Another Way to Screen Calls: Color ID
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A new way to avoid telemarketers: a caller ID system that allows you to assign colors to specific phone numbers.
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Watches have always done a good job of quickly showing the time and date. But Fossil Inc. is convinced there's another piece of information worth displaying on the wrist: caller ID.
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Now you can browse the files on your Mac as easilyâand enjoyablyâas you breeze through album covers in iTunes or flip through photos on your iPhone or iPod touch. Just choose Cover Flow (a new viewing option in Mac OS X Leopard) instead of Icon, List, or Column view in your Finder window. Learn how you can âGo with the Flowââand pick up some handy keyboard Cover Flow shortcutsâby reading our latest Pro Tip of the Week.
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Mobile operator Orange is said to be developing technology that will allow its customers to user their mobile handsets to control televisions. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Orange is developing a system whereby its customers can use their handsets to program their personal video recorders.
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Really cool blog post about hidden Java features.  These are little tricks that you forget about from time to time but that make life more pleasant.  This is a good one:  "Instance initializers -- I've been exploiting these lately to abbreviate list initialization (in unit tests only): > List triple = new ArrayList(3) { >   { add("a"); add("b"); add("c"); } > };"  I've been using static code blocks but this looks like it might be a better trick.  Example:  "public static List = new ArrayList(); > static {     list.add( "foo" ); }"  Also this final Closure  hack seems pretty cool:
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New standard is designed to expand the range of colors on LCD and rear-projection screens, improving the viewing experience.
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In an earlier tip, you learned that by pressing the Tab key while holding down the Command key, you get a giant Dock-like window that lets you quickly cycle through your open apps. But there&#146;s much more to this handy Mac OS X feature than that. Read this week&#146;s tip to find out what else you can do with the application switcher. [Jan 05, 2005]
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On his blog today, Cocoliso talks about a handy bit of code to allow for syntax highlighting in your page - Geshi.   What if I told you that with as little as 3 lines of code, you could highlight code on your site? You'd jump at it, wouldn't you? Why not run with the big boys? Your users will love you for it and for good reason. It greatly increases readability.   He walks through the simple installation and how to use it in your page - complete with the code he uses to include the functionality in your page.
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Both Google Maps and Windows Live Local have &#8220;click to call&#8221; (not yet PPCall) embedded now in their products. And several Internet yellow pages are using it. But there&#8217;s some debate and confusion about whether it&#8217;s a truly meaningful feature. Not surprisingly, eStara (a click to call vendor), has put out a press release showing [...]
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No iPhone of your own to play with? Here are some snappy screenshots of the famous gadget's interface to show you some of its features.
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In this third and final installment, we look at interacting with the Silverlight control programmatically. Topics covered include: the settings property, the content property and other members. By Adam Nathan. 1217
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Some tips for figuring out what all the startup messages flying by your screen actually mean.
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âSix weeks into using the iPhone,â reports Chris Maxcer (MacNewsWorld), âI canât imagine going back to anything else.â âIf you choose contacts, you can scroll through your address book, find the person you want, and add him or her to the call. So three-way calling is wicked-easy.â  Though filled with âcomplex features,â using iPhone âis extraordinarily intuitive,â he reports, particularly when it comes to reviewing voicemail. He considers visual voicemail âthe best.â âListening to a voicemail is easyâtap the callerâs name or number and youâre one more tap away from listening to it, calling the person back or deleting it.â
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Apple's Safari could bring richer colors to Windows browsers, but Firefox soon will help expand the gamut, too.
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Clay Loveless, spurred on by a comment from a visitor to his site, has modified his Trac package to get things working correctly with the syntax highlighting.    As John Herren pointed out in the comments to yesterday's post, my suggestion for PHP syntax coloring wasn't working for several versions of Trac.   After a little digging, it turned out that my CSS rules were based on the non-standard SilverCity highlighting output, rather than the newer and more common native PHP highlighting.    His solution is to create a simple shell script, php_mimeview, to make adding cirrect syntax highlighting as easy as changing your config.
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Will a splash of color boost Dell's bottom line?
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Don&#146;t like the names Apple created for the colors used in the Color Labels feature? Then just create your own. Find out how on the Apple Pro/ site &#151; it&#146;s the first of a weekly series of Mac OS X killer tips.   [Sep 09]