Productivity Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Adobe drops Creative Suite subscriptions to prepare for Creative Cloud

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 13th, 2012)

As of Thursday, Adobe has dropped sales of suite edition subscriptions to prepare for the upcoming Adobe Creative Cloud service. Subscriptions to the individual applications remain available. Those interested in subscribing to a suite edition must purchase the software instead. Adobe quietly ...

Daily Mac App: Fluid

by TJ Luoma (Jan 6th, 2012)

Fluid lets you create an "app" out of a website. If you use one specific website all the time, this alone is very handy. For example, if you wanted a browser specifically for Gmail, you could make one using Fluid and set its own icon, download directory, and other settings. Or maybe you heard ...

Daily Mac App: Tab Launcher

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 3rd, 2012)

For many people, it's kind of pointless to go searching for a Dock replacement. The Dock itself is one of the most attractive features of OS X and is actually one of the things that lured me into adopting Macs at home seven years ago. But when you have a smaller screen to work with, especially on ...

Polls re-opened for voting: Best iPad productivity app of 2011

by Steven Sande (Jan 2nd, 2012)

There's a saying that "to err is human -- to really screw up, you need a computer." Well, put a human and a computer together and you're likely to have a real problem. Sure enough, nobody caught the fact that we left the voting poll off of the post for the Best iPad productivity app of 2011, so we ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for your favorite iPad productivity app

by Steven Sande (Dec 31st, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Nominate your favorite iPad productivity app for TUAW's Best of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 28th, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

Dropbox is the top iPhone productivity app in TUAW Best of 2011 voting

by Steven Sande (Dec 25th, 2011)

Merry Christmas! Although today is officially a holiday and we're all spending time with our families and friends, the voting elves at TUAW have been working hard to continue the coverage of our TUAW Best of 2011 awards. Today's winner is an app and service that should be on everyone's ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone productivity app

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2011)

Doodle adds iCal connector for cloud scheduling

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 19th, 2011)

Mac users of the cloud-based scheduling service Doodle will be happy to learn that the company has released a beta of its iCal Connector software for Mac. Doodle is a service that lets users send out potential meeting dates to friends or clients. Those recipients see a poll with the meeting ...

Best of 2011 nominations: iPhone productivity apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 18th, 2011)

Get productive for less with the ProductiveMacs bundle

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 14th, 2011)

It's a great time of the year to find software deals. Yesterday we mentioned the MacUpdate bundle, and today we're looking at the ProductiveMacs bundle, featuring (as you'd expect) a bunch of stellar productivity apps. Included in the bundle are some of my personal favorites, like Default ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best Mac productivity app

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2011)

Best of 2011 Nominations: Mac productivity apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 8th, 2011)

Daily Mac App: Quick File Renamer

by Samuel Gibbs (Dec 2nd, 2011)

Bulk renaming files can be a time consuming pain without the right tool. If it's a problem you face often, you've probably already got a favorite batch-renaming app residing on your Mac, but if not, Quick File Renamer might be a good place to start. It has a user-friendly interface with ...

Daily Mac App: Memo

by Samuel Gibbs (Nov 30th, 2011)

I've written about quite a few note-taking apps in my pursuit of the best one. Most shy away from the Post-It note paradigm because OS X comes with Stickies, a pretty decent representation of the repositionable note, but Memo takes it head-on. Memo is basically Stickies with iCloud and ...