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Nice article about Wilton Manors in Salon.
Developer Paul Hugo said he targets gay readers when advertising his luxury properties that will soon be built at three different sites in the city. Hugo and developer Robert Mannino said their project, called Villa Escondido, is promoted every week with full-page ads in the gay-oriented Express. They advertise [...]

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John Perry Barlow writes about getting back in shape after a life of neglect.
Although I’m not anywhere near as extreme, I’ve been going to the gym 3 or more times a week and people are starting to notice that I lost weight & I’m looking good. One of the reasons I moved here was because [...]

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Today is the one year anniversary of iTunes Music Store. It also marks exactly one year since I moved into my condo. I didn’t see the iTunes announcement until late that night, since I was busy moving.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “One Year Anniversary”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/28/one-year-anniversary/” });

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One of my favorite groups, Babaloo is now in iTunes Music Store
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Punk Mambo!”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/27/punk-mambo/” });

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Apple has just released Airport 3.4.1. I’ll wait a few days before installing it.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Airport 3.4.1″, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/26/airport-341/” });

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(via Salon)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Which picture is real?”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/22/which-picture-is-real/” });

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Former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is recovering from facial injuries he suffered when he was allegedly attacked in a London pub.
The 46-year-old singer was assaulted at the Joiner’s Arms pub in central London on Monday evening, police sources said.
The Evening Standard newspaper reported that MacGowan suffered a fractured cheekbone after being kicked, punched and hit [...]

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Via Boing Boing Blog:

“Hot on the heels of the Grey Album comes another innnnteresting mash-up/bootleg project that was originally posted as a collaborative challenge to DJs in February. The goal: Take one track from the Clash’s “London Calling,” and “remix it, add to it, subtract from it
- put your own tributary spin on it.” [...]

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I just purchased 4 songs from iTMS and only two were downloaded before I got an error. When I try to check for purchased music, I get an ‘unknown error’ 11502. I also haven’t been able to log in to my .Mac email this morning.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “iTMS & .Mac problem”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/20/itms-mac-problem/” });

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A look at the ‘MP3Concept Trojan Horse’ fiasco.
[Daring Fireball]
This whole mess demonstrates why HFS metadata needs to go. When file types are identified by two different methods, it’s inevitable that they’d get out of sync, causing these kind of problems. We also need to get rid of resource forks for a portable cross-platform file [...]

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According to Apple’s financial results reported today, they shipped 749 thousand Macs and 807 thousand iPods. Mac sales are still up 5% over one year ago, although iPod sales are up 909%.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “iPods outselling Macs”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/14/ipods-outselling-macs/” });

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iTunes Music store normally censors offensive words by replacing letters with asterisks. When I checked the new releases today, I found one that wasn’t. If you click on it to view the album, however, the title is censored.
Click only if you’re not offended by the ‘F’ word
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “iTunes Uncensored”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/13/itunes-uncensored/” });

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Since WorldBeatPlanet and ShareYourMusic.com share the same Drupal installation, I just enabled the file upload module at WorldBeatPlanet. I created a new user role, Artist, to allow uploading & maintaining tunes. Any user can download tunes.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “File Downloads at WorldBeatPlanet”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/12/file-downloads-at-worldbeatplanet/” });

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Question: LaunchBar or QuickSilver? [from NSLog();]

I also prefer LaunchBar. I’m now using the 4.0 beta and it seems pretty stable. I had resisted trying it for a long time, since I used DragThing and I was satisfied with it. When I finally tried LB for the first time I was hooked instantly and purchased it [...]

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I just updated ShareYourMusic.com & WorldBeatPlanet.com to Drupal 4.4 final. The update was completely painless. I also changed the appearance of ShareYourMusic since a lot of people complained about the black background.
I also tweaked the default theme at MacMegasite slightly, getting rid of some graphics on the front page to make it load faster and [...]

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ShareYourMusic.com was mentioned in the latest issue of MacWorld, so it’s starting to see a bit more activity. I still have plenty of bandwidth & disk space to handle it. I’m planning to upgrade to Drupal 4.4 this weekend.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “ShareYourMusic”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/09/shareyourmusic/” });

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The last few days I’ve been getting 5-6 comment spams. It appears that they’re being added manually, since I’ve already renamed the comment script. I delete them immediately with MT-Blacklist and ban the IP address they came from. I really need something better - I can’t wait for MT 3.0 with the comment registration system.
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My M-Audio Keystation 49E arrived. It worked immediately when I plugged it in - no software needed. It looks a lot nicer than most cheap MIDI keyboards I’ve seen, and the keys have a nice feel. I’ll write a full review at MacMegasite in the next day or so.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “KeyStation arrived”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2004/04/06/keystation-arrived/” });

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On this day in 1994, Kurt Kobain killed himself.
At first I hated Nirvana. The first thing I noticed about them was their poor musicianship, but when I look back on them I realize just how important they were. Kurt was the real thing. His music came from his soul. There was nothing at all phony [...]

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I had ordered a m-Audio Keystation 49E from MacMall at the beginning of February. Every time I called about it, the ship date was pushed back. For a long time they said it would ship Mar. 31, which didn’t happen. Now they don’t expect to receive any until the end of this month. I checked [...]

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