Time Machine

For some time I have been doing my backups manually. You can see in an earlier blog post how I did that using Automator. Now that external USB drives are so cheap, I have been meaning to invest in Time Machine or a Time Capsule for a couple of months. I really like the idea [...]

EasyTask

I abandoned Things before its full release in January 2009. I had begun comparing it to EasyTask and switched to the latter. They are very similar in many ways (both use the GTD principle) and I couldn’t say that there was a major thing that EasyTask did better than Things. It was a bunch of little things.
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Things

My quest is continually on for a good Organizational tool. For a while I have been using iGTD, a variation on the Getting Things Done  methodology developed by David Allen. It is a great to-do list organizer and I found it very useful but I have been looking for more of a to-do, notes and general [...]

CopyWrite and NeoOffice

Have I blogged about CopyWrite before? I used to use it for all my novel writing. It is a neat piece of software that allows you to focus on your writing rather than the distractions of your desktop. Typically you turn it into full-screen mode, where all you see is your page, and your words [...]

iLife ‘08 & Apple Store

A couple of weeks ago I made my first pilgrimage to my local Apple Store. What a fantastic experience. They really know how to make shopping fun and futuristic, right down to their “Genius Bar” help desk, and portable scanners that the staff use instead of regular POS tills.
After drooling over the Mac Air and [...]

iGTD

I’ve been using iGTD for a long time now, and it has become one of my staple, daily apps. GTD, or Getting Things Done, is the famous and very useful methodology by David Allen, for managing day to day tasks and lists, an excellent means of time management. I’ve always found the use of lists [...]

Leopard issues

I think I have mentioned before of my problem with Spaces under Leopard. To be honest I haven’t retried it since the latest patches. I must remember to do that.
There are two other applications that don’t work for me under Leopard. For my backups I was using Data Backup. It stopped working, refusing to recognize network [...]

Other folks switching to the Mac

I’ve added a couple of entries to my blogroll. (bottom-right) These folks are also running  blogs about switching from Windows to Mac, so you might want to compare their comments to mine. Thanks Kadey and Dave. 

Leopard

It’s probably about time I wrote a few words about Leopard. I bought it within a week of it coming out, after having run it at work within a couple of days of release. I am definitely enjoying it immensely. Most of the changes are subtle since I don’t use Time Machine, but I am [...]

Quicken

A couple of weeks ago I moved my finances from Microsoft Money on my XP machine to Quicken for Mac. This was almost the last step in my migration to the Mac. The only thing I really use on the Windows machine now is Stamps.com, who unfortunately have no plans for a Mac client. So [...]