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Sep 15 2010

The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

logmeindropbox 318x122 The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

In a previous video, I reviewed LogMeIn Ignition and mentioned that it would be really handy in those situations where you’re out on the road away from your computer and you receive an email from a client on your iPhone or iPad saying that they desperately need a file sent to them…I file that is both too large to email and not on your iPhone.

With LogMeIn and Dropbox, you can actually manipulate your home computer from your iDevice and end up with a link that you can email your client so that they can quickly access that file without you having to race home to send it to them.

In today’s video, I show you just how that is done while also giving a quick plug to YemuZip.

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The LogMeIn Dropbox trick

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Sep 12 2010

VIDEO: Send a bunch of files everywhere with Courier

Courier 318x221 VIDEO: Send a bunch of files everywhere with Courier

Courier is a cool application for your Mac that makes it really easy to send a bunch of media to a bunch of destinations.

Image you’ve ever come back from a trip somewhere with a whole bunch of pictures you want to share online. You have a dozen pictures and you want to post them to your Facebook account, but you also want to post them to Flickr and TwitPic so that different people in and around your life can see them.

Courier lets you set up “envelopes” that serve as presets for a lot of the most common places you might want to distribute photos, videos, and other files. And, as presets, you can set up one envelope to send video to your YouTube and Vimeo accounts and another to send to YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr.

Courier supports file transfers to Amazon S3, Ember, Facebook, Flickr, FTP, Vimeo and YouTube. RealMac Software has offered an extensible plug-in API so that developers can create their own plug-ins for their services to support Courier users—there are already plug-ins for TwitPic and CloudApp.

The feature I really like, is that Courier adds all your envelopes with their specific gallery and privacy settings to your Services menu so you can just select all the files you want to send in Finder and fire them off—check out the video below to see how it’s done.

Once the files are uploaded, Courier makes it really easy to share the news with the links you need right at your fingertips.

Courier sells for $19.95 US.

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VIDEO: Send a bunch of files everywhere with Courier

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Sep 6 2010

Watts battery maintenance and calibration

So, in my last video, I showed you the test that Mac service techs run to determine whether a battery has failed or not and, sure enough, mine had. It was covered under warranty which was good news and the new battery arrived the next day, so it all was rather painless.

Now that I have a brand spankin’ new battery, I’d like to try to give it a better chance for survival than my previous one, so I’m going to be running Watts to keep me on schedule for regular charging and draining of the battery so that it gets some regular use. Batteries need to be used, not just charged and will deteriorate faster if they are left constantly tethered to an AC adapter.1

What Watts does is keeps you on a schedule of charges and discharges of you battery to give it a good run once in a while and allow your Mac to see how much charge it actually holds so that it can more efficiently and accurately use and display its capacity.

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Watts sells for just $6.95, which makes it a desktop application at an iPhone app price. You could save that money and just set up some iCal alarms but, who are we kidding, you’re just going to ignore those anyway. Paying a little money is almost like betting yourself $6.95 that this time you’re not going to burn out your battery through improper use.

  1. and really, what’s the point of having a Mac portable with wireless internet f you’re just going to keep it tied to a wall like a watchdog on a chain—let it free!! [↩]

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