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Looking around I figured that everything can be lumped in either the emerging category or in the disappearing category. There’s so few things that are here to stay that it’s no use of creating a 3rd category. Actually, the things that may seem to just be constant probably have a very long fade span. Everything pretty much fades-in or fades-out.

Life is about fading.

DoubleCommand screenshot

DoubleCommand is a software for Mac OS X (a kernel extension) that lets you remap keys, in other words change the way your keyboard works. Often used to make a PC keyboard more comfortable with a Mac, swapping the Alt (Option) and Windows (Command or Apple) keys, since they are in swapped positions on Mac and PC keyboards. DoubleCommand is a quick and easy way to fix this if you use a PC keyboard with your Mac.

SHIFT+HOME and SHIFT+END selections are the bread and butter of typing.
And they don’t work by default on Mac OSX so this proved to be the first thing I needed to fix.

Head on to http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

After installing this app, you can find its settings in the System Preferences aka OSX Control Panel. Just tick the box called “PC style Home and End Keys” and you’re good to go.

I am still reluctant to switch the CTRL with ALT keys. For the sake of true compatibility I prefer them to be the same as on mac.
Anyway, I find ALT+S being obviously more comfortable to type than CTRL+S.

Don’t you?

This is a random sticker thought. The only useful part of these stickers is the title.
It might be a thought, an idea, a gimmick, a southside piece of philosophy.
I used to fill my walls with these but they kept falling down or get curly.

During the past 7-8 years dedicated to web and graphic design I gathered loads of fonts.
I have thousands of them, they spread through long folder names and many many subfolders. There are serif fonts, sans-serif, dingbats, ornaments, pixel fonts, famous fonts, crappy free fonts, anything, you name it.

There are so many that if I need to find a proper font for a project, I have to browse all of them, by hand, with the keyboard. This process usually takes more than one hour, only to end up with a shortlist of 3 to 5 fonts suitable for my purpose.

More than often, I notice that out of this shortlist most of the fonts are done by well established foundries. There’s rarely any “exotic”, weird name font there. And even if it is, the limited set of chars, the bad kerning or the frequent problems in the shapes of the letters end up convincing me to ditch the “exotic” font in the favor of one created by professional typographers.

Taking into consideration all the above facts, I am going to change my font sorting strategy. Instead of focusing on quantity, I’ll start focusing on quality. I will create a separate set of carefully chosen fonts and font families and I’ll think twice before
adding a new one to the set. In time, this will build a narrow set of quality fonts (think hundreds and not thousands).

They should be easier to browse and the efficiency will be higher.

I keep on thinking about this saying:

“Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it”.

I like the idea of doing as little as 10% while just trying to see differently the rest of 90%.
But what this formula misses is the energy involved.
In reality, it seems that I actually spend 90% of my energy only to build those 10% of doing, thus I’m left with 10% of my energy for taking 90% of the life.
Incorporating the energy spent, shifts this positive wisdom quote into a pretty depressive one.

In this case, a lot of energy is wasted in the process of transforming energy into done things.
Since nothing gets lost, bur rather gets wasted, I’m now investigating other byproducts of this transformation process.

This is a random sticker thought. The only useful part of these stickers is the title.
It might be a thought, an idea, a gimmick, a southside piece of philosophy.
I used to fill my walls with these but they kept falling down or get curly.

The sun is dying. And with it, the whole existence as we know it.
A small crew is sent to re-ignite it. To create a sun within the sun.
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According to several articles published in the last couple of weeks by AppleInsider, new iMacs are on the horizon this summer.

Gathering data from these articles I comprised a list of possible new features we could expect.
I also included some personal thoughts, but I’ll mark those with square brackets [ ].

So, without any further fireworks here is the list:
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This is a random sticker thought. The only useful part of these stickers is the title.
It might be a thought, an idea, a gimmick, a southside piece of philosophy.

This is a random sticker thought. The only useful part of these stickers is the title.
It might be a thought, an idea, a gimmick, a southside piece of philosophy.