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NIN song

Paul Westbrook | 15 April, 2005 18:57

SplashcoverThe Nine Inch Nails have released one of their songs from their album "With Teeth" that is due out on May 3rd.  They released "The Hand That Feeds" as a 70MB GarageBand 2.0 file.  This allows you to modify the song, or create your own remix.

I wonder if other artists will start to do this.  This would make it easier to come up with remixes.

[via Boing Boing]

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Harmony 688 Remote

Paul Westbrook | 14 April, 2005 19:00

4134We just got a Harmony 688 remote to replace our Harmony 659 remote (2 year olds can kill electronics very quickly).  I think that the Harmony line of remotes are the best remotes around.  I also tried the Philips Pronto, and the Harmony remotes are better.

The Harmony 688 is just like the Harmony 659, except they claim that it is meant for use with DVRs like TiVo.  The 688 includes some addition hard buttons that the 659 did not have.  I have set up a pair of these buttons to be Thumbs Up/Down, one to be "instant replay" and one for "skip ahead"
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Move implementations

Paul Westbrook | 14 April, 2005 14:55

It is funny how many implementations of move don't support moving a file across different partitions.  First, I wanted to use some of the AppleScripts described in the comments of this hint on macosxhints.  But since I use FileVault, my home directory is a disk image, and AppleScript's move will doesn't return an error, but doesn't do anything.

And, I just discovered, that php's rename has the same problem.  It looks like versions of php prior to 4.3.3 do not work across different partitions. This is also a problem for move_uploaded_file, but they don't call it out in their documentation.

It seems really strange that these problems are just being fixed now.

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Purchasing software online

Paul Westbrook | 11 April, 2005 19:10

I have finally reinstalled all of the software on my laptop after my hard drive crash.  Luckily, I had a backup of all of my data files, and all I had to do was reinstall my software from CD.  TurboTax was the one CD that I couldn't find, which can at a really bad time.

On Saturday, I went to the Apple Store and bought TurboTax again.  Since we signed for the TurboTax Automatic Renewal plan, Intuit knows that we have a valid license to Turbo Tax.  It would be great if software developers allowed customers to download software that you have already purchased.
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Entering special characters in Mac OS X

Paul Westbrook | 11 April, 2005 15:44

The ecto blog has a good post describing a way to enter special characters into the ecto blogging client. These instructions should also work well in most Mac OS X applications.

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Google Maps on TV

Paul Westbrook | 08 April, 2005 07:52

I just found this cool (but pretty pointless) application that will display maps from Google Maps on your TiVo.  It allows you to enter a zip code, zoom in and out, scroll, and switch to the Satellite view.

It would be cool if they hooked up Google Sightseeing to this.

[via Google Weblog]

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PoddumFeeder

Paul Westbrook | 06 April, 2005 08:02

Poddumbadge

I just found this new Podcast client, and it works pretty well.

  1. PoddumFeeder allows you to import/export your feed list as OPML
  2. Converts the mp3s to bookmarkable AAC files
  3. Automoatically import the files into iTunes

The thing that is really interesting to me is that this application is implemented in AppleScript.

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Themes in PostNuke 0.750

Paul Westbrook | 02 April, 2005 13:18

A while ago, I upgraded to PostNuke 0.750 and my theme stopped working.  It looks like PostNuke 0.75 uses the Xanthia Theme Engine for themes.  The theme that I modified was using the old theme engine.  I had to remodify the theme that is included with the release.

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Rendezvous in Linux

Paul Westbrook | 02 April, 2005 04:57

This page has a good description on advertising Rendezvous service on linux.  I am using this to advertise my afp shares, web server, Webmin server, and TiVo Music server.

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