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March 31st, 2007

Zimbra Releases Desktop Runtime… One More “Web Apps” on Your Desk Entry

    
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March 31st, 2007

Computerworld Writer Thinks Microsoft Should Fear Apple

    
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March 30th, 2007

How To Use TextEdit as an HTML Editor

TextEdit's Underlying Glow Is Very StrongLike most geeky Mac users, I delight in the little "easter eggs" I discover from time to time as I use my Mac. It's especially satisfying when I stumble across something cool about apps I thought I knew... even mundane little apps like TextEdit. This article describes how I learned to use TextEdit as an HTML editor (!!) It's the first in a planned series I'll be publishing to share and preserve my personal Mac OS X "easter eggs." I've already got a long Edgies note that's full of little tips and tricks on topics like Pages, Quicksilver, contextual menus, PackageMaker, and DevonThink Pro, as well as more on TextEdit.

I originally published this particular tip on MacOSXHints last summer, and I always intended to republish it here... but, well, I'm only now getting around to it. MacOSXHints is a great resource for Mac users, and I search its archives frequently. However, as a purveyor of tips, it's a bit limiting, since you can't include images or movies in your writeup, and you don't have much control over how it's presented. One of the main reasons I purvey tips, by the way, is to try to counteract the drivel a Google search often dredges up. For example, I searched again today to see if anyone had published this useful tidbit about TextEdit and couldn't find it anywhere... for the most part, Google gave me articles like this one on About.com, which just don't tell the full story.

    
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March 29th, 2007

AppHack: Incredibly Useful and Versatile App Developer Freeware

    
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March 28th, 2007

OSDir.com: Comprehensive, Easily Navigable Directory of Open Source Software

    
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March 27th, 2007

Control.Modal: A Gallery of Lightbox and Modal-Window Effects Using CSS and Prototype

    
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March 25th, 2007

Daemons and Agents in Mac OS X: Apple Technical Note

    
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March 24th, 2007

ZeusDraw: New Mac Vector Drawing/Painting Tool Debuts

    
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March 24th, 2007

IFreeMem: Simple Tool To Free Up Inactive Memory

    
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March 24th, 2007

Analyst Says Apple TV Could Overtake both TiVo and Netflix

    
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March 24th, 2007

Adobe’s WebKit-Driven Apollo Desktop Now Available in Alpha Release

    
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March 24th, 2007

iScreensaver Designer: A Tool for Making Cross-Platform Screensavers

    
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March 23rd, 2007

ForkLift: A New Cocoa File Manager Enters Public Beta

    
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March 23rd, 2007

Bash Reference Manual

    
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March 22nd, 2007

Far Out Menu Highlighter with JavaScript and CSS

    
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March 22nd, 2007

Ajaxian » Cross Browser Keyboard Handler

    
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March 22nd, 2007

Parallax Web Page Background Using Javascript and CSS

    
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March 22nd, 2007

OpenLaszlo Goes 4.0 and DHTML/Ajax, Too!

    
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March 22nd, 2007

Yet Another JavaScript Library: Is This Getting Ridiculous, Or What?

    
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March 22nd, 2007

DED|Chain JavaScript Library Combines Yahoo! UI and jQuery

    
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Just Say No To Flash