If nothing improves without change, then a Mac user must be ever alert for productive apps that improve the user experience. One of my favorite high productivity tools is the Mac’s Menubar. It’s loaded with over two dozen one-click apps that do this or that (sometimes, there are so many they get cut off by … Continue Reading »

Everyone loves their digital cameras. Shoot away, folks. There’s no cost to develop film or print photos. Digital camera quality has improved so much that even smart phones are becoming the camera of choice for most of us. There’s still one nagging problem about photography. Whether film or digital, whether high quality DSLRs or smart … Continue Reading »

For what it’s worth, we live in the era of social media. Those sites are everywhere and growing in number. If it’s not matchmaking it’s following celebrities or friends. To keep track of all the social media accounts on your Mac would fill a Safari browser full of tabs, each with a separate login ID … Continue Reading »

Notes are my life. If I’m not scribbling out a note to the kids to do this or not do that, I’m dropping notes to Jeffrey’s job jar, or notes to myself. The problem with notes made of atoms is that they can’t be everywhere at once, so our usage of Post-It Notes has declined … Continue Reading »

Are Mac backups important? Well, duh! Yes. Either because our files are sensitive and should not be made easily available to anyone else, or, because replacing all our photos, movies, music, apps, and files would be a royal pain in the proverbial patootie. Mac backup apps are a dime a dozen. Sometimes less. Apps that … Continue Reading »

People in the south love chicken. The Mincey family loves chicken. We love it fried or baked or store bought or Kentucky Fried (KFC). If there’s a cookout going on anywhere in the neighborhood, there’s probably some chicken that sacrificed for the betterment of humankind. Jeff has a neighborhood famous Bar-B-Q sauce that takes a … Continue Reading »

My Mac is a graveyard of application launchers. I’ve tried them all. Some are great. Others are terrible. Some do far more than launch. Others are cheap and don’t do much more than the Dock. At the high end of app launcher stratosphere are a couple of Mac apps worthy of use, both expensive, but … Continue Reading »

The Mincey Mommy’s Mac is full of notes. Stickies. TextEdit notes. And note taking apps. My latest jewel is a free notes app that captures not just notes, but nine other file types. Growly Notes is as much of a scrapbook app as it is notes app. Yes, you can take notes and organize them … Continue Reading »