September 2008
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Stopping Mac OS X Spotlight Indexing Now!
First get a list of the drives you want to stop or prevent Spotlight from indexing. So go to Terminal. (Your Applications, Utilities folder)
Type:
Become root, type: sudo
Your hard drives will normally be listed under /Volumes; type:
ls -la /Volumes
If you don’t see the one you want to not index use the command below.
diskutil list
It will get you a list of all the...
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Bearish Trades - Short Selling Explained
Short selling is the opposite of holding a stock for a long time. The short seller takes a fundamentally negative, or “bearish” stance, anticipating that the price of the shorted stock will fall. Sounds familiar?
So using options he loans money and buys a fixed number of shares, say 100 at $10. Agreeing to return those 100 shares back to the owner in x days. He then immediately sells...
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It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it.
– Proverbs 10:22. So true prosperity means peace not just financial increase.
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Apple's iPhone App Store Mistake →
Apple iPhone app policy has turned more and more controversial. Let us all hope they re-evaluate this and fix it. The iPhone needs more apps, not less. To become a platform like the Mac is, Apple has to thing this one again.
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Google's Chrome Browser Wow! →
Chrome is really exciting for any software developer, it brings JIT compilation of JavaScript! Speed increases manyfold!
By the way Marc Andreesen, the man who brought us the first competitive browser agrees.
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If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.
– Robert Capa a legendary photographer who founded Magnum, one of the top photographic agencies of all time.
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IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do →
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Mac & iPod Buyer's Guide and Advice →
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Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only...
– A. Einstein. That’s why parents are so vital, their influence lasts the longest time. Arguably teachers, leaders and friends can be very influential too.
It’s not the talking than brings change and influence, it’s the doing.
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Cartoon Me? 11 Ways to do a cartoon version of... →