Bear with me for a second while I give you the back story.

Last week at the huge Graph Expo at Chicago's McCormick Place, I had the novel experience of donning an official Adobe trade show shirt and helping them at their booth. (Well, not "helping" as in "volunteering," I was more of a hired geek. I got to send them an invoice too, which was a refreshing change from sending a check.)

For much of the four days of the show, I was ensconced in a little free-standing wet-bar-like structure in a corner of Adobe's booth, facing out into a busy intersection on the show floor, with the words "Ask the Expert" plastered across the fronts-piece high above my head where everyone could see.

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Yesterday afternoon, a DesignGeek subscriber e-mailed me asking if InDesign had the equivalent of QuarkXPress's "Ctrl-J" (Command-J) command to quickly "Jump" to a page. If you look at InDesign's Layout menu where the page navigation commands and their keyboard shortcuts appear, "Go to Page" is not one of them.

Are you the type of person who hacks electronics for fun, voided warranties be damned? Such as upgrading your Tivo on your own, or fashioning a cheap WiFi antenna with Chinese cookware? How about using a USB Flash drive as an emergency boot disk? Or turning a Nintendo controller into a USB joystick for your computer?

Sometimes clunky, sometimes brilliant, the ideas presented on the new “beta” Hack A Day blog are always a fun read. It’s amazing what some people have time for — running OS X on an XBox?

I’ll be looking for your hack here:
http://www.hackaday.com/