Follow Finder analyses public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow
Follow Finder generates two lists based on the public social connections on Twitter (follower and following lists):
Tweeps you might like: We start with the list of people you follow, find others with similar lists, and then identify accounts you might also want to follow. If people with similar lists tend to follow accounts that aren’t in your list, we’ll recommend those additional accounts to you. For example, if you follow CNN and the New York Times on Twitter, and most people who follow CNN and the New York Times also tend to follow TIME, we’ll suggest TIME as a user to follow.
Tweeps with similar followers: We find people with similar public lists of followers to yours. For example, if ten people are following you, and the same ten people are following a second user, we’ll include the second user in this list. You may already be following some of these people.
Evernote have just released an awesome new feature whereby you can search all your notes direct from the Google Chrome Address bar.
For those of you that haven’t heard of it, Evernote is a fantastic app that allows you to capture lots of information in notes that can be synchronised across multiple devices/computers.
You can access these notes direct from the software on your computer, or via the web or even via your mobile device.
It’s really good and I’ve come to depend on it.
And now:
“Google Chrome’s address bar doubles as a search bar, which makes it really easy to search various sites without actually going to them first. Now, you can add Evernote as a search engine in Google Chrome and search your notes from anywhere. Here’s how to set it up:
Go to the Preferences (Mac) or Tools (Windows) menu
Click on the Manage button in the Default Search section
Click to add a new search engine
Type the following:
Name: Evernote
Keyword: Evernote.com
URL: http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%s”
And here’s a litte video to help you more:
Very nice Evernote, you just keep getting better and better!
You might know that you can right-click on a highlighted word and bring up the OS X dictionary on your Apple computer.
But did you know that you can press Command+Control+D while hovering over any word, and up pops the definition almost immediately.
If you continue to hold down those keys you can slide your mouse over any other word and get a definition as well. Let go of the keys, and click somewhere else and the dictionary vanishes.
Unfortunately this little feature doesn’t work everywhere. It requires you be in a Cocoa application
My spoulling spelling is often atrocious so this kind of quick tip is a real winner, and another reason to love my Macbook…
Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
Enter the following text into Terminal. You can copy/paste the following line into Terminal, or you can simply type the line as shown. (The command below is a single line of text, but your browser may break it into multiple lines. Be sure to enter the text as a single line in the Terminal application.
After you enter the line above, press enter or return.
Enter the following text into Terminal. If you type the text rather than copy/paste it, be sure to match the case of the text.
killall Dock
Press enter or return.
The Dock will disappear for a moment and then reappear.
Enter the following text into Terminal.
exit
Press enter or return.
The exit command will cause Terminal to end the current session. You can then quit the Terminal application.
Using the Recent Items Stack
Your Dock will now have a new Recent Items stack located just to the left of the Trash icon. If you click on the Recent Items stack, you will see a list of your most recently used applications. Click the Recent Items stack again to close the display of recent applications.
But wait; there’s more. If you right-click on the Recent Items stack, you will see that you can choose which recent items should display. You can select any of the following from the menu: Recent Applications, Recent Documents, Recent Servers, Recent Volumes, or Favorite Items.
If you would like to have more than one Recent Items stack, repeat the terminal commands listed above under ‘Let’s Get Started.’ This will create a second Recent Items stack, which you can right-click and assign to show one of the recent item types. For instance, you could have two Recent Item stacks; one showing recent applications and the other showing recent documents.
Deleting the Recent Items Stack
If you decide you don’t wish to have a Recent Items stack in your Dock, you can make it disappear by right-clicking on the stack and selecting ‘Remove from Dock’ from the pop-up menu. This will remove the Recent Items stack and return your Dock to the way it looked before you added the Recent Items stack.
“Back in 1999, when Steve Jobs first showed off the new Finder in Mac OS X, it ran in a single-application mode, where switching from one application to another caused the first application to minimize (this was the original demo of the Genie effect1). This was intended to be the default behavior, but it was so widely reviled that Apple quickly changed the default to the familiar multi-application mode that shows multiple applications on the screen at the same time.”
Lurking in the scary bowels of Mac OS X for all these years has been this little command, which brings back single-application mode. (Go ahead and try it – it’s easily reversed.)
For single-application mode to take effect, you have to relaunch the Dock with this second command.
killall Dock
To go back again:
defaults delete com.apple.dock single-app
killall Dock
“The most important fact to realize is that single-application mode is tied exclusively to the Dock. This means that if you click an application’s icon in the Dock, it immediately hides all the other applications, including the Finder.
However, if you switch applications through any other method, including clicking another visible application’s window and the Command-Tab application switcher, Mac OS X’s normal multi-application approach remains in effect, and nothing will be hidden.
You can thus combine methods of switching between applications.”
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