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Roxio’s support site is one of the worst I’ve ever had to deal with. They make it nearly impossible to contact them.
Yesterday I converted some QuickTime movies to PSP format using Popcorn 2. The conversion was perfect, except the names appeared in Japanese on the PSP.
It seems that I’ve registered at their site under several [...]

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I found these tests at Glenn Reid’s blog:

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My Toyota dealer notified me that they finally obtained a Prius for me. Unfortunately it won’t arrive for about 2 weeks. They were able to give me the full details including the VIN and it’s pre-sold to me.
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When I tried to install the Mac OS X 10.4.7 update on my MacBookPro, the machine froze when the update was almost finished and left the machine unable to boot. When I started up in single user mode, it showed that launchd couldn’t be started which prevented it from booting completely. I ended up doing [...]

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Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid:

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Stay The Course”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/06/27/stay-the-course/” });

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R.I.P. Lucas

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

Lucas died of brain cancer Friday night. He was one of my favorite neighbors & I’m really going to miss him.

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These guys sound more like a lone group of bumbling kooks than an organized terrorist cell. They’re probably harmless, but kooks can be dangerous no matter how inept they are.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Officials say terror suspects lacked the means to match ambitions”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/06/24/officials-say-terror-suspects-lacked-the-means-to-match-ambitions/” });

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I’ve always been a BBEdit user, but TextMate seemed to come out of nowhere and it’s now my favorite text editor. The one feature I miss from BBEdit is the ability to open & save files directly on an FTP server without using an FTP client. Since TextMate plays nicely with [CyberDuck](http://cyberduck.ch/), I can simply [...]

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I don’t believe in god and have a hard time accepting any religion that tells us to accept without questioning what’s written. I’ve been learning more about Buddhism and it’s the only religion that makes any sense to me. It doesn’t tell you what to believe. Instead you’re expected to seek the truth. I would [...]

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Here’s what I’ve been listening to lately.
Bombay Beats - I’ve been getting into more Indian music, especially Bhangra & Bollywood music. This is a nice collection of Bhangra/hip hop fusion. I’ve also been listening to lots of music by Asha Bhosle.
Raivolution, MC Rai - New rai/dance/hip-hop mixture.
Balkan Beat Box - interesting world fusion.

Orientation, Thione Seck [...]

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The guys at Houdah Software & MacZOT are giving away free copies of HoudahSpot 1.2.read more | digg story
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(via Vintage Mac News)
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I signed up for eMusic’s free trial, which lets me download 20 songs. I’m not sure if I’ll continue when the trial is over. I really like that their downloads are DRM-free MP3s which work perfectly on a Mac and their download manager is Mac-friendly. Unfortunately their selection is pretty limited and I don’t really [...]

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Tropical Storm Alberto formed over the weekend and it’s expected to strengthen into a category 1 hurricane soon. It’s expected to hit the gulf coast but will probably bring us some rain here.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “First storm of the season”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/06/12/first-storm-of-the-season/” });

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Via Street Prophets: Keillor published an op-ed in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun, lamenting the fact that Republicans have sunk so low as to pin all of their election-year hopes on linking Nancy Pelosi to San Francisco (um, that’s where she lives!) and attempting to establish House Speaker Denny Hastert as the Republican poster boy.
Keillor makes a [...]

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Toyota’s website is one of the most Mac-unfriendly sites I’ve used. I was unable to complete either the build-your-own or loan application forms in either Safari or Firefox. The only way I was able to use it was running IE under Parallels.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Toyota Hates Macs”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/06/07/toyota-hates-macs/” });

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The Senate voted today to reject an amendment that would have written discrimination into the U.S. Constitution. Republicans had been using this wedge issue in hopes of distracting from their failures and dividing Americans to win elections.
Republicans tried to end debate in order to force a vote on the bill. They failed to get [...]

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I scheduled a test drive in a new Toyota Prius this weekend, when I also plan to order it. Even though I don’t do that much driving, I still want to do my share to save gas, plus I really like the Prius. Two of my neighbors already have one.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Going Hybrid”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/06/06/going-hybrid/” [...]

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Billy Preston, the “Fifth Beatle” has died at 59. Preston’s longtime manager, Joyce Moore, said Preston had been in a coma since November in a care facility and was taken to a Scottsdale hospital Saturday after his condition deteriorated. Preston’s hits include “Outta Space”, “Will It Go ’Round In Circles”, and “Nothing From Nothing” (via [...]

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One of my favorite people is very sick. He suddenly developed a fast growing brain tumor. He was always very lively, but when I saw him a few days ago he was in a wheelchair. He had a radiation treatment Tuesday morning, but today he took a turn for the worse. We’re all thinking of [...]

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