OS X Lion - Learn about the top new features. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room." Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. "Just to give you a general idea," he would explain to them. Meanwhile, it was a privilege.
Getting Started/Build/Mac OS X/MacPorts Introduction The process described here is one of many ways to set up a KDE development environment on Mac OS X. It sets up a MacPorts installation to provide the required dependencies and uses this to then build a KDE kf5 development environment. This approach has the big advantage of using MacPorts to build, install and keep updated the base system and libraries required with minimal effort and without touching the base OSX system install. It also gives you the choice of installing and running the latest stable KDE SC for everyday use while still developing on the unstable trunk. The main disadvantage is compiling all the MacPort dependencies takes longer than binary installs, but the ease of maintenance is worth it. OS X for Linux developers One point to remember is that OS X is a customised version of BSD, so while it feels fairly familiar to a Linux developer, there are the occasional banana skins to slip you up. Install XCode and X11. MacPorts. Install MacPorts. Using MacPorts. port list #!
Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems to make it harder than it ought to be. Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Here's the alphabet. That's it. Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they go below. The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. Here's one last example with two different letter combinations. I am often asked how to handle double vowel situations. That's all you need to get started. Please be aware that there are many ways to write English words in Elvish. Good luck! Ned Gulley Want an Elvish tattoo?
Brainteasers -- NIEHS Kids Page Brainteasers Scientists get to solve puzzles every day, because science and research involve finding solutions from the clues that we are given. Just like with brainteasers (or brain teasers) and riddles, the answers to science mysteries are not always easy to see at first. With time and effort, they eventually become clear. But before solving the hundreds of brainteasers and riddles below, why not learn more about your brain by viewing the parts of the brain and what they do. And then have some fun with all our brainteasers and riddles below. Palindromes A palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. Not So Hard Riddles Warm up with some easy riddles. Tuff Stuff Riddles Some of these riddles are difficult Rebus Puzzles Word picture puzzles Frog Leap Brainteaser Help six little frogs get across their pond. Puzzling Proverbs New twists on old sayings Puzzling Numbers Numbers games Double-Speak Proverbs These old sayings have been rewritten using big words.
Mac For Beginners | Keynote basics Small Text | Big Text Keynote basics Keynote is Apple's own presentation application, similar to Microsoft's PowerPoint, but better (really, not just because it is Apple vs. Microsoft). Getting started To open Keynote, press its icon. When you have selected a theme, a new window will appear. Working with slides At the left part of your Keynote window, you will find a list of all the slides in the presentation. A new slide will now appear in the list. If you wish to view a slide, just click it and it will become visible in the viewer (the biggest part of the window). Designing a slide Working with "masters" The most important thing to learn is how to switch between different "masters". Importing media If you wish to import a photo, movie or song into Keynote, this can easily be done. You can also import media by choosing Insert > Choose from the top menu. If you are importing media from iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie or Aperture, you can use the excellent media browser. The Inspector 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.