Access menus via the keyboard in OS X
Even though contextual menus are largely useful when using a mouse or trackpad, sometimes they can be convenient to activate when navigating or managing your computer with the keyboard.
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How to manage services in OS X
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.
Read MoreFuture of search and rescue: Cockroaches piloted by Kinect
File this one under the grossly, absurdly, and perhaps soon patently awesome. Researchers at North Carolina State University say they have developed a system by which cockroaches may actually perform search and rescue.Using Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect, they plotted a path for cockroaches and tracked them
Read MorePlaintiffs tussle with Facebook over proposed settlement of ad-related lawsuit
Opponents of Facebook’s settlement of a lawsuit involving “Sponsored Stories” — an ad feature that displays images of users of the social network — spent Friday morning in a San Francisco court trying to convince a federal judge that the settlement’s terms fail to protect the privacy of minors. Facebook, of course, believes otherwise and if users who are objecting to the settlement don’t agree, they should just leave the class-action lawsuit, according to Michael Rhodes, the attorney hired by the social network to handle the case
Read MoreA hail and farewell to AltaVista
This is what happens after a series of bumbling owners fail to keep a once terrific product relevant in a dynamic market: You get a cold PR send-off that doesn’t even fill the screen.”Please visit Yahoo! Search for all of your searching needs.” That’s all Yahoo wrote Friday afternoon as it lumped in the news that it was killing off AltaVista on July 8 with word that it will also ax 11 other products that no longer matter to the company.
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