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Video: Merlin Mann – Inbox Zero

A Merlin Mann talk about the importance of getting your inbox to zero as well as strategies for dealing with high volume email.

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Running Firefox 3 and the Firefox 4 BETA simultaneously on your Mac

Installing the Firefox 4 BETA would usually overwrite your existing installation of Firefox 3, but you can run both versions simultaneously by following the instructions in this post.

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Opting your iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad out of Apple iOS4’s Geolocation-Aware iAds

If you’re security-conscious you can opt out of Apple’s location-aware iAds by following the instructions in this post.

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Managing Background Tasks in the Bash Shell

In the the Unix Bash shell the “&” (ampersand) character is a control operator used to fork processes.

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Downloading YouTube Videos with Safari

YouTube videos can easily be downloaded by using just Safari and a free video conversion utility.

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Sending Tweets from the command line using a Bash script

The Twitter API makes it very simple to send tweets with curl via a Bash script.

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List comments and files changed for a specific Subversion Revision

If you need to check which files changed during a specific revision, use this command in a Terminal window.

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