March 2012
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Free Public Beta
Get your hands on the beta version of the new Photoshop for free. Notable new features include Adobe’s Mercury graphics engine to harness your GPU more effectively than previous versions.
Want it? Go here and check it out or choose one of the direct download links below:
Mac Install Windows Install
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Giant 45ft-long paper airplane takes to the skies... →
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Borat's spoof Kazakhstan anthem accidentally... →
No. way. Seriously?! This is so bad!! How awkward must that have been…
The spoof song praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.
Read the full article on the BBC News.
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Sparrow for iPhone... my verdict
Well you gotta hand it to them, they’ve created one lovely app to use! But as they say ‘you don’t look at the mantlepiece when you’re poking the fire’ so… Looking at what I wished they’d do, let’s see the results:
Support two-way synchronisation of sent mail. That is, if I send a mail on my iPhone it does not appear in my other clients. Done.
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WatchSparrow for iOS is here!
I’ve always been a sucker for a nice video ad and it’s being downloaded now. I’ll report on my findings soon—initial indications are it’s gonna be a gud’n—let’s see if it fulfils any of the items on my previously stated wish list.
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Annoying gotcha—LaTeX AMS Matrix
Wow… I couldn’t really be more cheesed off :|
I’ve just spent the best part of an hour trying (and failing) to typeset a 16x16 matrix using the matrix environment—well, pmatrix but whatever.
I constantly got the following error message:
! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.
There was me searching for this elusive ‘extra’ alignment character...
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“If someone doesn’t feel you’re encouraging them, you’re not....”
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Muggles master their quaffles for first British... →
I can see this being quite fun if not exhausting! It’s like the tiring love child of handball, dodgeball and rugby. Read all about it…
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Three hidden goodies in iTunes (Terminal Hacks)
Invert Store links: Ever been frustrated when in a playlist and you want to go the artist for a particular song. Well there’s a suggestive arrow next to the track name but, oh wait, iTunes uses that to send you to the iTunes Store… bummer! Well you can change this so that these link to your library with the first of the three below commands.
Find using ⌘F: It annoyed me for a while...
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Enable iTunes Dock notifications
A nice little hidden bonus with Mac OSX 10.7 which can be enabled with a quick defaults write! Just open up Terminal and enter the following code:
# Enable iTunes track notifications in the Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool true
—or bookmark this Gist for later.
P.S. It even looks a bit prettier with automatic dock hiding enabled:
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