November 2008
21 posts
pragmati.st: Getting Google Notifier for Mac To... →
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Using Choosy as your default Mail app on OS X
If you use Gmail (or any web-based email for that matter), and have multiple accounts, and use Fluid with each of them, you might have wished for a way to select which account to use when you click mailto links. It turns out that Choosy can help, but it takes a little work.
First, open Mail.app then open the preferences for mail. On the “General” tab is an option for default email...
“The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We’re now...”
– Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation. It’s going to be a long, painful transition.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Mathematica on Amazon... →
Way cool.
“Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let...”
– Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run. I must admit that I’m not a fan of horror movies in general, but I do have a soft spot for zombie flicks.
“Therefore I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to...”
– Good advice from Hixie’s Natural Log (via)
“This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers. I’ve always heard 10 years cited as the minimum amount of time required to reach expertise, but I find the 10,000 hours figure more compelling: it emphasizes effort instead of time.
“If you’ve written an application for the iPhone, you’ll eventually encounter a...”
– furbo.org · Debugging with backups
“It’s almost like we’re the last group you can be openly bigoted about.”
– Jeanne Rizzo, CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund, in What It Felt Like to Be Equal
Peekabootique →
“Peekabootique will offer quality, gently used children’s clothes, furniture, toys and other goods at affordable prices.” Grand opening in Putney, VT on November 28th.
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The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift →
Nice writeup, though the comments actually have more meat than the post itself. Now I need to fire up CS4 and see if anything’s changed…
Frustration-Free Packaging →
I doubt that brick-and-mortar retailers will offer Frustration-Free Packaging any time soon, which sadly means that I have yet another reason to shop online instead of buying locally.
“let X = the sum of many powers of two = …111111
now add X to itself; X +...”
– HAKMEM ITEM 154 (Gosper). (via Trivium)
“The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base...”
– N. H. Abel on Divergent Series—from Wolfram MathWorld. w.r.t. my last post, I’m surprised to find that for many topics in mathematics, Wikipedia has become a more prominent reference than Eric’s venerable MathWorld. A sign of the times, perhaps?
