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Mac spring cleaning

Mac spring cleaning

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Bulletin board for my laptop?

Bulletin board for my laptop?

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TOPICS: Hacer

This isn’t the kind of code quality you should launch with

You shouldn't have launched the site with HTML this bad. Among other things, a does not take an attribute called ref, comments are delimited by strictly defined and easy-to-get-right characters, you have tons of empty h2 class="title" elements, you don't have a print stylesheet (thanks for burning through our expensive coloured ink), you're styling inside elements, you've got so many classes on some divs it's clear somebody doesn't understand the cascade, and by God you're actually still using tables for layout.

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On-the-fly TextExpander external snippets (or alternative)

So I'm grooving along using my Textpander (old skool, baby) and thinking about doing even more with it. I mean, it is handy as it is, but I really hate going into the preference pane and walking through the mouse-heavy interface to add a new snippet. Sometimes, I realize that I'm going to type the word "existentialism" a bunch for the next few pages, and I want a quick-and-dirty, on-the-fly snippet added.

As far as I can tell, no can do.

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"My Dream App" voting open til Midnight EDT

The My Dream App competition (for which I'm a judge) has reached the first elimination round, so you have just a few hours to place your vote and help whittle the contestants down to the next round of 18.

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Merlins War on clutter thread?

Greetings, I found this site after finding "My War on Clutter" in a google search. I joined because I wanted to read the rest of Merlins articles on this subject. Thus far, I can only find the original thread and the numerous comments on it but can not find the rest of the stories/articles/posts pertaining to it. I have belonged to several other message boards and forums but apparently none set up like this one. I did not see a section on how to navigate the site either. If someone could help me find the rest of that thread, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Goal Setting

Goal Setting

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An Excellent 'Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing'

An Excellent "Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing"

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TOPICS: Hacer

Merlin's song recommendation"

On a recent TWIT / MBW show Merlin ranted about "the best song ever". Of course I was driving so couldn't write it down, but want to check it out. Perhaps by the Smiths? Something about "a bomb"? Sorry to be so vague! Ring a bell with anyone?!

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TOPICS: Grabass, Music
 
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