Month: June 2013

Off with their heads: Yahoo issues list of nixed projects

Posted by | Jun 28, 2013 | |

Summer cleaning starts today at Yahoo which revealed a dozen projects that are shutting down. In a note announcing the list, Jay Rossiter, the vice president in charge of platforms, said the moves will free Yahoo to sharpen its focus and thus “continue to focus on creating beautiful products that are essential to you every day.” (Did you know Alta Vista was still kicking around? Well, no longer.) From Rossiter’s memo: Yahoo! Axis (June 28, 2013) If you installed the browser plug-in, it will no longer work

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How to manage services in OS X

Posted by | Jun 28, 2013 | |

One of the relatively hidden but often invaluable features of OS X is its support for services, which is when one application can provide a function or capability to another, and accept some input such as text, files, or images, and perform a separate task with this data. For instance, if you are in Safari and wish to send a selection of text to a friend in an e-mail, you can click and drag to highlight it, and then use a service to create a new e-mail that contains this text. Likewise, you can select text in Word, Pages, TextEdit, or other applications and similarly generate an e-mail message containing the text, using the same service

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