iTunes U
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Stanford University has opened their own iTunes store, where people can download lectures and speeches for free. http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Tags:download free lectures mp3Archive for January, 2006
2 finger scroll and 2 buttons
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006“One Finger Snap is a Preference Pane that brings up the contextual menu whenever you click and hold down the mouse button. This means that you can do everything with a single-button mouse that you can do with a 2-button mouse.”
finally a software that solves the one-button-trackpad-problem for newer power-/ibooks as well. while for older apple laptops, sidetrack offered a reasonable solution to having multiple mouse buttons, it does not support the two finger scroll on newer models. now, one finger snap does.
oh and by the way, with iScroll you can get the 2 finger scroll for older models. 
“How we spend our days is [..] how we spend our lives.”
Sunday, January 8th, 2006Alternative Clip of Bill Gates Demonstrating Vista
Friday, January 6th, 2006“For anybody who saw Bill Gates demonstrating Vista during his CES Keynote and thought it was eerily similar to something they’ve seen before, you might want to check out this video clip”
(via macrumors.com)
Tags:apple microsoft videofreeing myself from the bonds of tools
Friday, January 6th, 2006since i started coding in ruby (did i mention that i still haven’t tried rails? so i can still say not to be a member of the hype) using plain text editors i got increasingly annoyed by eclipse’s automatic code assist feature when being with java again. while it’s cool to have it tell you all the member functions of an object available it often enough overwrites a piece of my code with its own suggestion. (especially method calls on objects, after typing the dot).
using said text editor for ruby and typing all those variable names and method calls myself felt in a way refreshing. i was the one in control again, not my IDE.
to gain the same comfort for java/eclipse, all i had to do was to switch automatic code assist off (window -> preferences -> java -> editor -> code assist -> untick ‘enable auto activation’). so now i still have it at hand when needed using [ctrl]+[space], but it does not interfere with my coding anymore. and i am using it much less now - power to the people
