Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

The hotter your computer gets, the slower it runs. Most modern desktops don’t suffer from over-heating problem, but if your main machine is a laptop, you know the painful slowness that heat produces.
To help get your MacBook running back at top speed, are 5 ways to make your Apple laptop cooler:
Know How Hot Your [...]

Now that you know how to encrypt files on your Mac OS X computer, the question is: what do you need to encrypt? Here are some of the kinds of things you’ll want to keep inside an encrypted folder, broken down into vital and not-vital categories.
Vital Files to Encrypt:
Financial documents: if you get your bank [...]

One tip to finding typos when proofreading your work is to read your writing aloud — this helps, but you may still not catch many of your mistakes. You tend to read what you think you wrote, rather than what you actually did.
You need someone else to read your writing aloud. But, if [...]

If you bought iLife 09, you’ll know that it’s filled with lots of new features. One of these is videos in GarageBand of professional musicians teaching you how to make better music.
If you’re not a music person, these are just taking up space on your hard drive — lots of space. 1.3 gigs [...]

Loath though I am to admit it, there’s one feature of Microsoft Windows that I missed after switching: the ability to tile windows vertically or horizontally quickly and easily.
Sometimes you want to have a browser and a document open, side-by-side without the hassle of manually arranging it
OS X, for all its productive benefits, does not [...]