Author Biography
Contributing Editor Matt Neuburg has been writing for TidBITS since 1991, concentrating on issues surrounding word processing, databases and text organization programs, scripting and innovative programming systems, and a variety of utilities. He has written some popular freeware programs, such as MemoryStick and NotLight. He has created the online documentation for a number of applications, such as Script Debugger and Opal. He has written books about programming Frontier, REALbasic, and AppleScript, and is the author of various Take Control ebooks.
Most Popular Articles
- Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively (01 May 2008)
- Reluctantly Switching from Eudora to Apple Mail (13 Apr 2008)
- Hand Coding HTML Is Still in Vogue (25 Apr 2008)
- Iridium-Capable iPhone Not Entirely Laughable (13 Apr 2008)
Recent TidBITS Talk Discussions
- OmniFocus: the interface is weak but the project is willing (11 messages)
- Anyone tried the Online Passport application system? (20 messages)
- Phone Message Software Recommendation please (8 messages)
- auto-filing of read mail in Apple Mail (7 messages)
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Matt Neuburg
Contributing Editor
Time Machine Exposed!
At last, a utility that lets you ask the question: Exactly what was copied during that last Time Machine backup? Right now, it's a command-line tool and its feature set is still in flux, but don't let that stop you.Read more...
Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively
A simple free tool lets you isolate large files that you've inadvertently and unnecessarily permitted to occupy space in your Time Machine backups folder.Read more...
Unwanted App Launch Problem Solved, No Thanks to Apple
Mac OS X has been around for 7 years, so why are there still all these secret settings and undocumented mechanisms?Read more...
How to Use a Spotlight Saved Search in Leopard
One movie is worth a thousand words.Read more...
iMovie '08 Meets Wild Robot Cars
Back from the field filming the DARPA Urban Challenge, will I be able to perform a simple task using iMovie '08 - to overlay some text onto an entire movie - without ever having used the program before, and without reading the manual?Read more...
Menu Bars So Clean, They Seem To Disappear
The Leopard menu bar is even more transparent than I thought.Read more...
Six Things I Hate about Leopard
Six things about Leopard I just can't stand. I've been dying to talk about these, and now I'm going to.Read more...
The Best (and Worst) of Leopard
Leopard is about to pounce! Now that Apple has posted its list of 300 new features, I'm allowed to say which ones I like best (and which one I hate the most).Read more...
This Could Be My Favorite Leopard Feature
Time Machine plus Spotlight equals...?Read more...
Where Have I Been?
I'm sure the question "Why hasn't Matt Neuburg been publishing many TidBITS articles lately?" is right up there in most people's minds along with other burning questions of the day.Read more...
Living With Leopard
For the past two weeks I"ve been busily working on what might be last major draft for the Leopard version of my Take Control of Customizing book. Will Apple mess me up by changing Leopard's spots again between now and October?Read more...
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FontExplorer X - What Was I Thinking?
Recently I've been using Linotype's FontExplorer X, and now I'm wondering what on earth I was thinking, to have waited so long. It's terrific.Read more...
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