October 2003

A pain in the brain

Sometimes a 3-day headache is just a pain in the brain. Other times it’s an opportunity to get out the Xena DVDs, plug in the Creature Speakers and lie back with the laptop.

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iTunes alerts

Like to use iTunes tracks as alerts for meetings and appointments? Apple has instructions for iCal v1.5.1 to execute scripts as an event action. As with any iCal event, scripts can now be set to execute once, hourly, daily, or in any schedule you choose. They supply a sample script. Click an icon and it [...]

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Panther keyboard tricks

The Macosxhints.com article Use Safari window shortcuts from the address bar points out that you can use the same shortcuts you use for opening links into new tabs in the address bar and the Google search box. The article has more detail, or you can visit Safari’s Preferences and look at the Tabs section. And [...]

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New Mail Features

Mail has many improvements and you can read about some on Ken Bereskin‘s blog. For example, you can recall the replies of an email in your inbox with a simple click of the reply or forward icon. Read that and other Tips on Ken’s page.

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Watchfire WebXACT

Mentioned on the WiseWomen list: Watchfire WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. My test brought back comprehensive results, with guidelines for items of concern. This is definitely one for the web designer’s toolbox.

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Better Address Book in Panther

Just adding a new business contact to my Address Book (3.1 v290) under Panther. There are some nice improvements here. Instead of choosing from a menu to show a card as the company rather than the individual you can now check a box right on the card. That affects the types of fields readily available, [...]

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