MacJournals News : Legal Copy

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MacJournals News : Legal Copy
We had planned on including the transcript of the HD screen full of tiny disclaimer text in Apple’s new ‘Legal Copy’ television ad, featuring Justin Long as \’a Mac\’ and John Hodgman as \’a PC,\’ in the next issue of MDJ. Honestly, though, once we got it entered, we realized it would take up close to two full pages. Since lots of people would like to see the text, and since we don’t really want to use that much virtual ink on something that many readers may skim, here it is—complete with inconsistent grammar and punctuation.\”

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Hwo to Enabling or disabling Windows AutoPlay.

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Periodically, I have needed to change the settings for Windows CD Autoplay…
Feel free to offer a more streamlined suggestion, or anything else in the comments…

  • Windows XP
    • Open My Computer or Explorer
    • Highlight the CD-ROM drive, right-click the CD-ROM drive and click properties.
    • Click the AutoPlay tab. Within this section you will be able to specify all Windows AutoPlay features.
  • Windows 98, ME, and 2000
    • Click Start, Programs, Windows Explorer
    • Within Explorer click View and then Folder Options.
    • Click the File Types tab and locate \” CD Audio Track\” category within the list of available file types.
    • Highlight \” CD Audio Track\” and click Edit or Advanced.
    • In the Actions category change the default from Play to Open or none.
  • Windows 95
    • Open My Computer click View, Options, File Types
    • Highlight the \” Audio CD\” section and click edit.
    • Change the default action from Play to Open or none.

Comic Sans is dead, long live Comic Sans!

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Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.

The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: \”Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, \’We don\’t serve your type.\’\” On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.

The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: \”to eradicate this font\” and the \”evil of typographical ignorance.
Read more at WSJ – \”Comic Sans is dead, long live Comic Sans!.

Police Department Twitters You Once They Arrest You

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Q: \”Are You On Twitter?\” A: \”Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession.\”


Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the Denton Police Department\’s Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we\’d found something truly special.
With automated posts for everyone booked at the jail since Sunday night, the feed comes complete with a person\’s mug shot, age and what they were booked for. It\’s enough to make us forget all about Craigslist\’s Missed Connections.

Clicking through the mug shots on TwitPic is like strolling through a portrait exhibit on resignation and regret. It\’s a remarkable leap in open government and connecting to the community.

Police Department Twitters You Once They Arrest You.

New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent

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Evidently the IJIS Arctic ice records are showing the highest levels since the last 7 years….

Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels.  The Japanese site IJIS has a seven year April record going back to 2003, and reports 2009 levels at the highest extent on record for the date: 13,649,219 km2.
Read More at  New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent « Watts Up With That?.