It feels like it’s a one-sided relationship between you two… I’m hoping that you both will work with me here. Parallels really wanted me to install Windows 11. And if you look at the Parallels website, it says that I can. As I mention elsewhere on this site, I have a mid-2015 MacBook Pro. But…
Read More Dear Microsoft and Parallels,When you subscribe to various productivity lists, you start seeing some of the same applications pop up over and over. For example, quite a few productivity sites are into personal knowledge management apps such as Obsidian and Craft. I still don’t see how those apps will help me do my work, so I haven’t given…
Read More The Arc browser: Why add another browser?I suppose one of the reasons that it’s easy to have a full inbox is because there might just be that good article that’s worth saving for a class or another reason. So what do I do when finding such articles? My new answer: save them to DevonThink and my database for that class. Just…
Read More Teaching Workflow Example: Email to DevonThinkI’m mentioning two different pages that helped me solve a lot of problems when converting InDesign files that had been converted to PDF. PAC2021[1]It should be noted that the new version requires registration, although I’m not quite sure why. The old PAC 3 version does not. (the PDF accessibility checker, currently Windows only) highlights many…
Read More How to reduce many InDesign PDF errors in just a few steps.Here’s some information from Microsoft about making emails accessible in the Outlook client: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-your-outlook-email-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-71ce71f4-7b15-4b7a-a2e3-cf91721bbacb There is a lot of common sense stuff in that article, but one thing I didn’t realize: in dark mode, you’ll want to go and double check the accessibility checker pane, because errors don’t automatically show up. There’s also a way…
Read More Outlook accessibility tip(Or why HoudahSpot is so awesome) When I moved from Minnesota to Georgia, I realized that I couldn’t take with me all of my old paper versions of my journals – there simply wasn’t space in my new office, and 26 years of being an academic with at least 10 journal issues per year =…
Read More Going into the Depths of MacOS metadata…Let’s face it – we’re blessed to have quite a variety of tech devices available to us. And now, given that I have a 12.9” iPad Pro and a 13” MacBook Pro that have close to the same screen real estate available, It’s fair to raise the questions: “What’s the best use of each device?”…
Read More Using the iPad vs. the MacBook ProI never thought I’d be that person to write rants on my site, but Outlook for iOS may be the exception that proves the rule. Allow me just two brief examples for today – and the first may help my Georgia College colleagues who are trying to report phishing attempts. The user interface for Outlook…
Read More What’s wrong with Outlook for iOS?So I’ve gone pretty much all in on DevonThink 3. David Sparks said on one of his podcasts something to the effect of, “I had DevonThink 2, but I wasn’t sure how to use it. Now I’m all in on version 3.” [1]Not a direct quote, and he’s talked about DevonThink on several different podcasts.…
Read More When a website creates an ugly PDF…how to fix in DevonThinkI do have two computers at home (as mentioned elsewhere on this site): a MacBook Pro, and a 2015-era custom built computer. I didn’t realize the custom built was that old — but I guess I must have done a good job when I ordered it! (To be fair, the computer *has* had its Windows…
Read More Running Windows 11 on a “lesser powered” machine…it works on lesser powered Macs!