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What is MyTues, QTFairUse and Audio Hijack?
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Continue reading →: What is MyTues, QTFairUse and Audio Hijack?Chaosmint :: QTFairUse, MyTunes, and Protected AAC Explained. I’ve been using itunes for a litle bit on the Mac. Because it does such a good end-user job, its hard to see what’s really going on underneath. Great notes from Chaosmint about what is really happening: * File Formats. There are…
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Entourage Problems
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Continue reading →: Entourage ProblemsI’ve been using Mac OS X for a while now. Finally getting used to it. Main issue is that Entourage seems very slow and also seems to crash. * “Entourage Unexpected Quits”:http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=OfficeX&Number=370362&page=19&view=collapsed&sb=1&o=&fpart=1. Another in a series of great errors messages. Have this with both Entourage and Ecto (a offline blog…
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Popular Photography Buying Guide
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Continue reading →: Popular Photography Buying GuidePopular Photography Magazine Buying Guide. A good review of things photographic. I’ve used it to get a quick overview of at least good products. The printer review is particularly good. As is the digital SLR review. Here are some notes. First, all the printers they thought were pretty good. Epson…
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Command prompt at the toolbar
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Continue reading →: Command prompt at the toolbara little ludwig goes a long way: Command Prompt Explorer Bar. Nice find from Ludwig, command promots on the explorer bar. I use command line stuff all the time.
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Ghost Recon
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Continue reading →: Ghost ReconGhost Recon Jungle Storm. Got Ghost Recon as part of my video card bundle. Wow, how much these tactical first person games are using the machines. Amazing how graphics and so forth. Its an old game, but here are some links to folks modding it: * “Walkthroughs”:http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/recon.htm#wt. A detailed walkthrough…
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Continue reading →: Amazon Sales Categories on Business
Fascinating to see what books are actually selling right now: * Amazon.com: Top Sellers in Business and Investing. Of the 10 top books, 7 are about getting rich quick, 1 is about leadership (Jim Collins), 2 are about specific industries (baseball and fast food) and 1 is about dealing with…
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Continue reading →: Marketing and Positioning
A quick troll through the various marketing treatise on the Internet. Kind of interesting to see what is up there when I type “market positioning”: * Target Markets & Segmentation. Dan’s powerMpoint slides from business school. Basic definition of terms * “Hourglass 1998”:http://www.hourglass1998.com/. Interesting methodology from Mark Smith. Nice to…
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Memory explained with benchmarks
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Continue reading →: Memory explained with benchmarksTom’s Hardware Guide Motherboards & RAM: Ups and Downs: Memory Timings Put to the Test – How Memory Access Works. Another great piece over at Tom’s Hardware. A nice refresher for those of us with old computer science degrees. They explain how memory works and what timing means. There is…
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Prime 95
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Continue reading →: Prime 95How GIMPS works. A great machine torture test. Runs in the background doing calculations. Since it checks results, its a good test of stability particularly for the memory and cpu of an overclocked machine.
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Yet Another MPEG4 Codec: 3ivx
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Continue reading →: Yet Another MPEG4 Codec: 3ivx3ivx D4 4.5 – MPEG-4 Audio and Video Compression. Recently got a Mac encoded file in 3ivx format. It’s another MPEG4 encoder. You need to download a plug-in to have it work with Windows. Or use Quicktime. Amazing how many codecs I now have loaded on my machine. 3ivx, Divx,…