Ceci n'est pas un blog
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Ceci n'est pas un blog
| Print article | This entry was posted by Anthony on 7 Jan 2009 at 10.10 am, and is filed under Computing. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. |
about 3 years ago - No comments
Macs are marvellous. So many differences. Better in every way. But, having said that, some of the more trivial differences just plain irritating. For example, the keyboard layout. Why does the "British" keyboard layout switch @ and ", switch | and ~, put ` in place of \ and \ in place of #? Why?…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Well, Sussex University email is hopelessly (yes, hopelessly) broken this weekend, so now seems a good time to switch to a proper email provider for my primary account. Gmail seems to be the best of the bunch by far, offering IMAP and an excellent webmail interface, free of charge. (Yahoo won't give you IMAP access,…
about 5 years ago - 7 comments
Ever wished you could move files to the trash from the command line on the Mac? Here's how. First, buy a Mac. Then Option 1 (uses bash): add the following to your ~/.bash_profile function rem { for b in "$@" do osascript -e "tell app \"Finder\" to delete POSIX file \"${PWD}/$b\"" done } Then type…
about 6 years ago - 11 comments
I've been using Firefox for a good while now as my web-browser. It's been the obvious browser to use on Linux and I've found it much better than Internet Explorer 6 on Windows (but, to be fair, I haven't yet given IE7 a chance). But now I'm using a Mac and I might have to…