Mac Power Users

In our fourth episode we talk about a subject that plagues many Mac users, keeping thing in sync. Whether you're trying to sync documents or data to another computer, a mobile device, or the cloud we talk about various products and services to allow you to always have your data available no matter where you are. We discuss various options including MobileMe and Dropbox for file syncing, as well as programs that keep just specific types of data, such as music or calendars in sync.

Notes:

2) Our friend Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline recently addressed the problem of how to sync files using DropBox when the files have to be located in specific folders and can't be moved to the Dropbox folder. Unfortunately, his show was published after we already recorded ours. You can find information on creating links to files and folders for syncing in his Screencast 202- Mac Hints & Tips Montage - 08

Links of noteMobileMe

In this episode, we discuss all the steps necessary to take your piles of paper and get it into your Mac and organized.

Fujitsu ScanSnap 300MFujitsu ScanSnap 1500M

Prizmo - Scan with your Camera

Griffin Clarifi iPhone Case

Hazel

ScreencastsOnline Hazel episode

Yep PDF Management

Leap

ExactScan

EagleFiler

DEVONthink

The Neat Company

Paperless

Yojimbo

Evernote

PDFpen

Readiris - OCR Software

Encrypted Disk Image Video (MacSparky Screencast)

In part 2 of our E-mail series we  go in-depth on our various systems for managing email, the pros and cons of each system, developing a good email work flow, learning how avoid becoming a slave to your inbox, email etiquette and other useful tools. If you haven't had a chance to listen to Episode 1 yet, you'll probably want to listen to that for background before picking up Episode 2.

Apple Mail Add-ons

Mail Act-On

Mail Tags

LetterBox

Task Management

OmniFocus

Things

Other Tools

MailSteward

SpamSieve

TextExpander

MacSpeech Dictate

Other Resources

MacSparky E-Mail Screencast

Joe Kissell's TidBITS IMAP/POP Article

David Allen Company

Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero

We actually talked about e-mail for 2 hours. But we didn't want to scare too many people away with our very first podcast so we decided to release this episode in two parts.

In part one we talk about the differences between IMAP and POP and why we prefer IMAP, storing messages, Mobile Me and Gmail  services, managing multiple email accounts, Apple Mail, smart folders, rules, spotlight search, data detectors, stationary, thread organization, To-Do management, mail stationary, plug-ins, archiving messages, spam filtering and more.

Part two will be released in about a week where we'll go in-depth on our various systems for managing email, the pros and cons of each system, developing a good email work flow, learning how not to become a slave to your inbox, email etiquette and other useful tools.

Apple Mail Add-ons

Mail Act-On

Mail Tags

LetterBox

Task Management

OmniFocus

Things

Other Tools

MailSteward

SpamSieve

TextExpander

MacSpeech Dictate

Other Resources

MacSparky E-Mail Screencast

Joe Kissell's TidBITS IMAP/POP Article

David Allen Company

Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero