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Tap and hold keyboard icon to quickly toggle predictive mode.

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Change the shape of your timeline avatar by activating theme selection and shake your device.

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Starting iOS 8 again you can hide the app you’ve downloaded from Purchased section. Just swipe to left to reveal the hide button.

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If you use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, then you can just prepend the search query with exclamation mark (!) to open the first result in Safari. This is a gorgeous method that replicates Google’s I’m feeling lucky button.

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Assign triple-click home button to invert screen colors. Useful when the app you use doesn’t support night mode.

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Instapaper Premium customer can use the speak action to read out the article. You can also create a playlist from unread articles to accompany your commuting as opposed to listening to podcast.

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We need to strike the balance between content length and content purpose. Aim to explain an idea with fewest words as possible.

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New Path stickers. It’s a good thing.

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Evernote 5.6.0 Major Update

At Evernote, we believe that speed and stability are essential for productivity. That’s why we’ve completely rewritten Evernote for Mac. It may look familiar but it's significantly faster, more reliable and consumes less energy than ever before. We’ve also snuck in some new features!

This is a great news for Evernote users since speed has always been an issue for those who didn’t give Evernote another try. If you’re new to Evernote, here’s a few tips to help you getting started.

Speed:

Sync is more than 3x faster. Users with lots of shared notebooks and Evernote Business users will see the biggest improvements.

New notes sync instantly so they’re immediately accessible on your other devices.

Share notes without waiting for a sync to complete.

Launch and quit times have been reduced dramatically.

New keyboard shortcuts have been added to jump to the note list for easy navigation (CMD + |) and you can now tab between the search field, the note list, current note title and note body.

Energy consumption when the app is idle has been significantly reduced. Stability:

We’ve closed over 500 bugs including more than 150 types of crashes.

Our crash reporting system has been completely rebuilt.

New features:

Tables can now be resized, and have configurable background colors and border styles.

Images can be resized right in the note editor. Just click an image and drag the handle in the bottom right corner.

Search results are now ordered by relevance.

Faster notebook selector at the top of the note list remembers your recently used notebooks.

Redesigned checkboxes in the note editor are easier to click.

Evernote will now stay logged in by default.

Search your notes with Spotlight.

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the evolution of the iphone.

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This photo is taken with iPhone 6 by austinmann.

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Smart idea, Path: show when you friends buy stickers. at Starbucks – View on Path.

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Viewing Multiple Finder Items with Single Information Window

Using Command + I to get file information is the common shortcut on Mac, but it can clutter the screen if we want to view multiple items.

An alternative is to Show Inspector (Command+Option+I) that can inspect any file you select which remove the needs to open multiple info windows.

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Dropbox Cache

Dropbox keeps the cache of your deleted files in a hidden folder under this path:

~/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/

If you’re wondering why deleteing files from Dropbox folder on your Mac doesn’t clear up space, consider deleting files inside that hidden folder.

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Erik Spiek­er­mann:

Every craft requires atten­tion to detail. Whether you’re build­ing a bicy­cle, an engine, a table, a song, a type­face or a page: the details are not the details, they make the design. Con­cepts don’t have to be pixel-perfect, and even the fussi­est project starts with a rough sketch. But build­ing some­thing that will be used by other peo­ple, be they dri­vers, rid­ers, read­ers, lis­ten­ers – users every­where, it needs to be built as well as can be. Unless you are obsessed by what you’re doing, you will not be doing it well enough.

Some­times only the experts know the dif­fer­ence, but if you want to be an expert at what you’re mak­ing, you will only be happy with the result when you’ve given it every­thing you have.

Amen.

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