May 2008
5 posts
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Google & Address Book Sync in 10.5.3
So one interesting new feature of 10.5.3 is that it apparently enables syncing of the Mac OS X Address Book with one’s Google Contacts. This is great, but there is some funny business…
Are you one of those people who find that no matter how hard you try to keep your contact info organized, it always winds up scattered all over?
Yes — tell me more!
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Spaces & Window Layering in 10.5.3
According to Apple’s release notes,[This update] resolves an issue in which switching to a different space and returning back to the original space may reorder the application windows with a different active window.But no, it doesn’t. Starting with two empty spaces, try this: Launch iTunes in space 1. iTunes is now active (“has the focus”) in space 1. Switch to space 2....
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Rare Meat & Wet Feet →
This is the podiatrical equivalent of discussing barbecuing with an epidemiologist. Not recommended.
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Speaking of gas prices
James Duncan Davidson, telling it like it is:The price of oil and gas may fluctuate down again in the near future, but if it does, it’ll come back up and go even higher. It’s a simple story of demand meets supply of a finite resource. [ More… ] You don’t have to be an economist to understand that concept. A few-month break from the federal gas tax may sound like “relief”,...
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They didn't want your lot anyway.
Recently asked to name “a credible economist” who supports her plan for gas-tax relief, Hillary responded:Well I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to put my lot in with economists. And that, folks, is how you roll an opportunity to make some sense into not one, but three more points down the hole. (For those keeping score: −1 for failure to express a rational argument, −2 for the insultingly...