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See All Available Shortcuts With CheatSheet
You may find that when watching professionals using certain pieces of software, that as well as using the mouse, they know an insane amount of shortcuts for that specific application. This is because using shortcuts speeds up your workflow incredibly, especially for commands that are executed on a regular basis. But how do you find out all of these shortcuts? Well, you could go to the MenuBar and toggle through each individual tab (where the shortcuts are displayed next to...
Stop Your Mac From Sleeping With Caffeine
Some tasks they you perform on your Mac require lengthy periods of time to finish, sometime during these tasks you leave you Mac and then come back when it should have been done, only to find out that your computer has gone to sleep and the process has to be started all over again. Caffeine for Mac is a really useful tool when using your Mac which helps to combat this problem. It is designed primarily for the Macbook in...
Master Apple’s New OS With Tutor For Lion
If you are new to using Lion, and have transitioned from either Windows, Snow Leopard or other older versions of OS X, then Tutor For Lion can really help you get to grips with the new operating system from Apple. Lion has introduced over 250 new features, and if you could name them all for me right now then I suggest you stop reading this review. But however, the chances are that you would struggle after about 10, maybe even...
Wunderlist: Task Management At Its Best
Applications for the getting things done (GTD) market have exploded these past few months, with hundreds of applications popping up for the Mac and iOS alike. However, there is yet to be an application that works so well simultaneously on both your Mac and your mobile device. That’s where we can introduce you to Wunderlist, an app that works great at keeping you organized on your Mac, and is even more efficient if you install the iOS app as-well. The...
TaskPaper: Your Mac’s Magic To-Do List
Getting things done is important, and applications that help you complete your tasks are growing considerably stronger every day, with an important array of functionalities. Finding the right one for you is hard and can take a while, a very long while if you try each and every one of them. Chances are, that while you are reading this, you are diverting your thoughts to Things from Cultured Code which is gaining quite some popularity in this category. Well, TaskPaper is...
Nottingham: Your Mac’s Elegant Notepad
When you make a note of something, you will want it to be quick and simple to write down, and also be able to find it easily later. Nottingham 2 from Click On Tyler offers both of these features making note taking on your Mac so much easier. If you are one of those people that make do with the TextEdit application that is provided with Mac OS X when wanting to save snippet off the web, make of list...
Clips for Mac Review | Clipboard Time Machine
Clips for Mac is a very useful application that will run smoothly in the background without you noticing it at all, unless you want to of course! If you have ever copied and pasted something and then gone back to paste it later, finding out you have actually copied something else in the meantime, Clips will really help you out. To begin with, rather than a boring, text-orientated interface, it boasts a great looking fullscreen visualisation of what you have...
Quick Note for Mac Review | Remember It
Quick Note for Mac is a great little utility that builds upon the features provided in the Stickies application provided with Mac OS X. There are many new features that certainly make organising and searching your noted a lot easier. The app is primarily designed for lightweight note taking and reminders. The layout is very neat, and the notes you have made sit in a handy collapsable window on the right hand side of the application. Through this window, you can...
Evernote Review | Make Useful Notes
Evernote is a true three-platform play: it works very well on desktop computers, mobile phones, and over the Web. Evernote really is a good note-taking application. If you have the Evernote application open on your camera phone, it will automatically relay your snapshots to the Evernote server, creating a useful archive of them. But the killer feature is that it also does OCR on your images so you can find them later by searching for text in them. Use this...
SelfControl Review | Time to Work
Ever wondered what you could do if you used your time more productively. Well, that is exactly what application developer Steve Lambert thought about and actually did something about. SelfControl is a brutally simple application that simply stops you from accessing any form of social media of your choice; Facebook, Mail accounts, Twitter, My Space, and any other domain or server you specify. You really have to be careful though, as I quote from the developer, “Once started, it can not...
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