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Right click

Fortunately you most often want to know if the right button has been clicked. Since W3C and Microsoft happen to agree on this one and give button a value of 2, you can still detect a right click.

function doSomething(e) {
 var rightclick;
 if (!e) var e = window.event;
 if (e.which) rightclick = (e.which == 3);
 else if (e.button) rightclick = (e.button == 2);
 alert('Rightclick: '   rightclick); // true or false
}

Please note that, although Macs have only one mouse button, Mozilla gives a Ctrl–Click a button value of 2, since Ctrl–Click also brings up the context menu. iCab doesn’t yet support mouse button properties at all and you cannot yet detect a right–click in Opera.

See the Image protection script for a practical example of right–click detection.

Copernicus doesn't just take screenshots, it's a virtual photo gallery too. Take as many pictures as you like, then save them one at a time or all at once. Copernicus is perfect for taking many screenshots.

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Two weeks ago, Apple and Psystar agreed to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in which both parties can try to work out a resolution rather than going to trial. The process may still require several months.

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal have discovered a new state of matter that they say could greatly extend Moore's Law.

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If you have 2GB or RAM or less, you could improve overall system performance by disabling the SuperFetch service. To disable it, open up your Services applet... there are several ways to do this, but the most direct way is to type 'services.msc' in a Run dialog box (Win R).

My point is that there an incredible amount of Mac minis in business. If you ask a Business Consultant at your local Apple Store, they'll likely tell you that Mac minis sell to businesses over consumers 2 to 1.

View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed. This download is a replacement for Word 97 Viewer and all previous Word Viewer versions.

The changes called for in [current California measure] Prop. 2 are small but significant. The ballot wording says simply that Prop. 2 'requires that calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens, and pregnant pigs be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely.' It would take effect Jan. 1, 2015.

If Prop. 2 passes, its main sponsor, the Humane Society of the United States, expects national reverberations -- and has every intention of helping beat that drum.

Current space allocations for hens, says [Nancy Reimers, a poultry-industry veterinarian], are "based on the best science."

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I'm a developer (rufwork.com/resume), and have been waiting for a mini refresh to enter the Mactel world. I've been looking forward to starting to write code for the iPhone and iPod touch.

There seems to be no technical reason not to refresh the Mini, especially now that the MacBook line has bagged a new GPU. The mini's tech specs, once quite impressive at the price, are also fairing worse and worse in comparisons with Dell's Hybrid. It's enough to visit Pystar -- almost.

You don't have to rant like a sweating pig to entice developers, but it is nice to have a good, affordable, reasonably well-powered point of entry. [Probably shoulda added "please" here] Give more of us an attractive route for getting a foot in the door for the iPhone/touch platform.

Thanks.

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[Quoted earlier post:] This original [tests of the MacBooks Pros' benchmarks on Windows] led some people to believe that both GPUs were being used. This has since been denied by NVIDIA. The discrepancy is hard to explain, however, so we may have to wait for more benchmarks to believe these dramatic gains.

[Me:] Yeah, but the tests were run under Boot Camp. NVIDIA only said it wasn't running SLI in OS X, right? This would be good news for SLI once Apple's engineers have time to implement it. Apple does have a pretty long record of putting off doable improvements (as a Java programmer, I've been hit with them again and again) in the interest of releasing now.

NVIDIA advertises two features under the marketing name 'Hybrid SLI'.
...
According to this most recent statement by NVIDIA representatives, the MacBook Pro's hardware is capable of both, but will need specific software support to be written by Apple.

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Imagine that every time you print a document, it automatically includes a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and, potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from a spy movie, right?

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We all love your products, Apple Inc.! But your recently refreshed line of consumer notebooks lacks the possibility to plug in digital audio and video equipment as well as fast mass storage devices. Therefore, we pledge to purchase a new MacBook or MacBook Air if you, the inventor of FireWire technology, would be so kind to bring back FireWire ports to those products.

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Within minutes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapping up a launch event in Cupertino, users started several threads on the company's support forum blasting the omission of a FireWire port on the new MacBook laptop.

In the latest email response from Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO responds to one customer's complaint that the new MacBook won't support HD camcorders:

Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2

The drop in prices has already created problems for producers, who have become accustomed to high prices. Iran and Venezuela both need oil prices at $95 a barrel to balance their budgets, Russia needs $70, and Saudi Arabia needs $55 a barrel, according to Deutsche Bank estimates. Algeria’s oil minister, Chakib Khelil, estimated on Thursday that the "ideal" price for crude oil was $70 to $90 a barrel.

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Which is notable in that the new $1299 model sports a CPU that is 16 percent slower than the old one. That is not to say the system itself is "slower", Apple's argument will apparently be that the new Nvidia GPUs more than make up for the difference. What we're seeing may be the beginning of the end of CPU hertz as the rule-of-thumb metric for system performance.

After updating to iTunes 7.7.1, you may notice a pink tinted screen in the iPod or iPhone setup pane of iTunes.

This symptom is usually caused by having the display set to something other than "millions of colors" (32-bit color). Use the steps below to correct the issue.

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However ASP.NET programming models suggest that developers produce page layout while emitting client-side JavaScript from ASP.NET controls. As a consequence, this model tends to limit JavaScript to procedural adjuncts. This is rather unfortunate because it severely limits the power of an object-oriented scripting language that developers can use to write rich and reusable client-side components.

Apple last week granted more than $122 million in restricted stock-based compensation, with values based on the stocks Monday price of $105.26.

The grants are for restricted stock units which won't vest until March 24, 2012 - and only if the team of executives remain with the company. If they quit, they'll lose the pot.