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Welcome to a new Apple-world device

So that’s it. The iPad is a small tablet you can carry with you. It has great applications, a great web browser, and the hardware is pretty nice… well I haven’t seen one myself but it looks great. All that at an unbelievably low price. What’s the catch?

Magic Launch 1.0.1 for files with no extension

Some files don’t have extensions. On the Mac, in the absence of other type metadata, the system will always open such files with the application for plain text documents. But sometime you might want to use a more specialized one. Here’s how you can use Magic Launch 1.0.1 (today’s update) to assign a different application to files with no extension, such as the commonly encountered “Makefile” and “.htaccess” files.

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