Via Lee, Want. Imagine playing this with a Wii remote.
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Missing F9 + F11 new Mac Keyboard
So my old Mac keyboard died earlier this week, or to be more precise the TAB and CAPS LOCK keys stopped working, so it was time for a new keyboard.
I’d seen the new flat key Mac keyboards before, but after 25 years of typing I liked having raised keys. However I wasn’t impressed by the non-Apple keyboards at StreetWise (a great Apple reseller in Hawthorn) so I purchased one of the flat keyboards instead.
Not the wireless one, because bizarrely Apple did away with the numeric keypad on that, and I need a numeric keypad, 2 years at Bankers Trust in 94-95 where I spent a couple of hours a day data entering numbers into Excel means today I can enter numbers with 99% accuracy blindfolded using the numeric keypad. Hence I also rarely enter numbers using the numbers on the Qwerty side.
First let me say a couple of days in: best keyboard I’ve ever owned. The flat keys make typing easier. I’m not sure if it’s the angle, the need to press them less, what ever it is….but I’m typing more quickly and my fingers are taking less stress.
But there was a catch: the F9 and F11 keys weren’t working.
F11 is Expose and F9 clears the Windows off the screen. Combined they are two of my favorite features of a Mac, and I use both constantly.
Stranger still, unlike my Macbook Pro, the new keyboard doesn’t have a function key, so that wasn’t the trick.
Hit Google, and here’s the answer if you ever get caught: F11 is now F3, and F9 is Command+F3. There’s even a little Expose graphic drawn on F3.
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The Inquisitr November
Pageviews: 1,085,598 (per Google Analytics)
Traffic profile: highest post accounted for only 5.8% of traffic. Top 5 posts accounted for less than 20% of traffic.
Finances: profitable (that is, more income than the cost of paying writers excluding me)
Cash Flow: same as last month, tight. Net 60 on ads, so we won’t be making any significant changes until February 09.
Technorati Rank:764
CPM: steady, although can vary in a wide range day to day.
Short term risks: it’s silly season for web traffic, so we’ll either go up in December/ January, or down. Working naturally towards the former.
Note: lots more people read the Month 6 report than normal. My thx for dropping by. I have never, nor do I intend to give a long report every month, but instead at milestones, so I’ll likely do a long report at 9mths and 12mths. Also I’ve switched to month reporting not anniversary reporting, at least for now.
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Tasmania
Port Arthur: nice
Tasmanian Devil Park: overpriced
Salamanca Markets: crafty
Getting caught in a snow storm on Mt Wellington: priceless, given Ive only seen snow twice beforePS WordPress iPhone app isn’t half bad either. Pics to follow tomorrow, after Crowded House tonight
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Hitler – Internet Censorship Australia
Brilliant. Watch it while you still can.
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Bailouts
So the US Government bailed out Citibank. Add them to the long line of bailed out companies. They’re still blueing over the auto industry, but the likely outcome is more taxpayer dollars spent.
I know I’m not alone in thinking this, but has the world gone crazy?
Since when were Governments in the business of propping up failed companies?
If my business goes bankrupt next year, will the Australian Government bail me out?
I like the line from Romney on the auto industry: Chapter 11 bankruptcy is there for a reason. Why not use it.
A note of the political side: this is socialism at its worst coming from mostly the right, not the left, Australia and the UK excepted (although the UK is probably center right).
Big companies get tax breaks when times are good, but when times are bad the same taxes they avoided paying are used to prop them up.
The heads of the three US automakers flew to talks on a bailout in their private jets. Say no more.
I understand and respect the need to avoid a repeat of the Great Depression, but the message this sends to every person in small business who does it tough is beyond disgusting.
We live in strange times.
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Syndication Offer
The Huffington Post has an interesting way of syndicating some content. The short version is they run the first three or four paragraphs of a post on their site, then end it with “read more here xyz.” I’m not sure if it’s under legal agreement or not, and as a rule I don’t like running that much text from another site on The Inquisitr.
However, if you’re a tech site and you would be cool with us doing something along those lines, email me duncan at nichenet.com.au . We wouldn’t run everything, but on occasion we’d like to run the intro to a post similar to what The Huffington Post does. I can’t promise millions of page views, but we’re pretty close now to some high numbers so you might get some half reasonable traffic from the post + link.
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Free Labour
I’m quite bewildered at these multi-million dollar sites/ blogs that get thousands of people writing for them for absolutely nothing. I’m not sure if I’m troubled because of the financial dimension (exploitation) or I’m simply troubled because I’m jealous and I wants me some of that. Hmmmmmm……
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Drew’s Strands Tattoo
I love Drew. Here’s a guy who always puts his 110% into everything he does, and he does it so well at the same time.
More on the Strands blog here.
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Now would be a good time to invade Australia
It could be worse…like New Zealand
Navy closes for Christmas
NAVY chiefs battling a staffing crisis have taken the unprecedented step of ordering a two-month shutdown over Christmas, and have told personnel with child-care problems that they can work from home.
The navy has also ordered all ships not deployed on operations home for Christmas to try to combat a 2020 shortfall in trained personnel.
In addition, the number of sailors forced to stay on board ships docked in their home port on “duty watch” as sentries will be reduced from previous levels of 15 to 20 people to a skeleton staff.
On the bright side, docked ships still look scary, even if there’s no one to drive them 🙂
