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 Saturday, 10 May 2003
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Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
Six simians given a computer for a month don't even begin to rewrite the works of Shakespeare, as the famous axiom predicts. Instead, they act like, well, chimps. [Wired News]
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Create a universal shortcut to most apps' Preferences dialog
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Use the Colour Picker's magnifying glass to grab any colour
Not sure if anyone else had ever noticed this, but last night when I was in the Colour Picker while working in Graphic Converter, I accidentally clicked on the little magnifying glass along the top, which then gave me an enla... [macosxhints]
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macosxhints - 'Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition' - now shipping! ' The book contains 561 of the most interesting hints from the site, every one of which has been re-written from scratch with tons of extra detail. We've also added literally hundreds of screenshots, and David Pogue's great editing touch has added some humor and readability to my straightforward writing style.'
Great stuff. I'll be buying this book, partly as payback for the web site which has helped me in so many ways. Congrats to Rob.
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The Register: Toshiba to demo low-cost blue-laser optical disc 'The Toshiba-NEC technology is designed to boost today's DVD capacities of 8.52GB for a dual-layer, single-sided read-only disc to 30GB, and a 4.7GB single-layer, single-sided read-and-write disc to 20GB.'
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