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I spent some time figuring out a system to work my email traffic. Email for me is basically all communication I do, combined with some notes of phone calls.
Email have my tasks, my background info – it’s the core of the life in business 
I always loved gmail’s way of labeling things. It was fast, easy and good searchable. The only think I disliked was the fact it was online. All the time.
Recently I switched back from using Mail combined with the power of MailTags to using Gmail. I have put my system back up, using quick links to save my searches (which I do for getting projects overviews of all the containing tasks) and using Fluid with a Apple’s mail icon to overcome my feeling of ’always online’.
It’s working for me after a period of not working MailTags (tags were not reminded correctly, searches didn’t go too well, lack of SL support and since it’s there – I would need to pay again to upgrade…) – I am quite happy.
What I do miss a lot though is setting a tickler date to emails. Some emails just need to be snoozed for a day or 2 or three or until a specific date… No luck on that one, but my hope is up!
If you know a way of snoozing or tickling dates with gmail, please let me know!
After upgrading to Snow Leopard I found different preference panes to be needing a restart of the system panel in order to be able to load. The reason for this is default the system is loaded in 64 bit, while some preference panes are only supporting 32 bit.
One of them is the default MySQL preference pane. A little search lead me to swoon.net – they altered the pref pane in order to be compliant to 64 bit.
You can find it at their website: http://www.swoon.net/site/software.html
Tip: remove the old pref pane before installing the new one. It helped me
It is so far again. Recently started: the Mupromo software deal.
To be honest, I only bought it this time for Parallels Desktop. Maybe the rest will be helpful some day when it comes to backing up my dvd’s.
Parallels I like though. It’s better then the free VirtualBox which I have been using up until now.
What do you use to test websites with when working on Mac? VMware? Parallels? VirtualBox? Something else?
I’d like to hear!
Every now and then I’d like to viagra the source of an email in mail and find myself figuring out how to achieve this. I seem to keep forgetting this shortcut, so writing it down may actually help me reminding it – and serve you on the way as well
The shortcut: command-option-u
After a recent cleaning of computers I definitely wanted to get some apps back quickly. Below a list of apps I find most useful in my day-2-day life.
This is actually an update of an earlier post – viagra list changes
Dropbox
A wonderful way to keep files synchronized across diverse computers. And the best: sharing 2gb is free completely. I like the clean presentation. http://www.getdropbox.com/
I can advice you to watch the video tutorial to give you headstart right away.
BBedit
The text editor that still doesn’t suck. To be honest I think there might be other great alternatives. For example TextMate is very apealling. But since I put my money on the table for BBedit and got uses to it, I’ll stay with it for a while. http://www.barebones.com
Transmit
I use Transmit for easy ftp’ing. What to say more about that? http://www.panic.com
NetNewsWire
NNW is the app for feedreading – available for windows, mac and as a webservice: synchronizing feeds between multiple clients is a breeze! http://www.newsgator.com
Contactizer Pro
CP is the program I use to keep track of project, client communication and agenda’s. Neat CRM solution with full use of Apple’s iApps. http://www.objective-decision.com/en/products/contactizerpro. Free version available!
Daylite
I switched from using CP to Daylite, to my delight. Daylight is way more capable of handling all my different streams of contacts, information, email, project and task and works well using GTD.
Virtual Box
Where VMWare and Parallels might be known more, there is a great free alternative to test my sites on windows using virtualization: Virtual Box. Since the last version I had no troubles and it ran out of the box. http://www.virtualbox.org.
RightZoom
This app makes the Green + resize your window to full screen… Something I have always missed (probable the one Microsoft tick I’ve left over…;-) )
There are more apps I use on a daily basis, but these are the top of my needs I guess.
What programs do you use on a regular basis?
Which one you think I must check out?
If you are like me experiencing troubles starting up Safari 4 beta, please remove the glims folder from HD/Library/InputManagers/ . It will most likely fix it.
I decided to go for a ZAGG protection for my iPhone and while searching for the best way to order it from the Netherlands I ran into a thread with some coupons for sharing 20% deduction.
Well – since I received my 2 codes today as well, here they are – and let me know if it was helpful for you
O yeah – it is okay to do this and if you want to use the comments to keep on sharing the free codes, be invited!
The codes:
- t2wdqn
- tmb13w
While preparing my iPhone for real use, I came to find a problem using the unbuilt gps. It always gave me the error: “Your location could not be determined”.
The reason appears to be a timeout in the maps software. Especially people not living in the US seem to have this problem. I was able to solve it using another app called “TrackThing Lite” – a free dowload from the appstore.
Turn that app on, wait for a couple of seconds (in my case almost 2 minutes!) until the GPS signal is received. You find the option in the “Geo” tab of TrackThing. Whatever you do now is up to you: it just works now.
You have probably heard about “twittering”. A buzz word for letting know people what you are doing. Maybe not very useful, but very funny to see some friends doing’s – so I joined 
I am using Twitterlex MacOSX widget to keep it going…
I must admit I usually don’t use apps to do the blogging, but Qumana seems to be fairly cool. It’s style is not so nice (java) but it seems to do a wonderfull thing: blogging and also adding adds if you want to easily.
I’ll be trying it out for a couple of posts to see wether I truely like it or not.
