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posted by mph, 07/02/04, 09:56 PM

No small amount of happiness to note that gmail is finally allowing address book imports from Safari. There were rumors among the Mac people that... (more)

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Upgrade to a "Buy."

posted by mph, 06/27/04, 12:00 AM

VoodooPad gets upgraded to a "buy" in under 24 hours. It took a little time, because I was so engaged by the premise I wanted... (more)

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Mac Sliced Bread Friday

posted by mph, 06/25/04, 09:25 PM

Once upon a time, when making mp3s was still a novelty, I fed my copy of the Beastie Boys' "Hello Nasty" into a truly terrible... (more)

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I, Normal

posted by mph, 06/19/04, 10:02 PM

Ed passed along a pair of links yesterday that got me all fired up: Brad DeLong: Life Hacks BoingBoing (ugh) in less useful form The... (more)

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Multnomah Falls, iMovie, Panos

posted by mph, 06/13/04, 11:15 AM

Alison's sister Julie came to visit this weekend, so we took a trip out to Multnomah Falls yesterday. I think the falls have become our... (more)

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Cursory Comparison: Garage Band and Acid Music

posted by mph, 06/11/04, 09:03 PM

Instant Music Acid Music GarageBand One of the things I was hoping for when Apple announced GarageBand in the first place was a comparison... (more)

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An eMac Plaint Before I Go Back to Having Fun With It

posted by mph, 06/11/04, 07:55 PM

Face to face with one bit of discontent about the eMac line: The graphics card is, while not quite "underpowered," not exactly spiff, either. It's... (more)

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Switch From Acid and Keep Your Loops

posted by mph, 06/11/04, 03:50 PM

So, here's the quick-n-dirty to converting an Acid loop to an Apple loop for use in GarageBand. It's possible to just drag a loop into... (more)

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Shiny

posted by mph, 06/06/04, 10:24 PM

So I went with the eMac SuperDrive model. AppleCare is what swayed me. That and hating having a laptop that' s one platform and a... (more)

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Open Deliberations

posted by mph, 06/01/04, 09:08 PM

One of the fun things about embracing my inner ditherer is getting to say really definitive and seemingly resolved things before completely changing my mind... (more)

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Rotten to the Core? (Updated)

posted by mph, 05/25/04, 08:45 PM

A visit to the Mac store support desk: Me: This is a G3/800 iBook. I bought it two months ago. Two nights ago, I was... (more)

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Mac App Watch: Get PixelNHance While You Still Can

posted by mph, 03/08/04, 10:38 PM

I've been back in the world of the iBook for a few weeks now, gradually reacquiring/reconfiguring assorted apps I used quite a bit. One... (more)

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GNUS + RSS = Chocolate and Peanut Butter

posted by mph, 01/02/04, 09:53 AM

Ed's casting about for a decent RSS aggregator for Mac OS 9 and reporting that Amphetadesk isn't bad. Snappy reports GNUS does RSS, but I've... (more)

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iSchnookered

posted by mph, 12/30/03, 10:30 PM

The really discouraging thing about The Register's coverage of Apple's dud iBooks is that Apple is several iterations into the snow iBook design, and... (more)

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The $79.99 Dongle

posted by mph, 12/07/03, 12:46 PM

So, a few days ago Alison looks up from the iBook and notes that the charging indicator isn't glowing. We both look down at... (more)

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Mac Issue du Jour

posted by mph, 11/23/03, 11:54 AM

Why is WEP killing printing over Wi-FI?... (more)

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New Stuff to Play With

posted by mph, 11/16/03, 10:51 AM

I've been on a Windows kick the past few months, thanks mainly to some work requirements and an unwillingness to do long-haul editing on... (more)

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All Hail iTunes?

posted by mph, 10/16/03, 01:14 PM

Update: Rats! "In the Year 2525" is only available as a crappy techno remix! iTunes Music Store sucks! But it has "Ballad of the Green... (more)

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iTunes for Windows Launch Next Week

posted by mph, 10/09/03, 11:49 AM

Apple's getting ready to launch iTunes Music Store for Windows next week. Off the hip prediction? MusicMatch's own download service launch forced Apple's hand. Once... (more)

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The iBook at One Year (Give or Take)

posted by mph, 09/08/03, 09:39 PM

In early July, I marked a year of iBook ownership. Seeing as how I wrote up the iBook after a week and the iBook after... (more)

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A Crashintosh Fix

posted by mph, 09/04/03, 09:54 PM

Update: This entry has been reposted under the Puddingbowl Wiki, as well, where we keep a collection of Mac-related tips and notes. Been a... (more)

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Back In Mac

posted by mph, 05/16/03, 12:32 AM

The iBook's back home again. It seems the last repair they did on the display involved a part that proved defective after a few weeks... (more)

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things that are getting old

posted by mph, 05/11/03, 10:47 PM

... the iBook's display is crapping out again, so it's back to the shop with it. Here's hoping they figure it out this time.... (more)

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Leaky Mosquito Netting

posted by mph, 05/10/03, 02:00 PM

Safari and cousin Konqueror have an unpleasant SSL bug that might cause the cautious to reconsider online banking with them for the moment.... (more)

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iTunes Music Store sold 275,000 tracks in its first 18 hours

posted by mph, 05/01/03, 11:30 AM

Billboard says iTunes Music Store sold 275,000 tracks in its first 18 hours.... (more)

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Little Brother

posted by mph, 04/08/03, 11:04 PM

Cool: lbdb, The Little Brother's Database, is an addressbook lookup program that works pretty nicely with mutt. Since last I looked (a long time... (more)

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Moz 1.4a for OS X

posted by mph, 04/02/03, 01:31 AM

... is out (as it is for every other platform I guess). Tossing this up because after poking around with it for a few... (more)

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Woe-Be-Gone

posted by mph, 03/26/03, 11:28 PM

The iBook is home again today after a week in the hands of the repair people at Apple, which means I can quit supping... (more)

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Newsfeeds for the Masses

posted by mph, 02/06/03, 10:27 PM

RSS/RDF is for more than just telling you all the new headlines on a blog. You can use it to point to anything with... (more)

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Standards Are Good, M'Kay?

posted by mph, 02/05/03, 12:58 PM

Yesterday Sam noticed an entry by Jason Kottke about header abuse, namely RSS readers reporting themselves as referers when they access Web sites. This... (more)

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GNUPG for Apple's Mail.app

posted by mph, 02/03/03, 11:51 AM

When we're all down in the sewers living on hidden caches of government cheese while we evade the gov-bot assassin drones, we'll certainly be... (more)

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Get URLs from Safari

posted by mph, 01/29/03, 12:12 PM

Daring Fireball has a useful AppleScript for fetching the URLs in open Safari windows into BBEdit, which goes sort of nicely with the tool... (more)

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NetNewsWire Pro Finally Does Categories

posted by mph, 01/25/03, 06:07 PM

Cool! NetNewsWire Pro's latest beta does categories for blog posting now. Very nice. The change notes are on Ranchero's site.... (more)

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Too Late for a Divorce

posted by mph, 01/21/03, 07:48 AM

Apple's recent X11 release continues to provoke discussion among the Mac People, including some fussing and worrying that the Unix apps will over-run the... (more)

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When It Isn't For Money

posted by mph, 01/20/03, 09:38 AM

Chimera developer Mike Pinkerton blogs that he's uncertain whether to keep going now that Apple has released Safari. "Perhaps," he writes, "what is more disappointing... (more)

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Yet More Safari.

posted by mph, 01/11/03, 03:52 PM

Safari continues to provoke some soul-searching regarding Mozilla, this time on Dave Hyatt's blog.... (more)

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ObSafariUpdate

posted by mph, 01/11/03, 12:02 AM

After noting its propensity for destroying home directories and screwing up /tmp, it seems appropriate to go ahead and note that Safari's been updated to... (more)

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Safari Alert!

posted by mph, 01/10/03, 12:13 AM

Slashdot reports there are major problems with Safari: "There have been many problems reported with Safari on Apple's discussion boards. The two most prominent... (more)

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Better Browsing Through Useful Software

posted by mph, 01/09/03, 11:52 PM

So, over the course of getting situated back into school this term, I picked up a pretty cool app called OmniOutliner, which I'm using... (more)

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Killer App

posted by mph, 01/08/03, 10:13 PM

Wow. Homeland Alert 1.2.1 is out. What's Homeland Alert? Homeland Alert displays Homeland Security Advisory status in the menu bar using a color-coded Aqua... (more)

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