http://mattwalters.net Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:42:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A co-worker recently purchased a new MacBook.  I sent him this email just as a quick-start to help him get going.  I thought I'd share it here: Some hot keys you'll probably want to know: (fyi Cmd/Command = Apple key, you'll barely ever use Alt or Control anymore) Cmd-Q: Quits current application.  ... http://mattwalters.net/2008/11/18/mac-welcome-notes/ Not sure what happened with Twitter Tools.  It for some reason did the weekly digest over and over and over.  I've cleared out the scheduled posts that it made (no idea why it did that) and cleaned out the ones it had already posted.  I also deactivated it for now.  ... http://mattwalters.net/2008/11/17/sorry-feed-readers/ I've been doing lots of research lately on efficiencies you can put in place on your website to make it more efficient from a load time perspective, which gives a better experience for your visitors.  The problem is none of the sources I've been reading from seem to want to ... http://mattwalters.net/2008/11/04/web-development-best-practices/ http://mattwalters.net/2008/11/04/where-will-we-end-up/ I didn't think it would matter! :( ------- Heh, this video was sent to me by my brother. Too funny. http://mattwalters.net/2008/10/28/im-sorry/ [caption id="attachment_789" align="alignright" width="300" caption="MacBook 2008"][/caption] So I recently purchased one of the new MacBooks released just last week.  I've now had about 5 days to play with it, so thought I'd give my initial thoughts. First, the hardware.  Here is what I have: 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 1066 Mhz ... http://mattwalters.net/2008/10/23/new-macbook/ Finally got my new macbook in. Giving it its first back-up. http://mattwalters.net/2008/10/20/1020082044jpg/ This is so true (via: xkcd) It cracks me up with some of the ring tones I hear, and whenever someone tries to explain why they're using "baby got back" as their ringtone (or whatever their selection is), they always say "well, I want to know it's my phone ringing."  I ... http://mattwalters.net/2008/09/22/ringtones/ Whether it will need to come from the developing world or not, I overall agree with everything Shawn says in this video and he does a good job of articulating it. I've often felt that we've "lost" something in the recent decades,  especially here in America.  For some reason we just ... http://mattwalters.net/2008/09/15/youtube-shawn-frayne-the-power-of-appropriate-technology/ http://mattwalters.net/2008/09/06/if-one-of-these-existed-i-would-buy-it/