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Chumby- Internet, the Size of a Cup of Coffee

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Here’s an interesting little device showing some promise for younger interwebbers.

It seems more like a prototype, proof-of-concept than anything else as it would only have made sense to make it wireless.

It’s apparently a flash-based dev platform running on Linux. So, development should be easy enough.

Chumby

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Mac OS X NetNewsWire Tip: No More Thousands of Posts to Read

14K Unread posts!Okay. So, I’ve always been a big believer in RSS News Feeds, but there are so many good feeds out there, how do you stay on top of them? It’s simple: YOU DON’T. But this little bubble on NetNewsWire’s dock icon made me feel like I always had to catch up!

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Mac OS X TextEdit Tip: ESC Open Autocomplete Dialog

Always cool when you’re clipping along on something and by complete mistake you discover a great trick. I’m pretty sure most OSes have a simple text editor. Mac OS X’s is called TextEdit. Frankly, I use it for just about every lightweight text-editing because it is so versatile. Last night on my commute home, I was pondering and prioritizing life as I usually do about this time of year â?? something ’bout the upcoming spring me thinks. Well, we hit a bump in the road and my finger nailed ESC and POOF! up comes an autocomplete dialog. Thought that was some pretty awesome usability.

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Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!Pressing ESC in TextEdit reveals an auto-complete

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True Innovations in {human} Experience

Perusing around today, I was reminded of this interesting little company that is in the business of making some true innovations with wireless Internet technologies. They’re not exactly a new company, but they are making some news with their platform.
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Getting your “ctrl-shift-constrain copy” Shortcut Back in Parallels

If you’re running Windows in a Parallels environment on an Intel Macintosh, you may have found that the shift-constrain-copy keyboard shortcut no longer works. Ctrl-drag-copy still works, but the shift-constrain no longer works. I’ve laid out how to change the keyboard configuration in Parallels to remedy this.

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