October 2009
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September 2009
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the backyard homestead
In our home, self reliance has been an increased focus over the past few years. My wife recently picked up a copy of “The Backyard Homestead” and it is chock full of information on how a lot of us can start being a little more self reliant right now.
It’s easy to some times think that we need to move out to the country to grow our own food, but that idea is completely false. For $13,...
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“Mail – I also use it for my RSS reader (please don’t hold that against me).”
– Grant Blakeman Although long rumored to exist, there has never been sufficient evidence to prove that the Mail.app RSS readers were actually real. Until today that is.
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“How will the company overcome the fact that there are only 6.8 billion people...”
– The peeps at 37signals in an Onion-esqe post on Signal vs. Noise.
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“Force quit. And move to Trash.”
– U2 - Unknown Caller, No Line on the Horizon
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dropbox contextual menus on Snow Leopard
I never saw a mention of this before upgrading, but the Dropbox integration with the Finder is broken in Snow Leopard. You need to install a newer version of the Dropbox client to get it working again, but that version is not accessible on the Dropbox download page.
It is available here.
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Freedom →
With all the talk about apps that help you stay focused of late, this little utility should be of interest. It takes this idea to another level.
Freedom allows you to turn off your networking — all network access — for a set period of time. The only way around it is an actual reboot. No blocking certain sites or specifying which apps should be in focus. Simply set the amount of time and...
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“Birdhouse is a wonderful “notepad for Twitter”, but I’ve included it in this...”
– John Gruber on First & 20
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huzzah!
“We hear you loud and clear, it will be back tomorrow :-)
Ryan
iTunes Radio”
bring Ambient back
After upgrading to iTunes 9, my favorite genre disappeared from the iTunes list of stations. From this thread on Apple’s site comes this explanation:
“In regards to the genres we have changed them for iTunes 9, the goal was to make them match more traditional radio genres and the most popular stations in our directory. While Ambient went away a lot of the stations are still listed in other...
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“The algorithms and tag searches and bookmarklets will only get you so far;...”
– Mandy Brown on the three definitions of the word “reader”. Wow!
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new members on Fusion →
I’m excited and honoured to announce our newest members on Fusion, Jon Hicks and Mimimal Mac.