How to Use an iPod as a Bootable Drive

Tue 17 Aug 200409:05 PM

Step-by-step guide brought to you by the folks over at Engadget.

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NYT: Suppress the Vote? by Bob Herbert

Tue 17 Aug 200411:00 AM

More Republican skullduggery in the black neighborhoods of Florida.

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New Boxes, Same Arrows

Tue 17 Aug 200412:34 AM

Well-respected online information architecture magazine Boxes and Arrows announced an open redesign contest last month, the deadline for which was extended until just this morning. I found this out last Friday, when my Behavior colleague, Chris Fahey, suggested that we try to put together a submission.

Initially, I resisted the idea of taking part in this, mostly because of all the work that it was going to involve. The I.A. documents they provided were appropriately high-level for an audience of devoted, would-be contestants ready to finesse every little detail for themselves. For me, on the other hand, they were sufficiently lacking in detail that I knew it would take me a huge chunk of my weekend to sift through all the brain challenges required to get a coherent set of comprehensives designed.

New Apple Patent Application: Chameleon-Like Hardware

Mon 16 Aug 200409:24 PM

Just barely on the clever side of the ‘thin line between clever and stupid.’ Still, the idea of software-controlled hardware aesthetics could be a long-term winner.

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Unix Beginners’ Tutorials for Mac OS X Users

Mon 16 Aug 200405:59 PM

“This tutorial… takes the Unix beginner through the basics of using the Terminal application.”

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Multiple Versions of IE on a Single Windows Installation

Mon 16 Aug 200405:55 PM

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How to Clean a White Apple Pro Keyboard

Fri 13 Aug 200401:02 PM

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Square Dancing

Thu 12 Aug 200411:27 PM

Herewith, five boxes drawn with Microsoft PowerPoint on a document Slide Master. All of the boxes are .25-in. square, according to the program’s Format AutoShape dialog box, which allows users to specify these values precisely — in theory. The boxes are also all spaced exactly a quarter of an inch apart from one another and they all reside exactly .3-in. from the top edge, again using Format AutoShape.