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David Sparks shows how he uses Hazel to sort his scanned in bills. He goes step-by-step, showing how to incorporate file dates into the file names and folders.
The folks at Woopid have done their own set of Hazel tutorial videos. Neat.
Great walkthrough of Hazel in French. Check the site for tutorials of other products as well.
Don McAllister gives a video tour of Hazel's main features.
Lifehacker: Set Up a Self-Cleaning Mac with Hazel
Gina Trapani gives a run-through of Hazel's features and provides a few rules to boot.
Ethan Schoonover at Kinkless has an excellent screencast showing how he uses Hazel to organize his files and makes his ruleset available for download. Make sure to check out his whole series on reducing Desktop clutter.
Noodlesoft Interview at Ars Technica
Interview with yours truly.
Adam Engst shows how to use Hazel to clean out your BBEdit backups folder.
Automated recording using Hazel
Grover Saunders describes how he incorporates Hazel into James Madison University's video recording workflow.
Press
Mac Power Users podcast: Going Paperless
In this installment of a new podcast featuring Katie Floyd and David Sparks, they go over different solutions for reducing the amount of paper in their lives. David talks about how he uses Hazel to sort his scanned-in bills.
LifeHacker: Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac
In a sea of app uninstallers, Gina Trapani shows her preference for Hazel's App Sweep function.
Hazel gets a mention in their Mac Geek Gab podcast (#201) and is also featured in their Monday's Mac Gadget (May 18th, 2009) column.
MacFormat (print edition - May, 2009)
(link goes to accompanying podcast)
Craig Grannell reviews Hazel (pg. 103) and gives it their MacFormat Choice Award (5 stars)! The magazine also features a two page tutorial (pg. 64).
Hazel is reviewed in this podcast episode. You can also view the text of the review here.
Franke De Graeve covers Hazel in his wonderful podcast highlighting the best in Mac apps.
MacWorld (print edition - November, 2007)
Hazel is featured in the "Hot Stuff" section.
Macworld Feature: Customize your Mac
Rob Griffiths mentions Hazel in the "Productivity Boosters" section.
Must-Have Mac Apps for the new Mac Switcher!
Chris Thomson includes Hazel in his list of essential apps.
Michael Mistretta's video review.
LifeHacker: Rebuild Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads
For those upgrading to Leopard, remember to reinstall Hazel.
Jeff Powell talks about Hazel 2.
Rick Yaeger on Leo Laporte's "The Lab"
Rick Yaeger of MacMerc talks about Hazel on Leo Laporte's The Lab TV show.
Merlin Mann on Leo Laporte's MacBreak podcast
Merlin talks about a lot of great apps in this segment, including Hazel. Hazel is brought up again on Leo's Mac Break Weekly audio podcast.
"Hazel is one of those rare pieces of software…that feels like it's filling a gaping feature void I didn't even know Apple left in Mac OS X"
"Hazel almost instantly became some of the best $16 I've ever spent on my computing."
"I honestly believe Hazel is a killer - nay: essential - app…[I] can't even begin to guess at how much time it's saved me."
"It's very powerful, but also very easy to use and very unobtrusive. "
"…quite a useful addition to anyone's toolbox."
"This application is gold I tell you, gold."
"I've been tinkering with Hazel quite a bit in the past couple weeks, and have really seen moments of brilliance in it. "
"The only thing that's missing is for it to fix you up a nice cup of tea while you are away from the computer."
FreelanceSwitch 35 Absolutely Essential Mac Apps
Lifehacker Download of the Day - Aug 21, 2006 and Dec 26, 2006
Lifehacker Top 10 Mac Utilities
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