Recently, I installed VirtualPC on my XP box so that I could still test IE6 after installing IE7. However, I immediately ran into a problem. There is some sort of conflict between the mouse emulation being done in the VirtualPC window, and the mouse emulation being done on my PC to let me use my [...]
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How to Use a Mac and a PC with a Single Keyboard and Mouse
As a web developer who prefers to use a Macintosh, I struggled to find the least painful way to test my work on a PC. The solution turned out to be a program called Synergy, which effectively creates a dual-monitor setup where one monitor is a PC and one is a Mac.
How to Search for This and Not That Using TextWrangler
I’ve been doing a ton of search-and-replace operations at my job lately, and one of the worst ones I did had to do with searching for the word “Comfort.” Unfortunately, this word is absurdly common on this site, and I was getting well over 1000 matches, most of which didn’t apply. Now, the first thing [...]