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Orbital and Banco de Gaia on repeat soundtracked my CS degree. Both artists’ work from that era still hold up.

I remember discovering there was a 2CD version of In Sides that featured The Box with lyrics. Still gives me chills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQM12GbZHKk

Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Change With Buttons: OFF. Now the volume controls will only ever change the audio volume and never the ringer volume.

This is legal in California.

Has anyone ever debunked or repeated the food-coloured white wine test? I've heard this one before and it always seemed very strange to me as white and red wines have such clearly …

Yup. http://vimeo.com/26187915

I actually find the omnibar incredibly frustrating, as I know when I want to search and I know when I want to find something from my history. For me, these are separate tasks and c…

My behaviour is pretty much the same — Safari for personal browsing, Chrome for dev. Chrome is very nice, but Safari is a lot more "solid", especially when it comes to 3D Transform…

Having used this extensively for development and testing over the past several hours, this is definitely "beta", but it's nice to see Google making the effort here. Unfortunately f…

Nested tables worked, but they were incredibly hard to write/edit by hand. This gives us a way of using those layout concepts while still maintaining some separation of document st…

The issue with columns in web browsers is the variance in screen height. Clearly it would be worse to render an entire long-form article in 3 columns, forcing the user to scroll ba…

Fans of The Fridge might want to consider Minigroup ( https://minigroup.com ). It's less about the social and more about communication and collaboration, but we share their idea of…

I remember reading somewhere that the reason they called the company Netflix (and not something like, say, Mailflix) was that the distribution model was always intended to be flexi…

His scene lip-syncing to the Killers in Southland Tales is one of my favourite cinematic moments from the past few years. Which is saying a lot because that movie is awful in such …

If the app is using the background GPS process, there's already an indicator in the title bar (the little purple arrow) showing that the GPS is being used.

Unless you want to move the window, in which case trying to click on those 15 remaining pixels above the tab bar is very difficult (at least on OS X, not sure if it's different on …

> it's a top 4 sport already (displacing hockey) Not a chance. The NHL is enjoying some of its highest ratings ever.

> Normally, I'm happy to download at around 150k/sec! Is he serious? Is this the actual broadband speeds in most of the US?

Snow Leopard broke a lot of the extensions built using Input Managers, so 1Password 3.0 used the Scripting Additions method. http://kevin.sb.org/2009/09/02/1password-extension-load…