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Hello iPad

January 27th, 2010 by Jonathan Schellack

I know it’s supposed to be this new awesome, “magical” thing from Apple, but is it not just a bigger iPhone?

At least they’ve changed up some of the apps to fill up that larger screen…
iPad Contacts App Screenshot

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Fix Multi-Touch Trackpad Gestures on Mac Snow Leopard

November 23rd, 2009 by Jonathan Schellack

It’s amazing how much I had come to rely on the motion to go forward and backward in web pages (swiping three fingers). Going back to having to “click” on the buttons suddenly seemed to be a major chore!

My MacBook’s multi-touch trackpad quit responding to the gestures after upgrading from Mac OS X 10.6.1 to 10.6.2. (At least I think it did; the functionality was broken for at least the last week or so…)

This blog post helped me to fix 3- and 4- finger gestures on my Mac’s multi-touch trackpad.

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My New Goal

October 5th, 2009 by Jonathan Schellack

I have a new goal. My goal is to learn all of the keyboard shortcuts for the Mac.

I found them all listed on this page. I love that Apple actually put them all in one place. If you are ever looking for a keyboard shortcut to do anything on the Mac, it’s on that page. Wish me luck!

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Get Firefox 3.5 to Use Google Apps Mail for Mailto: Links

September 4th, 2009 by Jonathan Schellack

Have a Google Apps account that you want to use as your default mail client in the Firefox web browser? Here are the instructions:

  1. In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press Enter. Click to indicate that you want to proceed.
  2. In the filter box, type gecko. to show fewer config items.
  3. Look for an item called gecko.handlerService.AllowRegisterFromDifferentHost and double-click on it to change the value from false to true.
  4. Copy the following code into the address bar and press Enter:
    javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto",
    "https://mail.google.com/mail/a/yourdomain.com?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Google Apps Mail")

    NOTE: change yourdomain.com to the actual text of your domain (mine is schellack.net, so I put that there, even with the period).
  5. On the prompt asking whether or not you want to add the mailto handler, click OK.
  6. Open up Firefox’s Options (Tools >> Options on a PC or Firefox >> Preferences on a Mac). Go to the Applications tab.
  7. Scroll down until you see a Content Type of mailto, and change its action to Google Apps Mail.

Once you’ve followed those steps, clicking on an email link (with the prefix mailto:) will create a new email in your Google Apps Mail account!

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