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Todd’s sweeper from the What’s Really Goin’ On podcast.
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Tech news:
Mac sales reach 1 million, iPods over 5 million. Apple sold 608,000 desktop computers, and 462,000 laptops this quarter. Sales of iMacs, eMacs, and Mac minis nearly doubled from the year-ago quarter. The increase in Mac desktop and laptop sales is indicative of the iPod “halo effect.” The number of customers who were first-time Mac buyers was approximately 40 percent, according to Apple.
OsX Tiger will only be on DVD to start. If your computer does not have a DVD drive, you need to buy Tiger and then send it to Apple for a CD-ROM replacement version that will cost you an additional $9.99.
Seiko Watch, Seiko Epson Develop Wristwatch Using E-paper. A 3 x 9 cm electronic paper is curved and embedded along the watch’s bracelet-shaped surface. The e-paper displays a constantly-altering mosaic pattern, in addition to the conventional time display.
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How To: Work faster using keyboard shortcuts
Regardless if you use a PC or Mac you can work very quickly using keyboard commands. Instead of trudging through endless menus trying to launch that specific application, you can just use combination of keystrokes and have the application or function happen automatically. Here is a breakdown of shortcuts to save you time:
On Windows: ALT+F4 = Close currently selected program, F1 launches help file for currently selected program, Windows Key+D minimizes all windows and shows your desktop, CTRL+X will cut the to the clipboard, CTRL+V pastes from the clipboard, CTRL+C copies to the clipboard, ALT+Tab will show you currenly open programs and let you select which one you want to use.
On OsX: Command+V pastes, Command+C copies, Command+X cuts, Shift+Command+A opens your Applications folder, Shift+Command+U opens your Utilities folder, Command+K opens the “Connect to computer” window in the Finder, Command+W closes the current window or tab in Safari, Command+M will minimize any window to the Dock, Command+Q quits the current program.
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Music: Sea Ray- Revelry
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Hack: Install Linux using GMail
As hackers get deeper and deeper into Google’s e-mail system and how to manipulate it, the ability to use it as online storage emerged not too long ago. Having spoken about this ability on a previous Geekcast, you can use GMail to store files for you and actually mount your account on your PC. Using this program, GmailFS, you can have a lot of fun. Someone has now figured out how to use this online storage to actually install Linux.
GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail. GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).
You’ll need to have libgmail and FUSE at hand to make the Linux install work properly. libgmail communicates with gmail while FUSE provides the filesystem. Give it a shot, it looks like it’s progressing very nicely.
All the info can be found at http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
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