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"I publish a magazine and I know a lot of magazine publishers. And they are forking over embarrassing sums of money to charlatans who say they can raise their search engine rankings. These magazines can barely pay their writers. That’s wrong and it has to stop." - Lasse Johnsen from Bookmarklet

well said - suggest you read the original post too http://powazek.com/posts/2090 - mike "glemak" dunn

"There is a time in every piece of software's life where it passes the threshold of adding useful features and instead starts polishing its existing user experience or just starts cramming needless functionality in for the sake of a bullet point on the new features list. With iTunes 9, the latest release of Apple's digital jukebox software, I think it is hovering somewhere in between. What started out as a pretty nice digital music player and iPod sync solution has gone on to add a music store, movie playback, television shows, iPhone application management and more. iTunes is the Kellog's Cereal Fun Pak of software, offering something different for everyone." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

iTunes became bloated the moment it started shipping with Quicktime and all the other crap Apple sticks in the install package. The damn thing is HUGE. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

OH: I like this. - Shea from iPhone

whoa! that's cool! - metalerik

While you're at it, stop keeping a fucking hardcopy of apps. Keep a simple text log of what I've downloaded and just re-download when I want to load out my iPhone. - CannonGod

Apple is half way there with MobileMe...Kinda... If we can sync Contacts, Calendars, and Bookmarks over 3G, it shouldn't be hard to sync Apps over wifi. - Joshua

Among the small things: "[..] a watch folder to automatically add media to iTunes. Why Apple buried it in iTunes Media is beyond all logic, but you can make an alias of the folder and stick it anywhere you like. I put it on the desktop—you could also put it in the Dock or in the Finder Sidebar for easy drag-and-drop importing into iTunes. If for some reason the file isn't compatible with iTunes, it'll get relegated to a "Not Added" folder inside the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder. Good move to make the watch folder—people have been asking for it for years—bad move burying it in the media library hierarchy." - Holger Eilhard from Bookmarklet

i've gotta say...this, along with thing all the addons...is a beast! (and that's a good thing :) ) - Zee.

yeah ive been using it for a while and i wont be paying i will go back to tbird - Isaac Zahavi

24h after we announced it, with the exact same name :) http://blog.appsfire.com/apple-a... - Ouriel Ohayon

Waseem Sadiq, CTO (left) and Khuram Hussain are showing me how you can send emails and messages to Twitter, Facebook, and others. It is in private beta now, will launch later this year. http://www.inbox2.com Does all sorts of useful stuff like forwarding, copying, etc. "It is really hard to build a good email client," says Sadiq. They nailed it, must try it. - Robert Scoble

Skyler, http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Big fan of Billings here. - Andru Edwards

big fan of billing in general, particularly the collecting money part of it. - Vincent van Wylick

"Running a business can get pretty expensive, including all the pricey software tools that you need to keep on top of all your administrative tasks. Entrepreneurs sometimes have to spend a ton of money to get basic business tools that are needed to have a business running smoothly. Here are five business tools that will help you keep track of your business if you are a Mac user" - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

"By the time Mac OS X 10.7 comes out it'll be mature enough to be called "Cougar"." ~Twitter - Jemm

all day?? should be <1hr - winckel

If I built one, I'd much prefer the EFI-X route. http://bit.ly/st4Rh - Mac64

Whether EFI-X stole something or not is up to the courts. Whether EFI-X is easier than running a bunch of terminal strings and editing kext files is pretty clear. I really don't care what people use to build their hackintoshes. I still prefer running real Apple hardware. Guess I should've just said "If I built one, I'd prefer an easier route." - Mac64

Evlensen sasardim - Ferdi (enemy) Karacan from iPhone

@linda http://www.925works.com/Product... - Muhammet K. (oceangray)

Looks like it's not just me - http://discussions.apple.com/thread... - Martin Bryant

oh crap - that's not good. - Drew Lucas

Looks like my disc drive is rejecting all dual-layer discs. Booked into the Genius Bar for tomorrow - Boo! - Martin Bryant

"Have no fear. SuperDuper v2.6 is here, and it's compatible with Snow Leopard! SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the perfect complement to Time Machine under Leopard and Snow Leopard, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume—and it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!" - Holger Eilhard from Bookmarklet

They took a lot of heat for missing a leopard compatible release, so good on them for having one ready to roll out for snow leopard. - Joshua Schnell

quicksilver, skitch, adium and fluid - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM

Quicksilver, LittleSnitch, 1Password, Fluid apps, TextMate, git. - Berk D. Demir

16,000 down, 984,000 to go. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery. - Thomas Hawk

CPanel allows me to IP ban those top few offenders, but that just sets up a cat and mouse game of me checking logs to see who's gone too far and banning them one IP at a time. Surely there's a better way? I've had to triple my yearly hosting package this month just to keep ahead of my bandwidth cap :( - Daniel J. Pritchett

seems like a low bandwidth cap if 0.6gb/day is a problem. many hosts offer 200+ gb monthly on standard plans. - Mike Chelen

That is really cool. I have a massive collection of photos of the kids but I never thought to do something like that. - Rhys Amos from iPod

interesting. one of the few non-FF/FB things I've paid attention to in the past couple of hours. - Kamilah Gill

"I read every damn last word and I agree. That said, I’m typing this on a brand new Dell (which I bought after the hard drive in my Mac failed and after I realized that I liked using Chrome and Outlook better than anything on the Mac) and I’m very seriously considering getting an Android phone and giving up my iPhone too. But, you are right. These are hardly things that keep Steve Jobs up at night." - Robert Scoble

I bought a mac because of the preformance, and that it didn't have anything to due with Microsoft. Thanks - Zachary TG

Holden, although I understand your spirit there... how does the extra $100 change your life? In my opinion, $200 is the same as $400 in the same way that $1700 is the same as $2100. Do you work five more hours at your job or 10 more? It's non-consequential. What makes the difference is does this become something you need, and will you pay for it? - Louis Gray

Boy, that looks a lot like an Etch a Sketch! - Scott Hanley

"How long should a Mac last? Mac360’s Alexis Kayhill posed the question recently, and it got me thinking on the topic, especially since Alexis framed her column around the experience of a co-worker who had purchased a new unibody MacBook (on her recommendation) only to have Apple upgrade the 13″ unibody to Pro status with feature enhancement and a lower price a few months later." - Arnaldo M Pereira from Bookmarklet

I expect most any laptop to last 5 or more years. Mine last that, and I take them bike touring, camping, backpacking, and worse. My HP lasted 5 years before an RV fridge fell on it. It now uses an external monitor but works otherwise fine. The macbook better last that long ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Though the concepts are nice, I think the main problem with galleries like this is that they're are rarely ever right. For example, when we were all abuzz with iPhone rumors, how many of the mockups were even close to the real design? - Ryan - @magicofpi from Bookmarklet

No one. And I begin to wonder if I will be able to survive months of speculation blog posts, mockups and stuff. And what if there's no freaking tablet, or if the ETA is spring '10... GOD KILL ME NOW - alieb

@alieb Same here. Same here. - Sung W. Lim

"When reselling or gifting a pre-owned Mac, it's convenient to ship it without any accounts, but with all updates and legally-included packages. This is actually quite simple to do. This process uses a number of well-known techniques, which are listed in the order that they are executed. Boot the Mac's original or retail Leopard Install DVD (Hold the 'C' key during startup). When selecting the drive during the OS X install, click the Options button and set it to 'Erase and Install' for a clean install." - Arnaldo M Pereira from Bookmarklet