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	<title>Kirkville &#187; Apple &amp; Mac OS X</title>
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	<description>Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn</description>
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		<title>Help Me Choose an iPhone Case/Protector</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/18/help-me-choose-an-iphone-caseprotector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got my first iPhone. Yes, I know I&#8217;m late to the party, but I didn&#8217;t need one, and it was too expensive. I was living in a village in the mountains, and as I work at home, I rarely had use for a cell phone. But I&#8217;ve moved to a larger town, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>SafariDAVClient Sucks Up RAM and Does Nothing Useful</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/16/safaridavclient-sucks-up-ram-and-does-nothing-useful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/16/safaridavclient-sucks-up-ram-and-does-nothing-useful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s enough that Safari itself sometimes uses a huge amount of RAM, along with the WebProcess process, but another Safari-related process, SafariDAVClient is an even bigger memory hog. Currently, on my Mac mini which has 8 GB RAM, it is using 1.36 GB real memory. (Screenshot taken from a display provided by iStat Menus.) I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Update: Bad Tracks from iTunes Match: Who Do You Complain To?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/13/bad-tracks-from-itunes-match-who-do-you-complain-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/13/bad-tracks-from-itunes-match-who-do-you-complain-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Evans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people have found that iTunes Match sometimes matches incorrect tracks; not that the songs are wrong, but that the versions might be wrong. This seems to happen especially with music that has been remastered. iTunes may match either an original or remastered track, and the user who matched the track may have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Apple Make iBooks Match for Books?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/03/can-apple-make-ibooks-match-for-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/03/can-apple-make-ibooks-match-for-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch is reporting that an upcoming Apple event, to be held in January, will focus on ebooks, and the company&#8217;s iBooks app. My first thought is that there&#8217;s not much they can do with iBooks to warrant a media event, with a presentation and announcement, but then I thought a bit more. What if Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make Your Own Personal Dropbox With iCloud</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/30/make-your-own-personal-dropbox-with-icloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/30/make-your-own-personal-dropbox-with-icloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple & Mac OS X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iCloud]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[iCloud has some interesting features, notably its ability to sync data and files across devices, be they Macs or iOS devices (iPhones, iPads and iPod touches). However, I find Dropbox to be very practical for syncing files that I want to access on multiple Macs. I store a number of files that I need to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Harsh Attack on Steve Jobs, By Way of a Review (Not Mine) of His Biography</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/26/a-harsh-attack-on-steve-jobs-by-way-of-a-review-not-mine-of-his-biography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/26/a-harsh-attack-on-steve-jobs-by-way-of-a-review-not-mine-of-his-biography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not often my wont to criticize what other journalists and bloggers write, but I came across a review of Walter Isaacson&#8217;s biography of Steve Jobs on the elitist New York Review of Books web site (the same one which, a couple of weeks ago, a conspiracy-theory fueled article about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Apple Now Provides Incremental iTunes Updates via Software Update</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/13/apple-now-provides-incremental-updates-via-software-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/13/apple-now-provides-incremental-updates-via-software-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an update to iTunes available for me this morning: iTunes 10.5.2. And while downloading the update, I noticed something for the first time: it was in incremental update. Instead of being the 100 MB or so download as it has been in the past &#8211; the size of a full program download from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thoughts on Using Speech Recognition Software On a Mac</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/07/thoughts-on-using-speech-recognition-software-on-a-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/07/thoughts-on-using-speech-recognition-software-on-a-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple & Mac OS X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools & Techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the late 1990s, I remember first trying speech recognition software. The first program I used was ViaVoice, by IBM. If my memory is correct, this was the first Mac program that allowed you to speak in phrases and sentences, as opposed to dictating each word one at a time. I used this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Choosing a Microphone for Speech Recognition</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/02/choosing-a-microphone-for-speech-recognition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/02/choosing-a-microphone-for-speech-recognition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using speech recognition tools a lot recently: Dragon Dictate, and the new Dragon Express (my review of which should be up on Macworld in a few days). As part of this, I looked at the different types of microphones you can use with speech recognition software in my latest Macworld article. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Stupidity of Apple&#8217;s Lion Installer</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/23/the-stupidity-of-apples-lion-installer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/23/the-stupidity-of-apples-lion-installer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This hasn&#8217;t been my week. I got this video freeze problem with my new Mac mini, and decided that reinstalling Lion would be the best way to determine whether it&#8217;s an OS problem or a hardware problem. I have the option to return the computer for an exchange in the first two weeks, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mac OS X Lion Freezes &#8211; Is iTunes the Culprit?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/22/mac-os-x-lion-freezes-is-itunes-the-culprit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/22/mac-os-x-lion-freezes-is-itunes-the-culprit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted an article about Lion video freezes occurring with my new Mac mini. There were clear error messages, showing that this is related to the previous Lion video freeze problem I experienced. Since then, I&#8217;ve a couple of other freezes, unrelated to video. And looking at the logs at the time they occurred, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>iTunes Match Feature I&#8217;d Like to See: CD Matches</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/21/itunes-match-feature-id-like-to-see-cd-matches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/21/itunes-match-feature-id-like-to-see-cd-matches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I have some issues with iTunes Match &#8211; notably the fact that it doesn&#8217;t match very well &#8211; I was ripping some CDs today, and realized that there is one feature that could be very useful. I got a 12-disc set of Murray Perahia playing Mozart&#8217;s piano concertos, and had to spend a long [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lion Video Freeze Happening Again with New Mac mini</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/20/lion-video-freeze-happening-again-with-new-mac-mini/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/20/lion-video-freeze-happening-again-with-new-mac-mini/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently replaced my iMac with a new Mac mini, and I had forgotten how annoying the video freeze problems under Lion had been. Today, trying to view a Flash video on a news site, I had a freeze, exactly like what I had with the iMac and Mac OS X 10.7. The Lion updates [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Many Matches Does iTunes Match Match, When iTunes Match Does Match Matches?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/18/how-many-matches-does-itunes-match-match-when-itunes-match-does-match-matches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/18/how-many-matches-does-itunes-match-match-when-itunes-match-does-match-matches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple introduced iTunes Match earlier this week, and I haven&#8217;t written anything about it, given that my colleagues at Macworld have done such a good job. I&#8217;m also busy working on an update to my Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ, which I hope to have finished very soon. (I also have some criticism [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Syncing E-Mail Accounts Via iTunes &#8211; Apple&#8217;s Tech Support Lets Me Down</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/08/syncing-e-mail-accounts-via-itunes-apples-tech-support-lets-me-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/08/syncing-e-mail-accounts-via-itunes-apples-tech-support-lets-me-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can imagine, I have lots of Apple products. To give just a quick rundown, in my home-office at the moment are two iMacs, two MacBook Airs, an iPad, an iPod touch, an iPod classic, and sundry other devices (Magic Trackpad, wireless keyboard, external DVD drive, dock, etc.) Since I live in the country, [...]]]></description>
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