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Hilarious Apple video from 1987 predicting future of 1997

July 29th, 2008 · Comments

Money quote: "Introducing the Vista Mac…"

My god, Albert Einstein WAS a genius
Microsoft in the poop over blogger 'bribes'
D'oh. Now available: ANZ Visa Debit card
Second most embarrassing tech video of all time
Closure to the Telstra saga

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Tags: Apple · Funny-haha

Make Safari use CMD+K for Google Search

April 8th, 2008 · Comments

One of the things that really annoys me about Apple Safari is that it doesn't use the CTRL+K / CMD+K keyboard shortcut for activating the Google Search dialogue box, which is standard across most browsers — particularly Safari.
Instead, Safari makes you use CMD+Shift+L which is a "twister" of a keyboard shortcut — not very ergonomic. 
Amusingly, [...]

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Tags: Apple

Fantastic collection of contextual menu items for Mac

March 23rd, 2008 · Comments

Ever wanted to change the desktop picture in Mac OS X by selecting the file in the Finder, right clicking and selecting "set as Desktop Picture" from a context menu?Or perhaps select some files, then "move files to a new folder", "create folder enclosing these files" or "make new folder for files"? (It's about time [...]

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Tags: Apple