Everyone wants to know how to do something. Sometimes it’s learning a new skill, and sometimes enhancing something you already know. Whatever that is, there seems to be one good way to do so.
Go and do it.
Sometimes the best way to learn something is to be thrown into the situation and you having to just learn it. Think swimming. You can talk about it all day, learn strokes on paper, practice breathing, but until you actually get tossed into the deep end, it’s all head knowledge. Once you have to tread water, it becomes learned (or you learn you can’t swim!).
Here’s another thing. You can’t learn something if you never do it to begin with. You can’t learn the guitar having never picked one up. You can’t learn to write if you never put pen to paper.
So here’s some encouragement for you, and some friendly pressure: go do something if you want to learn how. You’ll never know unless you try.
So, what do you want to learn?
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They work well together too. I use the menus for “critical” – or at least what I call critical – info. RAM, drives, network usage, and CPU usage are all just a glance away. I can then open up the widget for other info – like temps, fan speed, uptime, and power stats – that I don’t need in front of me.
Mac OS X’s Spaces is a great organizational tool. Apps can be confined to a single space so that your view isn’t cluttered with 10 open programs each with 3-5 windows each. Cool idea.
