Month: October 2009
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getting familiar with a Mac keyboard
I was really afraid, it would take me a long, long time to seriously get familiar with my Mac keyboard, but finding the Keyboard Viewer and having a closer look at it wiped out all these fears. Whatever I thought would be missing on the Mac keyboard, now I find it easily.
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creating phone book and diary entries from incoming calls on my router
If you read this title, how mad do you think I am? Honest! Alright, “as you know” (so of course this article only applies to some sort of computer nerds), my router is a FRITZ!Box 7270, it’s also the base station for my (wireless) phones, and a lot more … — certainly one of my…
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a Mac keyboard is so different from a PC keyboard
It really takes me a while to accomodate with all that. Right now I just missed arrow key “accelerators” a lot, and I thought I give a few combinations a try. Guess what! The left and the right arrow key together with the cmd key work like Pos1 and End on a PC keyboard. Try…
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the pidgin Facebook plugin
The pidgin Facebook plugin does not work properly so far. A single Facebook user actually talks to me with yet another id, every single time he sends me a message. This does not look tested well enough. I am using pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) from fink on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. Update / 2010-12-28:…
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the main Fink web site is down, there is an alternative though (UPDATE)
You can’t reach the main Fink web site right now, but there is an alternative though. 2009-10-28: You can fink again. The main Fink web site is still not available though.
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Safari AdBlocker
Do you think, I am starting a fairy tale here? No, I’m not. Look it up on Apple’s list of public downloads for Mac OS X. The link there is broken (right now), but read it and bend it! It points you to sweetpproductions.com, there you want to look for the Safari AdBlocker (maybe this…
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how to print from my Mac OS X machine through a Netgear print server
A Netgear knowledge base article named Recommended Unix printer configuration for PS110 explains, why it’s good to use the LPD printing method. Now my Mac is the UNIX-ish machine on my LAN with the richest printing capabilities: It can print through a 7270 AVM FRITZ!Box (my router++) on a Samsung CLP-315 colour laser printer attached…
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CAVEAT: the Pill and antibiotics
I happened to come across and old friend last night on Yahoo Messenger resp. pidgin, who told me, that she was justing attempting to commit suicide. What had happened? She had an abortion last week with twins in the 3rd month. No contraception? No, really not. But the Pill and antibiotics do not go together.…
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pipe symbol at Apple keyboard
there is that nice article on where to find the “pipe symbol” / “pipe symbol” on an Apple keyboard. of course nowadays with Snow Leopard or “just” Leopard that’s all different. but it still (with a little fancy and curiousity) helped me finding out, how to get to that thing. in short: System Preferences /…