Category: Apps

• January 11, 2023

  New Mac Apps

  I am lov­ing these new apps that I recent­ly got for my 14″ Mac Book Pro. Make sure to check them out if you are a Mac user too. Top Notch to hide the top notch. Pix­el­Snap to mea­sure things on the screen. The above two apps are from the mak­ers of the screen­shot mak­ing app I love:… Read more

• January 5, 2022

  Todoist Karma Enlightenment

  Almost three years ago, I moved to Todoist to man­age my todos and projects. Today I am thrilled to receive the fol­low­ing email from Todoist. I only vague­ly know about the Todoist Kar­ma fea­ture. I haven’t tak­en time to explore the Kar­ma fea­ture as it is relat­ed to stats and is tan­gen­tial to how I use Todoist, but I am… Read more

• September 16, 2021

  A few cool Mac apps I use

  It’s been a few years since I wrote about the Itsy­cal cal­en­dar app that I use on my Mac. It still is the default time and cal­en­dar app on my Mac’s menu bar. Here are a few more cool Mac apps that I use and love. Clocker Clock­er dis­plays time from addi­tion­al time zones on Mac’s menu bar or as… Read more

• June 23, 2020

  I real­ize in the tweet sent from my pre­vi­ous post I sound­ed like I sent a pre-pop­u­lat­ed tweet some ser­vices encour­age you to share right after sign­ing up for them. 😬 That tweet isn’t some­thing HEY pop­u­lat­ed or nudged me to send. I should have writ­ten a per­son­able cus­tom mes­sage to go along with my pre­vi­ous post. Nev­er­the­less, I am excit­ed about sign­ing… Read more

• June 23, 2020

  Hey, HEY!

  Last night I bought my @hey.com email address sub­scrip­tion after try­ing it for a few days. I have been fol­low­ing HEY ever since Jason gave a heads up ear­li­er this year. Since this is from Base­camp, I knew it is going to be amaz­ing and it is! I signed up as soon as I got an invite a few days ago and I loved… Read more

• December 23, 2019

  Outlook app issues

  I final­ly removed the Microsoft Out­look app from my phone. It still keeps freez­ing and get­ting in my way. The Out­look tech sup­port per­son was kind and offered fur­ther help when I blogged and tweet­ed my trou­bles with the app in Octo­ber. How­ev­er, I still face this prob­lem with the app. The fre­quent “per­for­mance improve­ments and bug… Read more

• October 15, 2019

  Something is wrong with this iOS Outlook app update

  Update: I unin­stalled the app, restart­ed the iPhone, rein­stalled the app (ver­sion 4.7), set up my email accounts and dis­abled noti­fi­ca­tions and smart default set­tings that I don’t need. It is back to all good now. Tech­nol­o­gy is weird! Read more

• September 3, 2019

  Messaging app with VIP features

  It is 2019 and I won­der why there are no mes­sag­ing apps that will let me choose the peo­ple from whom I wish to receive noti­fi­ca­tions. Right now, the noti­fi­ca­tions are all or none deal and I default to none. Which is bet­ter, but not best. As peo­ple start get­ting detached to devices and start pri­ori­tis­ing their offline… Read more

• March 24, 2019

  Twitter’s half-truth about its app settings

  Bill Ben­nett, a local tech­nol­o­gy jour­nal­ist I respect, tweet­ed a CNN Busi­ness arti­cle about Twit­ter’s overzeal­ous algo­rithm. That arti­cle quot­ed a Twit­ter spokesper­son: … We will con­tin­ue to work to improve our efforts here, and peo­ple always have the option of turn­ing off our cura­tion if they just want to see con­tent from the peo­ple they fol­low. This quote is… Read more

• March 4, 2019

  Twitter is changing my timeline preferences

  Recent­ly I wrote about how I reduced the noise on my Twit­ter time­line by chang­ing the default time­line pref­er­ence from top tweets to the lat­est tweets. Since then I noticed that from time to time my time­line pref­er­ence is falling back to top tweets with­out my inter­ven­tion. But I was­n’t total­ly sure because I did not think Twit­ter may be… Read more