us downloaded illegal copies of software because we didn't have the money to purchase it, or because we needed the money for something else - let's call it "beer." Not that I would do such a thing, of course.

Now that I'm not flat broke, I'm more willing to pay for well-designed software that I find useful, and much less likely to spend a lot of time trying to find and figure out flaky free alternatives, or consider "other" means of acquisition. Read more »