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I may be confused here, but the only thing I know of that can be put in a toolbar is a control. The Formula Bar (choose View/Formula Bar) has the formula box control, where the contents of the active cell are displayed.
Ctrl-U is a nifty alternative, but I prefer to have the Formula Bar visible.
Hello all, there is a very simple way to make a shortcut for the 'strikethrough text' command in Leopard
1) Open System Preferences and open the Keyboard & Mouse section 2) Switch to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab - Here you will see a list of all the keyboard shortcuts available
3) click the + button in the bottom left 4) Select "All Applications" from the drop down so that your strikethrough command will work no matter where you're using it 5) set the "Menu Title:" to "Strikethrough" 6) select the "Keyboard Shortcut:" text field and type in your desired shortcut 7) enjoy
Not that useful, but add it to this:
unregenerate macrumors newbie
This only works if you have the Ruler showing in TextEdit, and if you create a style called Strikethrough. But it does indeed work if you do those things.
Now if I add to this the hint on adding a highlighter effect to TextEdit from here at Mac OS X Hints, I finally can take a highlighter pen to a TextEdit doc with a keystroke. I called the style "yellow highlighter" and substituted that for "Strikethrough" in the above instructions and voila! Kewlness, in a sort of Mac-addict-y way.
I can't figure out how to make it work in Mail.app, but you can cut and paste pretty easily. Just need to set up a command to unhighlight and I'm rockin'.
Next year, everything through the second round will be shown nationally on the four networks. CBS and Turner, an entity of Time Warner Inc., will split coverage of the regional semifinal games, while CBS will retain coverage of the regional finals, the Final Four and the championship game through 2015.
Beginning in 2016, coverage of the regional finals will be split by CBS and Turner; the Final Four and the championship game will alternate every year between CBS and TBS. Under the agreement, the NCAA and CBSSports.com will again provide live streaming video of games, although Turner secured rights for any video player it develops. ... Some fans may find themselves scrambling to find their favorite teams, though.
McManus acknowledged late Thursday afternoon that if Kentucky, for instance, has a game scheduled on truTV, it won't be shown on CBS -- even in the team's home city.
In a strange mis-mash of networks, the NCAA basketball tournament has been taken off of the airwaves and placed into the hands of basic cable. I've often wondered how long before the sort of setup that the NBA playoffs is using, where only a few games each week are on broadcast television with others split among a number of cable networks, would infect other sports. Right now, only two or three games a week from the NFL are restricted to cable with the great majority broadcast via Over The Air (OTA) television, and the NCAA tournament is only broadcast OTA, with games deemed to have the most local interest broadcast in its respective viewing areas. The NFL and NCAA represent near best cases, but it's a case that's soon to be in the past for March Madness.
Now, starting in 2016, those only with OTA will miss the Final Four and championship game every other year, and even before then will only have about a 1 in 4 chance of seeing the game they want to watch in earlier rounds.
My concern? To some degree, this is simply a result of the market revealing the decreasing power of broadcast television (as well as the filling of broadcast TV's void with the Internet, which it appears will carry every NCAA tournament game), but it's also a further indictment of college sports. The more that college sports trade accessibility -- for students, for local fans and alums -- for money, the less we can argue that those sports are about student athletes, student bodies, and the taxpayers supporting those institutions of higher learning whether they want to or not. Stock up: Sports bars.
[Q:]... The publisher apparently withheld [a Stephen King book's eBook version] to encourage people to buy the more expensive hardcover. So I did, all 1,074 pages, more than three and a half pounds. Then I found a pirated version online, downloaded it to my e-reader and took it on my trip. I generally disapprove of illegal downloads, but wasnโt this O.K.? C.D., BRIGHTWATERS, N.Y.
[A:]An illegal download is โ to use an ugly word โ illegal. But in this case, it is not unethical.... Thus youโve violated the publishing companyโs legal right to control the distribution of its intellectual property, but youโve done no harm or so little as to meet my threshold of acceptability...
What crap. Is the book out of print? Is that hardcopy somehow obsolete now? Of course not. There's obviously value added with the eBook or ole C.D. wouldn't've wanted it. How does Mr. Cohen (the "Ethicist") decide when you've paid enough into the system to begin illegal civil disobedience?
Can I pay for the movie in the theater and then download?
Better parallel: Can I burn a Blu-Ray b/c I've purchased the DVD at full price?
What if I paid a clearance price for the DVD? Have I still paid in enough for someone to forward me a bootleg Blu-Ray in high def?
If I've read the book, can I sneak into a theater showing the movie that's not quite filled? Where's the harm in that?
Would it really put poor, poor CD out to take along that "more than three and a half pounds" of codex on his trip? Really?
Look, if you want a law changed because, in this case, you feel superior enough to remark "the anachronistic conventions of bookselling and copyright law lag the technology", then start lobbying. Now show me one fair law that's anticipated a specific technology perfectly. Sort of another anachronism, ain't it? Honestly, I think eBooks are an interesting way to leverage your ownership of IP into more profit. As long as we're not EULAing hardcopies, knock yourselves out.
Furthermore, in this case we have easier solutions for CD. Wait for the g*******d eBook to be released. Trade time for money. Read another book on your trip. I just finished Water is Wide by Pat Conroy on my iPod. You'll enjoy it. If you want to read a new book now, ya gotta pay. Or why not go to your local library and reserve a copy to read while you're waiting. That's a pretty good deal, isn't it? You're not out a buck. Now you read Conroy on your trip and you get to know the latest and greatest from that sick-o King[1]. And guess what, you've already paid for the privilege. Take advantage of it.
Had Cohen even so much as said, "Though the risk of being caught is low, it does exist, and in NY the penalty is [X]. I would also say that you need to delete the eBook as soon as you return from your trip, when its marginal utility is gone, and that once the eBook is released, you should stop using this rationalization immediately," I would have felt a little better.
As it stands, it bothers me that a representative of what's essentially the record of the United States could show such a simpleton's approach to ethics and encourage his readers to break the law without understanding the ramifications on themselves and the corporations that provide them with their goods. I'm no corporate cheerleader, but when a "ethicist" rationalizes stealing in officially sanctioned e-print, you know society's gauge of right and wrong had long since made a turn for the gutter.
[1] Actually, I'm suspicious King is one of the best authors alive. I've read a few of his books that aren't about blood and guts, and they're all exceptionally well written. Still, I tried that city in a bubble book and couldn't get past the first few chapters. SICK. It's all about how you apply yourself, I guess.
The "Time poll" on the front page of Time.com right now is neither a poll nor something worthy of Time. Discuss.
What's your No. 1 fast-food guilty pleasure? KFC's Double Down McDonald's Big Mac Taco Bell's Nachos BellGrande Burger King's Oreo Sundae Shake
Admittedly I don't know that I recall going to Time.com before today, so perhaps this sort of "poll qua commercial" is typical. But seriously, how big a hat of money did these companies have to fork over to get their item o' choice on Time's front page.
Embarrassing.
And might I order off of the Time approved menu with a Wendy's Frosty or Dairy Queen dipped cone or Blizzard? ;^)
posted by ruffin
at 4/13/2010 05:42:00 PM
I finally made it around to an Apple Store to see if they could fix my crappy trackpad on my MacBook[evil (R) 2008]. Within hours, they replaced my defective trackpad with the extra they not so surprisingly had on hand.
The MacBook trackpad is [I believe, since I've seen a good number of reports of it going out exactly as it did on mine] still screwy and poorly designed. That said, at least during the time I have Apple Care on the computer, I don't appear to be much worse than a business day away from getting it fixed.
I have yet to leave the Apple Store unimpressed with the service I receive. Fwiw, etc, LMNOPBBQ.
Thereโs an e-book reader app, but itโs not going to rescue the newspaper and book industries (sorry, media pundits).
Well, he's probably not wrong in the sense that movies in a book form factor have largely displaced the demand for text.
That said, I've personally purchased a good deal more books (here, "books writ large") recently because of my iPod. I've sailed through a few junk novels (vampires and WoW fantasy), Pat Conroy's The Water is Wide (horrible job editing the eBook, however, RosettaBooks), part of Pygmy from that Fight Club guy (a little too hard core for me to finish), short story from Frank Herbert, a double issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, etc etc., as well as a few books for young'uns that I've managed to share.
The key is that it's lots easier to read when you're accidentally carrying these books around with your calendar, notebook, mail handler, and mp3 player. If the iPad is mobile at all, those who do read will read more.
And more importantly to book publishers (and this is where Pogue misses the boat), it's a lot harder to buy a used eBook than a used codex (ie, paper book). The iPod/Kindle/iPad/iPhone platforms all allow strict DRM, both in software and in physical tipping points (how exactly would I share my eBooks? I can figure it out, but 1) it's illegal to pass files, I believe and 2) I can't toss 'em across the office when I'm done and not worry about when they come back).
The iPad will be much friendly to read on than the iPod and iPhone, even friendlier than the none too colorful (see Sega Game Gear commercial, above -- and that's the guy from My Name is Earl, ain't it?) Kindle. I've used my laptops a good deal, but a longer-lived battery and a friendly, hand-holdable device should encourage even more folk who like to read to read digitally and, I'll wager, to read more. And it's going to be much more likely that what they're reading is material they purchased directly from the publisher. Take that, local thrift store!
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