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	<title>My Macinations</title>
	<link>http://mymacinations.com</link>
	<description>Yet another mac user's blog</description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Next Business Venture!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To insure its world domination, Google is branching out and away from its core competency and entering new fields of business&#8230;
This picture was taken in Syria
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		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2010/02/11/googles-next-business-venture/</link>
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		<title>About Stupid Software Design!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate stupid software!
I have a MobileMe account and I use Aperture to manage my photos. So, today, I was publishing an album to share with the family; a large album of about 200 photos. I use MobileMe because it allows sharing of full resolution pictures for the family to download and print if they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2009/07/20/about-stupid-software-design/</link>
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		<title>Don Reisinger Strikes with Another FUD Filled Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his article Should Apple Even Care About the Enterprise? Don Reisinger fascinates us with another idiotic, FUD filled, and misinforming article about Apple and Mac&#8217;s suitability for the enterprise.
It&#8217;s hard to decide where to start.
Emphasis is mine:
First off, there&#8217;s little support for business applications.  For the most part, software developers create software for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2009/07/04/don-reisinger-strikes-with-another-fud-filled-article/</link>
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		<title>Hotmail access using POP3 protocol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, Microsoft follows the industry standards and has a reasonable mail service. It is now possible to use the POP protocol to send and receive email from hotmail.
Instructions for Apple&#8217;s Mail application on Leopard:
In Mail go to  Preferences, and click on Accounts
Click the plus button (lower left) to add a new account
In the Add [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2009/04/09/hotmail-access-using-pop3-protocol/</link>
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		<title>Apple gives in to the music labels and joins others&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Various online sites are reporting that Apple isn&#8217;t the only one with variable pricing on its iTunes music store.
While other sites are going for inflammatory and sensationalized headlines like iWay robbery by Apple.
Does anybody believe that it&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s choice to hike the prices?
The labels have been pressuring Apple to hike prices since the iTunes store [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2009/04/08/apple-gives-in-to-the-music-labels-and-joins-others/</link>
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		<title>The Cons of Switching from Windows to Mac. Ten Quick Ones.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting list  
The Cons of Switching from Windows to Mac. Ten Quick Ones.  &#8211; The Neurotic Nomad.
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		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/11/21/the-cons-of-switching-from-windows-to-mac-ten-quick-ones/</link>
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		<title>Why I won&#8217;t be getting an iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why I won&#8217;t be getting an iPhone on July 11th or anytime in the near future?
Well, it&#8217;s simple. Blame Rogers.
Being a webmaster, I would love to get an iPhone. The internet access that it provides gives me a lot of convenience with regards to checking the health status of my servers and other internet related [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/07/07/why-i-wont-be-getting-an-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Hoodwinked by Microsoft, Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has got the Mac community and the Mac press hoodwinked. Again!
Yesterday, while announcing Office:mac 2008 SP1, Microsoft announced that they’re bringing back VBA functionality (Visual Basic Automation/Scripting) to the Mac version of their Office suite in its next major upgrade. Microsoft mentioned that they’re comfortable with an upgrade cycle of 3 &#8211; 3.5 years. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/05/14/hoodwinked-by-microsoft-again/</link>
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		<title>Leopard&#8217;s Broken FolderActions facilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best features of Mac OS X is a feature called &#8216;Folder Actions&#8217;. What this feature allows the power user to do is to watch a folder on the computer and whenever that folder receives a file, folder action kicks in and runs a script of the user&#8217;s choosing.
I&#8217;ve used this feature for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/05/04/leopards-broken-folderactions-facilities/</link>
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		<title>Homer Simpson drawn using CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all HTML/CSS geeks here is one of the most amazing things that I&#8217;ve seen done with CSS. It&#8217;s the face of Homer Simpson drawn completely with nothing but letters styled using CSS. If you click the animate buttons you can see how it&#8217;s been drawn.
Check it out:
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html
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		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/05/01/homer-simpson-drawn-using-css/</link>
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		<title>On the Safari for Windows Controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not be aware, with the release of Safari 3.1 for the Mac, Apple started offering Safari for Windows as an optional install through its Windows updater for iTunes/Quicktime.
Initially, Safari was offered in the Updates list, with the selection check box already selected. So if the user simply clicked &#8216;Install&#8217;, Safari [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/04/19/on-the-safari-for-windows-controversy/</link>
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		<title>Apple, the Mac and Blu-Ray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that HD-DVD has officially lost the HD format battle, and Blu-Ray has emerged the victor, many Mac sites are speculating that Apple will soon implement Blu-Ray playback support into its system and start selling Blu-Ray drives in its computers.
I&#8217;m not sure Apple will implement Blu-ray playback into OS X any time soon.
One thing most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/02/22/apple-the-mac-and-blu-ray/</link>
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		<title>My printer died R.I.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long and hard service for 14 years, my LaserWriter Select 360 died today  
They sure made them durable in those days.
I bought the printer in 1994 for $2300 Canadian and it&#8217;s been working every day ever since (about 5 days a week). Daily print run of about 15 pages minimum. That&#8217;s 50,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/02/21/my-printer-died-rip/</link>
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		<title>Changing the system&#8217;s default settings for html files (safe)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Leopard 10.5.1, Apple&#8217;s developers changed the default status of html files downloaded from the internet from &#8217;safe&#8217; to &#8216;Unsafe&#8217;.
While this may make sense from a security standpoint, for somebody like me that processes hundreds of html files downloaded every day, it&#8217;s a big annoyance.
I filed a bug with Apple, asking for a workaround. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/02/06/changing-the-systems-default-settings-for-html-files-safe/</link>
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		<title>Has Apple met its match in Rogers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now February 4th, 2008 and the iPhone has been out in the US for more than seven months already.
Here in Canada, there is no mention of it yet. Not even rumours that it could be coming any time soon. I believe it will be a very long time before Canadians could buy an iPhone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/02/04/has-apple-met-its-match-in-rogers/</link>
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		<title>iPod Touch fails to connect to Airport Extreme 802.11n</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the holidays, I received an iPod Touch as a gift, and let me tell you, that little sucker is extremely useful as an internet device. Keeping tabs on my sites where I could find Wifi is great.
However, a couple of days ago, it stopped being able to access the internet through my home wireless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2008/01/31/ipod-touch-fails-to-connect-to-airport-extreme-80211n/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s iPhone coming to Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows that Apple&#8217;s iPhone is coming to Canada, eventually. Most people and publications speculate about when this momentous event will happen.
Today, few websites are excited about a blip that showed up on Apple&#8217;s site, and are extrapolating all kind of data from this blip.
Personally, I&#8217;m not exactly interested in when the iPhone will come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/11/05/apples-iphone-coming-to-canada/</link>
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		<title>Another useful feature is gone missing in Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another useful feature has been eliminated in Leopard.
The audio controller that the Finder&#8217;s column view had for the preview pane when previewing audio files has been eliminated. Why? I don&#8217;t know. No logical explanation can come to mind.
In Tiger, if you set your window&#8217;s view to the column view and point it to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/11/02/another-useful-feature-is-gone-missing-in-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Leopard 10.5.0 problem spots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Leopard as my only OS for 4+ days now. Here is a first report on where I&#8217;ve encountered the most problems.
Safari:
I spend a lot of time with Safari (can&#8217;t use any other browser as my main browser). It&#8217;s the only Apple application that I use so extensively. So far I&#8217;ve noticed few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/31/leopard-0-trouble-spots/</link>
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		<title>Leopard&#8217;s translucent menu bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the ugly new interface &#8220;features&#8221; of Leopard is its translucent menu bar. In my opinion it&#8217;s ugly, distracting and serves absolutely no useful purpose. I have no clue why any sane person at Apple would want to implement it.
There have been many complaints about it on the internet since Leopard reached people&#8217;s hands; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/29/leopards-translucent-menu-bar/</link>
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		<title>Apache PHP and Mysql on Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leopard brings one big change to web developers working with Apache, PHP and Mysql on the Mac. Apache 2 comes with Leopard along with PHP 5.
Here is what to do to restore a test environment.
First, you need to enable PHP.
Apache&#8217;s .conf file moved from /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf to /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Open this file with your favorite text editor and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/28/apache-php-and-mysql-on-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Leopard has landed on my iMac!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I finally took the plunge. After yesterday&#8217;s problems installing it on my iBook, I took all the precautions that I can and took the plunge and installed it on my iMac.
Steps:

Buy a 1 TB drive from Costco.
Plug it in and realize it&#8217;s dead.
Exchange 1TB drive at Costco.
Plug it in and it works!
Check main drive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/27/leopard-has-landed-on-my-imac/</link>
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		<title>Leopard second impression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after my first attempt at installing Leopard by doing a normal &#8216;Update&#8217; on the previous system, I couldn&#8217;t get the Finder to respond, no matter what I did.
I changed strategy and re-installed by doing an &#8216;Erase and Install&#8217;.
&#8216;Erase and install&#8217; worked perfectly.
It took about 45 minutes to install from scratch, excluding all printer drivers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-second-impression/</link>
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		<title>Leopard first impression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, at 10:30 am EDT, the Purolator guy dropped off the tiny package. Leopard is packaged in what have recently become Apple&#8217;s standard software package. A box barely larger than the DVD is housing the new system, along with a small booklet.
At 10:40 I had started the install on my non-essential iBook (G4, 1.42 Ghz [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/leopard-first-impression/</link>
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		<title>Purolator Package tracking is useless!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m excited about Leopard (Apple&#8217;s new OS), and of course, I pre-ordered it as soon as Apple started accepting pre-orders.
It&#8217;s supposed to come in tomorrow on the 26th, and indeed, I received my notification of shipment from Apple with a tracking number. However, the tracking web page is nearly useless. Here is what I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mymacinations.com/2007/10/26/purolator-package-tracking-is-useless/</link>
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