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Take Your Digital Filing System With You, and Keep it Secure, With SecretSync
Last year I wrote about SecretSync, an app that lets you securely sync files via Dropbox. SecretSync encrypts any file that you drop into your SecretSync folder, and then sends it on to your other...
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Know When It Will Rain, To the Minute, With Dark Sky [iOS]
There are many weather apps on the iOS platform. In the winter, I’m a weather geek, so I have several of them. One of the coolest ones out there is Dark Sky, which can tell you when it is going to...
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13 Essential Phone and iPad Apps to Help You Stay Sane During Your Move
40Tech is pleased to present this guest post by Jennifer Morehead from Moveboxer. Moving is a tough and stressful process. You need to coordinate your things, throw items away, hire movers, switch off...
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Evernote Web Clipping on iOS Made Easy [iOS]
At this risk of sounding like a snob, I can say that user reviews of certain iOS apps seem to miss the mark at times, because of uninformed users. This often seems to occur with subscription-based...
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How to Easily Add Your Contact Info to Your iPhone/iPad Lockscreen
Katie Floyd is the host of one of my favorite podcasts, the Mac Power Users, and over on her blog she highlights an app that could help you out if you ever lose your iPhone or iPad. Contact Lockscreen...
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Are You in Line For Mailbox? [iPhone]
If you follow tech news, it’s been hard to miss mention of Mailbox. Mailbox, as described in some glowing reviews, looks to be a new way to handle email, with a focus on Gmail. The general concept...
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Let Us Know Your Favorite iOS Apps, With Applr
Are you like me – a bit of an iOS app addict? I’ve never found Apple’s App Store to be particularly helpful for discovering new apps. A recent tweet by Adam Christianson of the MacCast mentioned...
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Mailbox Needs a Monitization Strategy, for My Sake
Mailbox needs a monetizaton strategy. For my sake. And yours, if you use the app. Right now, Mailbox, an iPhone email app that actually does live up to the hype (more on that in a future post), is...
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Mailbox – the Friction-free Mail Client to Get You to Inbox Zero [iPhone]
Mailbox is the new Gmail-only mail app that has been getting mostly rave reviews for the way it helps iPhone users tame their inboxes. Let’s get one thing out of the way first, though – Mailbox isn’t...
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Byword Adds Blog and Evernote Publishing [Mac/iOS]
Byword has long been one of my favorite text editors on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. I like it for its simplicity, its effortless sync between Mac and iOS, and its Markdown support. (For a short primer...
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Quickly Reboot Your Mac Into Windows With QuickBoot
After making a decision on Windows 7 vs. Windows 8 on one of my Macs, I find myself occasionally using Bootcamp to boot my Macs into Windows. That involves holding down the Option key while booting,...
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Keynote From an iPad to a Mac
I just finished a several hour mediation (I’m a lawyer by day), during which I used Keynote as a presentation tool. The mediation happened in another lawyer’s office, so I had to take any technology...
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PopClip – iOS-style Text Manipulation on Your Mac
Mention the convergence of iOS and OS X, and many Mac users contort with rage. The thought of OS X moving toward iOS is viewed by many as “dumbing down” the desktop system. There are ways in which OS...
View ArticleScrivener for iOS Enters Closed Beta
If you’ve been waiting for Scrivener to hit the iPad and iPhone, there’s finally light at the end of the tunnel. Literature and Latte, the popular writing app’s developer, has announced that Scrivener...
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DEVONthink for Lawyers
[Mac] I’ve been using DEVONthink Pro Office for a few years now, but only as a filing cabinet for documents that I don’t want to trust to the cloud. The latest episode of the Mac Power Users podcast...
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AnyList for iOS – For When OmniFocus and Evernote Aren’t Quite Right
I’ve never been shy about foregoing the use of one tool if another tool works better for a particular purpose. I use OmniFocus as my primary productivity tool, and Evernote as my main information...
View ArticleRestore OS X Photos’ Lost Functionality With Automator
I’ve been an Aperture user for a couple of years now, and have debating what the future will hold for my workflow, in light of the sunsetting of Aperture in favor of OS X’s new Photos app. I’ve played...
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Upgrade Your Video Presentations and Depositions
(Note: This article talks about video depositions in a legal setting, but any Mac user who needs to be able to present and annotate photographs and other documentation, and record those presentations,...
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DEVONthink To Go 2 Beta Test With New Sync Starts
I’m a heavy user of DEVONthink, and one of the few who seems to really like the DEVONthink iOS app, DEVONthink To Go. I was pretty happy to see today’s news that the developer of DEVONthink has...
View ArticleScrivener Beta Expands
Scrivener is a fantastic writing tool. If you’re a lawyer, it’s even great for writing briefs. Scrievener currently lacks an iOS app, but that should change soon. In April, Scrivener for iOS entered...
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