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I found a deficiency with respect to how iTunes Match works under iTunes 11 on multiple machines. I've been spending the last day or so trying to fix the mismatched meta data on many albums in my fairly large collection. Of course, this is a tedious and time
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This past weekend I decided to take a short trip to the city of Seattle. It was my first visit, and I'm not entirely sure why it has taken me so long to come here. I should have done this earlier, because man what a fantastic city it
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It's official. Apple will be releasing a 128GB fourth generation iPad. Larger storage capacity iOS devices seem like they're a tad overdue. The aging and feeling ever minuscule 16GB iPad strikes me as too little storage capacity by 2013 standards. Why? Because regular everyday people are
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I recently had my iTunes Match subscription renewed. I was totally happy to do this considering the incredible convenience the service has afforded me. The ability to access my entire music library on any iOS device at any time is incredibly compelling. Of course, the service is not all sunshine
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Out of all possible new incumbents entering the mobile OS space, Ubuntu, purveyors of a very fine Linux distribution, announced at CES that they have some lofty goals of their own. I watched the short introductory video on their homepage, which goes on to demonstrate and discuss some of their
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What is the value proposition for businesses joining App.net? This is something I’ve been contemplating ever since I joined the service in August. Unlike Twitter, where big brands have the luxury of being exposed to tens of millions of eyeballs, App.net has a modest user base of
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For as long as I can remember, science fiction has been a huge part of my life. Although I was never a huge Star Wars fan — I liked the originals just fine — I am and have always been a massive Star Trek fan. The next generation was one of my
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My memory is hazy. I may have been six years old when my mother took my sister and I to the Vancouver production of The Phantom of the Opera. It was playing at the Queen Elizabeth theater. The phantom was played none other than Jeff Hyslop, star of the incredibly
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I should have seen the writing on the wall. Back in February 2008, when I first joined Twitter (admittedly, slightly late to the game), I was excited about the service. Its premise was intriguing, and it completely sucked me in. Twitter was a simple concept: micro-blogging in the guise of
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After finishing Battlestar Galactica, I felt a sudden swell of sadness. I needed a new engrossing science fiction series to watch. To fill that void I have turned to Farscape. I know it probably seems like I’m late to the game — I am being that it aired over ten
