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Seriously, who runs Microsoft’s Usability Lab?

June 18, 2008

Check out the Preferences Pane for the four Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage). They all look different and behave differently.

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Is Apple Playing Games with iTunes Rentals?

May 24, 2008

Superbad, a movie previously available for rental on iTunes, is now only available for purchase. What’s going on?

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33 Fun Things to Do With Your Photos Online

September 25, 2007

Now that you’ve got yourself a digital camera, what can you do with all those wonderful photos? Here’s a list to get you started:
Organize and share them:
These services allow you to upload your photos, share them with friends and family, tag them, make slideshows and send them out for printing:
Flickr – Owned by Yahoo!, Flickr [...]

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The Real Reason Apple Slashed the iPhone’s Price

September 11, 2007
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Adobe Lightroom Inconsistencies

August 25, 2007

A bug in Adobe Lightroom 1.1 makes thumbnail images disappear from the Library module.

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Mozy Backup Inconsistencies

August 17, 2007

I’ve been using Mozy Backup on my Mac for a while now. It apparently works invisibly in the background which is good (hassle-free) but also quite dangerous if things don’t go as expected. I haven’t had the need to retrieve anything from Mozy’s online backup -though my friends tell me it works really well, but [...]

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Quick Guide to Configuring GnuPG on your Mac (OS X)

August 15, 2007

A quick-and-dirty guide to installing and configuring Mac GnuPG (PGP) on your Mac OS X system.

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New Look

November 11, 2006

Well, finally… the blog has a new look. Everything seems to be working, but do let me know if you find any gremlins. The original theme (Subtle, with Subvert style) comes from Glued Ideas, but needed a lot of customizing to get some things working. I installed a local copy of Wordpress on my MBP [...]

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Switched

October 28, 2006

Many years ago, in a galaxy far far away… I got my first PC. Since then, I’ve had many PCs and quite a number of laptops. But today, for the first time, I’m the happy owner of an Apple computer: a 15″ MacBook Pro 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo… which I bought at the Palo Alto [...]

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Intel Entrepreneurial Competition at Berkeley

October 27, 2006

I arrived in San Francisco today in time to attend the final round of Intel’s Entrepreneurial competition at the UC Berkeley campus. The winner was local team Aurora BioFuels, who are doing wonderful things with oil-producing algae. Keep an eye on them. Another interesting business plan – and winner of the People’s Choice award, mostly [...]

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