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Mac tips – Turn off your Mac’s startup sound

11, Jul 2007

Ever since I bought my sweet white Mac Book, it’s existence has been threatened by a minor yet annoying little thing: the startup sound.
While the startup chime doesn’t bother me a bit, it drives my girlfriend mad, and her threats of throwing the damn thing away have been getting more and more frequent. As [...]

Can the iPhone get YOUR things done?

5, Jul 2007

Hack the Day is probably the only blog never to have talked about the iPhone. I decided to change this now that the iPhone has launched. Everyone is claiming that it will make their lives more complete and more productive, two justified reasons to pay the price.
But is the iPhone the ultimate productivity tool, [...]

Beginner’s guide to Apple Terminal, part 2

12, Jun 2007

In the previous article in the series you learned what Terminal.app is, what it does, how to start it and a couple of basic tasks to do with it(move around folders – the cd command, look what’s inside folders – the ls command, opening up files – the open command and how to remove files [...]

Beginner’s guide to Apple Terminal, part 1

7, Jun 2007

Let’s be honest – Apple has gained a lot in market share last year, so there are plenty of former Windows users who just switched to the Mac. This tutorial is for those new switchers who never had the courage to open up Terminal, OSX’s most underrated power-tool. This tutorial is not for the [...]

Power Tools – introduction to Application Software Launchers

30, May 2007

You want to get more productive in your computer usage? In today’s lesson, we’re introducing you to a power-user time-saving trick.
First, here’s the context: I’ve seen lots of people for whom simple computer taks such as launching Word, Firefox or Outlook take at least half a minute. Most of the time is spent with: minimizing [...]

Turn your Desktop into a Productivity tool

25, May 2007

Like most knowledge workers you probably spend more time in front of my computer than in the living room (that is if you’re not a work-from-home freelancer as I am – in this case you spend ALL of your time in front of your computer… ). Cleaning up your desktop becomes even more [...]

Read blogs faster on Mac OSX with Summarize

23, May 2007

Do you waste too much time reading your daily blogs? Or perhaps you want to read an article, but it’s too damn huge.
Maybe now is the time to try something else.
For all you Mac users out there, here’s a tip about a very underrated and widely unknown Mac OSX feature: the Summarize service.
If you browse [...]


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