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Build iPhone-style icons in Photoshop with IconBuilder
Tutorial for creating glassy iPhone-style buttons in Photoshop
(tags: photoshop HOWTO)

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Anyone can now register at my2unz.com, although the site is still in beta and not feature complete. I’ve finalized the database structure and cleaned up a lot of stuff. Uploading iTunes playlists & exported libraries should be a lot more reliable now.
Other site features include music discussion forums, buddy lists, and private messages, I plan [...]

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The External Editor Protocol
If I have time I may do something with this to allow photoshop to work as an external editor in Fetch
(tags: mac programming)

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There has been a lot of kvetching about Google Reader’s shared items feature. People say that it ’sends their shared items sent to people in their mailbox’, which isn’t true. You need to explicitly add friends to Reader so you can see their shared items.
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When you add someone to your friend list, you [...]

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If you read Daniel Brusilovsky’s blog, you may have seen his announcement earlier today of a new podcast, Teens in Tech. This is the first podcast hosted at my new network, Techblast.tv.
Techblast.tv uses Wordpress MU with several plugins and themes optimized for podcasting. I hope to add more podcasts and line up sponsors in the [...]

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Sez Meowy Christmas!

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After using the XO laptop for a few days, my opinion of it is mixed. On the plus side, it’s small, lightweight, easy for kids to use, and seems to be a good way to help kids learn programming. It’s a real Linux system (kernel 2.6.9) and it looks like it will run GCC-built x86 [...]

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I decided to try out Lijit, which Scoble briefly mentioned and I’m impressed. I just had to enter my blog URL and usual nickname and it automatically located my profiles at Flickr, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Digg and others I had forgotten about completely such as ma.gnolia & StumbleUpon. It also added my entire blogroll [...]

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The Mac world has its share of douchebags, mostly journalists like Rob Enderle who still take pleasure in predicting Apple’s demise. One waste of protoplasm eclipses all of them, and he’s one of us: the dickwad at Rixstep. I’ve avoided reading his site until recently and I regret reading it.
The guy is upset because Mac [...]

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I got a developer key for my XO laptop, which enables booting into Open Firmware command mode and running unsigned development builds of the OS.

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As my readers know, my XO laptop arrived two days ago. However, I received this email a few minutes ago:

Your XO laptop is on its way.
We’re happy to inform you that your XO laptop has shipped. In order to help you get the most out of your experience with the XO and One Laptop per [...]

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Where rap is a peacemaker
Interesting article by Sean Piccoli about the hip-hop scene in Marseille, France
(tags: music)

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Reason.com: BBC Radio 1’s decision to remove the word “faggot” from the classic Christmas song Fairytale of New York angered their listeners until they finally reversed their decision.
It may have been done with the most progressive of intentions, but BBC Radio 1’s decision to censor a lyric from Kirsty MacColl and Shane McGowan’s Christmas standard [...]

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Prius Projects
Lots of Prius modifications & hacks.
(tags: prius hacks)

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Getting Started
The XO Laptop ships without any manuals. A sheet directs you to this page to get started.
(tags: OLPC laptop)

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Late this afternoon, UPS left a surprisingly small & heavy box at my door. It was my OLPC laptop! There are no printed manuals; instead a note directs you to a getting started page.
The laptop is much smaller than I expected. The keyboard is a little too small for adult hands to use it comfortably. [...]

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This morning I discovered a new Gmail feature I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere yet. The More Actions menu has a new item, “Filter messsages like these”. It takes you straight to the Create Filter screen with the search criteria filled in based on the selected messages.
That was one of my favorite features of Eudora, so [...]

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Slashdot reports that a student has been given detention for using Firefox to do his classwork. The student was in class, working on an assignment that necessitated using a browser. The teacher instructed him to stop using Firefox and to do his classwork, to which the student responded that he was doing his classwork [...]

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This polydactyl cat (6 toes on each paw) has been hanging around here and terrorizing the other cats. He often comes to my door and howls loudly. Today I caught him [...]

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I decided to give Google Reader another chance and try the new features like friends, but after less than a day I went back to NetNewsWire.
I find that I can get through the news a lot faster in NetNewsWire. One big reason is that I have full control over when it gets updated. I [...]

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About a year ago, two kids named Brandon and Erik had a podcast called Mr. Mac Geek, which was usually fairly interesting. As often happens, they became involved with other products and stopped updating their podcast.
I never bothered unsubscribing and it recently came back to life. However, it now appears to be owned by someone [...]

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