Brent Simmons' weblog.
The thing about to-do lists and Twitter clients is that they connect to a server or servers: they connect to the web, to the cloud. Some of the Mac apps you use right now might sync to your iPhone locally, using some kind of networking, without having to go out to The Cloud.
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There was this gift shop at Disney World with a whole bunch of monkeys and hats—and a couple lemurs.
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I recently had the enviable pleasure of taking apart an old bubbly iMac and destroying the hard drive.
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The change notes would just say something like, “Bug fixes and performance enhancements.” Not that I think for one second Apple would do something like that.
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It’s an urban legend that Fidel Castro tried out for an American baseball team. Apparently he wasn’t that good at baseball.
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I figured it would be worth noting how I managed full and Lite versions of the same app, for the benefit of any Cocoa programmers considering the same thing. Each target had a separate Prefix Header setting. Instead of just defining #LITE in the prefix header, I did separate #defines per feature.
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Return to News Items after closing a tab If you want to always return to News Items after closing a tab (instead of going to the next tab in the list), you can. Preferences, Browsing, Behavior —check the box next to After closing a tab, return to news items.
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There’s a Sync this feed checkbox on the subscribe sheet. Turn on/off Latest News, Flagged Items, and Clippings display You can show or not show each of the Latest News, Flagged Items, and Clippings subscriptions—see View > Show Latest News Subscription and similar.
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If you also want to see the first line of text, choose View > Layout > Show Summaries Below Title. Find in the description view If you want to find text in the description view, click on the view to give it focus (or navigate there using Tab), then type cmd-F.
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