Neat for fans of Oblique Strategies, the little deck of cards that give little quotes and food for thought, there’s a nifty thing you can do on a Mac. Visit the page where you can draw a card in Safari. Choose to clip the page into the Dashboard, and hey presto - an oblique strategies widget that changes each time you go to the Dashboard. Nifty, eh?
[From Oblique Strategies]
Many thanks to Mike (@Mike - is this URL current?) for pointing out the Mac app Genius to me.
Genius is freeware (donations accepted) to help you learn things. You pair answers and questions and then plough through them. It is very useful for learning commercial law cases, as I am doing now (what fun).
Walk into my room at the moment and you will find a few new bits’n'pieces: a heater that makes beeping sound not unlike a microwave (appropriate since it will happily cook the room quite quickly), strewn-about bits of paper detailing exactly how direct effect in the EU works (or doesn’t), but most crucially, a shiny new MacBook, dusted to within an inch of its life.
The new MacBook is, of course, stunning. More on that later (after I’ve finished this essay and revised for exams), but for now just a quick example.
As predicted, OmniFocus syncs with iCal, which syncs with my old iPod. What I didn’t predict was the built-in Bluetooth, which syncs iCal todos and dates and the address book with my mobile phone.
Hell. Yeah.
P.S. I’m sure there are 101 different ways to do this on a PC, but they all seemed to involve either Outlook (which is no longer standard in the Home & Student edition of Office which I have) or some other bits of software, most likely which are paid. With the exception of OmniFocus, this is all built-in.
According to Douglas Adams, one of the two reasons that the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy succeeded was because it had the words “Don’t Panic” printed n the cover in large friendly letters.
Macs appear to be similar. Error messages are scary things, but my MacBook has just reassured me that “Mail closed unexpectedly. Mac OS X and other applications are not affected”. Perhaps not as friendly, but certainly not as incomprehensible as some Windows errors. No system is perfect, or the crash wouldn’t have happened in the first place, but I am rather liking this little bit of polish.
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