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I was watching TechTV this evening and caught Steve Wozniak as a co-host of The Screen Savers, which was cool unto itself. The highlight though was when Steve offerred some of his favorite Mac Tips…

Woz’s Mac tips
Woz will show us the following Apple tips:

Using the built-in display zoom of Jaguar: You press command [...]

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That’s right! You can send your spam to the Spam Archive at submit@spamarchive.org and they will store and catalog it. The reason for this? So there is a central database for anti-spammers to utilize filters and other tools to fight spam. Pretty cool, right? You can also download spam from [...]

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This is a cool way to scan the blog universe, (aka Cosmos) and see how you or sites you read are being referenced…
Who links to you?: “Find out at Technorati.  “Right now, we’re still building this site, so lots of things are still broken. Please don’t publicise it yet, we want to make sure that [...]

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For the first time I noticed that Wired.com is running an advertorial from Sony. If you don’t know what an Advertorial is, it’s ad based content written in the form of an article though usually marked in a way so that you are not too easily fooled to think it impartial from the publisher. [...]

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Some Holiday fun from Apple with Will Ferrell as Santa

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kottke.org :: Whore presents?

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Just in time for last minute shopping, O’Reilly comes through with a list of items for the geeks you know without the usual bank bending gadget prices…
O’Reilly Network: Gifts for Geeks on the Cheap [Nov. 26, 2002]

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Might not be entirely legal, but available now… looks pretty cool and well made and the price is certainly right.
Readymade Pringles antenna for Don’t-DIYers.: “I’m going to get one of these readymade Pringle can antennas for $20. They look cool, too! What a great idea. [Update: Dave Sifry warns that if you buy [...]

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By selecting more than one message you can forward or reply to those messages through a single message. This is especially helpful when you have attachments spread across a few messages and you want to forward everything to someone else. When you do this, you get the headers, body and attachments from each [...]

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If you are in the market to save a few bucks and have an Earthlink account, you might want to try this tactic. I called to say I wanted to cancel (which I did) and when the first CSR put me on hold to get my confirmation number I knew I was being transferred [...]

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spaced, unshaven and physically worked over, I am back at home. Good trip overall, but comepletely exhausting… Nothing like flying to the other coast and back as part of the same day. Sleeping on the plane in both directions does not equal a nights rest…
Fortunately, today and tomorrow are slower days thanks [...]

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Today is going to be a very long day. It’s before 5am EST and I am off to California for the day. In and out for a meeting, then back on the redeye… I got an absolutely horrible night sleep last night so hopefully I can catch up a bit on the [...]

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I am going to need the following:
1. A modified mind warping Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a series
wrist watch with memory adapter.
2. Reliable carbon based, or silicon based time transducing capacitor.
How’s that for a spam? pretty wacky…

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The Nextel Blackberry seems to have been released - at least for public inquiry. It supports POP email accounts as well as the usual suspects in server sync as well. The only downside for someone like me, is that I won’t be able to sync my Mac to it were it to [...]

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Not the CPU…
Amd is not AMD: “They were wrong…” Source: MacRumors

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Not sure why I thought the whole Stuffit plan would work, but there does not seem to be a way for me to unstuff the damn thing without error. I guess it’s new drive time. That sucks.

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While waiting for the stuffit stuff (see below) I surf over to Salon and once again decide to read some premium content thanks to their Ultramercial. The thing I wonder is now that I have clicked through the required screens a few times to get what I want, what does Salon really get out [...]

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Waking up this morning I found the archive had been created is only reading about 4GB which can’t possibly be right. When I explore the archive through Stuffit Deluxe, I find only a few items, which again does not make sense so, I am now moving that arhive to the home machine in order [...]

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… Is what our home computer is saying I must wait for my MP3 collection to stuff across the network. Thanks to the Stuffit 7.0 and the newer StuffitX compression I am hoping to safely store my collection off the damaged drive. The reason for the time on this is pretty simple… [...]

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