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Last.fm: I just hit the magic number of 10.000 scrobbled tracks

My 10.000th scrobbled track on last.fm is Desaparecido by Manu Chao.
I like last.fm—if you don’t know it yet, why not check it out? If you are scrobbling your audio like I do, you may want to visit my profile…

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Twitterific — there’s a new version of the twitter client

I’m using twitter since 11 days now, and I have to admit, it’s really pretty addictive.
Even though it seems to be a little stupid to answer the question What are you doing? over and over again, twitter can be really useful—I wrote about it before.

But going to a website to answer the simple question quoted [...]

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AppFresh — keep all your apps up-to-date

AppFresh is an utility that keeps all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and makes downloading and installing them a breeze.
AppFresh covers software updates from Apple and third parties and can be used as a replacement for Apple’s own Software Update application to provide one central place [...]

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Editing CSS on a Mac

Christopher lately asked which programs I use to edit CSS on the mac. I’ll provide you with a short list of recommendations
TextEdit—not the greatest tool, but it’s available on your mac

The fastest way to edit CSS files on a new mac is to use the software that’s delivered with it. Not my choice, [...]

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Twitter

After having read another blog post about twitter a few days ago, yesterday I decided to have a shot at it.

I didn’t do very much testing yet, but what I saw until now is pretty cool. Besides giving you the opportunity to answer the question what are you doing? whenever you feel the need to [...]

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Syncing mobile phones with your Mac just got easier

Late January I wrote a post about iSync phone plugins for the Sony-Ericsson K800i — these are no longer needed to sync this phone (and a couple others) with your mac.
Since today’s update my MacBook Pro runs Mac OS X version 10.4.9 — with it came a fresh delivery of iSync, now version 2.4, with native [...]

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HomeZone — your Mac adapts to its surrounding

Searching for solutions to the problem of unauthorised people using my Mac at school while I’m away to help out someone else, I set up the top left corner of my screen to trigger my screensaver — to stop the screensaver, you need to enter a password.

So each time I leave my MacBook Pro, I [...]

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PicLens: Cinematic Views for the Web

Using Safari? Do you often find yourself flipping through a picture set on flickr or doing google image searches?
I often wished for something to download the high-res versions of the pictures in a flickr set to a folder on my local hard drive — to display them in Preview’s fullscreen view. I found something and used [...]

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My Mac is protected by iAlertU

Imagine the following situation: You’re working on some project in a group at school, at work or at whatever place. There are multiple Macs standing around, provided by the institution — in my case, the school — and your own one right in the middle. If you leave your place for one minute, you can be [...]

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Speed up your Mail.app

If youre using Mail.app on your Mac, you may have noticed that it was a little faster when you first started using it — depending on how much you use it, it works more or less slower, but after a certain time in use, it’s getting slower in any case.
The question here is, why? Mail.app [...]