Egal was wir online tun, es gibt stets Firmen, die versuchen, uns dabei zu folgen und mehr darüber zu erfahren, was wir tun. Manche Webseiten enthalten mehr Tracking-Code als echten Inhalt 🇺🇸. Im Web können Sie Werbeblocker und Suchmaschinen wie DuckDuckGo oder Startpage einsetzen, aber es gibt wenig, was Sie tun können, wenn Apps auf Ihrem iPhone 🇺🇸 oder Ihr Amazon Echo mit jemandem telefonieren, mit dem Sie nicht möchten, dass sie es tun. (mehr)

Emoji sind die digitalen Gegenstücke zu den kleinen Bildchen, die wir auf die Notizen zeichnen, die wir uns gegenseitig zustecken. Die Palette Zeichenübersicht rufen Sie auf dem Mac leicht überall auf, wo Sie Text eingeben können, und MacBooks mit Touch Bar halten dafür sogar eine eigene Taste bereit. Für noch schnelleren Zugriff auf Emoji gibt es ein sehr praktisches Programm für die Menüzeile: Rocket von Matthew Palmer. (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)

Our world is full of extraordinarily beautiful places, many set aside and protected from development for people to enjoy nature undisturbed. While not the only country with beautiful national parks, the US, with its varied habitats over three million square miles (eight million square kilometers), has many of its own. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a resource for park information? (mehr)

DEVONthink does not have a system for automatically backing up everything. DEVONthink has a setting in its Preferences > Backup that controls how many internal metadata backups are done. These backups can be used in a troubleshooting situation by selecting Tools > Restore Backup. (mehr)

We have told the great people at Readdle that our mobile users love the combination of their Scanner Pro app and DEVONthink to Go. Scanner Pro lets you use your iPhone’s or iPad’s camera for quickly scanning paper documents wherever you are. It applies all sorts of magic to make the document look as good as possible and then lets you share the created PDF with other apps. (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)

Mailplane is a probably the best way to use Gmail on a Mac. Version 3.6.9 adds native support for DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office: Open a message in Mailplane and choose Edit > Save to DEVONthink to save the message as webarchive to DEVONthink. The document includes a link back to the original message in Gmail. You can also send downloaded attachments to your DEVONthink inbox. (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)