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I gave up on using AppleScript Studio for my Installer front-end application. AppleScript’s SOAP implementation seems to be broken. I ended up writing it in Objective C instead, using Web Services Core. It isn’t that much more difficult than writing it in AppleScript, and I’m able to use the window layout I already created for [...]

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World Music Central - Cross Pollinator Ashley Maher Releases Her Latest Album “Flying Over Bridges�
I love her music. She combines vocal technique and lyrics reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or Tracy Chapman with hot Senegalese rhythms.
(tags: music)

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Last night I had a cookout with 3 of my friends and neighbors. After dinner we played Wii Bowling and everyone loved it. In fact we’re planning more “Bowling Nights”. This morning one of my friends told me she had a sore arm from bowling.
These are people who never play video games and have no [...]

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Low-cost UMPC sports swiveling display

The Cathena CX is currently available with a choice of Windows XP (Home or Pro) or Windows XP Embedded, and is priced from $799 (depending on options).
(tags: linux)

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Wordpress Theme Generator
A very nice tool for building custom Wordpress themes
(tags: blog css design wordpress themes)

OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Interview with Mark Shuttleworth: The Business Ecology of Ubuntu
In a new interview with the OpenBusiness project, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth explains the Ubuntu business-model. He gives away a free, high-quality version of Linux but makes [...]

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For a while I’ve been having a problem with this site where the theme would spontaneously switch to the default theme at random times. Since it started happening around the same time I switched to DreamHost’s one-click install, I attributed it to some monitoring process they were using or the WP-Cache plugin, which was also [...]

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I just discovered that I messed up my .procmailrc file, so much of the email sent to mcdevzone.com, worldbeatplanet.com, or macmegasite.com ended up in a file sitting on my server rather than my mailbox. I fixed it and I’m now importing that old email into mail.app.

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wiisee.net is one of the news feeds I subscribe to for Wii news. It usually has interesting items, but they only post excerpts with no link to the original article and no information about where the articles came from. If I want to read the full article, there’s no way to find it from their [...]

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inessential.com: ‘Thoughts about large Cocoa projects’
Brent Simmons’ tips for working with large Cocoa applications
(tags: cocoa programming)

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I’m writing an AppleScript Studio application which needs to call some SOAP web services before running an installer. Somehow AppleScript seems to be adding a bogus namespace to the SOAP call.
The method I want to call should look something like this (actual names changed):

<RegisterUser>
<UserData>xyzzy</UserData>
</RegisterUser>

Instead, the request looks like this:

<m:RegisterUser xmlns:m=”http://myserver/mynamespace”>
<UserData>xyzzy</UserData>
</m:RegisterUser>

The AppleScript code looks pretty standard:

tell [...]

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Online Mii Editor lets you be you, only more cartoony - Download Squad
It turns out one of the most popular things to do with a Nintendo Wii isn’t playing video games. It’s creating little avatars that you can use in various games that are designed to look like you. They’re called Miis, and the fun [...]

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There has been a lot of buzz about Panic’s new web development app, Coda. I’ve been trying it out but I’m still undecided whether I’ll buy it. I already own both BBEdit and TextMate. Both have features I like and neither of them does everything I want.
I do more than just web development. I [...]

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Daily Kos: A Jigsaw of School Shootings - part 3
The jigsaw method is a group learning process that requires each member’s effort to work on a project; each student is a piece to the finished puzzle. The teacher divides a classroom into diverse groups of five to six students.
(tags: education solutions)

Anil Dash: Cats Can Has [...]

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Wii Weight Loss Plan | Lose weight with your Wii!
Work out with your wii
(tags: wii fitness exercise blog)

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WiiLi.org Wii Linux - Wii Linux bounty
$499 bounty for the first person to boot Linux on the Nintendo Wii without voiding the warranty.
(tags: linux wii hacks)

Impi Linux
Impi Linux is a commercial Ubuntu representative in the region, and the ImpiLinux distribution is based on Ubuntu.
(tags: linux ubuntu)

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
Much too cute!
(tags: cute cats funny humor [...]

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I’ve decided on a compromise for IntelliTXT at MacMegasite. I’m keeping it, but using the Userpoints module to disable it for users with more than 50 points, which means users who have submitted 5 or more articles.

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^txt2regex$
Txt2regex is a Regular Expression Wizard that converts human sentences to regexes. In a simple interactive console interface, the user answer questions and the program build the regexes for more than 20 programs
(tags: shell tools)

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PC World - Seven Post-Install Tips for Ubuntu 7.04
Fixes, extras, and eye candy: Here are seven steps to take just after installing Feisty Fawn.
(tags: ubuntu linux reference)

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PhotoShop CS3 finally arrived. Adobe shipped two separate packages, the user guide (which DHL delivered with no problem at 1PM today) and the software, which DHL had trouble delivering. Both were shipped to exactly the same address, yet DHL had no problem delivering one of them, but on the other couldn’t locate the apartment number.

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Once again DHL failed to make a delivery to my home, in this case my PhotoShop CS3 upgrade. I got a call from them that they weren’t able to find my address, even though what they read was correct, including the apartment number. The guy said they’ll attempt to deliver it again this afternoon.
I’ve never [...]

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