OS X: Switching Bluetooth on and off from the keyboard
Ever since Alex pointed me to Keyboard Maestro, I’ve been thinking up new ways to use it to shave a few seconds – or minutes – off repetitive, mundane tasks. The latest: switching Bluetooth on and off from the keyboard.
Traversing the Mailbox Hierarchy: the lost journals
Recently, a team of skilled Internet (small-e) explorers set out to find some trace of well-known adventurer, bon vivant and conversationalist Mail.app. After chasing down several false leads (one of which ended with a grisly discovery: the frozen, lifeless body of Eudora for Mac OS X Lion), they found this tattered journal, buried under a simple cairn of stacked BCC messages.
Focus, please: a plea to Apple to fix an OS X productivity sinkhole
Dear Apple, There’s a long list of things I love about OS X. In so many ways, your engineers, designers and usability geniuses have anticipated my needs – even those I didn’t know I had. But there’s one area where OS X is driving me absolutely...NetworkLocation rocks… and so does their support
Some applications are revolutionary, changing the way you do your work (or making entirely new kinds of work possible). Then there are the smaller, less-celebrated applications that just make life a little bit easier. And the thing about them is, when the part of life...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
