May 23, 2009
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I finally redeemed two iTunes gift cards last night, finding the process generally straightforward. That said, many Macs now have iSight cameras built-in. As proven by Delicious Library, an iSight can also function as a barcode scanner, moving the …
May 10, 2009
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Being annoyed with having to constantly open and close Fireworks’ modal Numeric Transform dialog, I thought it would be particularly useful in design applications to scale and reposition objects based on relative calculations like “this box should be 25 percent …
May 8, 2009
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At most parties I’ve been to in the last several years, the music source was one or more iPods. For this reason, a Party Mode would be of some use. Locking your iPod while it is being used for playback …
May 3, 2009
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I find myself wasting a lot of time creating calendar events that share a lot of properties, but differ in time of occurrence and duration. Auto-complete still requires per-field interaction.
For example, a band may rehearse regularly, but not on …
April 8, 2009
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David Weiss (The Security Implications of URL Shortening Services) and Joshua Schachter (on url shorteners) both wrote about URL shortening services recently, focusing mostly on security. I began drafting this post a while ago because of …
April 2, 2009
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Evolution is generally a good app, so the e-mail account configuration assistant sticks out. Unfortunately, it is the first thing users encounter after first launching Evolution.
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January 20, 2009
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Hello, President Obama.…
January 19, 2009
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Rescheduling an event to another day using the mobile Calendar app on the iPhone requires at least six taps across four screens. The method depicted below reduces the minimum taps to two with the number of screens depending on how …
December 4, 2008
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Mac OS X’s DVD Player allows users to set the title and a jacket picture for each disc. Some DVDs specify the jacket picture already, as in the case of Samurai Rebellion. These two pieces could be used to …
November 20, 2008
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November 9, 2008
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October 29, 2008
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