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Mac and Mobile: tips for Notebook Users
Samuel Cohen over at theappleblog has a nice post up on ten top apps for laptop-toting Mac users. Many of his selections are old favorites (Quicksilver), but there are a few here that are new to me. The CornerClick Preference Pane allows you to assign various actions to the corners of your screen. According to Sam, fKeys lets you "remap the enter key (not the return key. The enter key. It's the one that's in between the command key and the arrow keys on the right-hand side of your laptop keyboard) to an option key, just like on a full-size keyboard." Finally, Noise is a simple app for generating pink noise for when you want to tune out the Muzak at your local coffee house. Check out the original post for the rest, while I go play with CornerClick.[Edit: Corrected CornerClick description; thanks Dan. I was probably thinking of the replacement trackpad driver SideTrack which does allow for assigning functions to corner clicks on the trackpad].
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HS said 11:47AM on 12-19-2006
Man, I tried "Noise", and it sure lived up to it's name.
Honestly, does anyone find that useful? Replacing real sounds with pure NOISE?
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Alex said 2:26PM on 12-19-2006
All Hail Sidenote. I recently found that app out and it's great for all kinds of things. I've been using it to store songs names and albums that I may want to check out, as well as TV shows I may want to buy on DVD. I suggest everyone check it out. It's like notepad except on a Mac.
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Dan Warne said 3:13AM on 12-27-2006
Cornerclick actually lets you assign actions to corners of your screen, not corners of your trackpad. :-) It's handy... you can, for example, assign to open/switch to Apple Mail when you hit a screen corner. There's something weird with Apple's ALT+TAB system where the mail icon is often way over in the list even if you just switched away from it, so this is a help.
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