November 26, 2007 – 4:10 pm
I would kill for this hypothetical machine:
MacBook Nano
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 GHz
2GB RAM
32 GB solid state hard drive
11 inch LCD @ 1280×800 resolution (16:10 ratio)
ExpressCard slot
iSight camera
mini-DVI out
USB 2.0 x2
6+ hours of battery life
Less than $3,000 USD
Note the lack of DVD drive, to save space. This thing should be small and light. [...]
November 21, 2007 – 5:31 pm
In OS X Leopard (can’t confirm earlier versions), if you have a Finder window spanning multiple physical monitors or multiple virtual Spaces, or extending off the edge of any physical monitor, try dragging a file and dangling it over that Finder window. The Finder window will smoothly slide into the current physical monitor on the [...]
November 20, 2007 – 5:09 pm
One of OS X Tiger’s most annoying bugs to me was that the zoom functionality was broken for multi-monitor setups. It’d work at first, but when you moved your mouse, it’d go all screwy. It was useless. I’m not sure if it was fixed in OS X Leopard or the 10.5.1 update — but it [...]
November 14, 2007 – 11:05 pm
My wife and I were having a “yes” … “no” battle, and I was getting tired of saying “no” over and over again. So I typed a bunch of “no’s” into QuickSilver and invoked the “speak text” action. OS X Leopard’s “Alex” voice kicked in with a litany of “no’s.” And then about ten “no’s” [...]
November 2, 2007 – 7:00 pm
Google has been rolling out a Gmail 2.0 update for the past few days. I just got the update a few minutes ago, and the first thing I noticed was that every view now has a permalink! The address bar updates as you navigate the application. Each e-mail thread has its own [...]