February 2010
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Time Machine Troubles
So I have this problem where my time machine backup drive will occasionally unmount itself and time machine will just sit there for days on end without backing itself up, until I finally notice and reboot the external drive.
It strikes me as odd that there is no warning dialog , no exclamation icon in the menu bar, nothing. After 12 days or so, sometimes, Time Machine will finally twig onto the...
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Finish or add to my 'badass' playlist:
I’m attempting to put together a collection of sublimely aggressive songs - you know the sort with a solid beat that just grittily ooze ‘bad ass’. Anyway here’s what we have so far:
TV on The Radio - DLZ
Butthole Surfers - Whatever (I had a dream)
Deftones - RX Queen
Depeche Mode - I Feel You
Gnarls Barkley - Necromancer
The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (Nero...
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Shrink it →
A Panic Software internal tool which clears all the extra filesize cruft from adobe generated pdf’s.
I’ve been using it all today and have found it remarkable - often reducing my illustrator exported pdf’s to about 10% of the size.
Mac OSX only download here
update - dropping files onto dock icon now works in 1.1
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“It feels like someone with a fever is yelling at my pants!”
– Hank Venture, while wearing and drying his pants in the bathroom hand dryer.
Venture Bros Season 2
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Things people try to log into
mrgan:
Dan Wineman’s explanation of the Facebook login thing:
This is called Facebook Connect, and it’s a very bad thing for security and user education. Teaching people to check that the URL starts with facebook.com before logging in is useless, because Facebook wants its users to log into anything that vaguely looks Facebookish, and it’s training them to do so. How is anyone expected to...
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I liked the old Facebook login better →
mrgan:
Please read marco’s post on a mindblowing web artifact:
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the...
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