Jason Robb

I love my MacBook Pro, but it’s not perfect. Over the past week, my sweet machine’s keyboard and trackpad went unresponsive intermittently, but my USB keyboard and mouse worked fine. (For the record, this is a 10-month-old, refurbished, 2.2Ghz MacBook Pro.)
It’s a hardware problem
It’s not software related, but due to this ribbon cable being […]

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Dear Adobe,
I want to pick a color overlay for a layer style. But Photoshop (CS3) makes me open 2 windows instead of one to do so. It’s a bit aggravating and wasteful. Please combine these windows.
When trying to change a color overlay, I’m confronted with this:

Naturally, I want to change the color on this menu. […]

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* Crafty with their email marketing, that is.
I’m an occasional jetBlue customer. And over the years, I’ve noticed their email marketing has become progressively complex, albeit meaningful.
If you receive their promotional emails, then you probably know what I mean. The most recent headline reads, “Get 10% off selected flights.*” Here’s the hilarious asterisk clause describing […]

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