I have already explained the principles of how to manage files on the Mac in The Mac Desktop. One thing I didn’t point out is that, on the Mac, the Desktop is actually the Finder. If you’re using a Mac right now then just click the mouse on the desktop and you’ll see that the [...]

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To be productive we wish to do as much as possible from the keyboard, and that means that we’d like to use hotkeys as much as we can, because they make things happen with a single or a few keystrokes. I’ve emphasized the words “or a few” because I have concluded that QuickSilver is the [...]

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In this posting, I want to home in on exactly where productivity lives on the Mac by highlighting four specific applications for you to use. (I’ve only got space to describe one in detail here - more tomorrow.)
Before I do that I’d like to explain something that, if you understand it, really helps in being [...]

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In my last posting I discussed personal productivity in some depth, but I never commented in any depth about 2 applications that really shouldn’t exist in their current form, and hopefully wont exist in their current form at some point in the future. They are:

email
The browser

email
email has messed up the productivity of computer users for [...]

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This was written “with tongue partly in cheek,” but despite that, where it counts it is factual and accurate.
Question 1: Are paper bags better than plastic bags, ecologically?
Answer: Absolutely not. They do more damage in almost every way. They destroy trees which eat carbon dioxide. You get about 1400 paper bags from a single tree. [...]

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