Things Learned

TL0058 - 2012, Week 07 and 08 Highlights


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2/12/12 - IBM's Thinkpad was the first laptop to have a keyboard light

  • THINK: A brief history of ThinkPads, from IBM to Lenovo| IBM ThinkPad 701C: The Iconic Butterfly Keyboard| The ThinkLight: Shedding Light on the Legend (ft. David Hill)| What was the first backlit keyboard?
  • 2/14/12 - How to burn a USB Lion disk and rotate multiple pages at once in Preview

    • Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive| How can you rotate all the pages of a PDF file in Preview? 
    • 2/15/12 - Clear command in terminal

      • Clear(1) – Linux Manual Page
      • 2/16/12 - I can middle click things in the Windows 7 Taskba

        • Middle-Click on the Taskbar to Quickly Open and Close Application Windows
        • 2/17/12 - You can move the chat bar in League of Legends

          2/18/12 - The Dice app on Android can lock dice as well as have multiples/change dice color.

          2/19/12 - Windows 7 can condense down to 2GB in size.

          • Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all | Mark Russinovich Explains MinWin Once and For All
          • 2/20/12 - About Potosi, the city of Silver

            2/21/12 - The "College Freshman" meme picture was taken in the upper quad courtyard.

            • Know Your Meme: College Freshman | Why Every College Freshman Should Start a Roth IRA | My Picture is Internet Gold Right Now
            • 2/22/12 - Henry Morgan = Captain Morgan, and he wasn't a pirate, he was a privateer. Also, purge in OSX Terminal clears out inactive used memory

              2/23/12 - Ton of stuff on Martin Luther. Also figured out IRC.

              2/24/12 - defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1 will turn on debug mode for ical in 10.7

              • How to enable iCal's debug menu
              • 2/25/12 - How the Frenzied Barbarian works in D&D

                • Ultimate Barbarian (3.5e Class)
                • Extra topics:

                  • Club Bing's shutdown
                  • Housing damages bills
                  • This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie

                    Tracks featured in this episode include:

                    • Kevin MacLeod - Dat groove [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 
                    • Apple - Daydream
                    • Apple - Coming of Age
                    • Jason Shaw - Thingamajig
                    • Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun
                    • Jason Shaw - Solo Acoustic Guitar
                    • ...more
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