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5 Apps that help me save time

Tech Tips by Bill

Regard­less of the time you spend on the inter­net, there are no lack of tools to help make the expe­ri­ence less intim­i­dat­ing and more use­ful. I often get asked what I use

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Minning the Twittterverse with minimal time

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Twit­ter is one of the best and eas­i­est tools to use to crete a net­work for your business…but many artists I talk with either a) see it as a time suck b) see it as a toy for kids or c) don’t see it as part of their job description.

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More Twitter stuff for Mac Tweeters

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A cou­ple of days ago I was alerted to new Twit­ter client thing to help you with your twit­ter­ings the big whoop about this is that it is exclu­sive for Mac users and designed to work like a nor­mal Mac appli­ca­tions. While I still have a lot of affec­tion for Tweet­Deck it does have some issues that I don’t like…mainly its’ resource vac­u­um­ing ten­den­cies and unwill­ing­ness to let go of mem­ory. The lat­est release addressed the mem­ory issue and seemed to have improved its’ abil­ity to play with other applications.

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MacHeist Bundle 3…is it for artists?

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Last week I talked brei­fly about the MacHeist bun­dle some­thing I gen­er­ally take part in. Since then, I’ve received a few ques­tions ask­ing about the lit­er­acy level of the apps. So first, they are pretty basic but more impor­tantly the ques­tion you should be ask­ing your­self is whether the apps will help you do what you do.…

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Tech Tips: cool software and other stuff

Tech Tips by Bill

One of the best soft­ware bun­dles released for Mac users over the years has been the MacHeist Bun­dle. Pretty much on an annual basis MacHeist pulls together the best and most user friendly appli­ca­tions for the Mac for a “Fire” sale which really isn’t one but it seems like it. You can always count on at least one extremely saught high priced app to be included. This time around they have out done them­selves by includ­ing six appli­ca­tions over $50.00, the total actual cost of the bun­dle if bought sep­a­rately is $930.00. The bun­dle cost is $39.00…not a bad deal. The really great thing is that they donate 25% of every pur­chase to the fol­low­ing charities:

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