From an Interface perspective there are three kinds of Macs:

The Mac with a small screen - less than the 17″ MacBook Pro screen, which means a laptop or a Mac Mini that’s got a small screen connected to it.
All other single monitor Macs with screens 17″ or greater.
Macs with dual monitors.

The difference between these three [...]

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New Orleans, The Accidental Monument (from the series: The Accidental Pilgrim)
This is New Orleans, as it was about a year ago when I discovered it - perhaps the most beautiful city in the USA - but still partly in ruins, from the ravages of Katrina. The picture was taken on Basin St just outside the [...]

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Barack Obama and The Flag (from the series: Still Lives)
Among the topics that Barack Obama touched on in his acceptance speech this week, and he did it lightly without pointing fingers, was the fact that the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy had no need to defend its patriotism.
Samuel Johnson famously described patriotism [...]

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In  the posting The Principles of Personal Productivity (on the Mac), I introduced the fact that: The keyboard is faster than the mouse. So let me repeat this: The keyboard is faster than the mouse. And just in case you missed it, here it is again: The keyboard is faster than the mouse.
There you are, [...]

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What’s wrong with the picture below?
“What’s wrong with this picture?” is a game that used to appear in the kids comics I read when I was a kid. It would be a cartoon drawing showing, say, a car with no wheels. In the snapshot below we have a picture of a different page of this [...]

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