Monthly Archives: March 2010

Don’t Actually Try to Explore in the Apple Store

Yesterday, while waiting with my daughter for our Genius Bar appointment, I was looking at one of the laptops on the table. The Ethernet cable seemed unusual, had a reddish glow emanating from it. Without thinking about it, I pulled it out to take a closer look and triggered a massive alarm. Beefy, serious security [...]

Titanium and TSA Scanners

Turns out the plate in my shoulder is made of Titanium. Not clear whether it will set off the airport scanners, but I’m now carrying a little card from my surgeon to help explain if it does… Guess I’ll find out the hard way the next time I get on a plane.

Copy Finder Path to Clipboard

The answer was so simple, but until I stumbled on this wonderful little AppleScript I was constantly frustrated by the difficulty of just copying the full path to whatever you were looking at in Finder. Now I’m happy.