When running Photoshop CS3 on Windows Vista, the Escape key seems to be trapped/swallowed up by Photoshop. Essentially, the Escape key stops functioning outside of Photoshop unless Photoshop is terminated.
Since there aren’t any official fixes for the problem just yet, here are two workarounds.
- Use the Shift-Escape sequence, when you need the Escape functionality in other applications.
- Run this AutoHotKey applet that automatically maps your Escape key to Shift-Escape when Photoshop is running. Applet created by Serge Baranov
Read up the ongoing discussion about the issue.
If you’ve just moved houses, and your washing machine is leaking water like crazy, chances are, one or more of the gaskets on the hoses connecting your machine to the water tap fell out en route to your new place.
You can get replacements from a hardware store. Bring along the hoses to get a good fit (they come in different sizes).
Bonus: If you find that hot water is coming through on a cold cycle, or the other way round, you might have just fitted the hoses wrongly. Switch the hoses around such that the first hose fits on to the OTHER tap, and the OTHER hose fits on to the former tap.
Fortified wine (or dessert wine as it is known in the United States) is generally a sweeter and more potent variety of wine.
It is made by adding some form of alcohol or liqueur (usually brandy) to the wine before the fermentation process is complete, with the original intent of preserving the wine. The sweetness of fortified wine is a result of the alcohol killling the yeast, and leaving behind residual sugar.
It goes very well with rich chocolate ice cream and berries.
AceMoney has been my salvation from the likes Microsoft Money and Quicken.
Here’s what AceMoney doesn’t do:
- It doesn’t force me to sign up for an online service.
Microsoft Money has a bad habit of wanting to integrate with a Windows Live account. I don’t like that.
- It doesn’t have any ads.
As though paying through the nose for the software weren’t enough, Microsoft Money is riddled with ads trying to sell me more financial services.
- It doesn’t make funny noises.
The user interfaces on Money and Quicken are over-sweetened, with unnecessary animations and sound effects that only serve to bog me down.
- It doesn’t need 500mb ram to run.
Quicken takes ages to load up, and bloats up to half a gig of memory, probably caching all the sound effects and interface animations. AceMoney peaks out at about 20mb.
There you have it. It does all the things I need it to do (track money, setup budgets, schedule bills, etc.), but more importantly, it doesn’t do any of the things I don’t want it to do.
Try the freeware Lite version. Don’t expect anything flash, just sweet straightforward simplicity.
(I wasn’t paid to write this)
When applying a combination of spreads (e.g. peanut butter and apricot jam) on freshly toasted bread, the number of knives required can be deduced using the following formula:-
n + 1
(where n = the number of different spreads)
This gives you one knife to retrieve the desired amount of each spread from its container, and an extra one to apply it on the piece of toast evenly without contaminating the unused portions of spread.
