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Archive for April, 2005

Computers

April 29, 2005

Dictionary context

Cool Tiger feature.  Open Dictionary.app and in its prefs set the contextual menu to “Open Dictionary panel”.  Now in any app double click on a word to highlight it.  Bring up the contextual menu and select “Look up in dictionary”.  Very handy to have.   Thanks to Kevin Fyure in the discussion thread for John’s [...]

Computers

Library 1.5

Delicious Monster release Library v1.5 today.  It has a couple nice new features like the Spotlight interface and bug fixes.  It still has a lot of deficiencies that make wish I hadn’t bought right away.  They also still haven’t fixed crashers that I reported in 1.1 and earlier.  Simple things like trying to bring up [...]

Computers

Tiger Review

Nope, not one from me.  John Siracusa has a long review up at ars.  Be forewarned, it’s long.  Really long.  The PDF is 106 pages.  It has a ton of good info in it.  You just need to learn to skip ahead a bit when John starts in on a pet peeve. 
He’s right on most [...]

Movies

April 27, 2005

Serenity

WooHoo!  The trailer for Serenity is out.  I can’t wait for September for it to finally hit theaters.  If you’re not well versed in all things Firefly yet, I strongly (actually insist) you get the DVDs for the series.  You’re missing out if you don’t.
Update:  Apple posted a HD version today with the launch of [...]