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	<description>Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn</description>
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		<title>Take Control Books 50% Off Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/take-control-books-50-off-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now through August 3, all Take Control books are 50% off (including mine). If you don&#8217;t know the great Take Control book series, it&#8217;s a set of ebooks about using the Mac and related software and hardware. Check out the sale now. And if you&#8217;re interested, I&#8217;ve got a new Take Control book coming out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Prices Plummet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has introduced another new Kindle model, and this time the prices are starting to get low enough that this device may, indeed, become a commonplace appliance. The 3G version &#8211; which lets you get books almost anywhere, over the 3G network, is $189. But the real news is the wi-fi only model, which, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cult of Mac Endorses App Piracy</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/27/cult-of-mac-endorses-app-piracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to thing the Cult of Mac blog, was interesting, even though I found lead author Leander Kahney to be often a windbag. But after publishing an article not only endorsing app piracy but explaining, step by step, how to do it, I was quite shocked. The decision to publish such an article is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of America Launches New Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/23/library-of-america-launches-new-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of the Library of America, a non-profit organization that publishes excellent volumes of works by America&#8217;s great authors. Just for the many volumes of Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William James alone, this would be a great enterprise. But they publish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Updates iBooks: PDF Display Suffers</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/20/apple-updates-ibooks-pdf-display-suffers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use Apple&#8217;s iBooks on my iPad for reading epub books, and since PDF support was added, I&#8217;ve tried it out a few times. But the $0.99 GoodReader has so many more features, that I haven&#8217;t found it very useful to use iBooks for PDFs. Apple has updated iBooks, claiming that there were improvements to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MobileMe E-mail: Junk Filter Can&#8217;t Be Turned Off</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/16/mobileme-e-mail-junk-filter-cant-be-turned-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/16/mobileme-e-mail-junk-filter-cant-be-turned-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Apple recently updated MobileMe, I&#8217;ve spotted something a bit disturbing. I use my MobileMe account for some of my e-mail, and I was noticing that some messages to mailing lists weren&#8217;t coming through. When I looked on the web, I noticed that some of those messages were trapped in the Junk folder. Since I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books I Want: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/15/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got lots of books; probably too many. But there are some books that I&#8217;d like to own, bu I simply cannot afford. My tastes are varied: from Stephen King to Henry David Thoreau, by way of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Robert B. Parker, Peter Robinson, Robertson Davies, William Shakespeare, and much more. But one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find Out What You Listen to Most in Your iTunes Library</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/06/find-out-what-you-listen-to-most-in-your-itunes-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what you&#8217;ve listened to most in your music library? Not just songs (which you can see by sorting your library by Plays), but also albums, artists, or even genres? Doug Adams, the AppleScript wallah, has released a neat application called Spins which tells you just that. It scans your iTunes library, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Kindle with Better Contrast: Third Time Lucky?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/new-kindle-with-better-contrast-third-time-lucky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/new-kindle-with-better-contrast-third-time-lucky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has announced a new version of its ebook reader, the Kindle, which touts, among other things, &#8220;50% better contrast&#8221; than the current models. I&#8217;ve written about my experience with the Kindle, which was a second-generation model, and which suffered from headache-inducingly poor contrast. Amazon has clearly had enough complaints about this issue &#8211; even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Notes: Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buy from Amazon.com &#124; Amazon UK It is, of course, nothing more than chance that the day after I finish Christopher Hitchens&#8217; memoir Hitch-22, I come across this statement on the Vanity Fair web site: I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice Memo Bug on iPod touch with iOS 4</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/voice-memo-bug-on-ipod-touch-with-ios-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/voice-memo-bug-on-ipod-touch-with-ios-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researching the iPod&#8217;s voice memo feature (with a mic, you can record memos, lectures, or anything else), I discovered that the iPod touch (the latest model) won&#8217;t record voice memos if it&#8217;s running iOS 4. The iPhone works fine, but I confirmed this bug with a friend who has the same problem on his iPod [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Me Discuss eBooks on the Tech Night Owl Live</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/hear-me-discuss-ebooks-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/hear-me-discuss-ebooks-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this week’s all-star episode, veteran Mac commentator Ted Landau explains why Apple hasn’t changed the basic look of new Macs in recent years. Columnist Kirk McElhearn, a fan of mystery and science fiction novels, explains why he likes Apple’s iBooks ebook reading app and speculates about some of the issues involved in electronic publishing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Updates iBooks E-reader App</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/22/apple-updates-ibooks-e-reader-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the release of iOS 4 yesterday &#8211; the latest version of Apple&#8217;s operating system for the iPhone and iPod touch &#8211; Apple has also released an update to the iBooks app for iPad, and a version of that app for the smaller iDevices. While the addition of iBooks to the iPhone and iPod touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Me Clear Out My CD Library &#8211; Used Classical CDs for Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/20/help-me-clear-out-my-cd-library-used-classical-cds-for-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/20/help-me-clear-out-my-cd-library-used-classical-cds-for-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m culling my music library. I have too many CDs that I never listen too. I&#8217;ve made a list and put it up on my web site; there are currently around 200 CDs or sets available, and I&#8217;ll be adding more in the near future. (I&#8217;ll probably make an announcement when I get to version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What New Features Would You Like to See in iTunes?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/17/what-new-features-would-you-like-to-see-in-itunes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/17/what-new-features-would-you-like-to-see-in-itunes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ask this question, and offer some ideas, in my latest Macworld article.]]></description>
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