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Guy Kawasaki brings the concept of “framing”, much used in politics, to the music industry debate over DRM & “piracy”:
My goal is to draw lessons from linguistics and apply them to business because it is a very useful marketing technique. For example, “a music-listeners revolt” would imply that record companies are unfairly ruling people who [...]

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I find that Gmail’s spam filters are becoming much less effective. Lately more and more spams get past the filter. This morning I found 11 turds in my inbox. I get over 200 spams a day, so I usually empty my junk folder more than once a day. Occasionally I’ll check the first page [...]

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Gimparoo!
Adapting Photoshop tutorials for The GIMP
(tags: HOWTO linux photoshop software opensource)

UNEASYgiveaway: Win not one but TWO Wii’s!
Uneasy Silence contest to win two Wii’s by bookmarking this page.
(tags: Wii)

Network-Attached Storage With FreeNAS
This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS, based on FreeBSD with CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, [...]

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Today was one of those days when everything breaks. When I sat down at my computer this morning I discovered that my server was down due to a disk error on the boot drive. After a few FSCKs and several reboots it’s working without any problems, but I’m still concerned since there were I/O errors.
This [...]

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83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
A collection of Wordpress themes
(tags: wordpress design)

instructables : Convert DRMed WMA files to Usable MP3s
(tags: DRM hacks)

The Ultimate Getting Things Done Index
(tags: GTD)

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I’ve been using Parallels Desktop since the first public release. Although their Windows support gets better with each release - I love coherence mode in the recent betas, their Linux support remains abysmal. They still don’t have Parallels Tools for Linux, which keeps the virtual machine’s clock synchronized and lets you move the mouse in [...]

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Stitch

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

My friend’s puppy ran out of her apartment and got hit by a car around 8PM tonight. He died immediately. Everyone loved him and we’re all in shock.

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MacUser: 15 reasons to switch to Vista? How about 15 reasons to switch to OS X
following the same reasons as the PC World story, here’s 15 reasons why you should switch to OS X and not Vista
(tags: windows vista macosx)

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I’ve noticed that more than two thirds of the spam I receive contains a Thread-Index header beginning with the characters Aca6. Filtering on that header can eliminate much of my spam. Since I use Procmail on my DreamHost mailbox, I added the following rule and found that it got rid of most of my spam [...]

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Coding Horror notes that most users simply ignore dialog boxes and simply dismiss them without actually reading them or understanding what they mean.
This is a result of the overuse of dialog boxes. According to the original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, a dialog box should only be used for an exceptional condition that requires immediate user [...]

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I’ve added a few new features to MacMegasite to bring more AJAX yumminess and make it more social. Blocks and menus are now collapsable and buddy lists are supported. It can also notify Twitter when content is posted.

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Today I decided to take the plunge and look for a good GTD application. If I’m going to use it, it has to be convenient and easy to use, or I won’t bother with it. The first one I tried was Ghost Action, since I saw the announcement for it today. It looked really nice, [...]

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MyDesignIn
A social planning and design site that simplifies any remodeling project.
(tags: design web2.0 socialnetwork)

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I upgraded MacMegasite to Drupal 5.1. The upgrade was fairly painless except for the RSS feed redirections to Feedburner, which I had to fix in my .htaccess and make a few small changes to the node module.

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New Favorite Bumper Sticker

Originally uploaded by JBW Music.

This isn’t my picture, but it was posted on Flickr. I really want this bumper sticker.

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Daytipper
Useful tips posted every day
(tags: lifehacks tips)

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FeistyFawn/Herd3 - Ubuntu Wiki
Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” 7.04 has two and a half more months before its planned release on April 19th. Herd 3, the third Alpha release kicks off the most active period in the release schedule.
(tags: ubuntu linux)

Graphical User Interface Gallery
On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical [...]

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The writer of degredo.net pulled a prank on his father by installing Ubuntu on his father’s PC instead of Vista, which he requested. He loves it and now brags about how much better Vista is than OS X.

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Our current mass hysteria reached its most ridiculous point when a marketing campaign triggers a city-wide terrorist alert in Boston. The guys who set it up did absolutely NOTHING wrong. The hysterical overreaction by the media & authorities is what was wrong. What ever happened to the ‘home of the brave’ when a simple marketing [...]

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TJ has posted one of the best wrap-ups of the Month Of Apple Bugs (MOAB).
It’s obvious that MOAB was nothing more than a personal vendetta against Apple. If they were serious, they would have reported the issues directly to Apple and given them an opportunity to fix them. Furthermore, many of the bugs were [...]

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