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yummysoup
9y ago
Preyra Solutions Group | Information Analyst / ETL Developer | Toronto, Canada | ONSITE | www.preyrasolutions.com PSG is a health care consulting, data science and research firm in Toronto, ON. We use data to find ways to improve healt
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yummysoup
10y ago
check out tpmiddle to get the trackpoint middle button to middle click on press, and still scroll when you hold it down and move the trackpoint: http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~mwrobel/programs/tpmiddle.html
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yummysoup
12y ago
OS X reused the screenshot shortcut keys from the Classic Mac OS (System [n]) days. And back then, I think Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 ejected floppy disks, when there were such things.
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yummysoup
13y ago
Because its maps are offline, I've used it on a plane to track flight progress
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yummysoup
13y ago
I wonder if, given APIs for both Google Maps and Joe's Free And Permissive But Sometimes Wrong Maps, you could: * query both services for each address * if the [lat,lon] are equal (within a threshold), store Joe's result as correc
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yummysoup
13y ago
In Windows 8.1 you can override the scaling for individual apps through their properties dialogs. Set Chrome to not scale, then set the zoom within Chrome to be > 100%. The url bar and tabs will be a bit small but the page content will l
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yummysoup
13y ago
yeah, it can be annoying that the directory stack sequence keeps changing, which means that sometimes you can't easily re-run commands from your history if you've pushd since you last ran the command e.g., a command like "tar
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yummysoup
13y ago
I tried using Tiddly for a bit, but ended up moving to wikidpad ( http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/ ) which I've been quite happy with
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yummysoup
14y ago
I got a 3G radio with my last Thinkpad (1.5 years ago) and have barely used it. It seemed like a great feature, but because WiFi is almost ubiquitous (and when not, it's easy enough to create a hotspot on my phone), I haven't been willing
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yummysoup
14y ago
I definitely agree with this on the desktop, but I wonder if it's still true when folks try to contact you via mobile and they can't keep the browser window open for reference while entering your address in their email client.
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yummysoup
15y ago
It'd also be possible to double-park (triple, or more even), using less parking space. If the car in the middle needs to get out it can ask its neighbours (several levels deep) to shuffle around and make a path
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yummysoup
15y ago
I've found IE to be faster too. Usually when developing web apps I get things working in Firefox first then test in the other browsers. Lately I've been doing some work with Canvas and found IE to be the fastest for drawing large (many poin