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• Amazon.com: Send to Kindle for Mac – Send personal documents to your Kindle from your Mac.
• Google unveils Google Drive, offers 5GB of free storage | Macworld – Google has officially unveiled Google Drive, its foray into free online storage.
• Evernote Search Grammar- I hadn’t realized the power that the Evernote search box really had. I’d used tags somewhat and mostly notebooks as an organizational structure.Now I’ve got two saved searches that show me the exact notes I jump back and forth from all the time: my todo lists (personal and work) and my meeting topic lists for 1x1s.

  Sweet.

• Evernote: Re-Enable “Print/Save PDF to Evernote” in Mac OSX system print dialog – Fix is buried in one of the comments:
  “… looking at the “Save PDF to Evernote” issue it in more detail… isn’t that simply a link to the Evernote app that is placed under “~/Library/PDF Services”? If so, it seems easy to re-enable on an app store-bought version…”That solution worked for me.

• Download Digital Copies of Your Old Paper Owner’s Manuals to Reduce Clutter – Good tip! I had a half a box of old manuals stuck in a closet somewhere. I was able to get rid of them pretty much all of them.
• Cobook – The Smart Address Book for Mac – Great little app that downloads all the information about your contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter into the Mac Address Book. I’ve used a Facebook -> Address Book app for a while, but this one handles all three social networks and has a much more expansive UI.
• 100 Mac Apps To Rule Them All | Mac.AppStorm – Great list of different Mac utilities and apps.
• WiFiSpy – Mac AirPort wifi speed monitor – WiFiSpy is a tiny app that does nothing more than display your current AirPort link speed in megabits per second in the menu bar. This is useful to determine where at your location you get the fastest reception for local file transfers, or where there is radio interference.
• iPhone Backup Viewer to browse and manage iPhone backups. – iBackup Viewer manages to extract information from iPhone / iPad backups, including contacts, call history, SMS messages, web visits, website bookmarks, photos and iPhone Apps. You don’t have to restore the backup to access them. Just browse and copy what you want.

• Apple OS/X Messages App: Disable Automatic Chat Logging – I never liked how chat/messaging apps like to clutter your hard drive with logs of the minor chats you might have had with someone. Unfortunately, the Apple Messages beta is missing the option to disable automatic logging of all chats. Fortunately, this tip seems to work on disabling that feature anyway.

• How to Install Hulu on Your Apple TV – Hacky and a bit convoluted, but it seems to work. Hulu now runs in XBMC on my Apple TV 2.
• Overcome Public Speaking Reluctance By Thinking of Your Audience Rather Than Yourself – Some tips to make public speaking les stressfull

I just published my first post on the Redfin Developers’ blog: How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos.

And, no, don’t worry.  I’m not switching back to the light side from the PM dark side.  I just had to work some old muscles again.

I’ve gotten hooked on Skitch, a screen capture application that was bought byEvernote recently.  It’s been a handy addition to my day-to-day toolset.

However, there was one thing about the Mac version of Skitch that drove me nuts:  it saved copies of every screen grab in my Pictures folder (and there’s currently no way archive or delete them automatically.  This means that my Pictures folder was getting literred with random screengrabs that I didn’t need anymore.

Since it wasn’t looking like that feature was coming any time soon, I decided to work around it.  I wrote a short Applescript app that cleans up the history folder when run. It moves any images older than 3 days to a “HoldForDelete” folder and it deletes any files in the “HoldForDelete” folder that are older than 7 days.  (Feel free to edit the timeframes if you want something different.).

I’ve uploaded the app in case anyone else wants to use it.  I just run it on a preset schedule so that it’s constantly cleaning out that folder.

Download:  CleanOutSkitchHistoryFolder.app.zip (27kb)

If you run into bugs or issues with the app, please let me know.  I’ll try to fix it if I can.  Let me know if you use it too; that’ll motivate me to do more of this!)

• Plex Media Center & Server for OS X, iOS, Roku – I discovered Plex today and, so far, couldn't be happier with it. You run a server on one machine and then any computer, iPhone, iPad or Roku can access any of the TV, movie and music files from that server.

• How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation – “In this post, we’re going to take a look at three common situations in which non-verbal cues are especially important—detecting lies, going on a date, and interviewing for a job—then explain how to interpret body language more accurately so that you can read between the lines when a person’s words aren’t necessarily conveying the way that they honestly feel.”
• How to Enable Multitasking Gestures and Display Mirroring on the iPad 1 (Without Jailbreaking)- Haven’t tried this yet, but I have wanted mirroring for Airplay on my iPad. Maybe I’ll give it a shot.”This hack comes from a user called d.B. in the modmyi forums, who modified the jailbreaking tool redsn0w to do just one thing: Enable multitouch gestures and mirroring. Despite what the app says, no jailbreaking is actually happening. redsn0w is just tweaking a few settings on your iPad so gestures and mirroring are enabled.”

• How to Sync Your iPhone Over Wi-Fi Using iOS 5 (iClarified) – I thought this would have “just worked” but turns out you have to enable it per device.
• Facebook for iPad – ’nuff said.
• Apple releases AirPort Utility for iOS – I can finally debug wireless issues from my iPhone/iPad.
• Convert a DMG to ISO and Convert ISO to DMG on Mac – Convert a Mac DMG to an ISO file
• Monitor Wi-Fi with Lion’s hidden tool – Lion has a built in diagnostic app to look at how your wifi connection is doing.  I didn’t know that.  Might be handy.
• Optimizing AirPort Connectivity | mac geekery – This is an old article, but really helped me to get our wifi network working well again.  I was able to nearly double our wifi throughput by just following these steps!
• Swap Google Logins Easily in Chrome: Swap My Cookies – This has finally helped lessen the pain of having two active Google accounts — I can click one button to switch from one to the other.  Excellent!
• Optimizing AirPort Connectivity | mac geekery – This is an old article, but really helped me to get our wifi network working well again.  I was able to nearly double our wifi throughput by just following these steps!
• Monitor Wi-Fi with Lion’s hidden tool | Networking & Wireless | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld – Lion has a built in diagnostic app to look at how your wifi connection is doing.  I didn’t know that.  Might be handy.
• AppleScript: Creating Complex Dialogs with Ease | Mac.AppStorm -
• Vizualize.me Creates an Infographic Resume for You in One Click – Create an infographic timeline of your resume automatically.