Tag: Computer architecture
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How to automatically set ‘remember position’ in iTunes (Mac)
Something that’s bugged me for years is the fact I download a lot of podcasts, radio shows and long mixes, but was having to set ‘Remember Playback Position’ formerly known as Bookmarks manually for most of them. If you download your podcasts via the inbuilt iTunes Podcast receiver then you’re fine, that (book)marks the shows…
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Future So Bright I Gotta Wear Glasses – Project Glass
This is obviously still in the concept stage, but Google’s Project Glass they announced a few days ago isn’t a late April Fool, it’s a real product, although still in development. The possibility and also viability of the technology behind this does feel like a jetpack moment – like we are living in the future…and…
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a rather geeky post but I’m rather pleased…my first Linux install
May seem a small step for the rest of the universe, but this is my first post on Ubuntu, a Linux system. I like open source, and use it where I can on this Vista machine…but previously scared of all the driver hassles and hoops you had to jump through – and those bash/bin/i/am/a/total/geek/ -rm…
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Live Writer
Testing the new Live Writer on this blog, works well and gives you a preview of the page. Spooky for a Microsoft product this actually works! For some reason it posts twice though – editing is OK but a new post gets 2 of them with the same name – WTF? Just tried this on…
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Streaming Wars: The Great Switch Off
Just got this email from Pandora (the online streaming intelligent ‘learning’ radio site) hi, it’s Tim, This is an email I hoped I would never have to send. As you probably know, in July of 2007 we had to block usage of Pandora outside the U.S. because of the lack of a viable license structure…
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The Beauty of GYBO
I’ve mentioned Get Your Bootleg On mashup messageboard in the past, although sometimes had my differences in the past, it always has great humour and sometimes comes up with classic and extremely funny threads. A recent one was this thread, which mostly about a crap site I won’t mention here, and quite serious in part…