Mac in General – Page 6 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

I can see and hear you now

2014-04-04

Chances are, people can easily monitor you via your webcam -- without the nice little light turning on. But there is a quick and easy solution that does not involve going rustic, or taking out the soldering gun.
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Thinking about Switching from Papers 2 to Sente

2014-03-31

Having a literature management program you can trust and that works for you is invaluable in academic work. I thought about switching from Papers 2 to Sente, but it's not an easy decision. Papers 2 is hate-and-love ...
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When you need that certain push to get through your work day

2014-03-05

A nice solution when you have a pushing rope day. Yup it's Pomodoro, but with a nice app -- and what is often missed. Oh, and a line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners were liable to be shot.
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How to deal with keynote files that crash when you try to open them (movie conversion error)

2014-03-01

Apple has dumbed down Keynote, resulting in a possible error when you open a keynote file with a video. If this happens, there's a workaround. It's not pretty, but you get your slides back.
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Quickly Taking Screenshots on the Mac

2014-01-29

Screenshots are incredibly useful. Here are some suggestions for the Mac -- three key presses at the same time and you get an image file on your desktop.
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A Dedicated Presentation User Account for Undisturbed Presentations and Other Benefits

2014-01-23

The computer you use during an important presentation is likely the computer you work with every day. But the helpful messages it provides you with during the day might be showstoppers during a presentation. So why not separate the two -- on the same device.
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Dealing with a few OS X Mavericks Annoyances

2014-01-22

With every new OS come new features, but also new annoyances. Not really bugs, but issues where your way of working deviates from the 99% it is created to work with. Deal with are: Non-Snappy Switching Between Applications, Apple (and Who-Knows-Who) Listens to Your Dictations, Image Capture Opens Every Time You Connect a Device, and Words are Underlined When They are British or US English.
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vlc Video Effects

2014-01-17

Want to see a color movie in black and white? It's not pretty but you can do so with a quick tap of a button, even on an iPad. Also some comments on "Beautiful Creatures".
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Creating a Virtual Movie Library

2014-01-12

At least in some countries, you have the right to backup your data, which includes movies. But some companies make this very hard. So here are a few workarounds.
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Quickly Open a Text File to Jot Down Creative Ideas with Spotlight and Automator

2013-12-22

You can use a keyboard shortcut to quickly open a specific file to jot down your ideas. Here's how.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.