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The Joy of Quiet

The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.” He also famously remarked that all of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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Sunday, 1st January
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preppeller:

Just a quick video to show how easy it will be to import and export extensions in the next release of Alfred’s Powerpack :)

The weather service I am using in the video is GtWthr.

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Tuesday, 14th June
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Train Layout Tumblr

I am beginning a new N-Scale train layout and thought to blog about it on Tumblr. My first thought was to start a new Tumblr dedicated to that blog, that entails creating a new Tumblr design. But I always get stalled at that point.

So for the moment I will put my Salt Lake Route ideas and work progress here and see what happens.

Maybe I can move them over later?

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Friday, 10th June
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Minimal Mac: iCloud – Conjecture, Magic, and A Fools Hope

minimalmac:

Those who follow me on Twitter saw me drop this idea last night in my stream so this may not be new to you.

I was just thinking aloud after reading the umpteenth rumor/speculation/claim-chowder post about the alleged Apple iCloud service and the possibly to stream music from some giant locker…

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Wednesday, 18th May
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Pendulum Waves

If I only could really understand the math behind this…

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Saturday, 14th May
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iPad - iWork Help

A Web based help page for iWork apps. Oddly it looks nice too!

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Saturday, 14th May
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Macworld On the Internet, trust no one

Enough said…

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Friday, 13th May
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alfredtips: The one in which you quit all apps With version 0.9, the Alfred system commands have received new additions for controlling the currently running applications - hide/quit/force quit.  So if you need to quickly reboot or shut off your Mac, it’s now easy to quit all of your running apps right from within Alfred. Type “quit” to see a list of all the open apps, then use your keyboard shortcut that will “Action all visible results” (here’s how to set this one up from a previous tip) and hit return. Off you go :).

alfredtips:

The one in which you quit all apps

With version 0.9, the Alfred system commands have received new additions for controlling the currently running applications - hide/quit/force quit. 

So if you need to quickly reboot or shut off your Mac, it’s now easy to quit all of your running apps right from within Alfred. Type “quit” to see a list of all the open apps, then use your keyboard shortcut that will “Action all visible results” (here’s how to set this one up from a previous tip) and hit return.

Off you go :).

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Thursday, 12th May
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Anna's Alfred Hat Tips: The one in which you use Caps Lock as your Alfred hotkey Here’s (a bit...

alfredtips:

The one in which you use Caps Lock as your Alfred hotkey

Here’s (a bit more geeky than usual) tip for how to make the most of Alfred focused on setting Caps Lock as your hotkey if you so wish :)

  1. Go to your Keyboard system preferences and on the Keyboard tab, click on Modifier Keys (in the…
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Sunday, 8th May
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mysteriousblog: Rockstars choosing horses

mysterioustrousers:

The title refers to Steve Jobs’ comment at D8 about having a company with limited resources and having to choose which technologies to go focus on.

I want to share how we pick our horses.

But first, let me say a few things:

  1. “Trendy” in a highly technological field is actually a good thing. If…

(Source: mysterioustrousers)

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Thursday, 28th April