MoneyWiz for Mac Review

  A long term need and interest of mine has been the availability of a comprehensive personal accounting package for the Mac. I have covered my search previously in a couple of posts reviewing all the contenders such as Money, iBank and Moneywell etc with my findings that, for my needs, Squirrel has been the read more »

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Content aware fill

You take a great shot but there is something in the image that you dont want. You could try and crop around the object or preferably you would use a content aware fill function to remove it. Of course you can use Photoshop to manipulate the image, but it is expensive and likely overkill for the needs of most users. On the Mac read more »

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Presence – the easiest way to remote access your files

Now that you have all of your important documents scanned and filed it is easy to find them via a spotlight keyword search. But what about when you are away from  home? I store copies of my files on DropBox but there is no content search option. To access a file I need to know it’s location read more »

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Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support. A great article highlighting the confusion and chaos that is Android.    

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It’s a sad, sad day – farewell Steve Jobs

            This video gives a great insight into the man that I admired so much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

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Paperless Office workflow changes

With all the great features that OSX Lion brought it seems to have broken a few of the Automator Workflows that I use. In the  process I described previously I ran a workflow that would strip the path out of a renamed PDF. I have had to change that process so that Hazel renames the read more »

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Google+

Its’s early days but the advantages Google+ has over Facebook bodes a warning for Zuckerberg. Google+ has all of the main features of Facebook but it is contains it in a nice clean interface. Its Circles feature runs rings 8-) around the sharing and privacy settings that Facebook offers. A big plus the abscence of read more »

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IOS Office Apps – Desktop Compatibility

Spent the best part of Sunday afternoon backing up and restoring a friends computer after they had managed to corrupt the Vista install (for the third time). The machine is a HP 17″ laptop with TV tuner built in. A nice piece of hardware, shame about the OS. When questioning what applications they wanted reinstalled read more »

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Email Attachment to Dropbox

Unlike Box.net and Evernote Dropbox does not currently allow you to email a files to your account. There is at least one service that providers this functionality but I prefer not to involve third parties with my data where I can avoid it. Credit must go to the person who wrote this script (can’t seem to find read more »

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Paperless Office – take 32

As a convert to the principles of a paperless office I have designed, revised and scrapped a number of attempts in my search for the perfect routine. Previously I utilised OpenMeta Tags to assist in renaming and filing of documents but ultimately I found that it was just another added process that did not return read more »

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