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robertreich:

As the Supreme Court shows every sign of throwing out “Obamacare” and leaving 30 million Americans without health insurance, another drama is being played out in the quiet corridors of the Federal Reserve system that may affect even more of us.

Taxpayers will be on the hook for another giant Wall…

streakmachine:

I have absolutely no objections to this! People have a bizarre demand for everything they send a receive to be in “Word format”, regardless of what they do. It’s utterly absurd. I’m willing to bet that most people could make do with frakkin’ Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac OS X). Heck, even Pico (Linux) would be enough for some people!

Anyways. Go check out the article, it’s a great read and an important message that needs to be spread!

[Via: Zenhabits]

TextEdit in Mac OS X 10.5+ (Leopard) can read and write “Office Open XML” documents (MS Word 2007+ .docx files). Although I haven’t tried it, I would think that an author could write in TextEdit and save it as an “Office Open XML” file that would be recognized by the receiver as being in “Word format”.

ref: Wikipedia articles on TextEdit and Office Open XML.

“The treatment, an antibody that blocks a “do not eat” signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells.”

robertreich:

Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” and the question of whether the issue is ripe for review.

Behind this judicial…

minimalmac:

ScreenCastsOnline produces and delivers new video tutorials  every week covering a wealth of information and applications about both Mac and iOS.

My job as a Mac Consultant is to stay up to date on the latest features and many applications that my clients use. My membership to ScreenCastsOnline has more than paid for itself. There are litterly hundreds of tutorials covering just about any Mac related subject you can think of. The past week alone has given us everything from MobileMe iDisk migration strategies to a iPhoto for iOS two parter a three part master class on iBooks Author.

With membership plans starting at only $2.60 per month, it’s an affordable value with genuine returns. If there is anything you have been looking to learn on your Mac, quickly and deeply, this is the best way to do it. 

I second everything minimalmac said. ScreenCastsOnline is an outstanding resource, whether you’re a beginner, expert, or anywhere in-between. A few years ago, I paid for a 5-year membership (something they no longer do) and it has paid for itself over and over again.

Two other resources I use often are the e-books at TakeControlBooks.com and the Mac news at TidBITS.com (now in their 21st year).

chartier:

James Kendrick:

The situation with the Nexus S is not unusual, sadly, and drives home how hard major updates must be to produce for Android devices. Google produces updates directly for flagship phones, and as the platform developer they are obviously the experts. If anybody can produce a quick update it is Google.

Google rolled out an ICS update for the Nexus S last December, but immediately pulled it when upgraders ran into problems. It was clear the update had problems, so down it came. Google stated it would get the update process kicked off again when the update was ready to go.

That was almost four months ago.

Updates are definitely a huge investment, which is why Apple gives a crap about doing them.

Google can’t update its own flagship device, released in December 2010, to its own OS, released less than a year later in October 2011. Apple, by contrast, still updates (and sells) the 3GS, released in 2009, to the latest version of iOS, released this month. And all owners of every compatible iPhone get access to the update, whether wired through iTunes or OTA thanks to iOS 5, on day one.

Got my iPad by FedEx and decided it needed something. I looked at the Apple case, iFrogz Summit, Zagg keyboard cases, TwelveSouth BookBook and a few others, but finally decided on the DodoCase.

If you want 10% off for something for yourself at DodoCase.com, just click the title link - or here . It will take you to the web site and pop up a coupon code that’s good for about 9 more days (full disclosure - I get 10% off my DodoCase (just once) if you do).

minimalmac:

You have everything you need, right now, today, to do the work. So, work with what you have.

I’m a writer. I have everything I need, right now, to write. Take away my computer? I’ll still write. I’ll use pen and paper. Take away my pen and paper, and I’ll use my fingernail to scrawl it into…

minimalmac:

finermac:

Ever wonder if there’s a full list of shortcuts for OS X? Wonder no more. Great to bookmark for reference.

Wonderful resource.