About the Summary Feature
We recently added a new summary feature to the main issue, starting with today's issue, on 15 November, 2004. The summary is provided by the Mac OS X Summary Service through one of our homegrown apps, which converts any text you've selected into a handy little summary, without all the bother of actually having to read the issue.
You, too, can do this to any issue. In fact, instead of just clicking on our link you could do it yourself. Of course, seeing as you're clicking to get the summary of a roughly 500-1,000 word weekly issue, you're probably pretty damn lazy, and won't be wanting to do anything that might interfere with whatever else it is you deem so important that you can't take more than a couple minutes of your precious time out to read Sane. It's okay, honest.
At any rate, how to do it yourself. Right. Back on track.
Select a bunch of text. This text works, even. Go on.
Go up to the Services menu. If you're trying this out like we told you to, you'll find it under the Safari menu. See that one jammed in there, probably near the bottom? The one called Summarize? Select that.
And presto! A little summary you can shorten or lengthen as much as you like, like magic, almost! Only less exciting. Maybe if you shoved a watch under a handkerchief (clean, preferably) and smashed it with a mallet while you did the preceding it might be slightly more exciting, so long as it isn't 1) our watch or 2) your watch. Let us know how that one works out.
Ohhhh yeah. This doesn't, of course, work on Windows. Or Linux. Or Mac OS 9.
So those remaining ten of you or so, well... this is for you, baby.
The rest of you, just click the stupid link, and don't worry about this "do it yourself" stuff.
disclaimer:
There is no disclaimer, this is just an about page... umm... oh, which has instructions on how to do stuff, damn.
Okay, we're not responsible for your machine doing funny things if you follow the above instructions. Where 'funny' means anything from bursting into jam or hiccuping everytime you write the word 'Liza'. And everything in between.
There, that about covers us.
Thanks for playing.