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Archive for June, 2008

Quiz: Web site or prescription drug?

Is that bizarre new word you heard on the bus a Web site that allows you to show pictures of your cat and tell the world what cute thing it and your significant other did today, or is it a prescription drug that helps you cope with the fact that your partner has left you and your cat died of starvation (because it was allergic to ramen noodles and Mountain Dew) and nicotine exposure?

… Drug: birth control – ask your Mom, as she probably would have wished it existed when you were conceived… http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/yaz.htm

Barack Obamas elitist playlist

For a candidate who has already shown that he knows how to brush the dirt off his shoulder, it’s no surprise that Obama’s playlist includes some Jay-Z tracks, but according to an interview in the new issue of Rolling Stone that hits stands on Friday, Obama is also a big fan of Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow and the Rolling Stones. … Among the 30 or so songs by Dylan on Obama’s iPod are tracks from the folk legend’s 1975 album about the dissolution of his marriage, Blood on the Tracks, which features such iconic songs as “Tangled Up in Blue,” “Simple Twist of Fate,” “Idiot Wind” and “You’re a Big Girl Now.”

iWebTemplate offers new iWeb Templates from Jumsoft

iWebTemplate has collaborated with Jumsoft to bring you a growing collection of 38 Apple iWeb templates and RapidWeaver templates. These templates are available to use in creating websites, blogs, and podcasts complete with photos, movies, and music.

Browser bonanza – Intel optimized Firefox available

The special optimized version known as BonEcho is now ‘MineField’ and is available for download . Neil Bruce Lee has been doing the Intel (as well as G4/G5) versions of the Firefox builds for quite a while now…optimizing them to remove extraneous code, slimming them down and making them overall faster and better.

Leopard Server help needed in the Atlanta area

money.png We are looking for someone who can help us integrate an xServe running Leopard server into an existing Windows 2003 Active Directory environment. … If you are a Mac network whiz and can get the job done quickly and properly, contact me with your experience and an overview of how you would proceed.

Win an iPhone 3G!

Our friends over at Mactropolis let us know that they are having a contest, with the prize being a shiny new iPhone 3G. All you have to do to enter is visit their site, join the forums and send me $20!

.Mac bookmark web access is going away

Mac members today indicates that traditional web access to Bookmarks is going the way of the Newton as of July 1, 2008: Dear …. This includes a new way to manage bookmarks across your computers and even push them over the air to your iPhone and iPod touch.

Open Thread: Tech Support

This open thread is where to post your ‘how the hell do I do that’ questions and get help from the BGM community. … I’ll kick things off with this one: In iTunes 7.6.2 for Mac, I subscribe to the remix.nin.com podcast.

Which virtual machine are you?

You thought this was one of these lame quizzes that tried to define you by the answers you give, didn’t you? … Now that the field has matured and there are more choices and stability amongst the various apps, what’s your answer today?

Amazon – Get .Mac/MobileMe for only $69 – save $30!

via MacLoot.com

Excited about the upcoming release of Apples MobileMe, which will sync your contacts, mail, iCal and more from your Mac or iPhone or Web browser? Of course you are, otherwise you’re not human – which is a different issue altogether.
Well guess what – we have a way to save you $30 off of MobileMe.

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