macOS Catalina geht in eine weitere Runde mit öffentlichen Betas und erscheint im Herbst für alle Mac-Anwender. Es bringt Verbesserungen für iTunes, Meine Freunde und das Programm „Erinnerungen“, aber auch zahlreiche Veränderungen im Unterbau. Eine dieser (fast) unsichtbaren Änderungen ist das Ende der Unterstützung für 32-Bit-Software. Vermutlich hat Sie Ihr Mac bei dem einen oder anderen Programm bereits darüber informiert, dass dieses ein Update benötigen wird. (mehr)

In einem kürzlich veröffentlichen Artikel empfehlen die Macher von Ulysses mit Nachdruck, die diesjährigen öffentlichen Betas von macOS und iOS nicht auf Geräten zu installieren, auf die Sie für Ihre Arbeit angewiesen sind. Wir schließen uns dieser Empfehlung an. (mehr)

Tastenkürzel sind eine tolle Möglichkeit, wie Sie Ihren Computer effizienter benutzen. CheatSheet ist ein großartiges Hilfsprogramm von Media Atelier, das eine Liste aller Tastenkürzel des aktiven Programms zeigt, wenn Sie die Befehlstaste gedrückt halten. (mehr)

Despite the availability of affordable, high capacity external drives, modern laptops often come equipped with much smaller drives. This requires more judicious storage habits and paying closer attention to how much space is left. While you can find utilities that display this information in attractive types of charts, etc. you can get very good information directly from the operating system in macOS El Capitan and later. (mehr)

Today is macOS Mojave day. And while DEVONthink 2.10.1 is working fine on Apple’s latest incarnation of the Mac operating system, the new security measures do interfere with DEVONthink Pro Office’s Mail plugin. Mojave wants to know that you trust our plugin and have the intent to run it. To (re)enable the Mail plugin please follow these steps: … (mehr)

A recent Twitter post asked a question about turning on and off the WebSharing server in DEVONthink Pro Office. It was assuming a need for an AppleScript or Keyboard Maestro routine. Well, it’s not AppleScriptable (outside of UI scripting, which I don’t advocate) and Keyboard Maestro is more than is needed for this task. (mehr)

When it comes to synchronizing on any network connection, the quality and strength of your network matters — and is often not as good as you imagine. Can you hit the maximum advertised speed? Yes, but probably not sustained over the hours and hours you use it. Wireless networks are convenient, but they’re also subject to poor signal strength, noise, and other factors that can limit your sync reliablility. (mehr)

If you find yourself typing the same things over and over again, there is a way to give your fingers a break. Text expansion is a method of assigning abbreviations for things like often used phrases. For example, you may create an abbreviation like em1, which could fill in your email when typed. Or you may have boilerplate text for a business, like thank yous. You could use the abbreviation tfyo that could expand to “Thanks for your order!” … (mehr)

While we rely on our big powerhouse applications like DEVONthink, there are many smaller utilities we use for specialized purposes. However, this has lead to our menubars becoming increasingly crowded. Especially on a smaller screen, like a MacBook Air’s, this leads to the utilities’ icons being hidden from view. Enter Bartender. (mehr)

Have you ever used those fancy screen capture applications that allow you to annotate on a screen capture? When you take screenshots as PDFs you can easily annotate them in DEVONthink:

Now when you make your screen capture, you will end up with a PDF. Select the PDF in DEVONthink and add notes, arrows, even links. (mehr)