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February 07, 2006

DoubleShot 7th February 2006

Python Routes - something sorely missing from django, I wonder if they can hook these two together? Alert! "... appears to be online..." Top 10 Reasons Against Gay Marriage. LAMP and Java - I don't entirely get why you'd want...

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January 31, 2006

More Links

'Wanna-be geek' champions IT ... 'A "hell of a fight" broke out when he wanted to run Mozilla Firefox and the parliamentary PC police decreed that only Microsoft's Internet Explorer was allowed on their network. '... WebTwenny "Where the pages...

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January 25, 2006

Links leading to the 25th

Gruber wraps up Macworld 2006 Theocaco.com looks damn cool. FeedLounge free tour now open. (I'm already a paying subscriber.) The Feature Bob Invented Office 12 looks like it will allow using the scroll wheel to jump between tabs in the...

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January 13, 2006

14th: Links of the last Week

10/20/30 rule of Powerpoint: If you do presentations read this. Erik asks "What the fuck kind of stupid name is MacBook Pro? The Shadowland/Lightroom Development Story - interesting read, especially as Lightroom is availbale as a free beta download. Sadly...

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January 04, 2006

4th: Links of the Day

How to order wine without looking like an asshole Aperture ascendant - it really does show a lot of promise. iPodDisk shows your iPod music contents as a disk with the Artist/Album/Track hierarchy preserved. famfamfam.com Icons very cool and very...

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December 31, 2005

31st: Links of Today

Jeepintosh: one of the nicest car computer (Mac mini) installs I've seen. Slim Devices Squeezebox v3 review but what I want to know... can it play tracks purchased from iTMS? My AirPort Express is great for my bedroom, and in...

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December 28, 2005

29th: Links of the Day

Blake Ross' 2006 Predictions ... I'm not sure at what point you should stop laughing. Public Domain Torrents "Classic Movies and B-Movies Movies For FREE!" mariposaHD "Welcome to the future of television!" Party Ben giving us such classic as "Computer...

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December 27, 2005

28th: Links of the Day

TactaPad it's just... odd. How to tell the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 HowTo: Make an iPod dock for your Xbox 360 (part 1) Why use GTK+? Thoughts after trying Firefox again (on a Mac) Firefox: The Best...

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December 26, 2005

27th: Links of the Day

Rise in restaurant review websites Interesting, but the chief executive (Alistair Rowe) of the Restaurant Association saying professional reviewers provide a valuable service, but he is totally against amateur reviewers is mind boggling. God forbid people should share their opinions....

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December 24, 2005

New Site

pros and cons got a face lift today courtesy of me. (Hey, I'm allowed to promote myself every now and then.)...

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December 23, 2005

24th: Links of the Day

Why is it Ctrl+Alt+Delete to login to NT/2000/XP Alex asks Why aren't we telecommuting and saving the earth? squib kind of like Radio Userland, but a rails app. Aperture Tricks for all the things you need to know. Google Zeitgeist...

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December 16, 2005

17th: Links of the Day

Wurlitzer's One More Time iPod jukebox "dock" I so want one. Google to Buy Opera? What I don't understand is why? Whangarei offers cafe and comfort stop for visiting dogs how very odd. American Edit interesting mash up indeed. Xcode...

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December 12, 2005

12th: Links of the Day

Don't rob a bank by phone. Dude. NSLog(); asks is Software for Men?. For what it's worth I agree with his "designed for all users" stance. 365 days with aluminium Jesper waffles on about a year with a PowerBook. Bastard....

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December 10, 2005

10th: Links of the Day

Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition Some good, some bad, some ugly. Well, no real ugly. iPhoto style image resizing using Javascript impressive. (iPhoto style meaning as in iPhoto when browsing your library) Marriage definition bill fails "A...

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December 06, 2005

6th: Links of the Day

Why I hate haxies from the Bynk Zone. Sun Cluster now free Swimming Pools and Hard Disks Macromedia No More as is said there the acquisition closed today. Here's hoping the Macromedia products survive better than some of the Allaire...

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December 05, 2005

5th: Todays Links

Tim Bray on Google Analytics Smartphone Suckiness at least Palm based ones. project:@"Kitchen Whiteboard" (excuse my link text there)... excellent idea for something to give the Kitcheny types among us for Christmas....

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December 04, 2005

Apple: Getting it Right and Getting it Wrong: Apple needs an equivalent of TechNet. The Developer Connection goes some way (and WWDC this year had lots of EnterpriseIT content), but doesn't match TechNet at all....

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December 03, 2005

Todays Links

Best Autorepsonder Message Ever 'Restart Apache' AppleScript admittedly I always do it via the terminal, because if I'm editing my config files I'm doing it there anyway. Road to Expo: Apple's new media experience coming soon kind of like the...

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December 02, 2005

Links of Today

NZ Posts letter to Santa form Hivelogic's guide to Ruby+Rails+LightTPD+MySQL+Tiger The partial vs full content debate rears its ugly head again. Yet another Aperture review god I want this software. Anybody feeling generous? :) xbox 360 review the best (most...

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November 19, 2005

A collection of links

The 1984 Apple Commercial: The Making of a Legend. Donald Switches Back: So far experience to be expected. Support is... well, you can read for yourself. His iBook return on arrival can be blamed on MagnumMac wellington. But I'm sure...

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Developer Notes for prototype.js essential documentation....

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November 09, 2005

dojo: the browser toolkit "Dojo is an Open Source toolkit that allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript. "...

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Donald says New TCL cable plans SUCK BIGTIME, I said "The difference between these plans and when the 2mbps/10mbps plans were introduced (however long ago it was now): those plans were ground breaking. They came along from being about the...

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Apple Sales Drop On Devastating Realization: "In an effort to get the best Apple product possible for my money," Yager wrote "I plan on buying one five minutes before I die."...

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Microsoft predicts 3 million Xbox 360s in first 3 months I assume that's not in New Zealand alone :)...

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It's deja vu all over again *It actually describes December, 1995, when Bill Gates awoke over a weekend to the potential of the Internet and the threat posed by Netscape, the Google of its era. *...

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November 08, 2005

John C. Welch apologises for recommending Communigate Pro...

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Multipot combines LED lamp with charging station - it's kind of nifty looking. I'd like something like that just to tidy all my charging cables. Either that or a "dock" for my phones & PSP....

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Vote No on Prop 867: or baby jesus will cry....

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November 07, 2005

Will Shipley invites you to wine: why working on Wine will make you the next $lead_developer at apple....

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November 06, 2005

The VUWSA Has-Beens' Bench: where student politicians go to die. Or something like that :)...

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OmniGraffle v4, a review from ATPM, quite favourable indeed. I got a copy of v3 free with my PowerBook back in June, but I'd been using various versions of it for ages before that. It does all the diagramming that...

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10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers: important lessons everyone selling gadgetry to those of us who spend far too much of our money on it....

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Google kills children through Google Print. Yeah, right....

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Green Party co-leader Rod Donald dies of a heart attack Saturday night, aged 48....

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Philips LED Lightbulbs just, er, don't try adjusting your lightbulb at home kids....

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Emacs options for OS X users...

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October 31, 2005

The English-to-American Dictionary...

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October 28, 2005

HOWTO Punish Bloggers, a rebuttle from our friends at boingboing....

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Shopping, Dell vs. Apple

Shopping, Dell vs. Apple: Tim Bray compares the online experience of buying a dell machine and a PowerBook. Not surprising results, really....

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iTunes Australia: something I'm not seeing is that part of that increase in cost will surely be the GST (10%) that is charged in Australia. Like New Zealand, tax is included in the prices advertised in Australia, because everyone pays...

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October 27, 2005

ifizzle: just cool....

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October 24, 2005

Charges laid over pre-teen extortion racket. Wow....

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October 23, 2005

20 best license-free official fonts: fonts that are free (in beer and in speech), that won't look out of place on a serious project....

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October 22, 2005

Flock releases a, er, developer release the question is, how cool is it?...

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DF observations on The Updates...

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October 20, 2005

PowerMacs get bumped to dual-core across the board. DDR2, up to 16GB. The 2GHz & 2.3GHz are single processor (but dual core), the 2.5GHz is dual processor, dual core. All have a video card that can drive at least one...

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PowerBooks get small update, (15+17 get higher res screens, optical in/out for audio), bigger hard drives, super drives across the board....

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Aperture: iPhoto's Pro version. $499. Black box. What more could you ask for?...

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October 13, 2005

iTunes 6: shortest time for full version number increase ever? v5 realeased only a month ago... At any rate, I'll post more once I've downloaded it myself....

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New iPod: like old ones, bud with wider screen, iPod nano flat look, plays video, quite a bit thinner. 30GB and 60GB versions....

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Revised iMac G5: thinner. sexier. No integrated modem (USB add on!). Slight speed bump (1.9GHz/2.1GHz). Built in iSight. Very interesting....

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October 12, 2005

Joyent - so pretty looking. If only I had the need for such a product :( (If only they had a picture of the device itself...)...

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October 10, 2005

Stanford wins (the DARPA challenge)...

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CSS Specificity Wards...

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October 09, 2005

4GB microdrive + battery for PSP - neat idea, you could fit several tv episodes on it then... say a whole season :)....

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VOIP to GSM gateway

VOIP to GSM gateway: a neat idea, especially if you had something like Vodafone NZ's talkZoneZero where calls between the team are free....

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Google Reader, another web based rss/atom/etc. reader. This time from google. Though if you haven't heard of this one... :)...

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Cribcandy: cool stuff for your home....

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Thomas Strömberg: Music Discovery Tools...

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Working Offline: the more we rely on something being there, the more outages affect us....

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Support Creative Commons: because they're worth it, and because I said so. I'll donate next pay day....

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LEGO Gets Pissy About Brand Name courtesy of AdRants...

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Zimbra - finally, a OS competitor to Exchange? Could it be true?...

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October 04, 2005

Johnny-Five.com - for all your Johnny Five needs....

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September 30, 2005

The MacBU at the crossroads...

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September 24, 2005

The Power of Play at Work...

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Unit testing is teh suck, Urr Wil Shipley on why human testing is far more important....

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Messy Thinking

Messy Thinking or why you really do need a 30" Cinema Display....

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September 23, 2005

DF: Rhymes with Ditty...

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Google Sued ... The “authors’� claims, if true, mean Google itself is illegal. Common sense, or better, commons sense, revolts at the idea. And so too should you....

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September 17, 2005

Why Apple chose Intel over AMD...

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September 14, 2005

Enterprise Software?

Define "Enterprise" in 10 words or less...

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September 08, 2005

iTunes 5...

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iTunes + Harry Potter...

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iPod nano in white or black...

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iTunes Mobile...

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September 07, 2005

HowTo: Make an 80s looking invitation...

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TextDrive does Hosting For Life (again)...

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Radio New Zealand streams...

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The National Billboard Generator - only linking here because if you've missed it, then... wow....

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Katrina - The Kover-Up...

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August 28, 2005

Holy crap. The internet just called me normal....

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August 27, 2005

A new look for A List Apart...

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August 22, 2005

Preview tour of Gnome 2.12...

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August 14, 2005

Passing of a man of the people - Former Prime Minister David Lange died peacefully at 10pm last night in Middlemore Hospital....

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Uncyclopedia like Wikipedia, but guaranteed Content-Free....

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August 03, 2005

Apple Mighty Mouse. Hell froze over. Again....

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July 30, 2005

Palin's Travels - has {80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway, Sahara, Himalaya} available free! online....

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Egg and Muffin Toaster (from the people come up with cool stuff department)...

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July 17, 2005

BBC News: Time to switch off and slow down...

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The fall of Hollywood?...

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July 10, 2005

Parent your own kids!...

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Python PHP Serialize...

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Porting Firefox to Intel Macs...

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Simply MySQL backup...

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Blogdigger - No, I don't know either....

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Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP (Beta)...

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July 07, 2005

BBC: Several hurt in tube 'explosion'...

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June 07, 2005

WWDC 2005 Keynote notes...

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May 11, 2005

Deconstructing Maui X-Stream...

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May 02, 2005

huh? "We do stuff."...

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oneplayer - my favourite so far on CSS Reboot...

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April 17, 2005

Characters vs. Bytes - on encodings...

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'Failed' as in 'succeeded wildly' - on OSS licenses....

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Grandstand - I'd like the steel, but not the price....

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Wacom's new Graphire Bluetooth - Bluetooth tablet, I like....

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Lawyer falls for Nigerian Scam not once, but twice....

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Smithsonian Global Sound - Like iTMS, but for World music...

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Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor releases 'the hand that feeds' in GarageBand format for Mac users...

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April 14, 2005

Google Video (beta) - Video Uploads Windows only :(...

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April 02, 2005

Google Gulp - Quench your thirst for knowledge....

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March 29, 2005

Related Flickr Tag Browser...

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March 26, 2005

Write a rails app in 24 hours...

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March 21, 2005

Review: Juvenile felis catus...

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March 20, 2005

Moby - Hotel (the site is not too bad, if you can cope with flash)...

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March 18, 2005

CSS Reboot - May 1st 2005...

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May 1st Reboot...

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The Bloke's Page...

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March 12, 2005

Magnatune releasing USB thumb drives pre-loaded with music...

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February 18, 2005

The paradox of free/open source project management...

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February 17, 2005

Hula is a calendar and mail server. ..."We are focused on building a calendar and mail server that people love to use"......

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Groupware Bad...

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February 11, 2005

Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks - like SideTrack but free, without a snazzy installer, and instructions on how to cause a kernel panic....

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Mapping Google...

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February 09, 2005

iPod Shuffle RAID...

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January 23, 2005

An Apology: To the Girl in the Parking Garage...

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January 07, 2005

New Headphones

Sennheiser HD270's...

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December 21, 2004

Fire!

May pose fire risk...

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December 18, 2004

Limited Edition Firefox Ad Poster

Get the Firefox ad as a poster...

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December 15, 2004

Drug Pricing

Drugstorce Pricing Codes...

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December 13, 2004

You tell IE

Internet Explorer is preventing you from having a better Internet experience....

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December 12, 2004

Trustipedia

Ongoing on Wikipedia...

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November 23, 2004

Telecom CDMA PC Card on a MAC?

How to use Telecom's CDMA PC Card with a PowerBook...

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November 19, 2004

The Kleptones

My mirror of The Kleptones' "A Night at the Hip-Hopera" is up and running. (See also: their site, waxy.org)...

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It has NO WORTH

... And what the hell is a tupperware container worth if you can’t toss a leftover into the microwave because you’re too hungover or stoned to operate the oven? IT HAS NO WORTH. ... Dooce...

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November 16, 2004

Interesting

Two headed Tortoise...

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November 12, 2004

iPod Socks

"Forgive us if we're stating the obvious, but here's how it works: Just slide your iPod into the sock to keep it safe and warm. Slide it out to dock or change playlists. It's as easy as... putting on a...

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November 11, 2004

Interface Website

Interface v2 was unveiled last night. Internet Explorer may choke, but then it's good at doing that....

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Remote Control APX

Remote control plugs into AirPort Express' USB Port Looks like DACP really is for remote control devices. What more can this USB port do?...

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November 10, 2004

Ginger Screenshot

Annotated screenshot from Ginger (my iBook)...

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November 09, 2004

Firefox 1.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been released. What are you waiting for?...

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November 05, 2004

World Election Results

The Election Results (World Map Version)...

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November 04, 2004

Funky Watch

Funky watch with.... Krusty brand batterries! Who could ask for more?...

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Excellent

Visit this page. Right click the picture of bush and his wife, look at the file name. (via)...

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October 30, 2004

iPod Mania

Daring Fireball on iPod Mania...

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October 28, 2004

The Descent of the American Empire

The Descent of the American Empire...

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No Foreigners Allowed

Bush Campaign Rejects Non-US Visitors...

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October 27, 2004

[iPod Daring Fireball Special Edition](http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/special_edition)

iPod Daring Fireball Special Edition...

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October 26, 2004

MS Services

A list of Microsoft Services complete with descriptions. Quite a useful resource....

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October 25, 2004

iPod/Speaker Ad

Hey there, iPod. Come here often?...

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October 24, 2004

Lie Girls... call 212-875-7000

Flag waving, bible thumping girls babes are waiting for you to help them spread Freedom....

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October 23, 2004

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Jef Raskin

Guardian Unlimited on Jef Raskin - strikes me as a bitter angry person....

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HP sends Sun's President a nastygram for blogging

HP sends Sun's President a nastygram for blogging, Sun says bugger off...

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October 22, 2004

Holy Crap

Gumstix: all things small (think 200/400MHz Intel Xscale CPUs, 64MB of memory and run Linux 2.6 all on a board the size of a gum stick)...

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October 21, 2004

Creative Commons

A new look for Creative Commons...

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Software is too expensive to build cheaply...: If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers...

If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers......

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New Zealand Foreshore and Seabed for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand

New Zealand Foreshore and Seabed for sale - current bid $900,990,309,027,001.00...

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Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: In Front :: Microsoft's Worst Nightmare

Microsoft's Worst Nightmare (Firefox) "They range from ... to TV New Zealand Interactive, which cobbled together a content management system."...

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October 20, 2004

Toshiba 20" TV freaks out, sends distress signal

Toshiba 20" TV freaks out, sends distress signal...

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October 15, 2004

Inside the iMac

On having an iMac G5...

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OQO Pics

Lots of pics of the OQO hardware from Engadget...

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October 13, 2004

Boy-Girl / Boy-Boy / Girl-Girl duvets

Boy-Girl / Boy-Boy / Girl-Girl duvets...

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Supreme Court Denies Cert in RIAA v. Verizon (Donna Wentworth)

Supreme Court Denies Cert in RIAA v. Verizon (from copyfight)...

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The Seed of Apple's Innovation

The Seed of Apple's Innovation: "But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap."...

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October 12, 2004

from nematoddity

On how to make your sim world crazy, in several easy steps....

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October 09, 2004

FactCheck.org

FactCheck.org: Bush Still Fudging the Numbers on Kerry's Tax Votes...

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October 08, 2004

Banks Spams

Banks in last-ditch email bid for votes. Why. Idiot....

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Daring Fireball: Still Not Much of a Joke

Daring Fireball: Still Not Much of a Joke (follow on Ballmer being an idiot)...

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Piled Higher and Deeper

Piled Higher and Deeper: "Ladies and gentlemen of the 1999 incoming master's program: Sit up striaght."...

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Can you unlock an old T-Mobile Sidekick? - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Engadget: Can you unlock an old T-Mobile Sidekick? "Bonus! We’re totally into the fact that apparently T-Mobile has a SIM Unlock Department."...

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Boing Boing: Best VP debate parody image EVAR

Boing Boing: Best VP debate parody image EVER...

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iBurnt iPod still runs - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Engadget: iBurnt iPod still runs, "The other moral? Fire is hot. It burns things."...

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iPodder

iPodder v1.0 released (the cross-platform Podcast receiver)...

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October 06, 2004

Blogging your bliss, or blog like no one's watching.

Blogging your bliss, or blog like no one's watching. (From 0xDECAFBAD)...

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October 05, 2004

Tallent on Ballmer

Tallent has the best comments I've seen on Ballmers stupid comments. Oh dear god Ballmer. You wonder why, I bet, Microsoft has such a rep....

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Random quote by me

"You know, the thingy... with the thingy, that does the thingy" - Me...

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[Another Bush video: "I thought

Another Bush video: "I thought these might be clues"...

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SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne wins X Prize...

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October 04, 2004

Interesting clip

George W.: Keeping America Scared...

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October 03, 2004

Apple - Logic Express

Introducing Logic Express "Create and produce music like a pro."...

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Apple - Logic Pro 7

Apple releases Logic Pro 7, now with big shiny Apple logo on side of box...

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42 BELOW :: The Story of 42 Below

The Story of 42 Below (flash, probably only funny to NZ readers)...

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October 02, 2004

MacMod - Your Mac Mod HQ

Original iMac modded into a a PC, funky....

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September 29, 2004

Daring Fireball: For Whatever Reasons

Daring Fireball: For Whatever Reasons...

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MacCentral: For schools, Apple offers special iMac G5, eMac

MacCentral: Apple offers special iMac G5, eMac for schools only, including the option for no optical drive....

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Get your Chill Out Room on

It's inflatable! (Get your Chill Out Room on)...

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HP's iPAQ Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

HP's iPAQ Bluetooth Stereo Headphones - oh yeah that's the stuff...

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The VPC-1000, PC DVD drive with a head unit

The PC DVD drive with a head unit: "We honestly never thought we’d see something like this, but we can kind of understand wanting to replicate that bumpin’ in-car experience at home. With your PC. Nah, no we can’t."...

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Green Day: cashing in on P2P with pre-printed CD-Rs

Green Day: cashing in on P2P with pre-printed CD-Rs...

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MacMice The Mouse BT Review

MacMice The Mouse BT Review (Supports Windows too, and doesn't include a bluetooth dongle, which is good)...

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September 24, 2004

macosxhints - Display current network location via the Terminal

macosxhints - Display current network location via the Terminal...

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Boing Boing: Funny post office label hack

Boing Boing: Funny post office label hack...

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iPatches

iPatches: Pirate Communication.... Made easy!...

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Slashdot | Ceefax Turns 30

Ceefax (Called teletext in NZ) Turns 30...

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inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘Weblog editors’

Brent Simmons (NetNewsWire guy) on ‘Weblog editors’ and interoperating with NetNewsWire/MarsEdit...

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September 23, 2004

Web pages as art

Web pages as art...

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Did the air traffic control center really have a "Microsoft server crash"? | Doc Searls' IT Garage

Did the air traffic control center really have a "Microsoft server crash"? | Doc Searls' IT Garage...

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Wagan's 150-watt SmartAC inverter

Wagan's 150-watt SmartAC inverter for US$40? Wow....

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Life-sized model railroads

Life-sized model railroads, that's just cool....

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September 22, 2004

Web Services You Wish Yahoo Offered? (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

Web Services You Wish Yahoo Offered? (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)...

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ThinkGeek :: HTTPanties

ThinkGeek's HTTPanties. What will they think of next?...

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Apple Stores as Inspiration?

Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store (reasonable except for the comments about staff)...

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From Techworld

Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up...

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.Net FullTrust

Giving a Mapped Drive .NET FullTrust...

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UPS Shirt Goes Home

UPS Shirt Guy returns shirt to UPS...

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September 07, 2004

[Tale of the Radioactive Boy

Tale of the Radioactive Boy Scout....

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September 04, 2004

["Blackmail is such an ugly

"Blackmail is such an ugly word, I prefer extortion. The x makes it sound exciting." - Bender....

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iMac users are S-M-R-T

Not sure how to pick up and carry your iMac G5? Apple tells you how....

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September 02, 2004

[c|net: The iMac in pictures](http://news.com.com/iMac+G5+in+pictures/2009-1042_3-5331807.html)

c|net: The iMac in pictures...

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September 01, 2004

Friendster fires Blogger

Friendster employee fired for blogging. Response: Cancel your friendster account. I did....

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August 31, 2004

[New iMac](http://www.apple.com/imac/)

New iMac...

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August 30, 2004

Tasty

Mmm gelato...

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August 29, 2004

[CDMA Slider Smartphone - actually

CDMA Slider Smartphone - actually relatively good looking...

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August 28, 2004

Could be, who knows...

Is it a G5 iMac?...

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Take that Dreamworks

Swedish BitTorrent site cusses at nastygramming Dreamworks lawyers...

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August 27, 2004

SCO said, it must be true...

SCO ANZ Says Linux Doesn't Exist...

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Your iPaq is not a pillow

HP Warns: Don't sleep on your iPaq...

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August 26, 2004

Mmm linux

IBMs University Linux Challenge...

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August 23, 2004

[dooce.com: Chuck vs. The Green

dooce.com: Chuck vs. The Green Plastic Dinosaur...

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[Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com

Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character...

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August 20, 2004

[Grokster Wins Big in 9th

Grokster Wins Big in 9th Circuit...

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August 17, 2004

DVX-POD7010

A portable video device that isn't ugly? Never!...

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Multiple displays on laptop? Never!

Add a third DVI/VGA display to your PowerBook or PC laptop...

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August 16, 2004

RPG or Weightloss?

Amused me: Roll 1d6 For Weight Loss...

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On why not to treat Sex Ed like Potty Training

NSLog(); on Sex Ed...

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Follow up to Sex Ed

Kids (Amusing, kind of relates to the sexed link... kind of)...

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August 15, 2004

stupid-idiots

Ticketek PR Disaster...

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August 13, 2004

[How not to stave off

How not to stave off boredom...

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[iPod vs. Cassette](http://homepage.mac.com/danielturek/PhotoAlbum50.html)

iPod vs. Cassette...

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[Photocopier Virus](http://www.engadget.com/entry/1365152283872584/)

Photocopier Virus...

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[System X with Xserves](http://www.tcf.vt.edu/upgrade_gallery/upgrade_pics.html)

System X with Xserves...

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[Talking Toonies hands free cellphone](http://www.engadget.com/entry/2116803934623335/)

Talking Toonies hands free cellphone...

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August 12, 2004

[Sinkless slab sink.](http://mocoloco.com/archives/000554.php)

Sinkless slab sink....

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[Send Apple Lossless direct to

Send Apple Lossless direct to APX...

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[Arrived home](http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/)

Arrived home...

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August 09, 2004

[DaringFireball on Apple/Mac: The Art

DaringFireball on Apple/Mac: The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share...

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August 07, 2004

[No Camera(Phones) at concert](http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002072.shtml)

No Camera(Phones) at concert...

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August 02, 2004

[Configuring AirPort Express on a

Configuring AirPort Express on a wired-only Ethernet network (Full of Windows screenshots)...

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[TiVo vs. the Broadcast Flag

TiVo vs. the Broadcast Flag Wavers...

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August 01, 2004

[Bluetooth over 1km](http://www.wifi-toys.com/wi-fi.php?a=articles&id=21)

Bluetooth over 1km...

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July 31, 2004

[Details of the AirPort Express

Details of the AirPort Express Protoco...

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July 29, 2004

[Foul-smelling goo sold to keep

Foul-smelling goo sold to keep people out of abandoned buildi...

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[National MP Nick Smith has

National MP Nick Smith has promised an end to the "spiritual nonsense"......

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[Sony's iPod Killer](http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20040728.html)

Sony's iPod Killer...

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July 28, 2004

[Design Theft: Crossing the Line](http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/07/26/design_theft/)

Design Theft: Crossing the Line...

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[How-To Turn your iPod in

How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal Infrared Remote Control...

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July 27, 2004

[The Apple Product Cycle](http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/)

The Apple Product Cycle...

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July 23, 2004

[NZ PC World turns 15](http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/f2abee2df7582f36cc2569a4007e4ab9/b28f47e0ac75bfddcc256eba0080fe2f!OpenDocument)

NZ PC World turns 15...

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[File sharing has little effect

File sharing has little effect on sales?...

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July 21, 2004

[Seg fault in kernel module,

Seg fault in kernel module, and your mama’s so fat…...

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July 20, 2004

[Gentoo Mac OS](http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/)

Gentoo Mac OS...

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[New 4G iPods](http://www.apple.com/ipod/)

New 4G iPods...

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[Verizon's FTTP](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/2027219)

Verizon's FTTP...

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July 19, 2004

[iPod Nation](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457432/site/newsweek/)

iPod Nation...

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[More 4G iPod pics](http://www.engadget.com/entry/4078754764342743/)

More 4G iPod pics...

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July 18, 2004

[Lebanese boycott cellphones for a

Lebanese boycott cellphones for a day...

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July 16, 2004

[Olympic torches made of NZ

Olympic torches made of NZ wood...

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July 12, 2004

[Why Macs are better than

Why Macs are better than PCs, a smart reason...

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[Swap songs between iPods using

Swap songs between iPods using WiFi...

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July 01, 2004

[MS's Slate says switch to

MS's Slate says switch to FireFox...

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June 28, 2004

[I can link if I

I can link if I want to...

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June 23, 2004

[Enderle predicts again, world sighs](http://www.appleturns.com/screne/?id=4774)

Enderle predicts again, world sighs...

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[Worth a laugh, but grow

Worth a laugh, but grow up....

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[The Donald Blog](http://fias.co.nz/2004/06/13/first-post)

The Donald Blog...

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June 19, 2004

[Good god Microsoft, Why?](http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001983.shtml)

Good god Microsoft, Why?...

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June 18, 2004

[Why you should dump Internet

Why you should dump Internet Explorer...

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June 17, 2004

UserFriendly on g4techtv

UserFriendly on g4techtv...

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June 15, 2004

Leo returns to G4TechTV (Canada

Leo returns to G4TechTV (Canada only)...

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June 14, 2004

How to tell people to

How to tell people to use google...

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