Archives for “Lifehacks”
So, Plaxo finally decided to charge all the freeloaders by making Calendar/Contact sync part of their Pro package for about £30 a year. I’m not going to moan, its a defendable position, but I don’t want to pay for a Pro package that I’ll only use a small percentage of – the real USP for [...]
Thought I’d write a quick write up of some useful applications I’ve been using for the Mac. Music Apps BeaTunes - £12. The main feature is to creating intelligent playlists, called Matchlists, where you can highlight a favourite song, and BeaTunes finds other similar songs in your library and creates a playlist form it. You [...]
So I found a way to get my Outlook contacts from Windows into Mac Address Book, but some of the names had first/last mixed up. At first I thought this was easily solved using the built in “Swap First/Last Name’ function until I worked out this was a display thing only! I found an AppleScript [...]
Outlook doesn’t have an in-built function to export to vCard format. After a number of attempts with crippled shareware, I eventually found CSV to vCard which is a nifty online utility for converting CSV files. So in Outlook, export your contacts to a CSV open the file in Notepad copy/paste the text into the CSV [...]
I found this Kensington Contour backpack on the list. Great name – not. Sounds like a wallpaper brand. Its got good reviews on Amazon (and cheap) and the computer compartment is 11.5"L X 15.8"H X 1.9"W according to this review site, which will fit my chunky 17" laptop.
During my search for ways to send bulk email effectively I came across a company Mailchimp that have an online email marketing product, which is so simple it gives you that “why didn’t I think of that?” feeling. They have provided the design guidelines which are to help you avoid the dreaded spam filters and [...]
There’s no MS Visio for OS X, so if you need to open and work with Visio files on the Mac you’ll need a copy of OmniGraffle Pro. If like me, you tried to open a .vsd file only to find OmniGraffle can’t open them, try this free online conversion tool which will convert .vsd [...]
When sending a long URL in an email, there is a chance that the link may become truncated or malformed by the recipient’s email program – this typically happens because some email programs wrap the URL for on-screen formatting and break the link. The recipient may not be able to click the link, or the [...]
A top tip for fixing Word documents that suddenly and inexplicably bloat in size. I was working on a 1.5Mb document that suddenly expanded to 14Mb! The following tip fixed it for me, Jim: "…formatting information, much of it obsolete, is stored in the final paragraph mark of the document. When you go to the [...]
Inbox overflowing? Here’s some simple rules I’m following to reduce email clutter and get on top of things: Read emails a couple of times per day. Turn off any ‘you got mail’ notifications. Respond immediately if its a minor (< 2 minute job), and delete the email you’re responding to. If some action is required [...]
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