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All you need to know about the Mac keboard There are still many rumors and myths about the Macintosh, and particularly about the abilities of its keyboard. Since many of them come from outdated information from the 1990s, I thought I'd correct some of them and compile a comprehensible page of keyboard facts as they pertain to the Mac. False Rumor 1: You can't forward-delete on a Mac (...) Read More... 2010-08-09 @488

Review: Sherlock (...) Read More... 2010-07-31 @978

Playing with Objective C on Debian I felt like playing with Linux a bit, so I went and installed Debian on a partition. Apart from a few failed attempts to install it on an external drive (something which works fine with MacOS X, so I was spoiled) and a bit of confusion when it asked me for my drive name (how would I know a cryptic character combination like hdb4? And I selected that drive in your UI before, can't you let me use that same selector again?), it went pretty smooth. (...) Read More... 2010-05-08 @456

Fruit vs. Obst In English, there is a very common confusion among students: (...) Read More... 2010-05-08 @439

Mixed-language ambiguity The German verb "backen" means "to bake". Which of the two companies below, do you think, sells things for your back, and which one for baking? (...) Read More... 2010-04-15 @994