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Avoiding the Escape Key in Vim →
The Vi editor was originally written on an ADM-3A terminal, which had the Escape key in place of the Tab key I didn’t know this. It never made sense to me that the philosophy of VIM navigation was to keep your hands on the home row, but required you to reach all the way up there to get into normal mode.
CloudOn Brings Microsoft Office Functionality to iPad →
Apply directly to the forehead.
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FAA Allows iPads in the Cockpit →
On Friday, American Airlines is the first airline in the world to be fully FAA approved to use iPads during all phases of flight. You know, it’s not TSA’s groping and pawing through my bag that gets me really pissed when I travel. It’s the bossy flight attendants who enforce “sky law” with my iPad and iPod. I just want to get on, turn on some Coltrane and zone out until we get there. No word on whether the FAA … Continue reading
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Google Plus OmniFocus Theme →
One of my few beefs with Omnifocus is the default visual design. I’ve experiemnted with lots of themes on the OFThemes website and tried to come up with my own. The only one that’s hung around for long is the theme inspired by Google+. I suppose that means that there’s been at least one good thing to come out of G+. Now if we could only figure out how to do away with that purple icon..
Why the Keurig K-Cup is the beginning of the end for great coffee →
An interesting take on the popular single cup coffee makers. via Marco Arment
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Three Cheers For Steve
Here’s to thinking different, Here’s to comebacks, Here’s to changing the world. Thanks, Steve. We’ll miss you.
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PC Style Activities →
The use of the mobile OS would be “in conflict” with Microsoft’s notion of having the full speed of a computer in any design, including truly mobile tablets. He insisted that users would want to do PC-style activities on a tablet and saw Windows 8′s networking and printing support as being important. I’m having trouble understanding what these “PC-style activities” are that I’m apparently not able to do on my iPad. Spreadsheets? Getting into an Access database? Maybe it’s printing…I … Continue reading
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The Email Charter →
There are some interesting points to be taken from this selection of email “rules.” The point about clearing out all information that isn’t relevant to your reply has lots of benefits. With the addition of conversation grouping in Lion Mail and Outlook/Exchange 2010 mean that there aren’t many compelling reasons left to leave the full conversation intact from a practical perspective. The rules suggest adding tags of sort for [info], [action], etc. I think even more important is to preface … Continue reading
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Star Wars: Revisited →
Star Wars Revisited is a fan edit project by a man called Adywan. It started around 2004, when Ady found himself displeased with what the Special Editions of Star Wars had become. He started color-correcting the DVD version, but as he was doing so, he found that there were many things he could figure out how to do to make what he felt the Special Editions should have been. He worked on A New Hope for two years before releasing … Continue reading
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Dork Shelf Reviews Transformers 3 →
Sounds great. The’ve spent millions of dollars on this franchise and they can’t find a writer who can do anything but make George Lucas look like Shakespeare by comparison. This movie is stupid. Absolutely 1,010% brainless with not a single thing that makes a lick of sense even in a fantasy realm. The plot is so nonsensical and illogical that it’s almost a work of art.