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I just upgraded to the recent ITunes 6.0.1 (3) today. Its already crashed just navigating my song collection.
Twice, its also failed to play songs via my Airport Express even though I can ping it. A reboot of my airport express solves the problem. Fortunately you can do that remotely with the AirPort [...]
One of the things I have the most trouble doing in Microsoft Outlook and on my PDA with Pocket Informant is creating a new task and remembering to assign the category before I close it. Unfortunately, the task becomes difficult to find at that point.
I pretty much want all my tasks categorized for [...]
I made a comment at a get together with some friends recently that I thought Outlook was a good email program and an exception in the office suite. One of my friends retorted “Outlook is not that good an email program”. Here is why I think its better than pretty much everything else [...]
Omar Shahine posts a helpful workaround to turn off audible notifactions occur when a contact goes online in messenger. This quotation of Mr. Omar is very illustrative though of the usability of Windows Mobile, and I think gives insight into how the development teams meet market requirements:
Here are the registry keys you’ll [...]
Tried to install cygwin today with hopes that I can run an SSH server. I tried FreeSsh (unreliable) and OpenSSh For Windows (couldn’t make it work at all).
So I tried to install cygwin today. Install was weirded, man wouldn’t work, etc. Deleted all traces including registry settings, reinstalled the same way, and [...]
I thought I would try a Mac Mini in the hopes of getting something easier to use compared to my PC. Its been pretty hit and miss.
I generally like using it better than my PC. There are a lot of quirks though.
Installing and uninstalling applications is generally much more simple than windows. [...]
I bought a Dell Axim X50 running Windows Mobile 4.21 in 2004. I figured I was very late to the PDA game (late majority) and thought all the wrinkles would be out. Was I every wrong. I have been very unimpressed with the Axim and Windows Mobile because:
I have had the device hang [...]
I am not a big fan of Google or their claim they do no evil (sounds silly to me). Some people think Web Accelerator is bad.
The reason web accelerator is good is that most folks who have written sites that don’t work well with accelerator aren’t following the recommendations/standards of the internet and web. [...]
From the wall street journal via Infectious Greed:
Some argue that one hurdle to wider use of RSS is the arcane acronym itself. Microsoft has tentatively used the term “Web feeds” as an alternative, a move that has prompted criticism from a few purists in the blogosphere. Google and others, meanwhile, have used the term “feeds.”
I [...]
At a firm I used to work at we had a practice of “Always Work In Sandboxes”. Jon wrote a story of how this practice can go awry..
Always work in sandboxes doesn’t conflict with continous integration - it supports it. The practice works if you don’t butcher it. Its not [...]
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