YVOD Assistant

After Work Steve leaves his office in SF and jumps on BART. His Assistant notices the time of day and the GPS route and deduces that Steve is on his way home from work. As Steve exists BART and begins to walk home, his Assistant sends him a text messages summary of the house information … Read more

The Power of Positivity

The Rastafarians I ran into growing up used to say that the problem with Christians is that they believe. “Rasta Know!” If you believe then your mind can change with your belief. But if you know something is true, then it just is. There is no changing it. If you know you are going to … Read more

One Song

Bob Marley is one of my heros. His songs of love, freedom and redemption have inspired me since I was a little boy. I have often wondered if I was him and I was going to write just one song for the world to hear, which song would it be. How would I like to … Read more

Apple Mail – Keystrokes

Get Mail

We are migrating over from Eudora to Apple Mail.app. I have resisted for years but… well, the time is right.

Of course a move like this must include a few twists and turns. One of my first involves keystrokes. I am not sure why Apple would make ‘Power User’ keystrokes for this app so arcane.

Get New Mail = Command-Shift-N.

Really? What about just Command-M like everyone else? Getting mail is not ‘creating new mail’ which, as you would assume, is Command-N. ‘N’ implies new. ‘M’ implies mail. Create new = Command-N. Get new mail = Command-M. Whatever, it is easy to change, just not sure what Apple was thinking.

After much searching, I found usingmac.com has the best list of keystrokes. I figured I would repost them here so more folks might find them.

PS: Dan Rodney and macrumors have some nice keystroke lists as well.

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Nobody Knows Me At All – The Weepies

[display_podcast] I went to see Race To Nowhere last night and this song by The Weepies opened and closed it. While I liked the song, I’m not sure how I feel about the movie. It will be compared to Waiting For Superman for obvious reasons. As the folks I saw it with pointed out, one … Read more

How Glad I Am – Brandi Shearer

[display_podcast] I bought this a few months ago and I am still enjoying it a lot. Hmm… I wonder why. Her delivery is nice, no question. But I think it is the poetry. It has the whole Ray Charles “You Don’t Know Me” vibe to it. For some reason that really resonates with me. Here … Read more