Unless the user has remapped his/her modifier keys (perhaps for easier cross-platform use), the tip's keystrokes are incorrect. You hold down the shift or _command_ key while clicking to select multiple files in the Finder. (Shift selects a contiguous range of files in list view; command only selects the individual…

@Proud Texan: The trick only works for two-digit numbers ending in 5, as stated. 10 and 50 don't meet that requirement.

This is actually a pretty handy tip. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the audio on a game/video/whatever is still too loud at the lowest standard volume, and in cases like that I've often wished for a setting between zero and one.

To his credit, he did admit it was dumb when the NY Times followed up on it:

@DeeJayQueue: Well put, although I think a printout is still handy. For those that don't know, you can make the keyboard viewer easily accessible like so:

Quite useful, but I find it strange that they used "Alt" throughout the document instead of "option," which is the name of the key in Mac OS, and is so denoted on Mac keyboards. (That said, most modern keyboards, including Apple's, wisely include "alt" in smaller text on the keycap for ease of cross-platform use).

Agreed with Adam, seems like feet would make sense if you're going to use U.S. units. I think I'd also denote each half-foot mark (perhaps by putting a dot on either side of that line) to make for faster eyeballing.

Wow, that looks pretty sweet. Much more of a pleasure to browse through than a Flickr album, but I think that they're intended for somewhat different purposes and audiences. I'd definitely use the .Mac galleries to present photos to family, friends, etc., and Flickr to present photos to a broader web audience, to…

@crazylady: "Quicksilver, enough said. It has search, although not as good as spotlight's, but at the same time it is infinitely more powerful and enables you to do things you can't even begin to think about doing with spotlight."

@ahoier:

@Ali Karbassi: It's a good tip; don't worry about the peanut gallery. It seems obvious once you figure out what's going on, but for a long time I had no idea why my volume level always seemed to fluctuate. Finally, I realized that it's not a bug, it's a feature — really!

@kazoni: Great tip! It will probably make for a much cleaner car at the end of the road trip, too. If there's a bit of junk scattered around at the beginning of the trip, your carmates won't think much of adding to the pile with a few more wrappers. But they'll be more hesitant to crap up a tidy car.

Great tip! I always wondered why iChat's audio chat was so superior to Skype in terms of feedback and echo. I bet the Apple software adjusts the speaker balance automatically when you're on a call without headphones. (I don't know if this is the case, but it makes sense.)

Yeah, mdeatherage nailed it. This tip is a dud. It's quite difficult to run Safari 3B and Safari 2 concurrently, for kind of the same reason that different versions of Internet Explorer don't play well on Windows. (Oversimplifying, but that's the jist of it.) There's more than just the app at work here. I can't…

Who sends out tinyurls without context? Every tinyurl I've ever sent or received has been along the lines of "Here are the directions to the hotel: [tinyurl.com/whatever]." If you get a context-free tinyurl from somebody you don't know, then sure, don't click on it. But doesn't that go for pretty much any URL? They're…

D'oh — I meant to say "found myself facing an IE rendering bug..."

The debug menu only allows you to spoof the user-agent string. So if a site delivers IE-only content to Explorer users based on a check of the UA string, Safari's debug menu will allow you to download that content. But the resulting page is still rendered with WebKit, Safari's rendering engine.

"For my money, it beats Spotlight hands down any day."

"The batter would pick a side, the pitcher would switch hands, then the batter would switch again, the pitcher would switch again..."

Thanks for the fun today, Wendy!