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My Dream App voting round 2



The second round of voting is under way over at My Dream App. Vote and let your voice be heard! Plus, when you vote you get a free copy of Mori, Hog Bay Software's document organizer.

This round's judges are the cream of the crop of Mac bloggers including John Siracusa of Ars Technica, John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. Oh, and somehow yours truly got invited to be a judge. Go check out the apps and vote for your favorite.

My favorite idea so far? Blossom, I've never seen an app like it and I sure hope it gets some votes.

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Tips and tricks

43 Folders rounds up best iCal tips

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders may be "shaking [his] hammy fist in impotent rage at iCal's numerous shortcomings," but he's still a devout user and has rounded up some of the best iCal-related tips to come across 43F to prove it.

A couple of the tips, of course, center around that GTD (Getting Things Done) working philosophy that's such a hit in the nerd circles of the internets these days, but a couple others offer simple tricks for naming events and organizing tasks in more useful and creative ways, sans-GTD. If you've been looking for a little extra oompf in your scheduling workflow but aren't quite down for the full-blown systems and apps that are available, these tips might open some productivity doors for you.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software

43 Folders on timing apps

Are you an alpha geek? Do you need to schedule every activity on your Mac with military precision? Well then, Merlin Mann is probably some sort of god to you. Therefore it stands to reason that you would be interested in his take on Meridian and Flextime which are two timing applications.

I am not nearly driven enough to use either of these apps, I just don't have the time (that's a joke, son).

Filed under: Software

5 Quicksilver triggers from 43 Folders

I will not rest until every OS X user has downloaded and installed Quicksilver. Sadly, Quicksilver is a bit like a mule with a spinning wheel; no one knows how he got it, and he doesn't know what to do with it.

If you would like some real world examples of Quicksilver's trigger feature (remember the trigger tutorial we wrote about earlier) then 43 Folders has the post for you.

Tip of the Day

Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.


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