Monthly Archives: March 2009

Junco-operative

By John | March 23, 2009

Sometimes I ask myself what the developers of the Apple Mac spelling checker are smoking…

Fortunately, most people don’t accept that particular suggestion – not everyone was paying attention however…

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If you thought the current financial crisis was bad news, things are looking even worse for 2030, says an article in the Guardian today:
A “perfect storm” of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration as people flee from the worst-affected regions, the UK government’s [...]

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Getting the most out of iTunes

By John | March 9, 2009

Here’s a good article on Gizmodo, which lists a bunch of useful additions to iTunes, some for the Mac, some for Windows and even a couple to allow you use Linux to play from iTunes libraries. Take a look.

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Removing duplicate files in iTunes

By John | March 7, 2009

I have been moving our music library to a new external disc drive this weekend, and after running the consolidate command from iTunes (File > Library > Consolidate Library) I noticed that although I only have each track listed once in iTunes, I have two files for each track in the iTunes music directory (MyMusic). [...]

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Keping an eye on property prices worldwide

By John | March 7, 2009

Knight Frank have a handy service, if you want to keep an eye on how property (residential or commercial) prices are developing world wide.
They publish a trend summary for around 50 countries twice a year. Here’s a list of many of their regular reports (scroll down for the international ones).

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