I’m writing a presentation with Beamer, a LaTeX class for making PDF slides. There’s a built-in way to generate “notes”, which was geared towards Acrobat Reader – it basically makes a double-wide PDF page and Reader will show the ‘notes’ page on the second screen. (I’m guessing it assumes your laptop screen is arranged on [...]

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I really liked a recent post by Alex Payne titled Switching Season. He says he gets an itch every year or so to go try something different, and I can sympathize. What he says at the end really resonates: It’s about computer usage as a creative act, something that becomes harder and harder to experience [...]

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I do a quick one-bullet review of Mac SVN clients.

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I weigh in on the idea of “everything buckets”, and using the filesystem.

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Discussing some quirks of dialog design in iCal’s event edit window.

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Daniel Jalkut just wrote about a desktop bookmarking app called Pukka, which despite being apparently nice enough to warrant a positive review, was simple enough that Leo Laporte wasn’t comfortable just saying it cost $15. I felt like adding to the discussion after a few commenters described the app as trivial – in one case [...]

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A solid update of my favorite desktop wiki.

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Some things I’ve picked up from working with PyObjC recently.

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TaskPaper 1.0 is a to-do list app that adds just a bit of sauce to what I was doing already, and it’s great.

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Uninvited dialogs popping to the front or stealing keyboard focus in OS X have been giving me that Windows feeling lately. I give a few examples in the full post.

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