The widespread use of face masks keeps the coronavirus reproduction number below 1.0, and prevents further waves when combined with lockdowns, new research suggests. But we all have to do it!Īccording to the BBC’s Science Focus Magazine: New research shows that wearing masks makes a difference. What newsletters do you recommend? Add them to the comments below. I guess newsletters aren’t so bad, after all. You can also read his links on the web at. I love Cory’s insight, taste, and quirky eye, so I instantly subscribed to his daily newsletter, Plura-List (free). Of course I subscribe to newsletters from my co-hosts, Paul Thurrott (subscribers only) and Stacey Higginbotham (free), and TWiT’s own upcoming shows newsletter (free).īut my post today is inspired by the news that one of the smartest people I know, Cory Doctorow, had left his long time ‘zine, Boing Boing. He says, “It’s time for the internet moguls to stop acting like Chamberlain - and start channeling Churchill.” This week, for example, he likened Facebook’s forbearance toward Donald Trump to Chamberlin’s appeasement at Munich. Steven offers context, insight, and an intellectual’s perspective on tech news. It’s like hearing from Levy directly and very much reflects his voice. It’s nothing like an article in Wired, or even an opinion piece. Plaintext is a good example of why newsletters matter. Worse, you have to pay for Wired to get it. Shouldn’t a newsletter called Plaintext be written in plain text? I’m sure this isn’t Steven’s choice it’s probably something Conde Nast does. Unfortunately the letter itself is delivered in an image heavy rich text format which means it’s unreadable unless you load images. This is the first line of Morning Cup of Coding (free) a nice little daily list of technical articles in all fields of software engineering from HumanReadable.io.Īs you might expect, Steven Levy does put that web referral up top in his new Plaintext (paywall) newsletter from Wired. Ugh! I’m always glad when a newsletter puts a link to read on the web in the clear at the top of the message so I can click it and ignore the rest: This is the start of an email I just received from Walmart exactly as it appears in my Mac mail client screen (min-width:700px).mosaic-seven Thus most newsletters look like an unintelligible bunch of cryptic nonsense. From time to time I’ll cull through the stack and find something worth reading.Īnother issue complicating things is that, for security reasons, I don’t allow my email clients to render HTML or show images. This, at least, keeps my newsleters out of spam and out of my Inbox. I use a filter to put any email with the word Unsubscribe in its body into a folder called Mailing Lists. For some reason I subscribe to them anyway. WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software - 'WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment.I’m not all that fond of newsletters they just add to the crushing pile of email I’ll never get through.- megazoomer - 'Megazoomer makes windows full-screen.Doodim - 'Doodim permits one to dim the background of the foremost application thereby enhancing its visibility.'.Menufela - 'Menufela is a haxie that lets you hide away the menubar and/or get rid of the spotlight menu item.'.WindowShade X - Hack control of your Finder Windows.LiteSwitch X - Merlin's fave app switcher handy also for quitting, hiding, or restarting apps without changing focus.Desktopple - 'With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter.'.Witch - 'Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles.'.Which I apparently love to plug for no particular reason.Įdit 16:51:22: Check after the cut for reader suggestions from comments for this post. Hazel - Automagically clean up the contents of folders and the Desktop (e.g., 'move old MP3s here' or 'archive files older than a week' etc.).Path Finder - Totally tricked out Finder on steroids that I love love love where I made the Desktop black and hid all mounted drives, folders, etc.Spirited Away - Hides non-active applications after the interval of your choice (thanks for the legacy download link, Don).MenuShade - Alter the brightness of your Menu - or totally black it out, like I do.Backdrop - Create a black background that still lets you easily interact with Desktop contents.Turn Hiding On - In the Dock, CTRL-Click the Dock's vertical separator bar, and select ' Turn Hiding On'.Hide Others - In the front app, select ' > Hide Others'.Here's the apps and tricks that we covered, with links: MacBreak 33: The Distracted Mac ( Direct MOV Download)Īlthough it covers a lot of the same ground as a previous MacBreak we did on the subject, I think Leo and my segment on un-distract-ifying your Mac turned out pretty good (my atrocious hairstyle at shoot time notwithstanding).

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