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 true M 2006-08-24T00:17:00+00:00 2006-08-24T00:21:46Z 2006-08-24T00:21:46Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115637890697389260 Feeds moved too Obviously with me moving files and publishing on Blogger to my new host, GoDaddy I have also updated where the rss feeds go. Hopefully now if you visit, http://www.musingsonamac.com/blog/ using your normal rss enabled browser the rss file it should find is at feed://musingsonamac.com/blog/atom.xml hopefully. Cheers for continued support. M false M 2006-08-24T00:04:00+00:00 2006-08-24T00:07:11Z 2006-08-24T00:07:01Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115637802178263004 Moved musingsonamac to musingsonamac.com Stay tuned for me porting everything to a "propper blog" at some point. false M 2006-08-22T16:48:00+00:00 2006-08-22T22:21:43Z 2006-08-22T17:25:02Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115626750202550530 Television preview & Vicks hand sanitizer Well I'm sat at work, creating insanely great web applications. I receive a call on my cellphone. It is my mother. I've got these tickets in the mail today, to this thing. Do you want to go to some TV preview this evening, you get to see some TV and might win some prizes. So I say yes, dad agreed. We were to be there at 1900, at a hotel on the other side of town. Once we arrived we took a drink false M 2006-08-22T16:23:00+00:00 2006-08-22T16:28:16Z 2006-08-22T16:27:12Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115626403270965012 Thanks to the Blogsphere. Bloger Survey from the University of Massachusetts Some time ago one of my 12 readers sent me a link to a bloggers survey. I don't think of myself as having any kind of readership - however I thought I'd contribute. Today I get home and find this in my pile of post... thanks very much. Very fetching, I think. Ta false M 2006-08-21T08:38:00+00:00 2006-08-21T22:00:13Z 2006-08-21T08:46:09Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115614996963750727 Apple Survey A tidy desktop is akin to a tidy mind. Whilst I am somewhat anal in my organisational practices at work. The color of the paper clips match the minutes I'm organising. I have various color Post-It index tabs that help schedule todo item, a very clean inbox, dangerously clean (I utilise mail flags and folders, smart folders, rules and I have "Mail Act-On" installed for quick triage of data.) God false M 2006-08-20T23:48:00+00:00 2006-08-21T00:02:26Z 2006-08-20T23:52:41Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115611796181804192 I'm a cutie, apparently I was minding my own business on Adium, my IRC aggregator and boom up pops this... I'm not entirely sure what the person meant by "getting dirty for the first time". Maybe she's taken up pig farming and needs some help building a pen. She should consider searching for Farm Dating on google I imagine. The term, get stuffed sprang to mind, but I wonder if she'd already thought of that. false M 2006-08-20T22:07:00+00:00 2006-08-20T22:10:25Z 2006-08-20T22:10:25Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115611182531246309 iTunes armed rampage update Well I've not recovered my playlists etc. I have found this script though courtesy of that nice chap Doug Adams... false M 2006-08-20T20:22:00+00:00 2006-08-20T21:17:34Z 2006-08-20T20:55:49Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115610734998639145 iTunes shoots you in the foot It is oft said that the C programming language, and C++, allows you to shoot youself in the foot, in comparison to Java that is tighly type cast. I found this - notice the Java entry versus the C entry. Anyway my reason for this meander down programming 101 lane is thus: this evening I was attempting to consolidate my iTunes library. I have some 7000 tracks on my mini, several hundred of them false M 2006-08-20T18:48:00+00:00 2006-08-20T18:55:22Z 2006-08-20T18:55:22Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115610012281343950 Removed features from Leopard "NetInfo functionality has been removed from Mac OS X entirely." from here This concerns me, as someone who has recently spent time dispelling the myth that macs crash a network. I attached a dozen macs to our corporate network with no ill effects, more so I made them authenticate against our active directory using NetInfo manager. Where am I to find these settings in the future ? Surely Apple false M 2006-08-18T07:52:00+00:00 2006-08-18T07:53:48Z 2006-08-18T07:53:48Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115588762854062437 Sun buys HP Yes, shocking I know. Completely out of the blue. That is all the things that flew though my mind yesterday when I read that. Only on further invesitgation I found this, typical sensational red top really. false M 2006-08-14T23:39:00+00:00 2006-08-14T23:47:25Z 2006-08-14T23:45:50Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115559915009970235 iTune Smart playlist and podcasts I have had a smart playlist for AGES in iTunes. It picks out my new podcasts that I havn't finished listening to yet. The only flaw that existed was that not all Podcasts can have a play count. "What" I hear you cry "How can than be ?" Indeed, despite having the catagory podcast and being downloaded from iTunes, you can't play all the files. The RSS format allows for any file to be inserted, false M 2006-08-14T23:32:00+00:00 2006-08-14T23:38:48Z 2006-08-14T23:36:01Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115559856169819749 OK When did that happen, Google on Blogger I just went to sign in and found that Firefox had helpfully entered my gmail account information on my blogger sign in page. After a quick double take and a 180 when I saw that I had no blog, well that account doesn't. I went to re-authenticate and found this... I thought they'd forgotten they'd bought Blogger, you can imagine these poor developpers coding away and still getting paid until false M 2006-08-13T22:24:00+00:00 2006-08-13T22:24:47Z 2006-08-13T22:24:47Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115550788712975389 Mac Pro System Shoot out AND they added a screen... need I say more System Shootout false M 2006-08-13T11:50:00+00:00 2006-08-13T12:21:53Z 2006-08-13T12:01:23Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22009487.post-115547048336832915 Mail.app icon OK It is a small change but a fun one. I decided to alter my mail.app icon, I'd had some British Stamps kicking around for a while, so I decided to use them. Doesn't she look twee HRH Queen Elizabeth bouncing around in my dock... There are apparently two methods. 1) Simply open the info pane on the application you want to change the icon. Click the small icon at the top of the info window and false