I have a love-hate relationship with the Magic Mice - I love the multi-touch functionality, but we can't use them at work where we have several Macs close together without annoying pairing issues. And of course they're terrible battery hogs.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Jessica - Mar 28, 2013 10:08:43 am PDT #22258 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cass - Mar 28, 2013 10:24:47 am PDT #22259 of 25497
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
The #1 thing I needed when going from PC to Mac is a two-button mouse.
And the control key is your right click faking friend if you are stuck with a one-button mouse.
I taught two people that in the last week.
Jon B. - Mar 29, 2013 7:12:29 am PDT #22260 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Anyone else using a service they're happy with?
I set up Tiny Tiny RSS on my server the other day and have been really liking it. It seems to have all the functionality I used on google reader. Like other replacements, you can import your gReader feeds. There's even a way to import which posts are starred/shared. The best part is that it's open source and lives on your own server, so you'll never have to worry about a service shutting down. The only downside is that you need your own server space (though you could use freebie space like what Amazon Web Services offers), and it requires a bit of setup time and tech know-how. Lifehacker had a good primer: [link]
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2013 7:45:35 am PDT #22261 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have my Mac, I thought, set up for Day/Month/Year. Everything in Language & Text/Formats reflects this. But when I enter birthdays in the Address Book, it's interpreting it as M/D. Anyone know how to make the format universal? It's not like there's anywhere in Address Book to set it.
Jon B. - Apr 08, 2013 3:48:56 am PDT #22262 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I recently got an iPad and I'm thinking it would be cool to get a remote desktop app for it so that I'd rarely need to bring my laptop when I traveled -- I could just connect to my home desktop remotely instead. There are lots of apps out there, and lots of websites recommending various ones. But I trust you folks. Anyone have favorites? I like the look of Jump.
Jon B. - Apr 08, 2013 6:03:32 am PDT #22263 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jump has a free desktop-to-desktop remote software which I just tried and it works really well! Now I just need to decide if I want to cough up $15 for the iPad app.
le nubian - Apr 08, 2013 7:49:52 am PDT #22264 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I use logmein, but let me know if you like Jump
Jon B. - Apr 08, 2013 8:24:50 am PDT #22265 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The pro version of Logmein is subscription based, but it looks like Jump provides many of those pro features for free (or $15).
NoiseDesign - Apr 08, 2013 9:51:31 am PDT #22266 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
I use Remoter VNC, it's been good for me.
Stephanie - Apr 08, 2013 10:52:30 am PDT #22267 of 25497
Trust my rage
So i downloaded Jump based on Jon's prompt and a need to not be carrying my laptop everywhere. I have tons of pdfs that I keep on my computer but not on my iPad. For that reason, my iPad has been mostly for watching media, but I'm thinking this might help me make my iPad more work friendly.