201: Mac at Home, PC at Work
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David and Katie are joined by Gabe Weatherhead discuss the struggles with using a Mac as your primary platform at home while being forced to use a PC at work and suggestions for how to stay productive when sliding between platforms.

Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

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Guest Starring: Gabe Weatherhead)

Links and Show Notes:

Links for this episode:

• Macdrifter)Collected from: Macdrifter

• RSS Feed)

• Me on Twitter)

• Twitter Feed)

• Pinboard Bookmarks)

• Github)

• Technical Difficulties Podcast)

• Presentations — MacSparky)Presentations Field Guide iBooks Pre-order)

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• MILOfest - Macs In The Law Office | Conference for Mac Using Attorneys)
• Mac Power Users 177: Workflows with Gabe Weatherhead | Mac Power Users)
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker: Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniak, William L. Simon: 9780316037709: Amazon.com: Books)
• Cisco Meraki)
• Jump Desktop (Remote Desktop) - RDP / VNC for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod), Mac, Android and PC)Jump Desktop iTunes Link)

Jump Desktop Mac App Store Link)

• Remote Access | GoToMyPC®)
• XenDesktop - Virtual Desktop Delivery - Citrix)
• Box | Free Cloud Storage, Secure Content & Online File Sharing)
• Microsoft Office Online - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web)
• Apple - Keynote for Mac)
• Microsoft OneDrive)
• Microsoft OneNote | The digital note-taking app for your devices)
• Byword • Simple and efficient text editor for Mac, iPhone and iPad.) Byword Mac App Store Link)

Byword iTunes Link)

• Home - TextDrop - Online text editor for Dropbox)

• ResophNotes - Quick Notes on Windows)

• Apple - Creativity and Productivity Apps)

• FastMail: Fast, reliable email)

• Outlook for Mac : Email, Contact and Information Manager | Office For Mac)

• Microsoft Exchange Server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)Microsoft Exchange Server is calendaring software, a mail server and contact manager developed by Microsoft.

• TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time)

• TextExpander snippets for Windows)

• Text expander for Windows - Breevy)

• Phrase Express- Text Expander for Windows - Snippets Organizer)

• AutoHotkey: macro and automation Windows scripting language)

• Belvedere - Download)

• LastPass | The Last Password You Have to Remember)

• Google Drive)

• Mind Mapping Software - Create Mind Maps online)

• Slack: Be less busy)

• Basecamp is everyone’s favorite project management app.)

• Evernote | Remember everything with Evernote, Skitch and our other great apps.)

• Things - task management for Mac & iOS | Cultured Code)

• Spootnik)

• Kinkless.com and "The Kinkless Desktop" | 43 Folders)

• Remember The Milk: Online to-do list and task management)

• Asana · Teamwork without email)

• Free online to do list - manage all your everyday tasks - Wunderlist)

• A Task Management Vision Quest)

• Task Management Vision Quest Part Two)

• TaskPaper — Simple to-do list software for Mac)

• How to Automatically Transfer Evernote Notes to Omnifocus For Review)

• Share Mouse and Keyboard with multiple Computers)

• MailDrop)

• Cloak VPN - Cloak - GetCloak.com)

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