Play FLAC in iTunes with less mess (19)
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Filed under: Audio, Software, iTunesSince switching to the Mac full-time last year, my only remaining complaint has been the abysmal (and finicky) FLAC support in iTunes. FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an open source lossless compression format that offers a nice compromise betweeen storing the uncompressed music file -- which is very large -- and converting the file to a lossy format like MP3 or AAC. Apple has its own lossless format, Apple ...
Friendability (6)
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Are you my friend? Should I friend you? Or you me? I have a very large backlog of inquiries on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and all the rest. Deciding friendability has become a new and necessary social skill. Here is a hierarchy that works for me: Friend -- Most of the people that Facebook calls "friends" I call Acquaintances. Actual Friend -- Someone whom I've had a meal with, or has visited my home. Real Friend ...
Dog cloner suspected to be kidnapper of Mormon missionary sex slave in 1978 (10)
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Boing Boing (3079)
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Bernann McKinney from California paid a South Korea cloning lab £25,000 to make a duplicate her dear departed pitbull Booger from a piece of the dog's ear tissue. When the story hit the news with photos of McKinney, many people in the UK said Bernann McKinney looks an awful lot like an infamous fugitive named Joyce McKinney who has been on the lam for 30 years. In 1978, Joyce McKinney jumped bail and disappeared after ...
URL Rewriting for Beginners - Apache - Added Bytes (43)
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AddedBytes.com (48)
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Introduction URL rewriting can be one of the best and quickest ways to improve the usability and search friendliness of your site. It can also be the source of near-unending misery and suffering. Definitely worth playing carefully with it - lots of testing is recommended. With great power comes great responsibility, and all that. There are several other guides on the web already, that may suit your needs better than this one. Apache URL Rewriting ...
Metrocard Machines Take the Morning Off (1)
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A Metrocard mechanic cleaning some parts of the machine. Did you try to buy a new Metrocard this morning between 8:30AM and 10:30AM? Hope you didn’t try to pay with a credit card, because the machines weren’t taking them. For unknown reasons, dozens if not hundreds of Metrocard machines stopped taking electronic payments. Not a big deal if you were going for a $2.00 ride. However, if you were in the market for a new ...
City Room: Visions of Bus Terminal as Skyscraper (1)
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You don't have to sell your company to have financial security and the freedom to do what you want (60)
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Paul Graham thinks that startup founders need to sell their companies to get freedom and security: They want enough money that (a) they don’t have to worry about running out of money and (b) they can spend their time how they want. Running your own business offers neither. You certainly don’t have freedom: no boss is so demanding. Nor do you have security, because if you stop paying attention to the company, its revenues go ...
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skeggsjp said:
The more I read the S v N blog, the more I like it.
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anand said:
DHH's response.
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Jay said:
DHH's response.
pitchfork music festival recap (1)
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So, yeah! Pitchfork! It was awesome! And also kind of a blur. Here’s what’s great about going to the Pitchfork Festival: things are cheap (no $5 bottles of water — hi there Lollapalooza), I always see lots and lots of friends (you know who you are) and there’s a real sense of community at the festival. Case in point: opening night, patiently waiting in the Chipotle line — Britt Daniel. Walking around you’d see Tim ...
Modal overlays beyond the dialog box (67)
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Signal vs. Noise (394)
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Aza recently posted on modal overlays, those dialogs that pop up and disable the background behind them. You can click anywhere inside modal overlays, but you can’t click anything in background until the dialog goes away. Usually when we think of modals, we think of dialog boxes like the one below from Google Documents. Aza’s critique applies to this kind of modal. After you call up the find/replace box, you can’t click anywhere but inside ...
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Bill said:
IMO, Apple's use of a modal dialog in that scenario is warranted and a nice touch.
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skeggsjp said:
A nice dissection by Ryan here. I enjoy learning and understanding more about quality interface design.
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KevM said:
Interesting critique of Modal dialogs.
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Engin said:
nice pov on modal windows. should they be contextual or not? or should they be at all?
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Mason said:
Interesting look at a growing UI design
Mysterious Chinese Tunnels (33)
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[Image: The brick-arched entryway to a "mysterious Chinese tunnel" in the Pacific Northwest (via)].72 years ago, a man named William Zimmerman sat down to tell a story about "mysterious Chinese tunnels" to the U.S. government. That interview was conducted as part of the Federal Writers' Project, and it can be read online in a series of typewritten documents hosted by the Library of Congress.Zimmerman claims that "mysterious" tunnels honeycombed the ground beneath the city of ...
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Daniel M. said:
great article about underground tunnels/geography and the North Western Chinese laborer slave trade
the new emusic (5)
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Today is the day that we tear down the walls and unveil a brand new album page on eMusic, the first of several transformations to the site geared towards helping you discover even more music. The page includes many features that connect eMusic to the web at large, including direct feeds from YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia containing content relating to that album; integrated links allowing you to share your favorite music with social media sites ...
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Dominik said:
The new design is incredible.
