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How to Convert a Concert DVD to iTunes

Thursday October 13, 2011

A few years ago my buddy Bob gave me the fantastic Peter Bogdanovich documentary Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream It’s pretty awesome and I highly recommend it, even if you’re not a die-hard Petty fan. The four hour documentary, which spans two DVDs, comes with a bonus CD and a bonus [...]

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Opening New Firefox Tabs

Wednesday April 7, 2010

If you’ve upgraded your copy of Firefox recently you might have noticed that suddenly new tabs open right next to the page you’re viewing. In previous versions of Firefox new tabs opened at the end of the list. My good buddy Damien found a way to make Firefox behave the way it did before the [...]

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Dangerous Mistakes

Monday January 11, 2010

I was blessed — or cursed, I suppose, depending on your point of view — to have my first “real” programming job in the medical field. I wrote software which managed the processing of human tissue (knees, fascia lata, femurs, etc.) for implantation into human patients. I was very young and very stupid at the [...]

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The Google Segway

Friday August 7, 2009

Remember the Segway? It was supposed to revolutionize human transportation. Remember the hype? It was everywhere. It was amazing. And now years later it’s nowhere. The day we all finally got to see a Segway I felt just about exactly the same way I felt when I finally got to see Google Wave: It’s nifty, [...]

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iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials

Tuesday August 4, 2009

If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music [...]

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No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot of [...]

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Friday Five: Mac Software

Friday February 13, 2009

The software programs I use most frequently on my Apple MacBook Pro: Firefox Adium Photoshop Coda iTunes

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What Have You Tried?

Tuesday January 27, 2009

Over at mattgemmell.com I just found an excellent article about software development and a must-read for any programmer, at any level: If you’re a developer and you’re about to ask another developer a technical question (on a forum, via email, on a chat channel, or in person), you’d better be ready to answer the question [...]

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Friday Five: iPhone Apps

Friday January 23, 2009

It’s time for me to revive the Friday Five here. We’ll start with a list of my five favorite iPhone apps: Shazam Twitterific TapDefense Vicinity Morocco

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Not Quite Genius

Tuesday September 9, 2008

So Apple released a new version of iTunes today. Version 8 includes a new feature called “Genius”. Play a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from your library that go great together. This sounds like a cool idea, although I consider myself already pretty handy at creating smart [...]

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