Launch it and a small window opens with two buttons: Start & Hide and Clean now. Clean now does just what it says it does, while Start & Hide starts an agent that runs in the background and cleans your desktop each day or week. You can set the frequency in preferences, along with choosing a destination folder for your cleaned items and whether you'd like your files grouped by day or by month or neither. Like Desktoday, you can set exceptions to leave certain folders or files from getting cleaned, but here you must create a label for those items on your desktop and then check the box in preferences for Skip items with labels. Unlike Desktoday, Clean does not provide a link to the destination folder you must navigate your way there yourself. Camouflage hides your desktop icons.Ĭamouflage is the third app in this mini-roundup, but it differs from the previous two. Clean mac 3 reviews free#įor starters, it's not free but costs $1.99. Shouldn’t be any trouble at all to get any sane manager to approve $100-150.Secondly, instead of moving files, it just hides them. The good news is, except for a KVM, all of these things are cheap. The MacInTouch KVM discussions earlier this year identified some issues with certain KVMs and Apple’s aluminum keyboards.) (My KVM experience predates USB so I won’t attempt any recommendations. It may also provide a good place to stash the Windows box’s keyboard when not in use, assuming you don’t have a good KVM. It’s really handy to push your keyboard back out of the way when you need to work with old fashioned paper on your desk. You may want to consider adding a Macessity SlimKey stand under a display (I got mine from Small Dog). That stack of whatevers in the photo is definitely going to block you from your work, so almost any laptop riser is going to improve the situation. Either of those will get your MBP display much closer to the main screen, so turning your head to the left won’t seem quite so crazy. ![]() Recommend this for a secondary display.Īs far as risers so, I recommend trying a Rain Design mStand (a colleague has one here for his 17″ MBP and it’s pretty sweet), or possibly the height-adjustable one (not as elegant but quite functional). Not the snappiest thing in the world but will do the job. To get both displays hooked up to the MBP, try using a USB-video adapter (like this NewerTech USB to DVI adapter from OWC). ![]() Thoughts, dear readers? Y’all are pretty smart, so I’m sure that someone out there has a good idea at how to best set up my working environment to totally rock. So maybe I want to keep on using two monitors on my server. I’ve also been playing with integrating OneNote into my life 1, and that seems to be fitting into my workflow well. I’m going to be doing more on the enterprise side of things than I have in the past, so going fully headless doesn’t seem like it’s the right thing to do. I’m used to running Windows headless, so this is a bit of a surprise to me. I’ve got my server hooked up to both monitors, and that’s been nice to use. ![]() But having it separated from my monitors defeats my idea, and is annoying me in that I’m constantly turning my head to see what’s on the MBP’s screen. This is not working: with my MBP open, I can’t have it right next to my two monitors because the bottom of the laptop blocks the screen (and, conversely, the screen blocks access to the disc drive). I had been dreaming of having three screens all together, so I put my laptop up on risers. I know that there’s hardware that can enable me to run two external monitors off of my MBP. The MBP has one keyboard/mouse connected to it, my server has another, which is annoying me. My MBP, which is my primary machine, is connected to the screen in the middle. But I haven’t yet figured out the best way to make it all work together. I’ve also got an Apple Keyboard and a Magic Trackpad. The hardware fairy gave me lot of hardware: a MacBook Pro, a Windows Server 2008 box (sitting under my desk), and a matched pair of 22″ displays.
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