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iMovie HD 6/iDVD 6 VQS Currently 37% Off!

According to Amazon, the new edition of the book is due to be available next week, and currently it’s priced at $15.74, which is 37% off the retail price (click the book to pre-order it now). In addition to covering what’s new in iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6, this edition is one of the ...

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Deadline Hydra

With a mighty last push, I got the iMovie book out the door on time, and promptly fell into a post-book brain fog. No matter what I try, it takes me about a week to recover from a book project, especially when I’m burning hard at the end (which, um, is often). So now I’m ...

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MacBook vs MacBook Pro

Mike at HD For Indies links to Barefeats, and because I’m delivering my book to the publisher today (!!), I’m going to save a wee bit of time and just link to Mike. The comparisons look at iMovie HD/iDVD performance among the machines, plus other apps.

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The Constitution Is Important When It’s Directed at You

Wanted to pass this along from Dailykos, which sums up what I think too: Pardon my cynicism for a moment. But in the wake of the raid on Congressman Jefferson’s office, all the flutter in the legislative and executive branches about concepts like the “separation of powers” and “constitutionally protected areas” has a tangibly synthetic ...

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++ Caffeine – Sleep = Deadline

  Espresso at Cugini Cafe    Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. I’m working frantically on the last stretch of my iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide, which means I’m going to bed no earlier than 1 am and drinking an absurd amount of coffee. But it’s good coffee. And there’s a certain satisfaction about being in the ...

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More MacBook Benchmarks

David Nagel at Creative Mac throws Final Cut Studio 5.1 at the MacBook and finds it… surprisingly capable! Motion didn’t fare as well due to the integrated graphics processor of the MacBook, but it fared well consideirng that Apple says the whole suite is flat-out not supported—that’s no doubt to minimize expectations. Although you can’t ...

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Endless Photomosaics

The next time I get really, really drunk, I’m going here.

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KISS Coffeehouse

Look, how else do we expect to rock and roll all night, and party every day? Caffeine at the KISS Coffeehouse: Myrtle Beach, SC – May 23, 2006 – If you want rock and roll all night, KISS Coffeehouse will be the place to be. On Tuesday, June 27th, legendary KISS band members Paul Stanley ...

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Imprisoning Journalists

This is simultaneously chilling and yet not surprising: The administration’s assault on a free and vital press took a huge leap forward this weekend, when Attorney General Alberto Gonazles announced on national television that the Bush administration has the power to imprison journalists who publish stories revealing conduct by the President which the administration wants ...

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Schneier on Security: The Value of Privacy

Security expert Bruce Schneier puts it best: The Value of Privacy Last week, revelation of yet another NSA surveillance effort against the American people has rekindled the privacy debate. Those in favor of these programs have trotted out the same rhetorical question we hear every time privacy advocates oppose ID checks, video cameras, massive databases, ...

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