Here’s a video of a presentation Matt Smith and Sean Tierney did at the last Lean Phx user group. In the interest of cramming the most actionable content into one hour, we came up with this “DJ Battle” format where we trade 5min sessions showing various techniques and tools. Here’s a time-stamped [...]

You can use this technique to setup “snares” and monitor Craigslist for deals. This trick uses persistent RSS searches combined with a service that converts an RSS feed into real-time email notifications. Taking it a step further you can receive those notifications as SMS and be the first person to know as certain deals become [...]

Spotlight does search well but it can also simplify other things like launching apps and making it super-convenient to perform math calculations. Check this 4min episode for some tips on how to get the most out of Spotlight for finding files, tracking down stuff in web pages you’ve visited and other useful tricks. Here’s a [...]

Typinator is an app that allows you to predefine blocks of text and paste them with a set of unique keystrokes. It’s very useful if you find yourself having to repeatedly copy/paste text snippets or re-type boilerplate blocks of text. In this 3min demo I’ll show you how I use it for streamlining support [...]

This gem when added to the Chrome browser allows you to easily move tabular data from a webpage to a spreadsheet program like Google Docs, Excel or Numbers. In this video I do a 4min demo of how to use this extension to determine the average population of a US state.