Code / Computers

What’s Wrong With AIR?

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What’s wrong with AIR? “At first, I simply accepted the explanation. But the more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. It seemed like a decision that had everything to do with what’s in the best interests of the business, and little to do with what’s good for their customers.” I love stuff … Read more

YVOD Assistant

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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

Apple Mail – Keystrokes

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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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Apple Discontinues Xserve

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Apple Discontinues Xserve Re: Jeez. What does that mean? It means Apple thinks you can do everything with a Mac Pro or a collection of Mac mini’s. Your software will continue to run, obviously. But your hardware is becoming obsolete. Rather than make Enterprise-ready 1U solutions, Apple wants to focus on the Mac Pro. The … Read more

Learn by Video

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Adobe Press Learn by Video This is REALLY, really cool. Set up an app to play purchased video content. Then sell the videos for $2 each (or whatever you want). Lots of free videos for “members” as well. I think this is very smart. Very. Makes me think…

iOS Breakpoints

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When you check in your project make sure to also check in all individual user file. Inside the project you will find (projectname).xcodeproj inside this folder you will find a number of files with your username in them. for example: (username).mode1v3 (username).pbxuser The breakpoints for a project are stored int these files. If you do … Read more