I’m not sure I could do this myself, but it’s something for possible consideration in dealing with my continuously overflowing inbox: Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email.
There are a number of different sentence numbers for your own response policy at http://two.sentenc.es/, http://three.sentenc.es/, http://four.sentenc.es/, or http://five.sentenc.es/.
There have been countless times when friends or family have asked me to help them setup their home network. Something that comes in extremely handy is a list of default passwords for a huge selection of routers—hopefully including theirs, without which you might actually have to read an instruction manual.
Ira Glass bequeaths the tricks of the trade in four YouTube videos that are extremely interesting, whether or not your are in the publishing/podcasting/video making business.
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Better than a thesaurus, the Reverse Dictionary is a tool that allows you to describe a concept then returns a list of words and phrases related to that concept. It’s like a thesaurus except that, “[y]our description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the ‘Find words’ button.”
You can also use *’s for wildcards if you know part of the word you are looking up.
I’m going to keep this site in mind the next time I’m struggling for that perfect word.
(via CoolTools)
I was just wondering when or if it is more appropriate to use hyphens when writing “up to date”. In my quick research I found this:
Re: up to date vs. up-to-date
The rule is the same as for most other compounds like this. It depends on the function in the sentence. If it is an adjective, the hyphens are preferred: up-to-date fashions, up-to-date immunizations, etc.
If the phrase follows a linking (copulative verb), the hyphens are not needed.
The immunizations were up to date.
Her fashion sense required that she always be dressed in clothes that were up to date.
Just thought I would help the world out by posting that. I guess you are now up to date on hyphen usage because of my up-to-date tip.
I’ve been doing some New Media work/art lately, mostly in Photoshop, and recently I discovered some very handy cheat sheets that have great shortcuts and reminders for:
- Photoshop CS2
- Dreamweaver MX
- CSS
- PHP
- Adobe Illustrator CS2
- MySQL
- mod_rewrite
- .htaccess
- Hex Color
- Javascript
Having been working with vector shapes a lot yesterday, I was getting pretty frustrated when trying to switch between tools quickly. Though it’s not in the menu commands or tool tips within Photoshop, I found this table of helpful hints in the help file. I realize that for most people it’s going to be pretty boring content, but for me, it’ll be a handy resource for vector art (and most likely easier to find than looking it up in the help file).
| Result | Windows | Mac OS |
| Select multiple anchor points | Direct selection tool + Shift-click | Direct selection tool + Shift-click |
| Select entire path | Direct selection tool + Alt-click | Direct selection tool + Option-click |
| Duplicate a path | Pen (any pen tool), Path Selection or Direct Selection tool + Control + Alt-drag | Pen (any pen tool), Path Selection or Direct Selection tool+ Command + Option-drag |
| Switch from Path Selection, Pen, Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, or Convert Point tools, to Direct Selection tool | Control | Command |
| Switch from Pen tool or Freeform Pen tool to Convert Point tool when pointer is over anchor or direction point | Alt | Option |
| Close path with straight-line segment | Magnetic Pen tool + Alt-double-click | Magnetic Pen tool + Option-double-click |
Here is a copy of the host file that I use. (Right click Save As) and then save it over your old host file (making sure it has no extension). The old host file can be found at:
Windows XP = c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
Windows 2K = c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc
Win 98/ME = c:\windows
This file tells your computer not to look up certain websites when you visit pages with their content. (For example a site that uses adversising from the DoubleClick advertising network would show it’s own content but not the ads if you had the line 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net in your hosts file.
The host file can also prevent tracking which sites you use. I can’t tell you what a big difference a good hosts file can make in your browsing experience. Find out more about host files.
Update: By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file.
- Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
- Right click “Notepad” and select “Run as administrator”
- Click “Continue” on the UAC prompt
- Click File -> Open
- Browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
- Change the file filter drop down box from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”
- Select “hosts” and click “Open”
- Copy and paste the text from my hosts file into yours. Save and close Notepad.
Also note that I try and update my hosts files from time to time—so even though this post is old, the file may not be.