Happy Black Friday, 8 Google Wave Invites For You
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Nov 27th, 2009 | 7 comments
Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. This Black Friday afternoon, the Googles blessed me with 8 Google Wave invites. The first 8 people to leave a comment with the email address you’d like me to send the invitation to will get the invites. Feel free to mask your email address to prevent it from being easily scraped, such as: “adam [at] esquiremac [dot] com.” If you miss out on my invites, you may want to check out Lifehacker’s Google Wave Invite Donation threads.
Google says the invites will not be sent out immediately, but I got mine within 24 hours of when I was invited,...
Herald Bumps Apple Mail Notification Up A Notch
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Tweaks on Nov 26th, 2009 | 1 comment
Herald, by Erik Hinterbichler, is a powerful yet lightweight email notification plugin for Apple’s Mail.app. Last year, I posted about another excellent email notification plugin for Apple Mail called mail.appetizer.
The reason I say that “Herald bumps Apple mail notification up a notch” is because Herald takes the idea first implemented by mail.appetizer and adds some nice improvements. In fact, Erik Hinterbichler freely admits that Herald is “[i]nspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin.”
Herald improves upon Mail.appetizer in a few ways. Herald allows you to...
Convert WordPerfect Docs to Word Docs in Bulk
Posted by EsquireMac in Apple Applications, Switching on Nov 23rd, 2009 | 2 comments
A couple of months ago, I shared an AppleScript/Folder Action that enables you to convert Pages documents to Word documents, whether one at a time or in bulk. I now present you with a script I put together that will convert those pesky Word Perfect documents to Word documents.
As you know, I have joined a firm that runs primarily on Windows. I’m the only Mac in the place, and pretty much everyone there uses WordPerfect. Of course, simply opening and/or editing WordPerfect docs on a Mac is no problem, since there are a number of applications that can handle them (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org,...
Convert Pages Docs to Word Docs En Masse
Posted by EsquireMac in Apple Applications, Switching on Sep 28th, 2009 | 8 comments
After I started at my new firm last month, I decided to rethink my workflow. I began working with Pages (the ’08 version), and have found it to be much faster than Word for Mac: 2008. The main problem for me is that I need to save everything as a .doc file so that the others in my office can use them. As I noted earlier, I am the only Mac in this firm, and there is no way for a PC to use the .pages file format (except for doing something crazy like getting iWork ’09 and sending everything to iWork.com – like I said: crazy).
The next great hurdle is the fact that Pages will not simply...
New Job: Only Mac In The Shop
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management, Switching, iPhone/iPod Touch on Sep 26th, 2009 | 0 comments
Last month, I started a new job at a new firm. I spent nearly three years at my old firm, and most of what I have written on this blog to date has been related to my experiences there.
If you read my Personal Update last fall, you know that last year I moved back to the town where I grew up – Hagerstown, Maryland. Long story short: The 3.5 hours of driving every day got old and a position at a well respected Hagerstown firm opened up due to one of its (now former) partners being appointed judge.
The new firm runs on a Windows 2003 Exchange Server, and my early-2008 MacBook Pro is the only Mac...
Palm Pre, I Hardly Knew You
Posted by EsquireMac in iPhone/iPod Touch on Jul 11th, 2009 | 3 comments
So, if you follow me on twitter (@esquiremac), you knew a long time ago that my wife and I returned our Palm Pre’s within the first week of owning them. I previously chronicled my thoughts about the Pre after my first two days of ownership about a month ago.
There were a lot of positives about the Pre. To name a few:
Hands down, best rate plan available, by a long shot;
Aside from the iPhone, probably the best darn phone out there;
Good 3G data access;
Nice size, comfortable fit in your hand or pocket;
Physical Keyboard;
Decent 3 megapixel, still camera;
Good IMAP email with multiple account...
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