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Comment #18172212
I wonder if we get to use the + modifier in Google Search again.
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Comment #15701098
Much smaller screens made this a useful function for being able to layer windows, as fake tabs
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Comment #15564822
installed and checked the man page, hmm 'flies like the galaxy express 999' wonder what that is $ ls -F dammit! $ sl -F So I guess it's corrected my typos already :)
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Comment #15232288
Why did they not name it Apple Juice instead of Airpower? :) If you're referring to the FaceTime announcement, it was a third party that forced them to keep it closed (from memory)…
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Comment #15231480
On stage it was stated you needed to be alert and looking at the device, as in eyes open. Sleeping is fine I'd guess :) If you're worried about people living with you, I'd guess To…
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Comment #15230526
I feel that Apple knows exactly what it's doing with this feature. There is a strong pull with iMessage for 15-25 year olds in schools, the kind of market something like this will …
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Comment #12407549
I like the momentum, but on mobile (iPad) each move is a new place in my back history.
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Comment #12376276
Sounds like you're enjoying living where you are precisely because of strangers, some of which I'm assuming you meet ;)
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Comment #12172463
It could also be how they made QuickTime very (more?) unstable on Windows, or the IE extension in OS 9 that WOZ proved to cause the OS to crash.
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Comment #12015293
I think your info is a bit outdated (and some incorrect). Buy a mac (or ignore the Eula and run OS X in a VM), install the dev tools (free), install the app on your iPad (free). If…
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Comment #11370693
From the article : "Saturation divers are incredibly well paid (around £1,500 per day), but the risk they are exposed to reflects the rationale behind the pay structure."
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Comment #11150738
That lawsuit was because apple didn't pay the standard licensing fees for something Nokia owned, because Nokia was trying to charge more than they are allowed to (they wanted acces…
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Comment #10769593
Try this site, I use it occasionally to help me ignore the fan / vibration noise in this building and it works really well (for my purposes at least). There are plenty of different…
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Comment #10763595
Depending on my mood I'll either stop reading and leave the site, or fill in an (hopefully an actual) email address of the domain I'm on, then leave the site. It's never ever entic…
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Comment #10755947
Just a FYI, with uBlock on (mostly default settings except for a few specific sites of which yours isn't one) I couldn't sign up at all, the field for entering the email address ju…
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Comment #10749909
How does this site stop the tap on the top of the screen / title bar of safari from scrolling up to the top? Rather irritating.
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Comment #10692885
That would depend on your instatution, all of the private schools I work with let the teachers find new apps and we can push them to the iPads pretty easily. Budget has been provid…
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Comment #10691289
Check Karl Schroeder, you may find him a refreshing change. His first book is available to read online at his website http://karlschroeder.com From what you mentioned, it sounds li…
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Comment #10683543
Running the same machine with Yosemite, no cpu upgrade but an SSD and video card upgrade. Thinking of putting new cpu's in as they are down to $35 for a pair, almost free at this p…
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Comment #10671762
The individual posts load really quickly, but the main page doesn't (well not as fast as the other one mentioned). Either way, both are fast and I wish more websites were like this…
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Comment #10662849
Hah! I wrote a script a few months back and had to solve an issue of figuring out the state of a program running under wine, and that was my solution (to not in ruby, just a quick …
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Comment #10612753
Is there any reason to check for saturday / sunday in the scripts instead of just doing that via cron (or launchd)?
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Comment #10555838
I've noticed when copying stuff like this that the selected text looks different on iOS. This is how it looks in this instance : http://imgur.com/ddZ4ytL
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Comment #10551283
Looks good. I don't use gitlab so didn't grab it, but always like checking out good UI's. How long did it take you to create it?