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It’s been an exciting week of product announcements from Amazon and Apple. Decide who does a better Steve Jobs impersonation. Amazon Kindle Press Conference – September 28, 2011, New York, NY Apple Special Event – October 4, 2011, Cupertino, CA [...] Apple keyboards have an eject key in the upper right corner that works with built-in Mac DVD drives. If you have a new Mac Mini without an optical drive, you might want to use a 3th party external disk drive. The problem is that the eject key doesn’t work for these drives. Thanks to tjb1 [...] Here’s a funny glitch that eventually corrected itself. After installing Mac OSX Lion, spotlight initially thought it needed 5 years to index all my files.
If you want to install Linux or just try it out, you can make a USB key that is bootable into Linux with UNetbootin. UNetbootin is a simple program that allows you to choose from over 40 Linux distributions. My favorites are Linux Mint (which is probably easiest for folks used to Windows) and [...] The radio show This American Life has a great show When Patent’s Attack about the terrible state of US software patents. Patent holding companies (like Intellectual Ventures and Lodsys) sue and extort money out of small developers. Good stuff. Hopefully some people in Congress hear this. |
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