CeBit 2010
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 2. March 2010
Merlin and ProjectWizards are this year as intended at the CeBit 2010 in the OS X Business Park. According to the organisators, CeBit is
… the world’s foremost tradeshow for the digital industry in Hannover – Germany
If you prefer some independent information about Cebit 2010 
you may want to check this one.
OS X Business Park: 25 companies with business solutions for Macs and iPhones. A fitting place for your favourite wizard.
Our CEO, Frank Blome presenting Project Managent on the Mac OS X with Merlin.
Tags: Business solutions, CeBit, Germany, Hannover, Mac OS X, Merlin
Merlin: Adjusting keyboard shortcuts
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 28. October 2009
It is very easy to adjust keyboard shortcuts or add new ones on Mac OS X. There is a specific tab in the preference pane ‘Keyboard’. Shortcuts will be shown on the right side of the menu entries they are assigned to.
The shortcut Shift + Command + N for example is assigned per default to the Merlin’s menu entry ‘New Project…’ as listed under the File menu:
Surely you have noticed that the command ’Combine Projects…’ has no shortcut. Here is how to proceed in case you want to assign one.
Tags: Mac OS X, Merlin, Merlin 101
Merlin: MacOS X Firewall
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 17. September 2009
As you know Merlin has very powerful publishing features that allow you to publish your project files, and share them with other users or other applications.
You can publish your saved project files to:
- Other users using Merlin’s powerful Project Sharing. This will allow you to collaborate with other Merlin users using the same project file.
- The Web using Merlin’s own Web Module
- The iPhone or iPod touch using Merlin’s own iPhone Application
- iCal so you can synchronize your activities with iCal
When allowing external access to your machine you should consider setting up a Firewall. This is usually done in your router, but some users would like to use the built-in MacOS X Firewall. Here is a small description of how to set your Firewall for Merlin 2 and Merlin Server 2 on a current MacOS X 10.6.1 (snow leopard) configuration.
Tags: Firewall, Mac OS X, Merlin, Merlin 101, Merlin Server, Merlin Web, Server
Merlin: Formatting text
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 2. September 2009
Do you often write notes on activities or resources? Surely you have noticed that you can use the spell checking features of Mac OS X here to. Have you ever needed the possibility to format it accordingly and was wondering how to do so?
The answer on this is very simple.
Tags: Mac OS X, Merlin, Merlin 101
Merlin: How to update…
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 31. August 2009
Whenever a new Merlin version appears, Merlin will prompt you for an update. This can happen automatically on Merlin’s start up, or the next time you have defined in the preferences that the application should check.
Tags: Mac OS X, Merlin, Merlin 101, Update
Merlin Server: How to update…
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 28. August 2009
Sharing your projects for remote, web or iPhone access is very easy and straight forwards. If you follow the simple steps described in the Quick Start Quide, everything works as expected, nice and silently.
When a new Merlin version appears, Merlin will prompt you for an update, but how to proceed for updating the Merlin Server? Surely you don’t want it causing additional traffic just for its checks. And you definitely do not like updating a server software during the active working times interrupting its service, or even have it done unattended.
So here is a short description on this:
Tags: Mac OS X, Merlin, Merlin 101, Merlin Server, Server, Update
Expanding the ‘Send To’ submenu of Merlin
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 12. August 2009
A very practical feature of Merlin is its “Send To” submenu. It can extract information out of a Merlin file and send it to another application. Per default you find only the application “Billings” listed, but you can expand this submenu by creating your own AppleScripts.
To demonstrate how this works, we are going to tell Merlin to create automatically a PNG picture file of the current Gannt chart and to send it to the Preview.app
So here we go: (more…)
Tags: Applescript, Integration, Mac OS X, Merlin, Merlin 101
WWDC: New iPhone, New MacBooks, Safari 4, and Snow Leopard
John Kranz on 10. June 2009
It’s become a tradition for Apple to announce new products at the WWDC Developer conference. True to form, Apple did not disappoint this year with the unveiling of the new iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3.0 Software Update, updated MacBooks, Safari 4, and the unveiling of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Check out the Apple Press Releases for the official “word” or better yet, watch the WWDC Keynote Address where all the action took place.
Tags: iPhone, Mac OS X, MacBook, Snow Leopard, WWDC
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