Nifty Summarize

Don't have time to read all the stuff being sent to you? Here's one more reason to love (and if you haven't, switch to) Mac OS X! I learned about this feature while watching Mac Break Episode 62: Summarize. Its a nifty little thing that lets you auto summarize any text be it from your web browser, a pdf file.

Select the text you want to summarize like so:


then... click on the menu...



the summary window will come out:


you can set how long the summary would be, by moving the slider and/or selecting the sentence or paragraph buttons like so:


i've tried it with the pdf viewer and it works, and no it doesn't work with Firefox but it does on Camino. This feature works for all cocoa apps.

here's the Camino screenshot:

This cool little tool and apparently has been with OSX for a long time, the boys from Macbreak said.

war journal 013 - gentoo on parallels for mac

previously, i posted (also here: the case of parallels 2.1 beta and the crashing iMac and Ubuntu on OS X that i have had a heck of a time trying to get gentoo to work on parallels for the mac. its been a couple of months now, and i realize that i haven't posted the resolution to that problem.

it was quite simple really, and i banged by head several times after realizing how simple the answer was:

gentoo noapic acpi=off

and gentoo live cd (i used 2006.0) would boot properly and using the grp packages (i wanted to get up and running very quickly) a gentoo system was live on my core duo iMac.