Do you feel like you live in your email?! How many messages do you have in your inbox today? How many hours do you spend trawling through it every day? What about the messages you file in those umpteen other folders? For me, email has become a time-wrenching beast that steals my focus from productive [...]
“How can I send email to a group—from my iPad?” This is one of the important workflow questions my new client Beth asked me when I first met with her last week. She needs to send announcements to a few small groups and she would prefer to use her iPad than her Mac. Apple makes [...]
Actually, I had a really productive week! Four clients; seven billable hours; one client wants to see me more than once. I’m hoping the coming week fills in quickly. Surely there are more Mac users looking to learn new things about how to use their devices more effectively, more confidently, more happily. (Maybe I’ll hear [...]
Many of us are required to complete some kind of timesheet. Even if filling out hours on a timesheet isn’t a necessity, we may still track our time on various projects. For freelancers, this may be useful for tracking time working for a client or just building an awareness of how long a particular task [...]
How many icons are on your desktop? Do you have a special way of organizing your files? I've discussed the benefits of keeping enough free space on your computer’s storage drive. Once you’re there, how do you stay there? Apple has enabled users to avoid any semblance of organization by offering Spotlight, OS X’s system-wide [...]
A few weeks ago, I responded to a Craigslist ad asking for a Mac Genius. Thomas was on the other end looking for ongoing help with various issues that come up for him with his Mac and iPhone. The first was a major frustration with Reminders, Apple’s todo list app, and led to some research [...]
I'm grateful that no one has had reason to sue me for malpractice, like, as Adam put it this evening, “implanting the wrong knee—er, hard disk—in their Mac.” Today has been a day of surgeries nonetheless, one of them not yet complete, and I may be preparing for another one next week. Adam hired me [...]
Welcome to the first of a new series of posts about my experiences as a coach to Mac users. As I seek to build out my market and sustain myself with the pleasure of accompanying many new clients on a new journey, I have decided to share my experiences with you. Many of my entries [...]
Last week, as a my graduation gift to myself, I bought the OWC Data Doubler and solid-state drive (SSD) that have been on my wish list for a year or two. I use my Mac so much less than when I bought it, since I've offloaded much of my computing to my iPad and now [...]
Two weeks after installing OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (ML) on my Mac, it's time to share my thoughts on using it. For starters, ML has been an incredibly stable OS. Not that I experienced a lot of crashes before. I just have an impression that it's speedy and solid. However, among all its strengths [...]