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11 hours of music on a disc the size of a quarter? Wow...
A Gadget Burns Hours of Music Onto Discs the Size of Quarters. Slip a quarter into a slot, and you used to get a handful of peanuts or a three-minute phone call. Now iRiver is introducing a digital music player that both reads and burns discs no bigger than a quarter. Slip a disc into the iRiver iDP-100 player, and it's good for up to 11 hours of music. By Sarah Milstein. [New York Times: Technology]
10:42:09 PM 
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A humorous look at 4-megapixel digital cameras
Darwin Meets the Digital Camera. Looking for the best 4-megapixel digital camera for summer shooting? Take a tour of 10 models and see which is the fittest. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
And his winner is...a Canon, though he gives a nod to the new mid-line Nikon as well...
9:05:14 PM
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A handy tutorial for restoring a NetInfo database
Yesterday Damien Barrett pointed to a tutorial that may come in handy for some folks who run into problems with the NetInfo database on their OS X machine. The tutorial comes from Westwind Computing here in the Seattle area.
5:35:05 PM
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What did it take to move Office to OS X?
On Aquafying Office. O’Reilly interviews Ivor St. John Clarke, formerly the program manager in charge of guiding Office’s transition to Aqua, in a story noted by Brent Simmons at ranchero.com.
5:28:36 PM
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Pay for an editor to read your writing? No way.
Feeding off rejection. Calling all unpublished writers: For a fee, Penguin Putnam will tell you how bad your manuscript is. [Salon.com]
There are some common sense nuggets of information in this story from Salon. The main one: Don't pay to have your work read by an editor. If you have thought about becoming a book author, this is worth reading...
5:20:52 PM
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Xicons.com adds Open Source icons section
Open Source Icons for OS X. Jeff Stys at Xicons.com noted my wish for open source icons for OS X app developers—and, after a few emails back and forth, there is now an Open Source section at Xicons. Way to go Jeff. I’m so pleased. [inessential.com]
5:13:32 PM
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Application can speed up OS X
SpeedmeUp Pro v2.0. - SpeedmeUp Pro is an AppleScript Studio app that will help your OS X applications launch faster. Version changes: Added an option to save the log. Added a barber-pole progress indicator. Optimized code (binds more files). Replaces 'lite' version completely. [AppleScript Info]
Note that what this program does is not magic. You can do the same thing by launching the Terminal and typing in a command to bind your OS X files, which will then make OS X run a bit faster until the bindings falter again later. This just makes the process easier...
5:12:13 PM
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A good point: Bandwidth providers hold the key
Business Week: Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers? These new pricing models could be serious trouble for the still-growing peer-to-peer file-sharing movement, which is inextricably linked to cheap bandwidth. Indeed, the cable companies just might accomplish what the entertainment industries have failed to do. [Tomalak's Realm]
5:09:30 PM
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A fix for broken Palm sync for OS X 10.1.5
A number of folks have apparently had problems syncing their Palm PDAs with OS X after updating to OS X 10.1.5. A reader on Macintouch, in the Mac OS 10.1.5 Reader Report mentions a solution: Remove a file called "Serial" from root/Library/Application Support/Palm/Transport. Once this file is removed, you should be able to sync...
11:29:59 AM
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Notable OS X software updates
These are found on Macupdate.com:
9:11:41 AM
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A couple of minor changes to Mac Net Journal
I updated a couple of things about the look of Mac Net Journal's Web page today, including moving the navigational links on the left-hand side of the page so that I could edit the links in Radio's outliner, and I added my subscriptions blogroll to the right-hand side of the page. If you want to see what Weblogs I subscribe to and read, there is the information...
8:42:17 AM
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More Radio goodness for this morning
Users of Radio 8 also have access to a new Directory Outliner tool, for organizing links in directories like a Web portal site.
This is a great addition to the Radio tool set, but I really want to see the outliner features that Dave Winer was teasing a few days ago. I want to edit my entire site in the outliner...
7:23:03 AM
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Online documentation for Radio Userland
Russ Lipton's RadioDocs, on-line, ready for UserLand. [Scripting News]
Kudos to Dave Winer and to Russ for integrating these great documentation pages with Radio. One of the biggest weaknesses of Radio 8 is the learning curve, and this should help shorten it.
7:17:38 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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