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1tw

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About 1tw

I'm a journalist and occasional web designer. I blog about simple, useful software at http://onethingwell.org

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    Comment #8349749

    > I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those. There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in…

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    Comment #8349708

    > Nice site. Thank you! > He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site I've posted about all the software you menti…

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    Comment #4996231

    This looks like it'd be useful for any group that relies on donations from members, public collections, &c. - seems odd to limit the number of potential users by pitching exclusive…

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    Comment #3943093

    Hazel can do all of those things except add stuff to iTunes without opening the application (unless you count moving files to the Add to iTunes directory). http://www.noodlesoft.co…

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    Comment #3542323

    "Find people around you app - Nobody wants to find people around them and meet them. Trust me" Install Grindr on your phone and you'll find that a huge number of people are very in…

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    Comment #2599123

    I should add some stats: 948cc, 43hp, top speed (in theory) 80 MPH, 0-60 in 25 seconds. Impressive!

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    Comment #2599111

    A 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite. Not entirely practical in the British winter, admittedly. And the lack of seat belts tends to worry passengers. But I always have an enormous g…

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    Comment #2540574

    1Password handles this type of login form without flinching, which suggests LastPass could too. As others have said, filing a bug with LastPass would seem a better option than tryi…

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    Comment #2362493

    It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?

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    Comment #2359124

    This looks great - I've been putting off making changes to a couple of themes for ages because of the head-deskyness (the constant cutting and pasting is especially irritating).

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    Comment #2187066

    The missing photo COLON a journalist in a phone box COMMA reading to a copy taker.

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    Comment #2017087

    Except for the fact that no one in their right mind would use Magnolia after its first incarnation lost all user data, and didn't have any backups.

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    Comment #1982468

    I could see that data being nice to review if you were writing a private diary/journal for your own future consumption. Other than that, the concept seems pretty flawed - git is us…

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    Comment #1968141

    Without wishing to knock Kickstarter, which has provided a platform for plenty of great projects, it's fascinating that people are now willing to pay good money for an icon and a s…

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    Comment #1943676

    He does use Firefox, for sites that don't work in w3m. My setup on Linux is pretty similar, and I use w3m a fair bit, especially for reading documentation--it's fast, and for text-…

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    Comment #1903485

    Slitaz is tiny, runs in RAM and tends to just work in my experience: well worth a try if you want to get up and running quickly - http://www.slitaz.org That said, Arch is much easi…

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    Comment #1802870

    I wonder what the author would think of Kibo and his sig: http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/kibosig.txt

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    Comment #1777390

    "Mr. Jackson now teaches at a majority-white school." Not for much longer, I suspect.

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    Comment #1772825

    I'm not sure you can call a text editor 'ultra minimalist' when it depends (on my system at least) on 353MB of other software.

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    Comment #1758981

    I find it fascinating that every time I see an emacs vs. vim debate nowadays, everyone refers to the fact that it's a 'holy war' then proceeds to discuss the relative merits of the…

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    Comment #1758953

    And they'll give you one for free if your planned project is 'cool', enough.

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    Comment #1755564

    One that's not included, and that I can heartily recommend if you're curious about OpenBSD: http://devio.us/

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    Comment #1750202

    "it runs on every piece of hardware you throw at it" That's what continues to impress me about Ubuntu - I've installed it on everything from PPC-era Macs to dodgy little netbooks a…