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Last Update: 09:35:43 03/05/2006
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First Fetched: 00:16:24 01/31/2004
Last Updated: 09:35:43 03/05/2006
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While the laundry list of mumbles and grumbles I’m yet to cover in this iPhoto 6 blogathon is long, from elements of the new full-screen editing interface to the entirety of the ancient Photo Info panel, I’m finding I don’t...
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[via Tim Gaden’s Hawk Wings] My blood boils whenever I read about the so-called assault on the English language, it really does. Every generation of human beings, every generation without exception, has bemoaned the fouling of their precious language by...
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So I guess that’s one bug down… Only a few dozen to go....
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Ignoring that profoundly stupid word for a moment (and it is a real word, it means academics, surprise surprise) and inspecting the article it was lifted from: New Grant System Excludes Mac Users, I think we’re in need of a...
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It’s always a little embarrassing when you are moved to write a piece because something in particular was bugging you, only to get so caught up in the moment that you forget to mention said thing. Well this is it....
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AnnaWhich would you prefer, given the choice. A good body or a big dick?JessGood body, definitely. I’d look weird with a big dick....
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Damn you Chris. 4 jobs I’ve had Cleaner Concert Organizer Nightfiller Bartender 4 DVDs I keep watching Fallen Vanilla Sky Heartbreakers Donnie Darko 4 places I’ve lived Carine Joondalup Innaloo Hamersley 4 TV shows I watch Scrubs Futurama Lost Family...
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Like Mail and iTunes before it, 2006 saw iPhoto embrace a new style of source list (or sidebar, if you like). And when I say style I naturally mean decorative style… because there’s really little functional difference between it and...
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I never thought I’d say it, but I’m having trouble coming up with smart-alec remarks today. I know I should be able to say unkind things about petty mistakes in a company’s interface design, but the hate just isn’t there....
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I don’t, as a rule, talk to IM bots. I’m not that bored in my work. But some of my friends are, and thus do: DaveLet’s talk feelingsSmarterChildYou really want to talk feelings?DaveYesSmarterChildWhy?DaveBecause i have feelings for youSmarterChildYou have feelings...
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The list of email clients iPhoto supports is defined by a handful of AppleScripts in iPhoto.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/. More can be added, and easily. Why more have not been added since 2003 is anybody’s guess.Some have argued that since < 100% of...
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Let’s start with the pettiest list of gripes I could possibly conjure up about iPhoto, shall we? Good. We’ll begin with the preferences dialog. More specifically, we’ll begin with just the General pane of the preferences dialog, since I have...
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Wow. And I mean it in both the good and bad sense of the word. But mostly in the bad. iPhoto 6 delivers unto us our annual magical performance boost —which is wonderful in the way that only the ability...
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Finally, Microsoft has shitcanned the truly mediocre Windows Media Player application for Mac and gone with the QuickTime Component option that clever bunnies like DivX have been using all these years. The announcement was made earlier today, so you...
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Besides the requisite annual iLife and iWork updates bringing better iPhoto performance in time for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief (since they’ve started pushing the limits of last year’s iPhoto performance boost), there are new Intel Macs! Though...
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I have a calendar hanging by my toilet; I don’t know why, it just seems to be tradition. New year, new calendar. Last year it was an Anne Geddes one. You should never underestimate the strong mental associations that can...
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I don’t buy copy-controlled CDs. I just don’t. The copy protection is usually too much of a pain in the ass to work around and recent security scares starring record company malware make me even more nervous, so signing a...
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Two years ago to the day I made my first ever New Year’s resolution. It wasn’t much as resolutions go, but 2004 was a pretty decent year… why not try it again? This year I have three. I guess I...
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August of this year my Hagerstonian friends Laura and Allison (I’m sure the official term is Hagerstowner, but I’m stuck in my ways) came to visit and vacation around Australia. They had fun, although I warned them in advance that...
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When I’m out with people —getting coffee, say— I will invariably run into someone else I know. It happens to everyone; it’s a small world. But I am invariably chastised by my company for not properly introducing them to this...
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A few months back Sven-S. Porst shot me an email: I am planning to make a post on my site touching the topic of e-mail encryption once more. While the software for encryption is in place for everybody using Mail...
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Listening to a few-weeks-old This Week In Tech podcast this morning on the train, a bit of chatter between John C. Dvorak and the gang caught my ear… DvorakOver the years I gave a lot of speeches and over the...
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A few weeks ago my estranged brother was in town, so we figured we’d go see a movie. OK, so he’s not really estranged. He does live a really long way away, and I do only see him a couple...
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Wow. And I mean wow. A “profoundly disabled” woman is suing for wrongful life? [via digg] Alexia Harriton, 24, is seeking compensation from the doctor who misdiagnosed rubella in the first trimester of her mother’s pregnancy, claiming Olga Harriton would...
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So I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately —blah blah blah, you’ve heard this, right?— and in the gigabytes of crap I’ve accrued, a couple of shows have stood out for reasons they doubtless wish they hadn’t. This...
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I’ve only really taken to podcasting very recently. Despite having Richard yammer on and on about how fantastic the medium is (which seems to be working for him, he’s had great success with the Gadget Show and is currently finishing...
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I remember some years back flipping through Men’s Health —a magazine to which, at the time, I was subscribed despite a poor diet, lifestyle, and a severe disinclination to do anything about either— spotting on the back cover a full-page...
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It was some eighteen months ago that I unleashed the Quietune onto the world, and since that day tech companies have been beating down my door for the rights to such a fabulous invention with such a strong market demand,...
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Fresh from the inbox: I think it goes without saying: good artists copy, great artists steal....
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Helloooooo music store. It’s about freakin time! At A$1.69 (US$1.26) per track, $16.99 ($12.71) for an album, and $3.39 ($2.54) for videos, it’s hard to see the Oz iTunes Music Store as a particularly great value equation when their...
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