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Internet

Pandora: Important update on royalties

July 8, 2009

Pandora will live on, but it could cost a few cents to keep listening:

The revised royalties are quite high – higher in fact than any other form of radio. As a consequence, we will have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are [...]

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Font face CSS Attributes work in Safari, too

July 7, 2009

From Beautiful Typography & FireFox 3.5 – Yeraze’s Domain 3.0:

Someone just sent this to me, and I had to share.  One of the new features in FireFox3.5 is the “font-face” CSS Attribute, which lets you reference fonts not installed on a user’s system.

Safari (at least on a Mac) can do the same thing.

Note: Don’t view [...]

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Goodbye BusySync. Hello… MobileMe?

January 18, 2009

Political consulting being my day job, I find myself from time to time needing to set up a “server system” for a campaign.

Needs are basic: Email, file storage and sharing and calendaring. Since spending money on a business-level system is not usually an option, I take advantage of Google Apps for Your Domain.

It works better [...]

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Hollywood licensing punishes online movie watchers

December 24, 2008

Hollywood execs don’t yet understand how to utilize new media when it comes to distribution. It’s much the same way newspapers are still struggling with how to use the Internet in presenting their printed product.

Consumers love the ability to watch movies online through such offerings as Netflix, iTunes and even Hulu. And while the first [...]

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Google adds Gears beta for Safari

August 28, 2008

No sooner do I post about Google Apps and mention the shortfall of not having Gears for Safari than does Google announces they are introducing Gears for Safari.

I have no real intention of testing this for a few reasons, but the main two are:

I don’t have a real need with my current workflow configuration. Everything I’ve [...]

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Google Apps Part 3: Making my online and offline workflows flow

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the final part of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

Like I said in Part 2 of this series:

Not everyone’s workflow is the same, and thus not everyone will use Google Apps the same. As I said, it has its limitations, and [...]

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Google Apps Part 2: Reasons I like and dislike Google Apps

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the second part of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

I discussed in this post what Google Apps includes and why I chose to use it. Google Apps provides a lot of advantages and a few disadvantages. First, let’s take a look at the [...]

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Google Apps Part 1: What is Google Apps and why I chose it

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the first of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

I was not an early adopter to Gmail or Google Docs. My reasons were not from fear of “big brother”, though those are valid concerns.

My reasons were much simpler:

I had an email address [...]

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