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Lost Pages of Taborea: Lions and tigers and bears, oh... mounts!
Summer is starting to wane, and the cold winds will soon be blustering through the city streets. Kids with chattering teeth and blue fingers will be sitting in front of stoves or fireplaces, rolling their eyes as grandpa proclaims that he had to walk to and from school barefoot through snow uphill both ways. While our grandfathers fantasize about the pride of hardships, we can slip off to the computer and live in our fantasy worlds that provide mounts to make traveling a bit more fun. Runes of Magic has a wide variety of mounts that can run, hover and float over water. Some of these mounts are more rare than others, like those seen only on holidays or during special fundraisers, while some are two-seaters. From the sleek and vicious to the large and powerful to the just plain wacky, RoM has a mount for all occasions. In this week's Lost Pages of Taborea, I go over the mounts that are available, their rarity, their speed, and some ways to give your preferred mount a boost.
Hovering drone could report for work at Miami-Dade police station
We didn't even flinch when we heard that hovering drones employed by Big Brother were going to work in the UK, but somehow those buggers have managed to wander over to America's east coast. Granted, the pilotless drones -- crafted with good intentions by Honeywell -- that are slated to report in to the Miami-Dade police department aren't exactly the same, but they are expected to be used for similar duties. More specifically, they'll be loosed in order to oversee "urban areas with an eye toward full-fledged employment in crime fighting." According to a department spokesman, the fuzz are only looking to use it in "tactical situations as an extra set of eyes," but don't be shocked to see flashing lights from a vehicle without wheels next time you're rolling (a little too) quick down South Beach.
Mac 101: Hovering to copy
Many new Mac users think that in order to drag a file into a folder, that it must already be open on your screen. In fact, OS X offers a lovely trick that allows you to navigate through folders as you perform your drag and drop. To make this happen, start dragging the file you want to relocate. When you reach the parent folder of the folder you want to relocate to, hover for a few seconds. Finder recognizes that you're hovering and opens that folder for you. You can then locate the next folder down in the path, hover there, and so on until your reach your destination. This is particularly useful when dragging items onto other desks, especially networked disks. You can drag and hover items onto disks in Finder window's source pane as well to move files between computers. And what do you do if the item you want to drag onto is off screen? Drag in the direction you need to go. Finder is smart enough to help scroll the window for you.
