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Zanshin: The Remaining Mind

Sort of like “Mind like water”

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Tiger: New Safari tabs at your Command

As Mr. Gruber mentioned yesterday, 2.0 (Tiger) versions of Safari have added the ability to COMMAND-Return from within a web page’s form field in order to send the resulting page to a new tab (go ahead: try it in the 43F search field in the right column of this page). It also appears that you can COMMAND-Click most forms’ Submit buttons to similar effect. This builds on a feature available since (at least) the previous version of Safari in which you can COMMAND-Return in both the Address Bar and the Google Bar to generate a new, populated tab. (n.b: these also work in Safari 1.3 for Panther [Thanks, Roger.])

These may not seem revolutionary on the face of it, but as someone who’s already committed them to Safari muscle memory, I can assure you they’re wildly useful. A few random examples.

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Real Simple: 19-minute daily cleanup

In which I learn how to tidy the house in 19 minutes (and reluctantly confess my affection for Real Simple)

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Calm Technology: How do I know when I need to know?

"A calm technology will move easily from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back...."

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Tips on maintaining concentration

Great tips that are useful way beyond studying—really for any kind of work that requires your mind not to wander off on its own.

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Podcasts of non-commercial and public radio shows

Got a good link that collects free podcasts from non-commercial radio shows? Have a favorite or obscure program to recommend in podcast format?

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This is the video of Merlin’s keynote at Webstock 2011. The one where he cried. You should watch it. »