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Posts Tagged ‘Web’

.Mac attack

I’ve been using .Mac for almost a year now and recently had an email to check my credit card info to make sure it’s up-to-date for the auto renewal that is about to take place. I gotta say, it’s hard to justify since I’m unable to sync my machines at the moment. For the past [...]

updated

apparently some RSS newsreaders don’t catch it when I update an article. They should, by god. This post is for those of you who missed out on the updated link-heavy articlerant below. I apologize for the blogbombing. Technorati Tags: Computing, Software, Web

Downloading doesn’t +hurt the+ recording industry: CRIA

(updated to fix the messed-up title – don’t post while being distracted by calls to lunch, kids! You’ll mess it up and look quite the fool…) OMG. Someone has finally done a study that says exactly what I’ve been saying all along: People who download music often do so as a prelude to buying the [...]

iPhoto -> WordPress + Gallery2 = Long Sunday

Good morning. How was your weekend? Mine was good, thanks for asking! That image (of my hot TT) is from my gallery installation. Click it to see the big image! It was a bit of a bitch to setup because the default mod_rewrite rules that gallery2 generates are not entirely compatible with wordpress’. After a [...]

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 [...]

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