Allison Sheridan presents several methods to use your Mac faster and more efficiently to get the most out of it at the Macstock VIII Conference held in Crystal Lake, IL. Using a Screen Reader? click here
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Mactstock 2024: Mac Tiny Tips Workshop
Allison Sheridan presents several Tiny Tips to help improve your productivity using a Mac at the Macstock VIII Conference held in Crystal Lake, IL. Using a Screen Reader? click here
Continue readingI’m Finally Sold on Yoink Because of Stage Manager
Way back in 2017, in an episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond where Bart walked us through some interesting apps he uses, he explained how valuable the app Yoink from Eternal Storms Software is to him. The elevator speech for Yoink is it’s a little shelf where you can drag things on your Mac, […]
Continue readingTodoist Saved My Productivity – by Jill from the Northwoods
This is Jill from the Northwoods. I’ve looked for a task manager for a long time. I have tried everything: pen and paper, the Franklin Planner, and all the different ways that you can keep track of tasks. I’ve tried the apps offered by Microsoft and some other apps out there. Nothing quite did it […]
Continue readingCCATP #673 – Lindsay Tondee on Working from Home
Lindsay Tondee, Senior Manager in Quality Assurance at a global pharmaceutical company, joins us to talk about whether it’s a good or a bad thing that companies are thinking about having their workforce continue to work from home indefinitely. I originally thought this would be a great thing because we’ll have fewer cars on the […]
Continue readingCCATP #664 – Tom Merritt on Time Management
This week’s guest is Tom Merritt, prolific podcaster, author, and lover of dogs. I asked Tom to come on the show to explain how on earth he does as much as he does. We walk through all of his podcasts, what he has to do to prepare for them, and how he makes the time […]
Continue readingCCATP #618 – Adam Engst on Success of Macs at IBM
Adam Engst, veteran author of TidBITS for the last 29 years, inventor of Internet advertising and someone who dresses appropriately for the weather joins us for this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. Adam explains the fascinating results that IBM has reported since they first decided to give their employees the choice of whether […]
Continue readingGoodTask 3 Task Manager for iOS and macOS
When it comes to task management apps on Apple platforms, there has long been a gold standard in the Omni Group’s OmniFocus. I’ve been invested in OmniFocus for over three years now and admire the fit and polish of the product, but I’m at a point in my life where its complexity is now overkill […]
Continue readingNC #690 Sweet Setup Love for Keep It and Useful Workflow, Drobo Migration, Mind Map Productivity, Security Bits
The Sweet Setup shows some love for Keep It and has a fantastic Workflow to add an iPhone X frame to screenshots. I’ll tell you about the (disappointing but ultimately successful) Great Drobo Migration of 2018. I promised the audio from my talk at Macstock Expo entitled “Mind Map Your Way to Productivity” and it’s […]
Continue readingMacstock Expo 2018 – Stuff I Learned
As much as I learned from talking to people at the parties at Macstock Expo, there was also a conference during the day. The schedule was interesting. Mike Potter, the amazing creator of Macstock Expo, decided to reduce the total number of speakers and instead have each speaker do a 20-minute pitch on the big […]
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