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Yesterday I was re-watching (!) the episode 3x03 of my beloved TV-series How I Met Your Mother ("Robin 101"). Ted teaches Barney how to deal with Robin and during one of his lectures on the topic, by mistake,  a picture of the Flat Iron building appears. Ted, inspired by this picture, would like to tell Barney a curiosity about it but he is interrupted by a restless Barney. Nevertheless I was wondering... what is the odd about the Flat Iron building? Googling around I found out one curious fact that probably answers my question :) Since the building is on 23rd Street at the intersection of Broadway on one side and Fifth Avenue on the other, and the open expanse of Madison Square and the park in front of it, the wind currents around it could be quite strong. Due to this phenomenon, in the early 1900s, groups of men gathered there waiting for women to come by and, hopefully,  to watch their dresses being blown up by the wind! There is also postcard from 1905 dep...

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Hello Everybody, today I want to share with you this little trick I have just found, i.e. (as the title says) how to switch among different windows of the same program in MacOS. So... As you know the combination cmd + TAB in Mac OS allows you to switch among different programs, but what if you have multiple windows of the same program (for example Firefox or Safari)? Well in this case the combination you are looking for is:   cmd + '  if you have an Italian layout for your keyboard... otherwise it is   cmd + 1 for all the other layouts  I have tested (American, German) The " ' " is above the TAB key in the American keyboard and next to 0 in the Italian one. The little annoying thing is that while with " cmd + TAB " you get a row with all the icons of the open programs in the middle of the screen, in the case of " cmd + ' " you just switch sequencially among all the different windows while, I think, it would have been much nic...

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