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July 9, 2003

Hunt, peck, bling.

At long last, some wonderful soul has compiled the closest thing to a definitive list containing all the wonderfully obscure Macintosh keyboard sequences and startup modifiers. My favourite (and previously unbeknownst to me) key combination? That would have to be the pentadigit cmd-opt-shift-delete-octothorpe, where octothorpe represents the ID number of the SCSI device you want … More

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July 9, 2003

What Panther should fix. (For me.)

Encouraged by the series of ‘What Panther Should Fix’ missives posted by Hadley Stern on his AppleMatters site, and the continually entertaining persnicketiness of the eminent Mr Gruber, I’ve been compiling my own grumpy list of things I’d like to see addressed when Panther finally pads into town later this year. I’m not asking for … More

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July 7, 2003

You are here.

It’s not just about the booth, it’s also what the booth is about. The available domain name of the week is kioskology.com

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July 4, 2003

The exceptional uncaught mouse.

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July 3, 2003

Temporarily pisssed!

You see son, that’s why we don’t go off installing prerelease operating systems all willy-nilly. Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t make it right. I mean, if Avie went and jumped himself off a bridge, would you?

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July 3, 2003

Got no style.

Jack Mottram wrote in this morning, “…there’s something funny happening at splorp.com — whenever I click on a link to an entry to your weblog from NetNewsWire, the web page loads up without a good chunk of code — Doctype, head tags, etc. are all missing, and I am faced with an unstyled, navigation-free version … More

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July 2, 2003

Who are you calling a geek?

Listen, just because I got all excited about this new DevCenter article by Danny Goodman (yeah, I’m talking about that Danny Goodman…) entitled Super-Efficient Image Rollovers and couldn’t wait to start diving in head first, it doesn’t mean I’m a geek. Ok, maybe it does.

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July 1, 2003

The Finder according to Hertzfeld.

The recent spate of love it or hate it posturing around the latest iteration of the Mac OS X Finder is historically rooted in the ongoing search for the perfect file management environment. A search, I might add, that has been in progress since the introduction of the Mac. Of course, there is no such … More

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