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- Phil Schiller Delivers Lackluster Keynote
- iPhoto '09 Adds Faces and Places
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- Apple Pioneers New Battery Tech with 17-inch MacBook Pro
- Jobs Clears the Air on Health Issue
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Want to access the Dock with your keyboard? Press Control-F3 to enter the Dock's keyboard access mode. Then you can press a letter corresponding with an item name to select it; press Return to open it, Command-Q to quit the selected application, or Escape to exit keyboard access mode. You can also use the arrow keys, Tab key, and other keyboard navigation keys to move around the Dock items. This might be a nice way to launch and switch among applications, especially if you change the keyboard shortcut (in the Keyboard Shortcuts view of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane) to something easier to invoke.
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I had to go cold turkey on Twitter this morning.
The mash-up of instant messaging, cell text messaging, and email that resembles a virtual water cooler works by letting you choose which messages you read from other people. You choose to "follow" people, and asymmetrically, they choose to follow you. Using Twitterrific, a Macintosh client, you can get continuously refreshed updates from the Twitter-sphere, as well as post Twitter messages. TidBITS head honcho Adam Engst explained Twitter and his own addiction in "Confessions of a Twitter Convert," 2007-10-09.
While there are practical uses of Twitter, including a TidBITS staff group, I have found that it requires too much regular attention to use, and saps too much of my productivity in a casual way that's hard to track. If I turn off regular updates and simply read recent Twitter posts, the particular charm of Twitter is lost.
I've enjoyed using Twitter immensely, as I've reconnected with friends and colleagues, and developed a dialog with a number of people I respect and otherwise have little direct interaction with.
Turning off Twitter feels a bit like moving out of a commune, but I fear that my work life requires me to have more focus than what Twitter can allow.
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