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Quick Look: Creating and Using Site Specific Browsers

Written on October 28, 2009 by Alfredo Padilla and 7 people have commented

The advent of the cloud over the past few years has meant that a lot of the tasks that we were used to doing on our Mac have now moved to the web. This brings with it a host of issues, from data ownership to reliability of services (see recent Sidekick fiasco) and whether the [...]

Five Ways to Become a Mac Minimalist

Written on August 11, 2009 by David Klein and 40 people have commented

My interpretation of minimalism in the home office is removing all distracting items that are not constantly utilized. For software, this is both easy and cheap. Becoming a hardware minimalist is slightly more expensive and time consuming and I recommend reading Apartment Therapy’s Unplggd for recommendations.
Minimal Mac
I recently discovered a website called Minimal Mac, and [...]

How-To: Put Google Calendar and Tasks in Your Menu Bar

Written on April 22, 2009 by David Klein and 17 people have commented

Don’t you wish there were an easier way to quickly view upcoming appointments and your task list?  If you’re a fan of Google products, then follow these steps for an easy-to-use solution.  In the end you will have two new items in your menu bar: one for Google Calendar and one for Google Tasks.
What You [...]

Helvetireader Puts a New Face on Google Reader

Written on November 30, 2008 by Jonathan Buys and 20 people have commented

Jon Hicks from Hicks Design has released the Helvetireader skin for Google Reader. Helvetireader takes a minimalist approach, masking many of Google Readers abilities, creating a simple and very easy to read interface to Google’s excellent RSS feed reader.
Google Reader has been my RSS reader of choice since I made the switch from Bloglines [...]