I previously shared how to clean out the junk from Launchpad that is auto populated in one swoop – back to nothing.   In the following months though, clutter has again entered the space and rapidly diminishing the utility of Launchpad.   MacWorld published this little preference add-in that does a great job.  It is called Launch Pad Control ( http://chaosspace.de/launchpad-control/ ).  Not real sexy but does the trick for sure.  You simply uncheck the garbage that you do not need to see and hit apply.  Done. Likely a good idea to scrub the entire db clean with the details from my previous...

Since January I have been trying to remove paper from my daily life.  This is for sure a big hairy audacious goal but one I think is achievable. I started off the year trying to use my HP Laserjet All-in-one printer to scan my documents and store them in an electronic archive.   Wow, a lot of work.  In order for anything to be useful it must be easy. I ended up giving in and buying a Fujitsu ScanSnap.  This is an expensive piece of hardware for such a limited function but it is proving to be well worth it.  To be fair you do get a Pro copy of Adobe Acrobat which does not come cheap either....

Keeping my desk clean and organized is always hard to do with the spaghetti like mess of wires coming off my laptop.  Apple has not introduced a docking station for their MacBook line so I have always relied on my iCurve laptop stand to assist the the clutter.   I found an interesting concept from Henge Docks which has made a nice do-it-yourself kit for making a functional docking station.  It helps that it looks cool too when you are done. Rather than using a “master port” like most Dell or IBM docking stations do to clip into the Henge Dock merely utilizes the ports already on your...

For those of us that have been using Apple products long enough to know how to boot with extensions off we also have missed the days of the “launcher”.  I have found memories of Mac OS 7.6 with the Launcher – all of my programs neatly organized and useful.  For the last eight or so years I have used DragThing as a best alternative to the Mac Classic Launcher.  I still have all of my apps neatly organized into categories which reserves my dock for the most important programs like Mail and Safari. I upgraded to Lion and was curious about Launchpad, the new iOS like program to...

The Folks over at Fournova have been hard at work developing their Tower Git management tool. I have said it before, and I’ll continue to admit it, I am not a hard core programmer.  I am just a finance guy that likes to use my computer to make my life easier so when I find great tools to help me do that I will share it with you.  That said, Git is an awesome tool and Tower is a great front-end gui for Git.   Tower was released early this year and the team at Fournova has continued to push out updates to make the product better.  I was very excited to see the Plugin for Coda yesterday as I...