TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Tim Cook wowed us in his recent presentation at a Goldman Sachs investment conference. Rather than formal and serious, Cook was very casual and lively in this talk. He was also forthcoming about Apple, discussing its immediate concerns with manufacturing…
17 February 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari intended to block websites from tracking user activity across the Internet. Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google had been implementing code…
17 February 2012Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
For those who haven't read it yet, the Wall Street Journal scored an exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. It's worth a read if you follow Apple news. Read More: Wall Street Journal Read the comments on this post
17 February 2012MacOSXHints.com
After much searching, I have finally found a way to correct misspelled words without using the full Spelling interface and without using the contextual menu, as that requires using the mouse. I use the keyboard as much as possible. I much prefer it to…
17 February 2012MacOSXHints.com
I discovered a keyboard shortcut for moving messages to favorite mailboxes: Command+Control+number. OS X Lion added a Favorites Bar to Mail where the user can keep frequently accessed mailboxes. The Command+1, +2, etc., shortcuts that used to work in 10.6…
17 February 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
17 February 2012inessential.com
Peter Hosey explains where everything is now. I wasn’t going to download Xcode 4.3 today because I didn’t feel like I have the capacity to go through and figure out what just happened. But Peter’s list explains it, and now I have no fear. Or, I still have…
17 February 2012Planet Mozilla
Do you know you can change the native context menu of an HTML element with the HTML5 tag? Do you know you can make any element of your page go fullscreen with the HTML5 Fullscreen API? Adding a "fullscreen" entry in the context menu is really simple…
16 February 2012MySQL Performance Blog
So lets say you upgraded from MySQL 5.1 to Percona Server 5.5 and instead of expected performance improvement you see your performance being worse. What should you do ? First if you followed MySQL upgrade best practices such as testing your workload with…
15 February 2012inessential.com
A new version of FMDB is out. I haven’t used this new version yet, but I will. The new version supports ARC and not-ARC and is block-savvy. I use FMDB in everything. I sprinkle it on my Raisin Bran in the morning. It’s the secret spice in my Bloody Marias.
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