Clients frequently ask me to recommend products and services to support their computing experiences. To date, my short list of external displays, printers, online backup service, password manager, and others has mostly been in my head. However, I have just published the list on my website for anyone to view, with links to websites [...]
For most remote coaching and support sessions, I use Zoom (zoom.us), an excellent application that offers stable audio and video meetings with end-to-end encryption and secure screen sharing. I was an early adopter of the platform in 2013 when Google Hangouts was getting too playful and no longer serving my grad school team project [...]
Since its release in 2007, Numbers has been the more colorful, designer-friendly spreadsheet application. I have long recommended it for producing beautiful tables and appreciated its support for multiple tables on one page, something Excel has never figured out. This week, I outline one of the newest features for arranging and more easily understanding data: Categories. Smart [...]
At Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote event, the company announced macOS Catalina and that it is breaking apart iTunes into separate applications—after 18 years. This left a lot of folks in fear of losing access to this essential media application. Well, that’s not quite the case for any Mac not running Catalina nor for Windows PCs. Read on [...]
When you set up a new email account that it supports contacts and calendars, you might accept its default plan to activate these functions. Unless you intend to use them separately, such as to segregate different domains of your life/work, this can lead to overcomplexity in how you store and manage people and events. [...]
When was the last time you looked in your Downloads folder? In the last six months, I’ve met with many clients whose Downloads folders were chock full of files that had accumulated over several years. Sometimes this resulted in system slowdowns and always frustration about not having enough space. Short on storage, Julie called me [...]
Passwords. How do we remember them? Where do we store them? And do we really have to change them so often? In this post, I share some wisdom on password security. I offer tips on how to keep track of your passwords and look them up when you forget. And, I suggest some alternative approaches [...]
Last July, I wrote about discovering 2Do. The developer previewed a significant redesign of the app during the summer and announced that 2Do version 3 would launch alongside iOS 8, set for release on September 17. Also in July, I reviewed time-tracking apps including Hours, which I said I might start using. Well, I did [...]
Dashboard is a feature of OS X that Apple launched in 2004 with version 10.4 (Tiger). Dashboard appears as an overlay or a separate space and contains widgets — little apps that provide information, status, and access to various services. For example, Apple provides widgets like calendar, calculator, weather, stocks, and dictionary. Some accept input, [...]
A month ago, I wrote about tracking task time, various tools I have used, and my interest in a new app called Hours. I promised a follow up post about Hours based on my experience with it. This is that post. Shifting to Hours was easy and has made my work time much more productive. [...]
