Matthew Guay
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The Canon Cat and the Mac that Steve Jobs killed ·
Imagine an original Macintosh, a beige box with an oversized chin and offset floppy drive. A friendly little machine. You sit down to draft a letter, tap the keyboard to rouse the Mac from its slumber, and discover the Mac is running a word processor. That was Jef Raskin’s dream for the original Macintosh. “Apple’s products were, in many ways, difficult machines to explain to customers,” wrote… → Read More
Zapier Apps at Work: The Fastest Growing Apps in 2019
Work changes. The skills that got you here may not get you to the next level of your career, and the next role you take may have not even existed a decade ago. That's why using new apps—especially those designed specifically for your industry—is so important. It... → Read More
Zapier Apps at Work: The Fastest Growing Apps in 2019
Work changes. The skills that got you here may not get you to the next level of your career, and the next role you take may have not even existed a decade ago. That's why using new apps—especially th... → Read More
The Zapier Guide to Email Automation
Email is essential for work—and yet, email is often not productive. Your inbox is the rare place where critical tasks, important information, news, app notifications, and personal letters all mix in an unwieldy list that is always filling up. Email apps only help so much. They simplify organizing and... → Read More
How to Compare Shipping Rates: 6 Apps to Find The Best Shipping Service
Shipping—as much as any software—is what makes eCommerce works. You can sell products from your hometown to customers around the world thanks to the postal service. Yet it’s hardly an enjoyable experience.Shipping costs are formidable. Amazon spent over 12% of their revenue on shipping in 2017... → Read More
Introducing Zapier Paths: A Smarter Way to Build Conditional Workflows
Life and work are filled with decisions, the forks in the road that add up to your destination. One order gets shipped immediately, while another needs to be customized. Some emails can get an automated answer, others need a custom reply a detailed solution. It all depends on tiny factors... → Read More
The 8 Best Email Hosting Services for Business
Email is the hub of almost every business. It's the easiest way to communicate, both internally and externally. It's where you get your most important notifications. And it gives you storage space for archiving critical information and shared files. While it might be tempting to pick your email... → Read More
How to Instantly Follow Up on Facebook Lead Ads With Custom Notifications
When someone walks into your store or sees your ad and calls your office, it’s easy to know they’re interested in buying what you sell. It's far more difficult online. People may skim your website and Facebook Page without taking any action. Then one day they finally... → Read More
How to Customize Your Shopify Store Emails, Theme, Domain, and More
Something makes an Apple store feel different from a Samsung store, Starbucks from a local coffee shop, Uniqlo from Gap. Walk into a McDonald's in any country, and while some things may look unfamiliar, in general, it still feels like a McDonald's. Even embassies often retain the feel... → Read More
How to Create Siri Shortcuts Beyond Your iPhone
Ever wished you could have Siri do your job for you? With iOS 12 and the new Shortcuts app, you can finally customize Siri. Set up a workflow, then tell Siri what to do, and it can send emails and save contacts and more for you automatically. It's the... → Read More
How to Start a Shopify Store
Read or Download How to Start a Shopify Store from our The Ultimate Guide to eCommerce Software e-book for FREE and start learning today! → Read More
How to Create a PDF
PDF files are the best way to ensure they look the same on your computer and any other device. They're digital paper. And today, it's as easy to make a PDF as it is to print your file on paper.Here's the easiest way to create a... → Read More
The 8 Best PDF Editor Apps in 2018
When you need a document that looks the same everywhere, no matter which app opens the file, you need a PDF. They’re the closest thing we have to digital paper. PDF files are ubiquitous for detailed forms, eBooks, whitepapers, and anything else where you don’t want text and... → Read More
The PowerPoint Online Guide: How to Make and Present Slideshows Anywhere
Over the past thirty years, PowerPoint has become synonymous with presentations. Give a speech, present a new product, share finances in a board meeting—all are typically done with a PowerPoint presentation. That’s easy enough if you’re presenting from your laptop and have Microsoft Office installed.Or it... → Read More
The 25 Best Productivity Apps in 2018
The flywheel effect is an amazing thing. You know how when you ride a bicycle, the first few pumps of the peddle are always the hardest? Then it gets easier, as your inertia builds up and the energy from your previous hard work combines to let you casually peddle around... → Read More
When Slack Won the Team Chat Market
It’s hard to stop a rocket, impossible to ignore an idea whose time had come. For a species as talkative as homo sapiens, a chat app was always bound to be the killer app for smart devices. And in 2013, it’d be easy to assume HipChat was to... → Read More
The 20 Best Productivity Apps for iPad in 2018
Use your iPad as a laptop replacement with these apps that help you do more on your tablet in less time. → Read More
The 10 Fastest Growing New Work Apps and Trends in 2018
The most important apps are the ones you stick with, add to your home screen, and make a core part of your workflows. Sometimes new apps click immediately. Other times, you start relying on them over time as the apps add new features and your whole team gets onboard. Those... → Read More
The 25 Best Productivity Apps for Mac in 2018
Creation software isn’t enough on its own. Word processors, spreadsheets, creative tools, IDEs, email, databases, and more run our businesses and are the reason we have computers for work, but they’re not perfect. You can have the best apps to code software, write novels, or sketch art, but... → Read More
The 25 Best Productivity Apps for Mac in 2018
Creation software isn’t enough on its own. Word processors, spreadsheets, creative tools, IDEs, email, databases, and more run our businesses and are the reason we have computers for work, but they’re not perfect. You can have the best apps to code software, write novels, or sketch art, but... → Read More