Scott Loftesness
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We Wrote the Book!
Scott’s Google Reader- How To Use A WordPress Content Template To Write Faster
- Creative Like a Fox! Dan Roam and I Compare Notes on Creative Process
- The Two-Headed Beast of Successful Habit Change
- Automatic W-9s with PDFpen
- Dr. Drang’s Writer Workflow
- Visualizing Apple’s Quarterly Results
- Announcing Kepler's 2020!
- ScrivWatcher, one more time
- 10 Keys to Giving the Greatest Presentation of Your Life
- Automator workflow of the month: Clear the iPod photo cache
- Scott’s Instapaper
- The Power of a Hug and Five Other Lessons Learned on the Road
- The Two-Headed Beast of Successful Habit Change
- Anonymous And The War Over The Internet
- A discussion with David Farber: bandwidth, cyber security, and the obsolescence of the Internet - O'Reilly Radar
- The Financial War Against Iran - Economic Intelligence (usnews.com)
- Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book
- Glock - The Rise of America’s Gun - By Paul M. Barrett - Book Review - NYTimes.com
- City Of Fortune - How Venice Ruled the Seas - By Roger Crowley - Book Review - NYTimes.com
- Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google - latimes.com
- Wired 9.03: Founding Father
Category Archives: Mac
My Online Life
A colleague asked “So Scott – tell me again what you do about emails you open with 1) PDFs and 2) links – that you want to read later, on the airplane?” Here’s what I’ve been doing: If I’m on … Continue reading
Diving into Launchbar
I’ve mentioned LaunchBar several times before – I’m simply addicted to this excellent Mac utility. Recently, I stumbled across the Mac Power Users podcast devoted to LaunchBar – Katie Floyd and David Sparks do a great job discussing how they … Continue reading
VeriSign’s Email Certificates Work!
Last week I posted – in frustration – about Thawte’s decision to exit the Personal E-Mail Certificate business. They did so for pretty obvious reasons – why give away free certificates – as they had done for years – while … Continue reading
The Zepp Over San Francisco – iPhones and Lizard Brains
It was another one of those stunning Spring mornings in San Francisco today – perfect (if a bit warm!) for all those Bay to Breakers crazies! On my walk into the UCSF Conference Center in Mission Bay, the Zeppelin poked … Continue reading
Needed: A Better IMAP Solution for Managing Old/Sent Email
I’m a big fan of what the Google folks are doing with the Labs feature in Gmail. One of the features they added a few months back allows you to enable/disable various “folders” (or Labels in Gmail parlance) so that … Continue reading
Simple is Best
Over the weekend, I said I was going to try a revised setup/workflow on my MacBook Pro. After giving it a try for a few days, I decided that simple is best – and have gone back from multiple site-specific … Continue reading
Changing My Mac Setup/Workflow?
I’m going to try a change in my current usage pattern on my Mac. Basically, the change involves making extensive use of Fluid, the “single-specific browser” application that lets you “run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa … Continue reading
LaunchBar – Searching for Filenames Containing Spaces
A friend asked this morning about how you use LaunchBar to search for files that have filenames with spaces in them. Turns out, you simply don’t enter the space in the LaunchBar search – and LaunchBar still finds the file! … Continue reading
Yours Truly Cranking Away at My MacBook Pro
Carol Coye Benson, one of my partners who manages our Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp program, hired a local professional photographer (Damon Tarver) to come into our session two weeks ago in Santa Clara. Tonight, she sent along the photos – … Continue reading
Using LaunchBar and Search Templates
I recently mentioned that LaunchBar is the one utility on my Mac that I’m most dependent upon – and the new LaunchBar 5 beta just improves on the whole experience.
