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I'm going to Macworld San Francisco thanks to my oldest known-online-only (though not for long any more) friend Eoban. Well, I won't be there for the Stevenote, because that ticket costs a helluva lot of money, but वाट the heck, at least I'll get to try out all the new gadgets/[hopefully new Macs]/[more iPods?] that Steve's going to pluck out of his pocket. For those who saw the videocast of the WWDC in June (the big Intel announcement), did you notice that M. Jobs had departed from his Black n Blue dress-up to a totally black outfit? Fellow likes to dress for the occasion. Has managed to forget to wear a belt every year for, like, the past half-a-dozen years and pulls his blue jeans up at least seven times during the keynote. Nonetheless, although I do wish I gave a bike-handle for the बेचारा, what I really care about is whether he's going to be revealing any new PowerBooks, because, if he is, I'm going visit one on the Expo floor and order one of them for me [from it]. It's been almost 3 years since I've had a new computer in my hands (and I mean new in absolute terms, not just "new to me").
Meanwhile, for all you Mac users (and I know you're out there somewhere), as well as the Mactelites (cheap bastards), if you noticed, choosing Get Info for a file in Finder will show you two checkboxes, one is Locked and the other is Stationery Pad. With the former, I was well-acquainted, but I didn't have a clue about the latter. So I googled for it (note: Mac OS X does not underline "googled" with a red-dotted line, signifying that it has meaning!) and finally found the answer: when you set the Stationery Pad checkbox on a file, and that file is "opened using Finder", the Finder will open a copy of the file instead of the file itself. This does bring to Light the meaning as well. However, here comes the crunch: if you use an Open dialog box in an application, this bit is not honoured. Sad... I, personally, don't see any immediate use for it, except for using it with a Letterhead, which I don't [yet] have. As for the curious, Mac OS X does indeed define Google in its 130MB (ships on all Macs) Dictionary.app:
Meanwhile, here's something that my हिन्ग्लिश Harry Potter-readers readers should like: Some Harry Potter-ness translated into हिंदी in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie that I was watching a day ago (and really enjoyed watching): (Yes, I could have put a बिंदी on it but I wanted to use the न्ग्ल consonant cluster (yep, that's the official term) just for the fun of it)
Cheerio.
I'm going to Macworld San Francisco thanks to my oldest known-online-only (though not for long any more) friend Eoban. Well, I won't be there for the Stevenote, because that ticket costs a helluva lot of money, but वाट the heck, at least I'll get to try out all the new gadgets/[hopefully new Macs]/[more iPods?] that Steve's going to pluck out of his pocket. For those who saw the videocast of the WWDC in June (the big Intel announcement), did you notice that M. Jobs had departed from his Black n Blue dress-up to a totally black outfit? Fellow likes to dress for the occasion. Has managed to forget to wear a belt every year for, like, the past half-a-dozen years and pulls his blue jeans up at least seven times during the keynote. Nonetheless, although I do wish I gave a bike-handle for the बेचारा, what I really care about is whether he's going to be revealing any new PowerBooks, because, if he is, I'm going visit one on the Expo floor and order one of them for me [from it]. It's been almost 3 years since I've had a new computer in my hands (and I mean new in absolute terms, not just "new to me").
Meanwhile, for all you Mac users (and I know you're out there somewhere), as well as the Mactelites (cheap bastards), if you noticed, choosing Get Info for a file in Finder will show you two checkboxes, one is Locked and the other is Stationery Pad. With the former, I was well-acquainted, but I didn't have a clue about the latter. So I googled for it (note: Mac OS X does not underline "googled" with a red-dotted line, signifying that it has meaning!) and finally found the answer: when you set the Stationery Pad checkbox on a file, and that file is "opened using Finder", the Finder will open a copy of the file instead of the file itself. This does bring to Light the meaning as well. However, here comes the crunch: if you use an Open dialog box in an application, this bit is not honoured. Sad... I, personally, don't see any immediate use for it, except for using it with a Letterhead, which I don't [yet] have. As for the curious, Mac OS X does indeed define Google in its 130MB (ships on all Macs) Dictionary.app:
Meanwhile, here's something that my हिन्ग्लिश Harry Potter-readers readers should like: Some Harry Potter-ness translated into हिंदी in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie that I was watching a day ago (and really enjoyed watching): (Yes, I could have put a बिंदी on it but I wanted to use the न्ग्ल consonant cluster (yep, that's the official term) just for the fun of it)अदृष्य चोगा (invisibility cloak)Personally, I was laughing my ass off. If you weren't, I personally do not know what's wrong with you. But, seriously, I would love to see the other three movies in Hindi... just for kicks.
मायूस मीना (Moaning Myrtle)
जादू मंत्री (minister for magic)
मग्लू (Muggle)
काढ़े के अध्यापक (potions master)
काल दृष्टी (Basilisk)
रहस्य का तेहखाना (Chamber of Secrets)
सर्प भाषा (Parseltongue)
छड़ी (wand)
नागेश नागशक्ती (Salazar Slytherin)
ज्वाला (Fawkes)
उल्लू (owl)
चौकीदार (gamekeeper)
बोलती टोपी (Sorting Hat)
गौरव गरुड़द्वार (Godric Gryffindor)
श्राप (curse)
पिशाच (goblin)
छूमंतर गली (Diagon Alley)
Cheerio.
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