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- Phil Schiller Delivers Lackluster Keynote
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Copy Existing Filename to 'Save As' Field
While many utilities provide file naming automation, they're mostly overkill for those cases when you need to make small variations in file content while ensuring the documents group together in a "by name" list.
In the Save As dialog, the default name is the current document name. You can quickly change this to match any existing file.
1. Make the list of files the active element.
2. Click on a grayed-out filename, which momentarily turns black.
3. The Save As field now contains the filename you just clicked.
You can modify the name (adding, say, "version 3") or overwrite that existing file you clicked.
Submitted by Jesse the K
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[Update: 28-Jan-08: The creator of these pictures has decided to remove them; you can read his rationale on Flickr. If you look around at the various sites that linked to the original pictures, you can find a few more samples. -Adam]
If you have a few minutes to spare, hop over to Flickr to see PaulTheWineGuy's set of famous works of art, all cleverly modified with digital artifacts of today's electronic culture. Rodin's "The Thinker" appears with a Windows hourglass wait cursor, for instance, and HTML table tags are superimposed on a classic Mondrian. Then there's Jasper Johns's 1961 map of the United States - complete with Google Maps controls. A few of the images are a bit more subtle (and show a Windows sensibility): Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V have been added to Andy Warhol's "100 Cans" to apply the current concept of replication to Warhol's work, and a much-damaged work by Antonello da Messina has broken-image rectangles overlaid on the parts that lack paint, as though a Web browser had failed to load those parts. The visual puns and trenchant revisions are both amusing and, I suspect, telling commentary on both our electronic culture and the original works.
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editing in browsers, text completion, Scratchpad, new Ruby module,
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