Posts by Peter Norman

Note: Version 2 has been released; Version 1 has been discontinued Mac apps installed from Apple’s official Mac App Store are updated automatically – ensuring that your apps are running with the latest bug-fixes and security patches. MacUpdater is a management solution for third party apps installed from sources outside the Mac App Store. Fourteen…

DEVONthink can automatically sync your database across all your Mac and iOS devices using your iCloud account. General Overview You have a database on your Mac which you wish to also have on your iPad On your Mac, you upload that database to a Sync Store On your iPad, you connect to that Sync Store…

On your iPhone/iPad, you can save web pages to DevonThink To Go and they will automatically sync to DevonThink for Mac. Open Safari on your iPhone/iPad Visit a webpage containing an article you wish to save (eg: the DevonThink Dropbox page of instructions!)   Tap the Share button   In the Share sheet, tap Clip to DEVONThink The clipping window shows:  the Title the Database location where the clip will…

DevonThink’s Dropbox setup involves local storage and a sync store: local storage: the Database you create the first time you run DevonThink on your Mac regardless of whether or not you ever intend to use Dropbox sync store: the folder created by DevonThink where a ‘copy’ of your local data is maintained in order to…

An international standard exists to “provide an unambiguous and well-defined method of representing” numerical dates and times so as to avoid misinterpretation. The standard was first published in 1988. This standard date format can help prevent confusion if used properly and consistently – even if a shorter version (YYMMDD) is used instead of the official slightly…