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Mac mini

Paul Westbrook | 04 April, 2006 23:51

MacminiYesterday, I set up the Mac mini as a media center PC.  I love this thing.  The FrontRow interface is beautiful.  There are some nice touches that I just love.

  1. Before you select a video, a preview of it shows on the left side of the screen
  2. Being able to view content on another computer is really nices as I have my podcasts subscribed on my laptop, but I can still view them on the mini.

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missing piece in vcard implementation

Paul Westbrook | 03 April, 2006 01:07

We just moved, and I wanted to use Mac OS X's Address Book's "Send Updates" feature to send the updated information to my contact list.  What this feature does is send a vcard in an email to the recipients. 

I got a lot of responses from this email, mainly stating that they received an empty email.  I then sent the contact information again, with a text representation of that vcard.

This shouldn't be this hard. Email programs don't gracefully handle vcard attachments, and they should  In general, contact managers handle vcards well, they can import and export to this format. 
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Upgrading blog

Paul Westbrook | 01 April, 2006 01:44

I have started the process of upgrading the version of LifeType I am using to the 1.1 version.  I am working out the problems now, so please be patient with these changes.

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