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1. Dvorak-Qwerty redux
I decided to test out Tweetdeck, a new Twitter application in Beta developed on the Adobe Air platform. I like it. But when I attempted to hide the app with the shortcut ?-H … it didn’t work. Then it hit me. It’s an Adobe app. Of course it doesn’t work. That’s because I [...]

Long ago, I began an information organizer review series. I started out strong. I posted a nice little intro piece. I knocked out the first review in the series. Then it utterly unraveled for two reasons.
First, Alan over at Metadata weighed in that VodooPad shouldn’t be in my review group (which included Yojimbo, DEVONThink, Together, [...]

I’ve convinced many people to buy a Mac over the years, but there’s one person I cannot convert. My mother refuses to go Mac. To put this in proper context, you should know that she is not a computer novice. She has no problem fixing driver problems or troubleshooting a PC. She runs several web [...]

A few posts back I described my experience trying to create a workflow to automate the process of exporting my Delicious Library (DL) catalog to LibraryThing (LT).
Here is the Automator workflow I created: open up Delicious Library, export the book catalog (an XML file) to my desktop, copy the location path of this newly created [...]

So, I spent my evening working on a simple Automator workflow to streamline the ’synching’ of Delicious Library (DL) and LibraryThing (LT) book catalogs. It’s really not ’synching:’ LibraryThing can ’synch’ only in the sense that it can compare a DL book catalog (desktop app) with the LT book catalog (web-based app) so that only [...]

So, here’s my latest Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard support rant.
I received a very odd ‘personal’ response from an Adobe customer support representative regarding my request for Dvorak-Qwerty support for Adobe’s Creative Suite applications.
My complaint: Dvorak-Qwerty does not properly work with Adobe products.
(See my previous post for background on DQ if you have no idea what I’m talking [...]