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  • Mac OS X Invisible files

    The Mac has this notion of invisible files. Sometimes you want to edit them. There are third party utilities like File Buddy which do this, but you can also “natively”:http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajyj.html view them if you squint sideways. Here are the instructions: In Mac OS X, how do I view invisible files? – Knowledge Base OS X…

  • Excel 2008 bugs make it useless for loans and private equity

    Wow, I can’t believe Microsoft would ship a product like this. Beware, Excel 2008 won’t recalc XIRR correctly and in fact any sheet that has an intentional reference where loan amounts have fees that are dependent. This has worked in versions of Excel for the last 20 years. So sad, it means that Excel 2008…

  • Four ways to make Mac simpler

    Mac 101: Four simple ways to make your Mac more efficient – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 1. Easy access from the dock I always drag my hard drive and Applications folder into the dock. No need to minimize windows, invoke Expose or, worst of all, shuffle windows around manually to reach the folder or…

  • Chinese Olympic Nicknames and vocabulary

    For the true student of chinese, here are the nicknames of “players”:http://www.nbcolympics.com/newscenter/news/newsid=236723.html. Some are really great! | Athlete | Nickname | Pinyin | Translation | Explanation | | LeBron James | 小皇帝 | xiao3 huang2 di4 | Little Emperor | He’s King James | | Camelo Anthony | 甜瓜 ｜ tian2 gua1 | Sweet Melon…

  • Advertising Opt Out

    I normally just disable cookies, but if you want, you can also positively “opt out”:http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp which just means they won’t keep personal data. You will still see ads, but theywon’t keep personalization information.

  • PDFPen Tips and Tricks

    I bought both PDF Clerk and PDFPen for a “comparison”:http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/31/feature-review-pdfclerk-vs-pdfpen/ and there were some great reviews. We need this specifically to add signatures to legal documents, so the needs are very specific. We get a PDF from a legal firm and then we return the documents as PDFs and then print the originals. Here is…

  • iPhone Olympic App

    Lenovo Olympics 2008 App – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Lenovo, the Chinese manufacturer of ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook PCs and other electronic devices, is providing the free Lenovo Olympics 2008 “App”:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287487247&mt=8 in the App Store now. You can download it from your iPhone or iPod touch by going to the App Store and searching…

  • Olympic heaven

    I’m completely addicted right now. First, Comcast has HD Olympics live on USA channel and KOMO-TV which are channels 660 and 105. With a DVR, it is nearly perfect, but with “NBCOlympics.com”:http://nbcolympics.com, you can watch four different events live. I’m going to be up all night! The best are the “live”:http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/live/index.html feeds and the mode…

  • Tell Bonzi to go browser independent!

    Send your emails to “Bonzi”:http://www.bonzicentral.com telling them they should really go browser independent. Talked with a very nice woman from their customer support. They actually have people who call you back which is amazing! But how could you be dependent on the browser object model. That is just so sad. I really don’t understand in…