There is an application available now from SimpleLeap Software that may become the main study tool in our household for our flash card and multiple choice studying.
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Tags: Education, Payware, iPhone, Jenn

There are times when you just don’t want to have your Mac go to sleep and fiddling with settings means you may forget to put them back.

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Tags: System Utility, Freeware, Screensaver, Jenn

Paperless... that wasn’t the name it originally had but it works just as sweetly as the app formerly named ReceiptWallet.
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Tags: Productiviy, Accounting, Payware, Organization, Jenn

It was inevitable. I’m a Mac Addict first and foremost and on the heels of that follows app addiction. So, somewhere along the way this blog was bound to include an app that was generated by Apple rather than all the wonderful 3rd party devs out there.
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Tags: Payware, Productiviy, Apple, Jenn

I’ve been trying to decide between using ShoveBox and Evernote. I pointed out they each have strengths and a friend pointed me to a blog that said why not use them both... and a third app as well to round out the usefulness.
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Tags: Freeware, Payware, Productiviy, iPhone, Donationware, Jenn

Where do you look for applications for your Mac? Is there a dev that stands out above all others for you?
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Tags: General Info, Jenn

I have far too many email addresses that I monitor in Mail.app. I had been falling hopelessly behind on weeding out the junk and actually getting it into the trash. I was missing some stuff that came in as well. Read More...

Tags: Freeware, Productiviy, Jenn

If you don’t want to read the blog regularly and don’t want to follow @macappgem on Twitter you can still get the suggested gems...
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There are so many to choose from and some that warranted gem status in the past may be losing a bit of lustre. It’s not a bad idea to check out a few different apps to see which might suit your workflow best.
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Tags: Freeware, Payware, Productiviy, Donationware, Jenn

And if not, perhaps you just aren’t using instant messaging enough to warrant looking for better solutions. Read More...

Tags: Freeware, Jenn

But there is one I just keep coming back to for ease of use and for the right-at-hand features it provides. Intuitive editing tools make it quick and easy to use.
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Tags: Freeware, Beta, Graphics, Jenn

Not everything in life can be free and sometimes what you get is well worth the price. This is just such an app. You won’t know how you made use of your computer and the Internet without this loaded on your Mac.
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Tags: Productiviy, Payware, Security, Jenn

...at least what you are spending time on when using your computer? There’s an app for that (that’s a hard one to resist using - it’s so applicable.)
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Since I work in Academia I end up dealing with a lot of articles, tech reports — papers in general. Having a way to organize them for me and others who need to access them is rather useful.

I just tweeted these with the #macappgem hash on Twitter. It’s a useful grouping to have handy and they are all free. Read More...

Tags: Freeware, Reference, Jenn

Ah, the power of Web 2.0 and Social Media!

Here we have the beginnings of macappgem.com. A place to gather info on the Mac app gems we run across in our daily computing lives. Read More...

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