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For those that care about such things (👋 hi, me too!), the change in iOS 26.4 that moved the Updates screen deeper in the App Store hierarchy has proven to be a seemingly needless irritation.

Happily, there is a solution. You can long-press the App Store app icon and select Updates directly from the context menu. Nice!

David Holland Feb 24

Jen Gentleman Feb 24

Did you know if you want to quickly look at your desktop, holding WIN + Comma will hide all your open windows until you release the keys? 👀

David Holland Jan 16

Jen Gentleman Jan 16

If you're using that command line in Windows, don't forget you can use clip to pipe the output of your command to the clipboard!

Like this:

systeminfo | clip

Puts the output of the command directly on your clipboard so you don't need to manually select and copy it

😊

#Windows #Tips

David Holland Jan 14

kottke.org Jan 13

Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’ It’s ‘innovate only where you’re uniquely paid to innovate.’ Everything else should default to boring, because boring has known failure modes.” https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

David Holland Jan 13

Amir E. Aharoni Jan 11

I'm a forty-five-year-old man, and I've been using desktop web browsers for twenty-eight of them, and only a few months ago I learned how to highlight text that is a hyperlink without clicking the link: by holding Alt why highlighting. I use it many times a day now. How did even use the web before that?

In case you still didn't know it, now you do.

Thank you @jhsoby for teaching me this.

David Holland Jan 7

Jen Gentleman Jan 7

Did you know we added the ability to end tasks directly from the taskbar in Windows 11?

So you don't need to open task manager - when enabled you can just right click an app and end it from that menu

#Windows #Tips

David Holland Dec 30

Gary Rosenzweig Dec 29

Mac tip: If you can’t remember where a command is in the menu bar:
❶ Use Shift+⌘+/ (question mark) to get the Help menu.
❷ Type a few letters until you see the command you want.
❸ Arrow down to it and trigger with Return.
➜ You also get to see where the command is located for the next time.
#macOS

David Holland Dec 25

Tom Warren Dec 24

Microsoft isn't rewriting Windows in Rust with AI, despite many reports about it over the past couple of days

David Holland Dec 24

Jen Gentleman Dec 23

Did you know if you hold ALT when you double click a file or folder in File Explorer, it will open Properties for that item? 👀

#Windows #Tips

David Holland Dec 17

BasicAppleGuy Dec 17

iPhone concepts from 2006, a year before the iPhone actually launched...