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From the pad

7/30/2010 in General by face | No comments

Things working from the pad.

Send websites and docs to iBooks

6/29/2010 in General by face | No comments

With iTunes 9.2 and iOS 4, the iBooks 1.1 app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can store and view PDF files, together with EPUB files.
If you want to quickly add a document or a web page to your ‘Books’ collection in iTunes, all you need to do is to create an alias of iTunes and drag it to ~/Library/PDF Services. Now, when you’re browsing the web or viewing documents and you decide that you want to read them later on a portable Apple device just hit Print, click the PDF button on the bottom left corner of the window and choose iTunes. iTunes will launch and receive the PDF. Next, sync your device and you’re ready to go.

via Send websites and docs to iBooks – Mac OS X Hints.

PADILICIOUS

6/20/2010 in General by face | No comments

Say you’re using your Mac to create a report on tropical fish as your class project. The project contains a story, some images, image descriptions, and an audio file for background ambience. Your challenge:
How do you build and share this project so others can view it on their computers and iPads?

via PADILICIOUS.

This is so neat. “Services” that let you build/share things on an iPad.

This is all described in the WWDC 2010 presentation “Session 302 – Automating the Creation of iPad Content” which you can get for “free” from http://developer.apple.com/

I used one of the services to create a “photo application” which has some Salvador Dali pictures.

Tucson Raceway Park Goes Dirt

6/14/2010 in General by face | No comments

Tucson Raceway Park has seen the light and has made plans to end their asphalt season early and switch to a dirt surface for the second half of the year.  According to their website at http://tucsonracewaypark.com/ , June 26 will be the last asphalt race at the track.

via Tucson Raceway Park Goes Dirt – Onedirt.com.

OK – 2 dirt tracks in town. Wonder how that will work out.

Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate

6/11/2010 in General by face | No comments

New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week. We continually test links for reliability. Despite our best efforts, links may fail (often only temporarily) without warning. We apologize for any inconvenience.

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate.

Many everything.

Todays Guardian

6/9/2010 in General by face | No comments

This site shows all the articles from today’s issue of the Guardian or, on Sundays, Observer newspapers. It is run by Phil Gyford. Read more about it here.You can navigate the articles using keyboard shortcuts: Scroll up: w or k Previous article: a or h Next article: d or l Scroll down: s or j or space Clicking a “scroll down” key at the end of an article will take you to the next one. And the same in reverse with “scroll up”.Hear about updates and problems on Twitter with @todaysguardian.If you have any comments or suggestions please email me.

via Todays Guardian.

Si en ciento

5/18/2010 in General by face | No comments

Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons

5/18/2010 in General by face | No comments

Well, European countries are already banning technologies based on the precautionary principle requiring advance proof that they’re risk-free. Americans are turning more protectionist and advocating byzantine restrictions like carbon tariffs. Globalization is denounced by affluent Westerners preaching a return to self-sufficiency.

via Findings – Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons – NYTimes.com.

Metric Mania

5/17/2010 in General by face | No comments

the problem of reasonable aggregation is no idle matter
via The Way We Live Now – Metric Mania – NYTimes.com. the “extreme and hypothetical” illustration is quite good.

ClickToFlash

4/30/2010 in General by face | No comments

This little gem has made my life happy again, in a lot of places.

Essentially it frames all places where Flash would be and won’t load it unless you specifically click on it.

The neat thing is that it is for WebKit, so almost all of the WebKit applications I use – OmniWeb, NetNewsWire, and Safari all get the same feature.

Now I know where my CPU is going if I want to see the videos (and not the ads).

I am amazed at how much gunk there is out there on some of the web pages that I visit.

ClickToFlash

Where to get the beta right here for the latest beta

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