Consolation Champs

MacJukebox is a great site set up so that people can share their GarageBand musical “creations”. Don’t miss “Hot Dog Weiner Juice”. (via bored astronaut)

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Postfix Enabler is a great little app that activates Panther’s built-in mail server. I was reading about this on Meg’s blog at just the right time. I work in consumer marketing for a wine importing agency, and a big part of my job is designing, writing and sending out email newsletters to our customers. Lately, […]

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One of my favourite games from a few years ago is finally available for OS X (and Windows!). Food Chain is one of the most innovative and entertaining games I’ve seen anywhere. Paying the $15 shareware fee was a no-brainer for me. I’m sure it will be for you, too.

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John Gruber has a white-hot response to Paul Boutin’s recent Slate article that claims that Apple may end up losing market share to Linux. I think he’s right on the money (Gruber, that is…)
UPDATE: Scott Rosenberg’s gentler criticism also makes sense to me.

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I downloaded the “final” 1.0 release of Apple’s browser, Safari, just as soon as it was posted yesterday. So far, I’m unhappy. A few sites I visit regularly have been misbehaving. One weblog’s colours disappear below the point where I have to scroll. Another bulletin board site doesn’t register my postings until I manually refresh […]

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Rumours have been swirling for weeks, and next Monday, some of them will become reality. It’s almost a certainty that Apple will be launching some sort of online music service, probably closely linked with its iTunes software (or the bundled MusicMatch that comes with Windows versions of the iPod). My guess (and it’s an informed […]

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Government services are usually designed to be accessible to everyone. The blind, the deaf, and the lame can all apply for employment insurance benefits in their own government-assisted way. But not Macintosh users. Here’s the message that greeted me when I tried to apply for my benefits online:
Q: Why is the EI on-line application not […]

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Voice Box is a cool program for Mac OS X that will read text out loud in a variety of voices. The neat thing is that in the new version (1.3), you can have it read RSS feeds. It can also save the results to a sound file that can be transferred to your iPod. […]

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Here’s a section of Apple’s website that I’ve never seen before. I’m not even sure how you’re expected to find it from the main page. It’s directed at Apple’s pro customers, working in film, photography, music, and science.

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Perversion Tracker: Apparently Useless Software
Ok, funny, but why the strange name? I thought it might be a site to graph strange, ah, proclivities. And so will all the people who find this entry via Google. (via Backup Brain)

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