I just read this book yesterday: The MacSparky Paperless Field Guide. You can find it on iTunes. It’s one of those fancy new “books” with movies and stuff. That would make it cool enough, but it also has a metric ton of handy tips for, well, going paperless, as the discerning reader has probably figured out.
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I like Day One for journaling. I’ve kept paper journals for decades, but Day One makes it so easy if you have sipped the Apple Kool-Aid…it’s journaling with the simplicity of firing off a tweet to yourself, and it syncs among my laptop, iPad, and iPhone. SWEET. The Day One blog says they’re working on
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I’m totally still procrastinating, but it’s to prepare me for work. This is actually pretty cool. I like to write in Multimarkdown, so I’ve got Byword running on my Mac, and I’m using DisplayPad to mirror my Mac’s screen on my iPad so I can have Marked running right next to me. This prevents the
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Fittingly because of my previous post, The Oatmeal included this in its State of the Web, Spring 2012. It’s true. I keep forgetting Google+ exists.
The Oatmeal (which has a spot on my super-short blogroll, please note) has been tweeting in desperation because if the heavy hand of Google falls upon your head, you’re screwed. Google Checkout suspended my account, provided no reason for the suspension, and I can’t contact support.It’s been 4 days. suggestions? — Matthew Inman (@Oatmeal) April
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I already spotted one issue with iMessage and blogged about it here: Big problem with iMessaging. That was a problem with the privacy of the texts I send. But there is more to the story, as I’ve just (highly unfortunately) figured out. There is no way to selectively block people from messaging you if you
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I’ve written a lot about streaming music services. I’m a fad follower. I can’t help it. As humuliating as it is to admit, I even bought one of those knockoff Creative Zen players to use a subscription Rhapsody service a few years ago when the concept first emerged because I just had to try an
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One reason I was stoked about iTunes Match was the idea I could have my Air anywhere and stream my music to it. I’d have my entire iTunes library with me everywhere, even without carting around my external media drive. It doesn’t work. Why? Because if you are using a laptop on which iTunes thinks
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Still haven’t missed my iMac. Actually, I’m in the process of the last 50 song uploads to iTunes Match, which should in principle free me further from any cables. About a dozen things have pissed me off about it so far, so it may go bye-bye before too long, but I’m saying in THEORY it
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Well, at least I have some fun geekery to share. I’m going to sell my iMac because I never use it. I use my Air exclusively; the iMac had become a big media server. I moved the media off of it. So I now have a crapton of media and other stuff on a 1-TB
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