Daylite is ready for Snow Leopard… almost. Marketcircle, the makers of Daylite, ran into one little bug several days before Snow Leopard’s release (Friday, August 28th). They have a beta version (3.9.4beta) that addresses this bug, and have made the beta available to the public. It is, of course, a beat, and that means they haven’t stamped it with a final seal of approval, but they wouldn’t have posted it if they weren’t confident in it. They have information and downloads at the link.
I’ll be downloading and testing the beta with Snow Leopard on release day, and I’ll let you know how it goes.
Posted on August 27, 2009 by douglas , Posted in Blog, Hot Tips, News ,
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I always look for ways to operate my business in green and responsible ways. I forgo using a car, and take public transportation instead. I encourage using PDFs instead of printing out paper, and send PDF invoices. I encourage clients to take advantage of remote screen sharing for training and troubleshooting. But for people like myself, and environmentally conscious clients, what remains a big problem is the build up of tech trash: old computers, obsolete printers, extra/unused cables, depleted batteries of various types, etc. Although Macs tend to have a much longer useful lifespan than Windows PCs, they too eventually wear out, become obsolete, and are replaced with newer, shinier models. So how do we deal with all this stuff?
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Posted on July 29, 2009 by douglas , Posted in Blog, Hot Tips ,
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Adobe pioneered the use of the PDF on personal computers, and while the PDF popular, and all over the internet, many people think they need to use Adobes tools, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader to interact with them. While that used to be the case in Mac OS 9 days, Mac OS X has made native use of PDFs since its beginning six years ago. Today, the built-in tools in OS X for creating and manipulating PDFs go way beyond what most users would ever need to do.
Enter Preview.app, a free program by Apple included on every install of Mac OS X. Located in your Applications folder, Preview can do much more than merely display a PDF. It can re-arrange pages, merge two or more DPFs together, add highlights and notes, crop, and save a other formats (jpeg, etc).
For more info, watch my brief screencast showing the power of Preview.app.
Posted on January 17, 2009 by douglas , Posted in Blog, Hot Tips ,
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Time Machine, Mac OS X Leopard’s built-in backup software is great when it works, and it usually does just fine. However, it has a bad habit of occasionally alerting the user that it didn’t work, with something like this:
While annoying, 99% of the time its nothing to worry about. To check, just go to your menu bar, click on the Time Machine icon…
If it shows that the latest backup was within the last hour, then you know that every is working fine. Why does this happen? Sometimes there’s a small file or two that is busy when Time Machine runs, and it throws up this error. But the next time Time Machine runs, these files can be copied, and and the backup goes ahead. The alert box, however, still hangs around, cuasing confusion. I think this is a Time Machine interface bug that I hope will be fixed or changed in future version of OS X. For now, now that you know how, you can safely ignore it.
Posted on January 17, 2009 by douglas , Posted in Blog, Hot Tips ,
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A little while ago, I was asked how to send a reply from an email note in Daylite. At the time, I didn’t think you could do it, other than starting a new email message in Mail, and copying & pasting the subject and text. But I just learned you can…
- In Daylite, find an email note.
- Right click, or Control-click on the note, and choose “Email Selected Note“,
- or choose Action -> “Email Selected Note” from the menu.
That’s pretty cool.
Posted on January 17, 2009 by douglas , Posted in Blog, Hot Tips ,
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