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• October 6th, 2007

  New iPod nano losing menu settings -- anyone else?

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• October 6th, 2007

  Which social networking sites are actually useful to you?

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• November 27th, 2007

  Can I change the amount of time that the screen will be dimmed to under one minute?

  Ah, I’m on a MacBook—it’s possible that they set the minimums differently on the desktop models. Question: can you turn the backlight all the way off in the Displays panel in System Preferences?
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• November 26th, 2007

  Can I change the amount of time that the screen will be dimmed to under one minute?

  F1 will completely shut off the backlight. Trust me. I do this all the time. The only downside is remembering to turn the backlight back on in the morning.
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• November 26th, 2007

  Cyberduck + TextMate question...

  If I were in your shoes, I’d probably have a local folder that matched the FTP site, and then have some other app doing a sync on change. You can probably do this with Cyberduck and AppleScript folder actions.
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• November 26th, 2007

  In cursive or fancy script, what is the thing that connotes an underscoring of the text above (such as a name written on the envelope of a card) or that marks the end of a written passage (such as a diary entry) that looks like a giant tilde (~) with two forward slashes (//) through it?

  @Perchik—I don’t think so. The swung dash is used to replace a missing word, and when I’ve seen that in period texts, it is far larger than a tilde; it’s closer to being one or two em-dashes in length. If you pull up the swung dash and the tilde consecutively in the Unicode character browser in OS X (show contents of /System/Library/Components/CharacterPalette.component, then navigate to Contents/SharedSupport/CharPaletteServer.app; the search box is bottom middle), the swung dash is larger by a factor of about 60%.
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• November 26th, 2007

  Any great exhibits/shows in Washington DC this week?

  Corcoran has a simultaneous exhibit of Annie Leibowitz and Ansel Adams photography.
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