Mac in General – Page 7 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

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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Doing a Clean Install of Apple’s Mavericks OS

2013-12-21

Reinstalling the OS is easy, getting everything working as you like it again is not. Some problems that ensured after reinstalling the OS, a few advantages, and one final recommendation.
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Can Mavericks’ Finder Replace DEVONthink?

2013-12-21

Short answer: Probably not. Explanations why in this article.
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An App for Everything and Everything in its Place

2013-11-01

Using a mobile phone or tablet to carry the equivalent of the contents of the library of Alexandra with you. Recommended apps.
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Another one bites the dust — or not

2013-08-31

A scare story from my youth and a tale of a broken hard-disk serve as reminder that even experts must check the basics.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

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.