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We’re not fans of the bloated Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Sure, it’s a bit faster on a Mac than it is on Windows. But why do you even need to install Acrobat Reader on a Mac when Preview comes pre-loaded with OS X? For those Mac readers not in the know, Preview has all manner [...]

Readers know that we love Google apps such as Gmail, Calendar and most recently Notebook. Readers also know that we love our iPhone. So imagine our thrill when we find that Google has modified some of their most popular apps to work even better with the iPhone. There must be a lot of iPhone fans [...]

Google has produced this wonderful, stylized and very entertaining video that explains why we are hooked on Google Docs for both our personal and professional lives. Check it out and then consider using Google Docs to organize and simply your life. Definitely worth a minute!

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I’ve been using Google Docs for sometime now and am growing to love it more and more each day. Being able to have access to important word-processing and spreadsheet files from any computer has been a life-saver on many occasions. I am also finding it extremely useful when combined with my iPhone (although this is [...]

We catch a lot of grief from our family and friends because we tend to cover Mac only related software. Well today we’re breaking that trend by telling you that the best RSS reader is not found on a Mac. It’s not found on Windows and it’s not found on Linux either. It’s available for [...]

We’ve begun using Safari again lately and one of the tools that brought us back was the wonderful Inquisitor 3. Inquisitor 3 claims to be “Spotlight for the web” and we tend to agree. Simply download the installation file, restart Safari and begin searching using the Safari search box. Inquisitor 3 will auto-complete your search [...]

Here’s the first in our new GUOM Quick Tip series that we hope to post from time to time in the midst of all of our other content. Today we take a quick look at simple video editing with Quicktime Pro. You’ve probably heard this before if you use Quicktime, but Quicktime Pro is the [...]

Today we continue to enhance our Mac productivity skills using the free application, Quicksilver. We won’t go into a detailed description of Quicksilver here (after all, we only ask for a minute or so of your time). If you want more info on the app, check out the What is Quicksilver page.
We feel every [...]

We continue our series on becoming more productive using our Macs by sharing yet another use for keystroke combinations – placing special symbols within your documents. Each of these symbols begins with a simple press and hold of the Option key.
Below are a few of the commons symbols we use on a regular basis. While [...]

Previously in our series we presented some basic keyboard combinations to move around within our documents. Today we demonstrate how not to touch your mouse to control your applications? That’s right, with simple keystroke combinations we can open applications, switch between them and close them.
Opening Applications:
We imagine that most new Mac folks open applications using [...]