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The AeroPress Ritual →
Love this. After a week away from my AeroPress and my Chemex I’m really ready for a good cup of coffee.
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Windows 8 Post of the Month →
“Content Creation” as I use the term applies to a broad range of activities that includes tasks as varied as a student taking notes, a worker recording and distributing meeting notes, a club secretary assembling and distributing newsletters, a teenager spiffing up the audio from a band performance, a webmaster updating a website, and a mother preparing her annual Christmas letter. Contemporary PCs and MacBooks handle such work effortlessly. But, have you tried to accomplish tasks like these on an … Continue reading
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The Importance of Keyboards
We interact with computers by looking at the screen, touching the keyboard and directing the pointer. Performance is an important factors in making a good computer, but the experience when performing these three actions is what can make a computer either great or terrible. The first keyboard I purchased individually was a virtually indestructible keyboard when I was in college. I purchased this shortly after learning that gin, tonic, limes and keyboards don’t mix very well. While the keyboard looked … Continue reading
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Shawn Blanc Redesigns His Site →
In case you hadn’t noticed, Shawn updated his design this week and it looks really sharp.
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iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship | Macworld →
Great article from Jason Snell about some of the problems with iTunes. I agree that syncing is a mess…especially with apps. It seems that no matter what sync options you choose, iTunes does whatever it wants to that day. My beef is with the scalability of the database. I have a substantial music collection (although not big enough to be left out of Match) and updating and editing metadata is an exercise in pain and agony. I’m not sure whether … Continue reading
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Introduction to Text Manipulation on UNIX-based Systems →
This is a very handy resource that everyone should have handy and should probably run through the hard way at least once or twice.
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Comments – It’s Not You…It’s Me
Askismet has started to let some spam comments through. If you feel like sending me some feedback, feel free to send me an email, or respond in another way. After seeing these break through the filter, I furiously patched everything I could to see if that would help and ended up undoing the linked list theme customizations at a very inconvenient time. Hacking PHP in a browser by memory is a terrible way to spend your lunch hour.
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Bringing iCloud to Snow Leopard | Egg Freckles →
One of my biggest beefs with iCloud is how it cut Snow Leopard users out of the sync game. Here’s how to get things working on that old Mini or first generation MacBook Pro you still have in service.
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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time →
I had two consecutive days without work this past weekend for the first time since late January. It’s incredible how much better I feel this week.
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OS X Keyboard Shortcuts →
This is worth it just for the translation of the cryptic menu symbols to actual keys.
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