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Don’t forget to clean out your profile!

Sometimes, kruft can appear in all the wrong places. just testing trackbacks from ecto. This is a content-light post. boolean is listening to: Gareth Brown Says from the album “Mclusky Do Dallas” by Mclusky Technorati Tags: Computing, Software, Web

iPhoto -> Gallery2 + WordPress = Smooth Chewing Satisfaction

Awhile back I dreamed of a better world where I could magically push a button in iPhoto and publish pictures to this blog. In this magical world, the picture pages would have the same look and feel as the rest of the site and be manageable with an online database. Well, my friends, that day [...]

Vienna is teh 1337357

At some point in the recent past I finally gave up using Safari’s built-in RSS “reader”. I think the catalyst was that it stopped updating my feeds repeatedly. After the nth time I went looking for something real. NetNewsWire was recently purchased by something called a NewsGator which seems to be positioning itself as some [...]

The new shape of broadband

From Globetechnology: The new shape of broadband Rogers Cable, like other cable companies, has in fact been implementing something it calls “traffic shaping,” a technology that gives priority to certain on-line activities (such as e-mail, browsing, voice communication) and putting the brakes on other less time-sensitive stuff, such as swapping music files. This has been [...]

FatBits: Avoiding Copland 2010

John Siracusa from ArsTechnica has a blog now and it’s pretty good. He’s a smart guy who writes well. His current thing is about how Apple can avoid a disaster like their Copland fiasco back in the late ’90s — a kludge to get their dated operating system to have such modern niceties as pre-emptive [...]

.Mac upgrade, day 2

After mucking around for a bit, trying several different ways of adding space to my iDisk, I finally found the option in the .Mac account settings page. Hit “storage” and then change the drop-down that lets you set the amount of space between your email and iDisk folders and then save it. You should see [...]

.Mac? Jump back!

Apple’s .Mac service got upgraded last night, perhaps preventing it from sliding into irrelevancy. All users are supposedly upgraded to 1GB of online storage and email space although as of this morning my iDisk was still limited to 250MB. They’ve also added some features like Groups for online collaboration and allowing other users to edit [...]

and now this…

I’ve forgotten my new password on the n3wb forums! Thanks again, you effing wanker!

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