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I just made two very important discoveries. As much as I loathed buying Acrobat Standard, and as poorly as it ran on my machine using a case sensitive filesystem, it does have a redeeming feature.
It has a built-in OCR engine, which I knew. I hadn’t tried it. I decided to try it on an [...]

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I inadvertently discovered the other day that to quickly switch between icon, list, and column views in Finder, you just have to press Cmd- 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Much quicker than grabbing and/or moving the mouse to the buttons.

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Since getting rid of my car, I order pretty much everything I need via the internet. I was kind of doing that even when I had a car. This lends itself nicely to keeping lists of stuff to buy, and it’s even beneficial because it makes grouping stuff for shipping easier.
Of course, most people [...]

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I say finding rather than fact, because sometimes a finding is later revealed to be incorrect, or subject to qualifications. Anyway, I read a lot of papers, and sometimes there are little useful nuggets of information that you might not be able to easily find if looking for them.
Here’s today’s.
According to Hearse et al 1977, [...]

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