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Address Book Power Tips

Posted 09/15/2009 at 11:58am | by jamor

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Apple’s Address Book is a central part of the Mac experience. It’s integrated with Mail, iCal, iChat, Safari, Fax, Dashboard, and Spotlight. It synchronizes to MobileMe, iPhone, iPod, and a wide variety of third-party software and hardware.

Yet for such an essential tool, it’s curious that Apple has kept Address Book so bare-bones basic. At first glance, there’s not much power to eke out of Address Book, but we’ve collected a few handy tips to help you squeeze some extra functionality out of this vital application.

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Digitize Your Mental Notes with Evernote

Posted 09/02/2009 at 4:29pm | by Susie Ochs

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What do you do when you come across some info you want to remember? If it’s a webpage maybe you bookmark it; if it’s an email or a file, you might stick it in a folder called “Important!” Evernote is a super-useful service that comprises a Web-based application, a free Mac desktop app, and even an iPhone app, all kept effortlessly synced. And it’s ready to store all your digital info--receipts, serial numbers, snippets of code, articles, photos, PDFs, audio files, recipes, you name it--with handy tagging, indexing, and searching features so you can actually find it all later. We’ll walk you through setting up Evernote, then encourage you to tinker around and discover how it fits into your personal workflow.

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5 Online Storage Services -- Which is Best for Keeping YOUR Data Safe?

Posted 07/21/2009 at 5:37pm | by Susie Ochs

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Choose the right virtual warehouse for your data with our hands-on tests of five online back up services.

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SpiderOak

Posted 07/15/2009 at 12:50pm | by Susie Ochs

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SpiderOak is flexible enough to back up anything, to share files easily with your friends, and to sync files between Mac, Windows, and Linux machines. It installs as an actual application, but it’s Flash-based, so if you use it on two or more platforms, the experience will be the same.

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Dropbox

Posted 07/15/2009 at 12:27pm | by Susie Ochs

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Dropbox is the mayor of Sync Town, working like iDisk but more reliably. And since anyone can have a 2GB account for free, there’s no reason not to try it out. Paid accounts are $50 a year for 50GB of storage and $100 a year for 100GB, so you might decide not to back up your entire hard drive. But the sync and sharing services are the whole point.

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Carbonite

Posted 07/15/2009 at 11:56am | by Susie Ochs

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Similar to Backblaze, Carbonite lives in your System Preferences, with an icon in the menubar for checking backup status, pausing a backup for 24 hours, or launching the System Preference. By default, Carbonite backs up your whole hard drive (excluding applications, operating system files, and temporary files, just like the other services reviewed here), but the file browser is clear and easy to understand, making it a snap to assemble a custom backup set.

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Backblaze

Posted 07/15/2009 at 11:22am | by Susie Ochs

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Set-it-and-forget-it Backblaze really wants to back up your entire hard drive, although you can exclude anything you want.

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FileMaker Pro 10

Posted 07/09/2009 at 8:11am | by Zack Stern

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FileMaker Pro can organize any data in your home or work life: mailinglists, DVD collections, expense reports, personal budgets, and more.Since it scales up to business users, home users can be challenged byits slightly obtuse—although improved—interface. Thankfully, tutorialsand more than 40 templates introduce the essential features; with justa little persistence, you can build complicated databases thatautomatically relate and organize data.

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Flying Meat VoodooPad Pro

Posted 07/07/2009 at 9:01am | by Ray Aguilera

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VoodooPad Pro is one of those apps that takes a while to grow on you. When you open up a new document for the first time, VoodooPad looks kind of like a TextEdit window—in other words, plain and devoid of excess features. But if you’re the kind of person who needs to capture information and ideas as they happen, before they disappear into the ether—writers, students, compulsive list-makers, listen up—VoodooPad quickly becomes a valuable tool for recording all the awesome band names, Wi-Fi passwords, haiku, class notes, important telephone numbers, and ideas for your novel that pass between your ears every day.

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OmniOutliner 3 Pro

Posted 07/03/2009 at 6:05am | by Zack Stern

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We’re constantly collecting scraps of information: recipes, website addresses, notes for a meeting next week, or a list of music to buy. OmniOutliner store these bits, but it’s especially useful in organizing them for further action. It quickly turns out to-do lists, writing outlines, and other guides. The results are valuable enough to justify adding OmniOutliner to your Applications folder even though much of its functionality is redundant with any text editor.

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