WTF is .docx and why should i care?

docx filesMicrosoft has recently unveiled their lat­est ver­sion of the Office suite for the Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem, but they do not plan on releas­ing a Mac ver­sion for quite a while yet. “So what?” you ask. Well, they’ve gone and changed the stan­dard Word file for­mat (as in Word, […]

OS X Basics: The Save dialogue

save dialogue

Let’s keep this one real basic. I want to point your atten­tion to a help­ful post on The Unof­fi­cial Apple Weblog about how to mas­ter the save dia­logue that you see uni­ver­sally across almost all appli­ca­tions on the Mac.

The Save dia­log in Mac OS X can often lead switch­ers, and […]

Email: Making hyperlinks actually work in emails

Links in emails are tricky cuz some­times you want the recip­i­ent to be able to click the link in your mes­sage but when they receive the mes­sage half the URL is blue and click­able but half isn’t! What gives?! Here’s a trick: put a long URL string in between the greater-than/less-than signs […]

POS: Sales batching, the hows & whys

backend menuHere’s a handy tuto­r­ial for all of yalls that work with prod­uct in the prod­uct data­base, buy­ers, pro­duce team, i’m talk­ing to you here. Part of our back­end sys­tem allows for the cre­ation of prod­uct batches, essen­tially a group of items, for putting on sale all at once and […]

OS X Basics: Viewing long filenames

view long filenamesA quick & use­ful tip for view­ing long file­names in the finder cour­tesy of The Unof­fi­cial Apple Weblog:

Have you ever opened up a Finder win­dow in col­umn view and found your­self con­fronted with trun­cated file names? It’s quite annoy­ing. Here’s a quick fix.

At the bot­tom of the column, […]

hAhA: Collecting Double-takes

Thought i’d share a delight­ful strip from one of my favorite web-comics, xkcd. Tee-hee.

Collecting doubletakes

OS X Basics: The finder views

Hope­fully we are all famil­iar with the Finder. Your doc­u­ments are in the Finder, your Appli­ca­tions, all of it, acces­si­ble through the Finder win­dow. The Finder is the fil­ing cab­i­net for all of your com­put­ero­log­i­cal ‘stuff’ on the Mac. But unlike the stan­dard fil­ing cab­i­net, the Finder has some neat tools to […]

Don’t be threatened staff log, i come in peace.

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Say “hey!” to the new People’s Co-op Tech-blog! An online dig­i­tal com­pendium of the way things work (tech­no­log­i­cally speak­ing, of course) here at Peeps. The idea is to pour all of the mate­r­ial i have gen­er­ated about cash reg­is­ter oper­a­tions, com­put­ers, phones, you-name-it, into one place which […]

Don’t be threatened staff log, i come in peace.

blogginess-banner

Say “hey!” to the new People’s Co-op Tech-blog! An online dig­i­tal com­pendium of the way things work (tech­no­log­i­cally speak­ing, of course) here at Peeps. The idea is to pour all of the mate­r­ial i have gen­er­ated about cash reg­is­ter oper­a­tions, com­put­ers, phones, you-name-it, into one place which […]

Don’t be threatened staff log, i come in peace.

blogginess-banner

Say “hey!” to the new People’s Co-op Tech-blog! An online dig­i­tal com­pendium of the way things work (tech­no­log­i­cally speak­ing, of course) here at Peeps. The idea is to pour all of the mate­r­ial i have gen­er­ated about cash reg­is­ter oper­a­tions, com­put­ers, phones, you-name-it, into one place which […]