Apparently the iPad supports the ability to undo and redo text input natively. The feature is activated by shaking the iPad while a tex editing area is active, and up pops this little menu (or rather bounces in from the side).
Neat!
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So, I’ve been running Snow Leopard for a couple of weeks now, mostly in 64-bit mode, which contrary to my initial expectations hasn’t caused any real problems with any software or hardware. The entire OS seems very stable and snappy, and I’m oh so happy. I have noticed a few weird quirks, though.
For one, it seems that whenever I try to run something in Quartz Composer, or just launching a Quartz composition in Quicktime, it will utterly fail to render properly. Everything is either garbles of what looks like old video memory (Safari windows, random images, multicolored visual noise) or just plain nothing. I came to think that this might be some kind of memory addressing issue, so i booted up in 32-bit mode, and presto, no problems at all.
That, on the other hand caused my Citrix Metaframe connection to one of my clients to stop working. Whenever I try to connect to the presentation server, I will get a Java exception thrown at me (a null-pointer one to be specific, which again might point at some kind of memory issue). Weirdness!
So to recap, the only issues I’ve experienced with Snow Leopard is Quartz not working in 64-bit mode, and the Citrix Java client not working in 32-bit mode.
Update: Seems I was wrong on the Citrix client only working in 64-bit mode. It seems that it has a bit of its own life, suddenly deciding not to be cooperative in any way, regardless of bitness. On the light side of things, opening up Java preferences (Applications > Utilities > Java-preferences) and clearing the applet cache does seem to resolve the problems, at least for some time.
Turns out to double nicely as a headset for your Mac! How sweet! Just got myself the in-ear iPhone headset today, and plugged it into my Macbook to listen to some music. I accidentally fiddled with the controls on the headset cord, and lo-and-behold, they actually worked for adjusting volume and play/pause/skip controls. Turns out, the little microphone in the headset is also recognized and connected to the Mac when plugged in, so it doubles as a full headset for Skype/iChat/whatever, even though it’s only plugged into the headphone port. Pure genius.
