Official Twitter App – Multi-window support game changer
Something that has been severely lacking in the official Twitter desktop app has been “multi-window” or multiple view ability. I recently moved from the official app (which I loved because it utilizes stream) to Twitteriffic because it was much easier to follow lists and saved searches. Open in New Window The newest update to the Twitter desktop app has [...]
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Do students actually open the CD’s universities send them?
My brother is two years younger than me and I remember him getting College junk in the mail for his last two years of high school. I probably got all that same junk too, I just tossed it out since I already knew where I wanted to go. Postcards, booklets, letters and CD’s. The paper [...]
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Saving Keystrokes with Firefox and Keywords
As a university web worker we constantly are typing in the same pattern of URL for every site. This becomes time consuming and routinely gets misspelled forcing a rapid delete key actions. I also wondered in the back of my mind about a shortcut to typing in URL’s much like IM word shortcuts but never [...]
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Refresh OS X Finder
The Apple products and community never cease to amaze me. When there is a problem to solve more than likely someone has already created an elegant solution. An experience I had today reinforced my findings ten fold. I have a few shares on a network drive that I connect from OS X via Samba. Files [...]
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