Archive for the ‘Tools/Tips/Tricks’ Category
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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The MikeBook has been receiving tons of app upgrades due to Lion (haven't upgraded yet; waiting a few months for the bugs to shake out).
In general, the app upgrades have caused no problem except for Safari, which disabled the Page Up, Page Down, Home ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2010
"The truth is dancers and musicians live in two different worlds."For academic writers, the Rule of 200. Writing 200 words/day is rather like writing for 15 minutes/day -- it sets an objective, emotionally neutral goal. Getting that first draft squeezed out is most important; quality can be layered in later. ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Here are two bookmarklets I use every day. (Bookmarklets, you ask? What are they? More here.)
The beautiful thing about bookmarklets is they should work from within IE, Firefox, Safari, or any web browser that lets you put a bookmark in its Links bar.
Because I read lots of articles and blogs ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
For the last couple of months, I've had an incredibly annoying problem in Firefox, when entering text into text boxes: the cursor would disappear, the text box would appear to lock up, and I'd have to click inside the text box to resume typing. Often, too, I'd hit the Backspace ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
I've enjoyed having VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, as it's made the transition from a PC to a Mac easier. Also, since I now have only the MacBook, I'm able to easily duplicate what I had on the old PC and to edit work documents on my copy of Microsoft ...
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