September 2009
10 posts
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Ironic Sans: So you think you can tell Arial from... →
Got 18 out of 20 instantly. And I usually don’t know anything about fonts…
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“Ich bin doch auch dagegen, dass in Afghanistan deutsche Soldaten bewaffnet für...”
– thinrinuum: Terrorwarnung
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I must have been asleep in the last few years: the Dictionary.app in OSX is able to search Wikipedia entries directly. At first I thought it was a Snow Leopard feature but is has been there since 10.5. In 10.6 it gained the ability to open links in articles in Dictionary, too instead of opening them in the browser.
As looking up Wikipedia articles is a pretty common task for me, I sometimes spend...
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One bug that annoys me since I upgraded to Snow Leopard: After waking my computer from sleep the screensaver login dialog doesn’t accept my password. At the beginning it happened just occasional but today it won’t get accepted at all. I have to use the credentials of my second admin account to log back in (which feels a little weird …).
I’m going to do a little debugging. I...
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One nice little utility that I used to use but left it, as i thought it was abandoned is back: Notational Velocity. Its a very small an unobtrusive note-taking application that, because of its cool interface design doesn’t need features like tags, folders or categories, which is pretty remarkable.
The current version was brought up to date to support Snow-Leopard and has become open...
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Today I decided to buy a new bag.
For the last 8 years or so I was using a Crumpler Wack-O-Phone for carrying my Macbook and other stuff but lately it felt too small every now and then. It’s pretty thick padded for protecting the inside which takes up too much space in my opinion and carrying it fully packed was a painful task (literally).
My new bag had to be
larger
a messenger bag...
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“When you have the Open or Save dialog open in an application, you can type the...”
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macosxhints.com - 10.6: Show (and hide) hidden files in Open/Save dialogs
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Apple has updated their manuals for Snow Leopard.
I Find the Introduction to Command-Line Administration (PDF) pretty useful. Although mostly basics are covered, the list of OSX-specific tools at the end looks very handy.