By Ryan on November 26, 2008
New Macs that have Leopard are equipped well in the web department. You can start Apache up pretty easily if it’s not already running. First, find out if it’s running or not. You can do this by taking a quick peak at localhost. If your browser does not yell at you for going to a [...]
Posted in Apple, Tips | Tagged apache, Apple, mac, start
By Ryan on November 18, 2008
Daring Fireball posted a clever application called choosy, an intermediate browser between opening a page and your choice of browser.
You start off installing it like any other program. Then you set it as your system’s default browser (so there is no running process). Then you might click a link a document you downloaded and a [...]
Posted in Abstract | Tagged Apple, choosy, mac, productivity, program
By Ryan on October 21, 2008
My computer class uses Macs and thus I’ve become accustomed to their productivity features, like program switch, the dock, spotlight app-launch and my favorite, exposé.
You can only do one of these things in windows naturally (without using any programs) and that is simply program switching. To do it windows, although it may not look as [...]
Posted in Abstract, Windows | Tagged apps, mac, productivity, vista, Windows
By Ryan on September 18, 2008
Keynote Sparkle Effect
In my computer technology class, we’re looking at the fancy features of Keynote this week. Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, it makes slide shows.
I’m well versed in both google doc slide shows and PowerPoint slide shows, at least until PP2007. The work flow in Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, but the variety of [...]
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