What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 30th through February 2nd:

Send a FAX by E-mail –

Yes, thats right. SEND a FAX by EMAIL! No reg­is­tra­tion, no cost. Just fol­low the easy instruc­tions on the page. I love this, it’s like the blu-ray ver­sion of […]

What I’m into: today

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from today.

50cycles bike acces­sories — Spook­light USB rechar­gable Wire­less Bicy­cle Safety Indi­ca­tor, brake light and iPod recharge –

The ulti­mate in touch-sensitive, USB-compatible, iPhone-friendly, recharge­able, bike safety. Kinda cool, i want it in a way that annoys me.

Did Cook­ing Give Humans An Evolutionary […]

OS haX: Undocumented, inaccessible, and incredibly useful

As enjoy­able as Apple’s soft­ware is to use, they like to make us work.  Hid­den below the sur­face of most Apple soft­ware are hun­dreds of undoc­u­mented lit­tle “switches” which can be turned on to enable new sooper-seekrit fea­tures.  By the same token, these switches can be dis­abled to remove […]

More than just colors: My bash settings

bash_promptIf the title sug­gests to you either a party, or vio­lence, then per­haps this post isn’t for you. If instead you are imag­in­ing a blank win­dow filled with text, read on. If you are con­fused right now, but also strangely curi­ous, you may feel […]

Mac tip: UN-minimize a window from the App Switcher

Yet another new one to me!  And such a use­ful lit­tle nugget too…  If you already have command-tab hard­wired into your mus­cle mem­ory then you may just love this tip for pulling min­i­mized win­dows out of the Dock.  Directly from the Appli­ca­tion Switcher (cmd + tab heads-up dis­play).  Using only the keyboard.

Snippets make TextExpander amazing

TE_logoIf you re not famil­iar with Tex­tEx­pander, it’s a util­ity which runs in the back­ground on your com­puter all the time and does noth­ing, until you type out a pre­de­fined string of char­ac­ters.  It then leaps into action, replac­ing those char­ac­ters with a pre­set block of […]

How to peel a banana

O yeah, like this is wor­thy of a blog post?  Well, if you, like the fel­low in the video, have spent your entire life peel­ing bananas by yank­ing on the stem (“top”) you should watch this video.  The stem method, while mostly effec­tive, usu­ally results in a bit of banana-mush.  Align your­self with your primate […]

Delete Search Recommendations

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BEFORE

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AFTER

So y’know how every­thing you type in a search field gets stored and sug­gested back to you for ever and ever?  Have you ever wanted to remove one par­tic­u­lar (pos­si­bly embarrassing/incriminating) search term from those lists?  Here’s […]

iTunes Tip: those arrows

iTunes_arrows_ACKThose arrows, those pesky arrows. You know the ones that appear next to every track in your library and the iTunes store?  And only serve the pur­pose of direct­ing you to pur­chase things.  When they first appeared in iTunes you were left with the option to […]

Added security for your desktop, part II

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Stum­bled across this post on Mac desk­top lock­ing and and learned a few things myself.  They cover the Key­chain Access method.  They also high­light some nifty/useful wid­gets and preference panes.

Via UsingMac.com: Lock Your Mac Desk­top (Part II).