Friday, April 30, 2010

Review: MacKiev Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2009 - Mac OS X Edition

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After evaluating much cheaper alternatives, I purchased the $40 Software MacKiev version of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" . This p...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

21st century divorce – pixels, points and screen resolution

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Once upon a time, pixels and points were happily married. In the days of the Mac Plus and, a bit later, 17” 1024x768 CRTs, developers could ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Bento 3 (desktop) has encrypted fields

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[This is not new -- it came out Oct 2009. I even wrote about it then . Looks like I simply lost this one in the noise. I'll put it on my...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Social wrestling: Google Reader, Twitterfeed, Blogger and Facebook

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I might be close to a use for Twitter, bringing Google Reader closer to what Buzz should have been , and distancing Facebook. The most imp...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Typing tutorial software for OS X (Mac) – oddly confusing (and web alternative!)

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[See update. This functionality has largely migrated to Flash apps on the web, like the BBC's Dance Mat Typing .] I thought it would be ...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Google sites: assign a public page to the www.domainname.com url

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Once upon a time our eNom managed family domain Google Apps included an html wysiwyg editor called "Page Creator". Page Creator w...

Google multi-calendar CalDAV - did it change recently?

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There are two ways to sync an iPhone calendar to Google calendar. The best method is using ActiveSync (exchange server standard). This let...