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Several people have switched from Twitter to Pownce, but I seem to be the only one who prefers Twitter.
Pownce has several features that Twitter lacks, such as sending files & links, and it doesn’t limit messages to 140 characters. Unfortunately Pownce is crippled by the lack of a public API and their desktop client just [...]

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My new MacBook Pro included iLife 08, which I had an opportunity to use extensively today.
Last night we had a big birthday party (including a stripper) for someone who turned 80. I took lots of pictures and video of her reaction to the stripper. I had already used iPhoto 08, which works more or less [...]

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I’ve made a few improvements to my2unz.com over the weekend. I set up several color variations of the theme, and enabled theme switching. I also did some work on the iTunes module and changed the database tables slightly to add a few new features.
One of the problems with the previous version is that I considered [...]

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This is yet another chapter in my ongoing problems with the 12v Starter battery in my Prius.
To recap, the battery died for the first time last December while I was using a 12v compressor to adjust the tire pressure. The second time I found a dead battery was when I returned from MacWorld Expo [...]

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Coding Horror: YSlow: Yahoo’s Problems Are Not Your Problems
Tips for speeding up your website
(tags: web development tips)

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With my old MacBook Pro, doing ‘make all’ to build several projects totaling around 200,000 lines of code took about 3 minutes. With my new MacBook Pro it now takes 2 minutes.

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This article confirms what I’ve long suspected: most shareware awards are bogus. As an experiment, the author submitted a text file with the words “this program does nothing at allâ€? repeated a few times and then renamed as an executable. The majority of the sites accepted it, and about 7% gave it an award. He [...]

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I didn’t hate them until they refused to stop calling me about taking their survey. I brought my Prius in for its one year scheduled maintenance last week (which was free of charge) and I was happy with their service. HOWEVER, they’ve been insisting that I take their survey ever since.
I started getting mysterious calls [...]

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This benchmark comparison from CNet Labs confirms my own subjective non-scientific observation: VMware is a lot faster than Parallels. I found that Parallels would sometimes make my old MacBook Pro freeze for as long as several minutes while starting up Windows, which didn’t happen with VMware Fusion. I haven’t installed Parallels on my Core 2 [...]

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100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life | LifeRemix
(tags: GTD HOWTO lifehacks productivity tips)

TNPI - Do it Yourself .mac v2
How to set up your own server as a .Mac replacement
(tags: Apple hack HOWTO)

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I got a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with a 200G drive to replace my old one, which was starting to run out of disk space (despite the 150G drive) thanks to having multiple operating systems installed including several VMware images of Windows & Linux.
The difference between the old screen and the new [...]

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Elvis wasn’t the only musician who died on August 16th. On this day in 1997, one of the world’s greatest singers, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in the prime of his career. That was the same month Fela Kuti died, making it one of the saddest months in world music.
Nusrate Fateh Ali Khan sung a [...]

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The first storm this season that may threaten us. It’s still too early to tell what’s going to happen, but the maps show it becoming a Category 3 hurricane early next week and heading in our general direction.

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Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
(tags: tools wikipedia hacks opensource)

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Benn loxo du taccu reports that Bialu Makiese, better known as Madilu System, a member of Franco’s TPOK Jazz since 1980, died suddenly on Aug. 11 in Kinshasa from complications of diabetes. He was 57 years old.

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iTunes Festival – Home
Throughout July 2007, more than 60 of the world’s best bands and artists performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London as part of the first ever iTunes Festival. Every show was professionally recorded
(tags: itunes music)

Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave
Fascinating history of the first adventure game.
(tags: games programming History adventure)

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Despite most people’s enthusiasm and expectation of a Democratic win next year, I’ve been feeling more pessimistic and bitter about politics than ever.
I would like to see Barack Obama as the next president, but it’s starting to look more likely that Hilary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. If that’s the case I won’t [...]

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Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff to the Bush administration, announces his resignation, says he will be out by the end of the month. Good riddance!read more | digg story

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Top 10 things you can do with VMware Fusion and your Mac | VMTN Blog
(tags: vmware virtualization mac)

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AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action
Excellent collection of Ajax demos & code snippets
(tags: ajax tools web2.0 javascript)

Portable Film Festival
Short films, music videos, and other media to watch on your iPod, PSP, iPhone or other mobile device
(tags: media mobile video ipod)

Nondestructively Resizing Volumes | Mac Geekery
How to use 10.4 Disk Utility to resize a volume without [...]

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