This sped up my Aperture install. I also disabled Faces.
Learn Something New Every Day
This works for me! Such a simple solution!
To extract the audio from a movie clip in iMovie ‘08: hold the Command (Apple) and Shift keys while dragging the clip.
Great advice:
Not marketing enough is something that I have identfied as the single greatest detriment to the success of what I create. I’ve done a lot of projects where I will ship the product, show it to a few friends and then when it doesn’t immediately catch fire I just move on to something else. That is an inadequate strategy that held me back and it will hold you back too. Pitch your app to everyone who will listen. What do you have to lose right? And don’t just tell them what your app does in your pitch. Also make sure you pitch a story - every great product and company has a story behind it.
Great, quick overview of the benefits to sleeping bag materials and things to consider when buying a bag.
So helpful when quoting language from a Kindle book.
“MS Word allows the ‘carat p’ symbol ^p (carat is the <shift> 6 key) to represent a carriage return in an MS-Word replace command”
How to calibrate your MacBook battery, which should be done “at least once a month.” Who knows to do this?
Delay Between NYC Subway Metro Cards Swipes At Same Subway Station
After swiping your Metro Card at a subway station, it takes 18 minutes for your card to become available again at the same subway station.
So, if you swipe in and realize you forgot something at work, you’ve got 18 minutes until your card is available at that same station. If you try too soon, you’ll get a “Just Used” notice on the turnstile.
Ever try to OCR a PDF in Acrobat and you get this error? Simple fix really: export to TIFF, combine TIFF images, and OCR.
May be a bit unwieldy for larger PDFs, but totally works without having to print anything out.