Who at Apple had the brilliant idea to…
For those who don’t know, the current Apple (wired) keyboard is a nice, bone-white keyboard, with which, I’m guessing, everyone at Apple uses white-gloves while using.
Is the wireless keyboard different?
@misc@
The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport weighs two tons and walks pulled by a single person or pushed by the wind. Photos, video. Uh, wuh?
@music@
The Song Tapper [via]: find the name (and lyrics) of a song by humming it with your space bar (no, really, it does make sense). The theory seems sound but the site is pretty slow (or my connection is) and my first test failed, so I’ll leave it up to you.
@apple@
If you’re going to use a mediocre Finder replacement, you might as well take a freeware variant [via]. Even though it’s a bit of a shame to make an OS X app that won’t open a second window, and quite weird to assign a shortcut to the F9 key (which is taken by Exposé), it’ll be quite enough for those cases when the Finder doesn’t do it (such as displaying folders at the top of the list). And you can’t beat the price-to-quality ratio.
@apple@
And on the same topic, it looks reproducible: after I’ve set my Mac to sleep two or three times, drag-and-drop quits working in the Finder — I just can’t pick up an icon, until I log out and back in. It’s probably an incompatibility with some program I’m using, but I have no idea what.
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FeedXs [via] lets you create RSS feeds without a blog. Write (presumably short) posts on the website or via an MSN bot, and the feed is updated. I just don’t understand who’s supposed to have a use for this: geeks have other options and will want more customization (starting with password protection); newbies will have trouble explaining their friends how to read the feeds, and will be put off by the bot’s interface, which could be way more friendly. Too bad: with passwords and a nicer bot, I could see myself keeping my contacts updated on my schedule by posting to a private feed (or a public feed that could even be syndicated on my blog).
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