Monday, November 2nd, 2009
A few random thoughts on Apple’s new multi-touch Magic Mouse:
Apple killed the third mouse button! I am conditioned to open tabs in browsers with the a middle click, so this is quite some problem for me. (I still hoped for an Open-in-a-New-Tab gesture for Apple’s touch pads but I guess it is unlikely [...]
Tags: Apple, magic mouse, mouse, multi-touch, review
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Something for the Mac users this time. I have written a little plug-in for Adium recently.
It can be downloaded and installed from the Adium Xtras site.
The plug-in, called Contact Album, stores all the icons that your contacts use over time and comes with a viewer for the icons.
After installation of the plug-in, the album [...]
Tags: adium, Apple, contact album, osx, plugin
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Here is a quick follow-up to my recent rant about Apple: After a few more emails and phone calls, I will be the proud owner of a MacBook Pro with a US keyboard soon.
I still don’t understand why it is so problematic to get a US keyboard from Apple as a German customer. Anyway, I [...]
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
I want one of those new MacBook Pros.
I want one with a US keyboard!
Unfortunately Apple seems to be unable to provide US keyboards to European customers : (
The German webstore offers an International-English keyboard but that is different from US style keyboards: narrow Return key, additional key between left Shift and Z.
Several phone calls and emails [...]
Tags: Apple, rant
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