All posts tagged: Click

“They were all guitars”: Paul Shaffer recalls why The Beatles didn’t click — at first

“They were all guitars”: Paul Shaffer recalls why The Beatles didn’t click — at first

Published by Sam Flores

Legendary musician, band leader, actor and comedian Paul Shaffer joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about whether he would have passed on The Beatles as a “guitar group” and much more on our eighth season premiere of “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon. Shaffer, the longtime musical director and sidekick of David Letterman, said that although he watched The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” (and shows Womack his excellent impression of Sullivan’s famous introduction of the band) in February of 1964, he “didn’t quite understand them yet.” Growing up in Canada, Shaffer had been enamored with the musical style of American acts such as the Four Seasons and Jackie Wilson, and when The Beatles came on the scene, he says, “they were all guitars. On ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand,’ John Lennon’s rhythm guitar work kills me now – I just wasn’t hip enough to understand these things at the time.” Follow and listen …

How I set up Claude Code in iTerm2 to launch all my AI coding projects in one click

How I set up Claude Code in iTerm2 to launch all my AI coding projects in one click

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David Gewirtz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways One-click iTerm2 setup launches Claude projects, creating a coding hub. Profiles auto-load context and memory files on startup. Color-coded tabs eliminate project confusion instantly. Sure, vibe coding is a powerful tool that can save time compared to hand-cutting code line by line. But anyone who has built anything with vibe coding can tell you this: there’s still a lot of work involved. For the past few months, I’ve been using Claude Code to build two apps that will eventually be delivered for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. One has reached the testing stage, while another is still very much in early-stage development. At first, I did what everyone does when they start using Claude Code. I used a terminal window. But my Claude Code work actually involves working in three contexts, one for each of the two apps I’m building and one that’s one level up and can look at both apps. Also: I built two apps with just my voice and a …

I found an M.2 dock that handles SSD cloning without a computer – and with only one click

I found an M.2 dock that handles SSD cloning without a computer – and with only one click

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Icy Box Docking and Clone Station pros and cons Pros It’s a dock and a cloning station Simple and reliable “one-button” HDD and SDD cloning Can handle SATA and M.2 SATA/NVMe drives. Cons Requires external power for cloning No time indicator for how long a cloning process will take. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. While the average user is unlikely to handle a bare SATA HDD or M.2 drive, anyone who builds or maintains PCs, or runs their own NAS systems, will be familiar with these drives. And there inevitably comes a time when you either want to move data from one drive to another, or you need an easy way to access a bare drive from a computer without dealing with enclosures and the like. Since I’m working hard to reduce desk clutter, if I can find a tool that does both things, I’ll go for it. And if I can get such a gadget for under $100 (because duplication stations can cost hundreds, or even thousands), then that’s a bonus.  …

Amorim had great ideas but they did not click at Man United, says Maguire

Amorim had great ideas but they did not click at Man United, says Maguire

Published by Sam Flores

March 26 : Manchester United defender Harry Maguire said former manager Ruben Amorim had strong ideas, but they ultimately “didn’t work” at Old Trafford, further praising interim manager Michael Carrick for overseeing a smooth transition. United have revived their season since Carrick took charge in January, rising into the Premier League’s top three after earning 23 points in 10 games, with only one defeat. “I really like Ruben, he’s got great ideas. The ideas just didn’t work at Manchester United,” Maguire said of Amorim in an interview with Britain’s The Guardian.  “It just didn’t click or work and us, as players, have got to take a lot of responsibility for that as well.” Amorim was known for his back‑three system, but Maguire said he feels more comfortable in a back four. “In the middle of a back three, it is more cautious, a sweeper-type role and not as much driving forward with the ball, which has been a big part of my game throughout my career,” he said. “I feel like it has been a …

I Let Google’s ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn’t Quite Click

I Let Google’s ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn’t Quite Click

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When I was finally able to experiment with Auto Browse (for real this time) I took Google’s suggestions of digital chores as my starting point and picked online tasks that could be helpful in my own life. Whenever interacting with generative AI tools, a healthy sense of skepticism—and caution—is critical. Google even includes a disclaimer baked into its Gemini chatbot reminding users that it makes mistakes. The Auto Browse tool goes a step further. “Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads persistent text that shows in the chatbot sidebar every time Auto Browse is running. “You are responsible for Gemini’s actions during tasks.” Before you try it out, you also need to think about the security risks associated with this kind of automation. Generative AI tools are vulnerable to being compromised through prompt injection attacks on malicious websites. These attacks attempt to divert the bot from its task. The potential vulnerabilities in Google’s Auto Browse have not been fully examined by outside researchers, but the risks may be similar to other AI tools …

Click chemistry is a revolutionary way to make molecules: Best ideas of the century

Click chemistry is a revolutionary way to make molecules: Best ideas of the century

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Chemistry can be a messy, sluggish business, frequently involving cocktails of chemicals in round-bottomed flasks that must later be painstakingly separated. But in 2001, K. Barry Sharpless and his colleagues outlined an idea they called click chemistry that broke the mould. The snappy name, which was Sharpless’s wife Janet Dueser’s idea, summed it up well: a new set of reactions that worked quickly, cleanly and consistently. If it seems like a simple idea, it is – and therein lies its brilliance. Sharpless and his colleagues Hartmuth C. Kolb and M. G. Finn described their new reactions as “spring-loaded”. The idea was that you could apply them to a plethora of different starting chemicals, snapping them together almost like Lego bricks, and so quickly build a huge range of new and useful molecules – it was medicines that Sharpless mostly had in mind. The unifying thought behind these reactions was that they shied away from forming carbon-carbon bonds, as was the orthodoxy among chemists at the time, and instead formed bonds between carbon and what chemists call “heteroatoms”, principally oxygen and nitrogen. …