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13,223karma·911submissions·April 6, 2011
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> There is no such thing on any other OS. I thought the Mac comparable was Keyboard Maestro. Are the two that different (asks someone who hasn't used Windows since the '90s)? https:…
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I have a small wholesale bakery. Every day some baked good is given away to someone whose path we cross while out on deliveries, always in unmarked packaging because it's not meant to be a promot…
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I do similar for certain types of information I want to save. My add-on approach is that the Save As PDF dialog includes a Keyword field which I use judiciously. The result is that all the PDFs are in…
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I own a one-person wholesale bakery. My boss is a jerk. Best to everyone.
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For what you're describing, it's important to understand how the FDA and the laws are set up. As things are, package labeling is required for consumer packaged foods. The FDA inspects those …
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> Why oh why can't we have this as a product in North America, aside from making a reasonable imitation of it yourself (you need food grad sodium hydroxide, which used to be hard to find, but…
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I’ve always appreciated the numerous salient points in this 2012 Economist blog post comparing how Kodak and Fuji Filmfilm responded to the ascendency of digital cameras: https://www.econom…
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>The fundamental force behind this is individualism. Every single technological innovation has made it easier for the individual to function better alone. Every societal change has emphasized the …
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Read Calvel on autolyse. He's the person who developed the process. While I can't compare his work ( The Taste of Bread ) to Modernist Bread (not having read those books), he comes at it f…
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> But [CarPlay] could also be #4 "Preventing people who are subscribing to your thing from switching to somebody else's thing." The more reasons an existing user has to value someth…
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As a user, there are two issues I could face from this type of culling. First, I keep older devices—maybe just for RSS or news apps or podcasts or in-car music or video players. Relatively simple, str…
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>unlike the regular use of Back, you can’t Forward to undo the Back in that situation.... If you've enabled Shake To Undo in Settings>Accessibility>Touch, then you can undo/reopen t…
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I'm still running OS X (10.11, El Capitan), but System Preferences under that OS had a View menu option Organize Alphabetically. That was present in many (all?) versions of OS X. I don't kno…
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Relatedly, there's Steve Jobs's thoughtful yet off-the-cuff response when questioned at the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference about Apple killing OpenDoc. https://www.youtube.co…
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Similarly, someone texted me—technically, iMessages—shipment tracking numbers the other day. Two tracking numbers in three messages. Message 1: 123456789012 Message 2: Tracking number. Message 3: 2nd …
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>On Mac, you can have an application open with no windows. The exception to this is applications which can only display one window, such as System Preferences. Close that one window and the applica…
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Well said. Also in the Mac world—I can't speak to other platforms—I'd say your description of Hamrick the person and business also applies to Peter Lewis, the person behind Keyboard Maestro.
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I purchased a lifetime license 16 years ago for US $90. Indeed, the license I have is as valid as ever.