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You never knew it was there

For all those times that you needed to change the position, magnifcation and scaling effect in the kind of hurry that couldn't wait for System Preference to load I have a tip for you. Actually, it is another fine tip only for pros, so recreation macinbytes beware.

Truth be told, a mere control click (or right-click for PC minded crowd) on the seperator of The Dock will actually bring up a contextual menu that contains all of these things. Read a more pro description here

Microlame

For a company that has somewhat of a responsibilty to humanity for the bastard of a software empire, Microsoft's Mac site sucks a massive amount of bawls. Bastardized drivers that take your mouse away from your mac and helpful hints on how to backsave which any moron would know before they were forced behind the devil that is Microsoft Office. I think I may hate the Mac version more than the PC version simply because it is a good system that is forced to run a powerfully bad idea, though one that is mostly conformant to the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. I still wish Bill would take PowerPoint out back and shoot it, let the boys in software design come up with a better way to make life miserable.

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Server Error in '/fwlink' Application.

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".




<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.




<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Apple - Pro - Tip of the Week

I was checking out Exposé Show-off Trick #2 on Apple's site. It is filed under the Pro section. The tips all come from Mac OS X Panther Killer Tips, which includes that very killery tip. In my book that is not the most Killer Tip in the world, but that might be gauging it on they have for ColorSync in OS X. That is actually helpful, you should really check it out if you haven't already.

]]> That Apple site seems to be really good with its Pro section to its site, including the Words section's homage to Eric Meyer. I found that one hilarious because it was the only one that had its quotes not done in images, which I can only assume was on Meyer's insistance.

I think that perhaps the only part that sucks is the Tips section of the site sucks, especially the Exposé trickery. If you need to use Exposé and the Genie to impress a Windows user you apparently don't know about insults. Insulting anyone who even uses Inter® at all is a goodly bit of fun for the average mac user, certainly more entertaining than explaing what the hell an AltiVec instruction is.