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In case you missed it over the last couple of days, this announcement is huge news. They’ve addressed both of the major reasons that I don’t buy songs from the iTunes store, albeit at a slightly higher price. Hopefully the rest of the major labels will follow along, and we’ll finally see an [...]

Wow. Adobe has done the unthinkable and released a beta for the next release of Photoshop. If you’ve got a CS2 license I’d highly recommend going over to the Adobe Labs and signing up for an account and downloading the beta. You’ll have to enter your CS2 serial number on the site [...]

As a dyed-in-the-wool computer geek, I can definitely understand the desire to archive and restore old computers; especially since the computer world isn’t nearly as interesting these days as it used to be. I’ve even got a couple of ancient machines kicking around my place in various stages of disuse and disrepair (sadly enough). [...]

While I’m on the topic of nifty software add-ons, I thought I’d plug the Google Browser Sync Firefox extension. Personally, I use four different computers on a regular basis (laptop and desktop at both home and work) and so I have four different Firefox installations with four different sets of bookmarks, et cetera. [...]

If you a) are crazy like me and use a Mac, b) use Apple Mail to manage your mail, and c) especially if you have a widescreen monitor, you owe it to yourself to give this plugin a try. It’s not quite as good as Outlook’s take on the same idea, but still pretty [...]

A while back, I tried to log into my Gmail account to check my mail, and I got the above message informing me that my account had been locked out due to “unusual usage”. No other explanation was offered, and no method to get the account unlocked was provided other than to send an [...]

…and just like that, my Power Mac was rendered completely obsolete. Such is life with Apple Computer, I guess. *sigh*

A few weeks back, I found out that SendStation was giving away Firewire PocketDocks for the cost of shipping. The PocketDock is a little widget that restores functionality that Apple removed from the 3rd gen and later iPods, allowing you to use any old Firewire or USB cable (depending on which dock you get) [...]