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iTunes 9 – Mini Player weird behaviour

iTunes 9 – Mini Player weird behaviour Option click the green arrow to resume the classic behavior.

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Is your iCal is off by one month?

Strange issue isn’t it?  Ferd II suggests “Next refresh your iCal plist. You will find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder. Quit iCal, drag...

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Online Social Networking and Shallow Connections (via There can be no...

Is Social Media helping or hurting us? This post explores this idea. As we all know by now, technology is potentially as crippling as it is advantageous. This is a theme that dates back at least as far...

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Microsoft Accuses Apple, Google of Attempted Privacy Murder NetworkWorld.com...

Image via Wikipedia Microsoft Accuses Apple, Google of Attempted Privacy Murder NetworkWorld.com Community.  Isn’t this amazing?  Microsoft is the hero, and Apple and Google seem to be the ones with...

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University Declares Week Without Social Media (via Reactor Fire)

I wonder what will happen? People will come out from their rooms and talk? Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania is enforcing a week-long ban on social media applications like...

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Caveat Emptor – AppleCare via eBay – My Blog – The Mac Screencast Guy

Caveat Emptor – AppleCare via eBay – My Blog – The Mac Screencast Guy.  Apple asked for a sales receipt from the apple store or an authorized Apple Sales provider.  I haven’t heard this behavior...

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How-To: Stop iTunes Web Links From Opening iTunes (via GigaOM)

Very good instructions on accomplishing this. Thanks! A piece I wrote last week on the impact of iTunes web preview pages on App Store SEO brought up a little side conversation about how many people...

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How to deal with indirect or passive-agressive people – 10 steps

We all have to deal with these kind of people.  They are the ones who from this wiki article do: learned helplessness, procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate/repeated...

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Betalogue » Word 2011: Autonumbering madness

Betalogue » Word 2011: Autonumbering madness. Interesting that the behavior is different than how Pages handle it.  I agree this is inconsistent.

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Missing Spaces in .docx Files (via Kan’s Home)

What strange behavior. Why not just assume a .pdf format spacing as the default and only overwrite that if the user specifies a printer expressly? I recently encountered a weird problem in .docx files....

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How To Tell if the Honeymoon Period with your Laptop is OVER. (via...

Charming idea of new laptop use vs old laptop behavior. I guess when you have money you can treat things as old. I’ve not reached the end of my idyllic life with my sweet Hewlett Packard precious. It’s...

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Do you have multiple cameras you use with your Mac?

Flexibits Cameras – StumbleUpon. This free software gives you more options than the default behavior. Could be a big timesaver for creative people or Photographers.

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Economics Trumps Ideology (via Usna1957’s Weblog)

I had to read this post a few times to make sure I understand what they were saying. It seems like the author is saying that Apple is guilty because they have 60 billion in the bank. I don’t understand...

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10 ways to catch errors in thinking

I have been reading about bias in thinking and it occurred to me that it was too much to try to remember all of those situational bias. So I thought it would help to formulate some general guidelines...

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Ode to comedy

What is funny is Bill Maher, George Carlin and Richard Pryor, They brought the art form so much higher. Eddie Izzard, Sam Kinison, and Johnny Carson of course, Took the reins and really rode that...

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May WordPress Roundup

I have been focused on WordPress stories lately since I moved to a self-hosted blog. I must say that except for the backup, it works pretty well. Since my database is larger than typical, it seems to...

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Good intensions aren’t enough

Good intentions are wonderful things, but they aren’t enough. They also need to be balanced with the needs of everyone involved to do the most good. For example, in the Hoarders show one of the...

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Can A Man Really Get Pregnant? Sure, But It Might Kill Him

Can A Man Really Get Pregnant? Sure, But It Might Kill Him. Interesting. This is a really high risk behavior. Surprising the number of people who are interested in this.  Readers who viewed this page,...

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Apple Inc. Sued For Laptop Charger That Started Glastonbury House Fire –...

Apple Inc. Sued For Laptop Charger That Started Glastonbury House Fire – Connecticut Insurance. Interesting. I wonder how many times Apple was the cause of destructive behavior?Readers who viewed this...

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Ferry Tale: Fire Ants Aggregate into Living Rafts to Escape Floods:...

  Ferry Tale: Fire Ants Aggregate into Living Rafts to Escape Floods: Scientific American – StumbleUpon. This is pretty impressive behavior. I wonder how much of coöperation we see in nature is...

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