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The “i” - Mmmmmm, So Curvy

April 16, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: humor

Excellent parody of Apple’s keynote released products from CollegeHumor:

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

If the video won’t play for you above, here is the link.

NH Media Makers

April 11, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: events

New group, first meet up to be in May. If you are a media maker in NH area, come on down!

NH Media Makers

For Twhirl Users

April 03, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: Tech Support

Hate the fact that Twhirl opens a whole new window in FireFox? Here’s how to fix that, in two simple tweaks:

1) FireFox/Preferences/Tabs - under the option of how to see pages, check “new tab”
2) TabMixPlus PlugIn Options/Enable Single Window Mode

That forces Twhirl to open a tab, not a window.

One for the geeks

March 30, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: humor

For those of you following the Data Portability issue… the first DP rock song!

Did you hear the one about Apple fitness?

March 27, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: iPhone, iPod

I wrote about it on Mac.Blorge. Apple is getting into the fitness market - and a little more as well. Some of the news is cool (Apple fitness, tailored to you - awesome) and some creepy (identity metrics and more).

Read the full article here.

All Better Now

March 22, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: Announcements

Comment issue fixed. It was the latest version of the plugin Bad Behavior. That sucks - it is the second time that plug in has caused me grief on a blog in various versions.  Why does it suck? Because when it works it does a really, really great job at controlling spam.  Sending note to plug in creator for a fix.

The AppleGrrl Site Should Be Back Now

March 13, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: Announcements

Let me know if you are having any trouble seeing images or using features. Still working on Writers Well and Books Without Limits as well as a few other sites.

Planned Site Outage

March 12, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: General

My web host sent a notice that they will be having a planned outage for server maintenance tonight from 6pm to 3am PDT. That means this site may be down for the count during those times. Never fear, it will be back up and running as soon as they are done.

Nice Tip On Battery Life

March 09, 2008 By: Leslie Poston Category: Hardware

How to calibrate your MacBook Pro battery for longer life.