New tricks for Apple gear
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Apple Has Plenty Of Tricks And Treats
Apple Has Plenty Of Tricks And Treats
03/06/2004 02:06 AMEvery operating system has hidden features. Here are more of my
favorite undocumented, hidden or unappreciated tips and tricks for Mac
OS X. By Al Fasoldt (Syracuse Post-Standard via MyAppleMenu)
Apple launches Wi-Fi gear for PCs, Macs
Apple launches Wi-Fi gear for PCs, Macs
06/08/2004 04:08 AMiafrica.com Jun 8 2004 8:39AM GMT
Apple Cuts Prices on Wi-Fi Gear
Apple Cuts Prices on Wi-Fi Gear
06/29/2004 03:23 PMApple lowers the price on its 802.11g equipment: Bowing to market
necessity, Apple has made only the second price cut in its history of
selling Wi-Fi equipment. The original AirPort Base Station (802.11b)
cost $300 and AirPort Card $100. Both remained at those prices until
Jan. 2003--while other makers raced to the bottom--when Apple
introduced one of the first 802.11g gateways, the AirPort Extreme Base
Station ($200 or $250 depending on features) and its accompanying $100
card. The Extreme Base station came in two models, later expanded to
three: a basic unit ($200); one with a built-in modem and antenna jack
($250); and most recently, a plenum-rated fire-safety version that
supports Power over Ethernet ($250). Today, Apple dropped its card
priced to $80, still well above comparable PC Cards from other
companies using the same chips; formally eliminated the basic $200
base station model; and dropped its modem/jack base station price to
$200. The plenum/PoE unit remains at a $250 retail price, although
schools typically pay $25 to $50 less for that model in single units
and quantity. Apple's AirPort Extreme equipment does have a few unique
features. It's almost impossible to get a modem in a gateway these
days; the Bluetooth/Wi-Fi interaction in Apple's gear is managed at a
firmware level to reduce interference; and the AirPort Extreme Card
works in all Apple models, avoiding taking up a PC Card or PCI Card
slot in machines that have them. The AirPort Express Base Station at
$130 is due to ship in mid-July, and its price might have caused Apple
to trim their incredibly healthy margins....
Apple working on iPod gear for 'in-car
listening'
Apple working on iPod gear for 'in-car
listening'
06/15/2004 04:24 PMAt the iTunes Music Store launch event in London today, Apple CEO
Steve Jobs mentioned that Apple is currently working on automobile
solutions for its iPod...
WiMax In Slow Gear; Gear Makers Stymied
(Investor's Business Daily)
WiMax In Slow Gear; Gear Makers Stymied
(Investor's Business Daily)
04/13/2005 07:46 PMInvestor's Business Daily - An emerging wireless technology known as
WiMax has more range and is faster than the popular Wi-Fi standard.
Bag-O-Tricks for PHP
Bag-O-Tricks for PHP
11/17/2002 09:46 PM"..everything under the sun which would be very helpful for all in
creating dynamic sites and even for newbies."
"Ten CSS tricks you may not know"
"Ten CSS tricks you may not know"
09/03/2004 02:42 AMTen CSS tricks you may not know
Ten CSS tricks you may not know
09/01/2004 05:49 AMWith so many different ways of using CSS some important tricks and
techniques may have passed you by. See how many of the ten you already
know and maybe learn something new!
Ten CSS Tricks
Ten CSS Tricks
09/01/2004 05:33 PMTen CSS tricks you may
not know: Fantastic round-up of CSS tricks. Good stuff.
Click here to comment on this entry
Brain tricks
Brain tricks
05/21/2004 03:51 PM
Red and green dots have never been so interesting. At least to a
geek like me.
I love it when my brain plays tricks on me.
Stupid Web Tricks
Stupid Web Tricks
05/10/2004 07:16 AMCNET May 10 2004 11:05AM GMT
Spammer Tricks
Spammer Tricks
12/02/2002 07:24 PMJohn Graham has posted about some recent spammer tricks that he
is working to address in the next release of POPFile....
KDE tips and tricks
KDE tips and tricks
02/01/2005 08:49 PMThe K Desktop Environment (KDE) is incredibly popular in the world of
GNU/Linux. Distributions such as SUSE and Mandrakelinux use it by
default. KDE has some useful features that, while easily accessible,
are less prominent. Just as a camera inexplicably makes a cell phone
more fun to use, KDE's cool but unnoticed details may make it more
attractive to prospective users. Read on to learn about a few such
features may help you every day.
Snowboard tricks
Snowboard tricks
11/06/2003 01:26 PMChicago Tribune Nov 6 2003 12:54PM ET
Tricks of the trades
Tricks of the trades
03/22/2005 04:37 PM
Trade Tricks is a
collection of all the little 'tricks of the trade' which people build
up with experience. Some are pretty hum-drum, but others are useful
even if you don't practice the trade. For example, this tip for
checking if a
diamond is real may at some time be handy, and this one for
washing a pan
would have been useful last night.
Found via, and run by the writer of, defective
yeti Tricks of the Trade
Tricks of the Trade
08/27/2004 01:33 PMThe Morning News has a fun article on "tricks of the trade": documenting little
tricks used in various professions. Great stuff.
This year, for instance, a programmer can always tack the
phrase "and I'm thinking of incorporating some XML functionality"ť
onto a project summary to explain why he'll need an extra week,
account for a missed deadline, or impress a superior. In this respect,
the gap between software engineers and birthday clowns is almost
negligible.
[...]
Nurse
Patients will occasionally pretend to be unconscious. A surefire way
to find them out is to pick up their hand, hold it above their face,
and let go. If they smack themselves, they’re most likely unconscious;
if not, they’re faking.
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Old School, New Tricks
Old School, New Tricks
12/23/2003 11:49 AMStudents at Brooklyn's Packer school are field testing the wireless
future. And you thought high school was tough. By Lev Grossman (Time
via MyAppleMenu)
Bungie's up to its old tricks...
Bungie's up to its old tricks...
08/02/2004 10:05 AM
More
viral marketing? Move over,
BK chicken.
I love bees is teh rox0r.
Dirty tricks
Dirty tricks
05/18/2004 06:17 PMSpam That Tricks Me
Spam That Tricks Me
11/06/2003 04:11 AMIf you get enough spam, I'm sure you know the feeling. As you sort
through your mail, deleting the obvious spam, you find one that you're
not sure about and you end up opening it - and sure enough, it's spam
that tricked you. Every time you do that,
you probably
feel a little silly for getting tricked. I know I do. Columbia
Professor Sree Sreenivasan discusses a few of the messages that
tricked him and explains why he was fooled. He's a lot more forgiving
than I am, but I get fooled by more than my fair share. Meanwhile,
picking up on Sreenivasan's column is another reporter who points out
that if any readers want to email him, they need to come up with a
subject line that is clearly
not spam. I agree. I know there have been a few borderline
emails that I opened and turned out to not be spam - but I couldn't
tell from the subject lines. I'm sure there are others that I've
ended up deleting.
More Cool Web Tricks
More Cool Web Tricks
08/13/2004 02:30 PMWebDevInfo Aug 13 2004 6:44PM GMT
Try These 3 Quick iPhoto Tricks
Try These 3 Quick iPhoto Tricks
06/09/2004 01:13 AMUnlike the picture software for Windows that I've tried, iPhoto
doesn't insist that you learn anything. It doesn't demand that you
read a manual.
By Al Fasoldt, Syracuse Post-Standard (via MyAppleMenu)
Knoppix Tips and Tricks
Knoppix Tips and Tricks
01/04/2004 09:34 PMRiddick's mixed bag of tricks
Riddick's mixed bag of tricks
08/21/2004 05:48 AMThe Chronicle of Riddick franchise is very mixed in terms of success
and quality.
The New Republic Online: Old Tricks
The New Republic Online: Old Tricks
06/23/2004 02:07 PMAndrew Sullivan on Clinton/Rather kissyfaced love fest .. Andrew
Sullivan: Clinton Up To His Old Tricks .. interview ..
Fisking
tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=fisking&s=sullivan062204
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site | 5 links
Merlin's tips and tricks
Merlin's tips and tricks
09/08/2004 07:14 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Merlin Mann, the hilarious polymath geek dude, has started a new site
of usability tips-and-tricks called 43 Folders that is chock-a-block
with reallye excellent tips for getting the most out of every bit of
technology in your life.
Most sites requiring registration ask you to choose a "secret
question" to which only you supposedly know the answer. Of course, in
the age of Google, the city where you were born and your mother's
maiden name may no longer be the best kept secrets in the world.
So, next time you register for a site and it asks for your response to
a challenge question, choose something that's completely insane, but
really memorable to you.
Link
(
Thanks, Merlin!)
Ten CSS tricks — corrected and
improved
Ten CSS tricks — corrected and
improved
09/08/2004 08:55 AMTantek Çelik offers his critique of
Evolt's recent article "Ten CSS tricks you may not know" (via W
ebStandards.org).
Stupid Laptop Tricks
Stupid Laptop Tricks
04/10/2005 12:47 PMIn advance response to those who would misread the title to this
article, it's the tricks that are stupid, not the laptop!
I just started a new job this week heading up the graphics
department of a small printing company. I had become accustomed to
having a laptop at my disposal at my old job — an aging 500MHz
PowerBook G4 — so my new employer sweetened his offer to lure me
to the new job with the promise of a spiffy new PowerBook. The new one
runs at 1.5GHz, and while the speed difference is impressive and
reason enough to not look back after the upgrade, some of the other
features, like the automatic screen dimming, lighted keyboard, Combo
drive, standard BlueTooth and AirPort, etc... are pretty cool too.
One of the things the guy at the Mac shop mentioned when he was
showing it to me was the "Sudden Motion Sensor" feature, which uses
several sensors in the case to detect sudden changes in position, and
will park the hard drive heads to keep them from crashing into the
drive platters. I hope I'll never need that feature, and really didn't
think much about it, but of course some people just aren't able to
leave a feature like that alone. Amit Singh has
figured out how to gather data generated by those sensors...
While the PowerBook only uses the AMS as a defensive measure to
prevent accidental damage to the disk drive, such sensors could have a
variety of uses. In particular, they have been considered an
alternative input methods in user interfaces for video game
controllers, phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. While it is to be
seen if they will be successful in these areas, such use at least has
a novelty value
He's even built a couple of silly little apps that make use of the
sensors.
AMSV
isualizer A graphical application that displays a 3-D picture of a
PowerBook. The picture's orientation is a real-time approximation of
the PowerBook's physical orientation. Thus, the on-screen picture
moves with the movement of the AMS-equipped PowerBook.
Stable Window A graphical application that
creates a window displaying a bicycle wheel. The window is
"stable" in the sense that if you rotate the AMS-equipped
PowerBook left or right, the window compensates by rotating itself by
an equal amount in the opposite direction.
Running StableWindow is the wierdest thing; a window's edges are
just supposed to be aligned with the edges of the screen; seeing
something other than that is just... wierd. But some of the... um...
"practical" applications for this sound kinda fun. I catch
no end of grief from my wife & kids about using body english when
I'm playing FA-18
Hornet on the desktop machine at home; how cool would it be for
those body movements to actually control the simulator! Then I could
truthfully tell them that leaning in my chair actually does
help!
via AppleFritter.
Cognitive biases and other fun tricks
Cognitive biases and other fun tricks
04/06/2005 09:38 PM
You are
very bad at making decisions. Welcome to the world of
cognitive
biases. They are why it is so easy to see
c
onspiracies in the death of microbiologists, to be unaware of
how
incompetent we are, to
regret our bids on eBay, and to be
s
uperstitious rationalists. Perhaps you should
learn to
use them before
you are
taken in. Finally, cognitive biases are why you will
remember the
end of this po Search tips and tricks
Search tips and tricks
05/04/2004 10:37 PMChicago Tribune May 5 2004 2:34AM GMT
Some new tricks for finding data
Some new tricks for finding data
06/05/2005 10:57 PMSiliconValley.com May 27 2005 5:12PM GMT
New Tricks for Anticholesterol Drugs?
New Tricks for Anticholesterol Drugs?
09/01/2004 01:16 PMBusiness Week Sep 1 2004 5:15PM GMT
Finally, an Old Dog That Can Learn New
Tricks
Finally, an Old Dog That Can Learn New
Tricks
06/10/2004 11:49 PMGerman researchers say they have found a dog that listens and learns
like a human child.
Google tricks and hacks
Google tricks and hacks
11/02/2003 07:38 PMGoogle.com is undoubtedly the most popular search engine in the world.
It offers multiple search features like the ability to search images
and news groups.However it's true power lies in it's powerful commands
that can be used and misused.I am writing this article on the basis of
my experience using google and trying out ideas when i am bored.Now
enough of lecturing...let's get down to business ;)
(Kevin Christley)
OS X delivers treats and tricks
OS X delivers treats and tricks
10/31/2003 04:09 PMA potential refund, data-loss concerns and security questions cast a
shadow on Apple's operating system.
Stupid Word Tricks
Stupid Word Tricks
04/28/2004 11:45 AM
A Collection
of Word Oddities and Trivia. it's a luscious mix of words and tricks
it's a luscious mix of words and tricks
04/13/2005 07:40 PMWhen I was much, much younger, all the world was a stage, and I was
more than happy to be...
Google Tricks and hacks
Google Tricks and hacks
12/30/2003 01:29 AMA.T.M.'s Pick Up Web Site Tricks
A.T.M.'s Pick Up Web Site Tricks
03/14/2005 06:16 PMTo attract more Internet customers, some banks are adding services
available on their Web sites to their A.T.M.'s.
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