A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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At Macworld Expo
I’m in San Francisco for Macworld Expo, so I don’t know how often I’ll be posting. The joke here is that I don’t post often enough to really get away with saying that, but I wanted to say it anyway.
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Insight into the GOP’s Social Security Scare
I’ve been loosely following the recent discussion about the White House’s desire to phase out Social Security. Although for years I’ve quietly expected that Social Security will be gone by the time I’ve eligible to benefit from it, I’ve never really focused on the issue. But now, Bush and company are forcing my attention: and ...
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Weight Loss Programs Compared
The New York Times has a story today about how the major weight-loss programs don’t offer hard data about the effectiveness of their methods (Diet and Lose Weight? Scientists Say ‘Prove It!’.) This isn’t a big surprise, since what sells is the promise of weight loss, not necessarily the weight loss itself. That’s why people ...
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Pre-MW Expo rumors: iMovie HD, iDVD 5
Think Secret is reporting that Apple will introduce iLife ’05 at next week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco: Road to Expo: iLife ’05, Keynote 2 to debut. iDVD 5, code-named Maui, will include a number of new features, including one-step DV-to-DVD creation. For users wanting to simply take the contents of a DV tape and ...
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Video of Self-Armored Humvee
Salon has video from an upcoming documentary showing how soldiers “uparmored” their Humvee using scrap metal found in Iraq: Sneak peek: “Gunner Palace”.
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Schneier’s Security Advice
Crypto and security expert Bruce Schneier offers a good list of suggestions to improve one’s Internet security. Most of these are Windows-specific (don’t use Internet Explorer, don’t open joke emails or other forwarded material with attachments, etc.), but it’s a good list for Mac and Linux users, too.
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Two New Take Control Ebooks
I’ve been editing like a mad thing lately, but now that work is being rewarded. Two more Take Control ebooks are now available, both edited by me. And though neither directly deals with iMovie, they’ll probably interest you enough to check them out. Take Control of Recording with GarageBand, by Jeff Tolbert ($10) will help ...
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Take Control of Recording with GarageBand
I mentioned that I was editing three Take Control ebooks, and now the third has just hit: Jeff Tolbert’s Take Control of Recording with GarageBand. I’m not a musician (though I’ve recently started to take up the guitar), but I can see how someone with desire and $10 can make professional-sounding recordings using GarageBand and ...
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Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera
A couple weeks ago, I praised caffeine because I was consuming so much espresso while simultaneously editing three Take Control ebooks. I’m happy to say that I’ve been able to get some sleep this last week (which is a change — at one point I slept 8 hours, not consecutively, over a 72 hour period). ...
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iMovie Make-a-Wish Part 2
Tonight was the Make-a-Wish event for Wendy, and I’m happy to say it went very well. Wendy picked up quite the haul of hardware, and I’m sure she’ll have fun using it. Thanks again to Kevin and the rest of the folks at the Apple Store University Village for their time and effort!
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