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Matt Gemmell » Cocoa Source Code
Useful utility classes
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Teh Skid Productions
Creating a badge in Photoshop
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Bitter Voters For Barack Obama
After weeks of artificial controversies it would have been nice for ABC to take the high ground and give us a night on the issues.  But did they?  No.
(tags: politics obama)

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Jason Snell points out that every Mac he bought cost around $2500, which is also the case for most of my Macs.
In 1984, I bought my first Mac 128 for about $2500. Next, I bought a Mac Plus, also for $2500. A few years later I bought a Mac SE/30, for guess how much - [...]

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It’s official: Absolute Software is sending me to WWDC, along with our other Mac programmer.

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Last night’s Democratic debate was one of the worst examples of molehill politics so far in this election cycle. Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous decided that Americans are more interested in Obama’s “Bitter” remark, Rev. Wright, Clinton’s trip to Bosnia, and whether a candidate wears a flag pin than issues like Iraq, the economy, and [...]

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Ishmael Khaldi
Ishmael Khaldi’s story about growing up as a shepherd and becoming an educated world traveller and how he is helping his people make the transition from a traditional nomadic society to a contemporary Israeli society is remarkable and inspiring…
(tags: news scoble)

film music | mobygratis.com
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit [...]

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David Byrne writes:
What will happen when half the country is unemployed, with no medical insurance, stuck in a sheet rock house miles from public transportation? They’ll be ripe for religion or revolution if you ask me. Bibles and bullets. Will they still support the billions a day spent in Iraq? I don’t think [...]

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The same guys who renovated my kitchen just finished painting my apartment and putting down new laminate flooring in the living room. They also put in a new ceiling fan in the dining room and fixed lots of little things that were never quite right, such as TV cables which were run under the carpet [...]

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Alert Thingy: A desktop app for FriendFeed.com
A Twitterrific-style desktop app.
(tags: twitter friendfeed)

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Facebook has added a new life streaming feature which automatically adds your activities from other services to your mini feed. However, the only sites it currently supports are Picassa, Yelp, Flickr, and del.icio.us. I’m sure they’ll add other sites soon.
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I got a new camera bag from Crumpler, after reading Michael Mistretta’s recommendation. I got a slightly smaller one, but it still has enough room to hold my D40x with one lens attached plus two more lenses and lots of accessories.

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I still have I have 2 one Evernote invitation available for any of my readers who want one. Just leave a comment here. All of my invites are gone.

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Elizabeth Drew has a perfect term describing the state of the current presidential campaign: Molehill Politics. Instead of talking about real issues, Clinton and McBush are jumping on Obama for what he said in one speech, and that’s the top story in the news.
I don’t believe Obama said anything wrong. He’s absolutely right and this [...]

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The D40 or D40x’s sport mode isn’t only for sports. It’s great for any time you want to capture fast action at the highest possible shutter speed. Using continuous shooting mode you can capture action at 1/500 or 1/1000 second shutter speed. I was able to capture this Polynesian dancer’s torch in midair.

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Today was Oakland Park’s Youth Day, one of our biggest events. I took over 2000 photos, which I’m still processing. I used the sport mode of the D40x and did lots of burst mode shooting of Brazilian Capoeira, Polynesian dancing, and martial arts events. Here’s the best shot I found so far. I managed to [...]

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Just as I suspected, a Microsoft executive admitted that Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) is designed to annoy users.
In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed UAC, admitted that Microsoft’s strategy with UAC was to irritate users [...]

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You’ve probably seen photos where most of it is black & white with one bit colorized. If you have a photo with a strong contrast between subject and background, it’s pretty easy to do in Photoshop.
Earlier today I took this picture of roses blooming in my neighbor’s garden. I used the largest aperture for my [...]

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Via Engadget:
a bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives demands that the U.S. Secretary of Transportation initiate a study to determine if a minimum sound level is in fact needed and, if so, require that automakers comply with it (possibly as early as 2010).
As AutoWeek reports, the bill was apparently [...]

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Checking my Akismet queue, I found several trackbacks from spam blogs scraping and reposting my content. They all seem to be using the same template, usually starting with “(some blog name) wrote an interesting post today…”, always giving it some random name linked to my blog.
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I don’t mind my feed being included [...]

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Fascinating story found at Flickr (Mundo Uno Photo Pool):

Hessy Levinsons was born in 1934. When she was six months old, Hessy was taken to a leading Berlin photographer to have her portrait taken. A few months later this picture appeared on the cover of the Nazi publication, "Sonne ins Haus" [Sun in the House]. Frightened [...]

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