Staying in Touch With Technology

In a story about how older adults can keep up with technology, The New York Times? Sam Grobart recommends iPad, which ?remains the best choice? among tablets because it?s ?easy to use, and its wealth of apps make it the perfect digital companion.? Grobart also recommends productivity apps like Evernote, ?the world?s greatest file cabinet,? for helping people remain organized in retirement.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/business/retirementspecial/03Tech.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=How%20older%20adults%20can%20keep%20up%20with%20technology&st=cse

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Chrome three-finger gesture

I am currently using the developer version of Google's Chrome browser (v. 11). In it, 3 finger grab gesture (pull 3 finger across top-to-bottom) on your Macbook, you get a window within the current window that shows all of your open tabs.

On a Macbook, if you perform a 3 finger swipe gesture in Chrome browser (top-to-bottom NOT left-to-right or right-to-left), you get all the open windows within your current tab. You can click on any window to jump to that tab.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. I presume this is referring to the nightly builds of Chromium, which is the open source basis of Google Chrome. It may be a while before this feature appears in the release version (currently 9.x). But much as people download the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari) it can be handy to stay on top of where Chrome is heading.]

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Integrate the MacOS sandbox into an executable Firefox application

Following up on the ideas of this previous hint, there is also a possibility to make an application which starts with the sandbox already activated, so there is no need to run a shell script every time you need the sandbox. This is how to do that:
  • Make a copy of your Firefox.app and rename it to FirefoxSandbox.app
  • Right-Click on FirefoxSandbox.app and choose 'Show Package Contents.'
  • Take the sandbox definition from the hint referenced above and save it as 'sandbox' in the Contents/MacOS subfolder of the package. Replace all the references to 'Firefox.app' within that file with 'FirefoxSandbox.app.'
  • Create a file called 'firefoxSandbox' in the same Contents/MacOS folder and make it executable.
  • The contents of the 'firefoxSandbox' file are (just paste in the following): ...

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Forum roundup: biggest disappointment with iPad 2?

With the announcement of the new iPad 2 this week, forum goers were quick to jump on the topic of the "biggest disappointment in the new iPad 2" click here to read more, or to voice an opinion. Yesterday, one poster turned to the MacNN forums for some advice on what to do with their Mac that is having some problems booting....

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New Android API reaches phone apps to curb fragmentation

Google later on Thursday posted a new version of its Fragments API targeted at earlier platforms. The new version will let app developers write apps for platforms as old as Android 1.6 while still letting their interface elements scale up to tablet size for Android 3.0. Developers can roll the programming interface directly into a given app so that it's ready to load immediately....

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