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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>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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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>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>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>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>
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		<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>Are iBooks Books Complete? I Bought One Missing Nearly 100 Pages</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/12/are-ibooks-books-complete-i-bought-one-missing-nearly-100-pages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/12/are-ibooks-books-complete-i-bought-one-missing-nearly-100-pages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to re-read Stephen King&#8217;s Dark Tower series, and decided to buy the books to read on my iPad (I already have paperback versions), to benefit from the larger font size. I&#8217;m currently near the end of the third book, when I noticed that something was missing. At the end of part III, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safari Reader: A Welcome Addition to Apple&#8217;s Web Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/08/safari-reader-a-welcome-addition-to-apples-web-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/08/safari-reader-a-welcome-addition-to-apples-web-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has released Safari 5, the latest version of their web browser, and the program has added a number of interesting new features. In addition to extensions &#8211; similar to Firefox add-ons, but none are currently available &#8211; it adds Safari Reader, a great way to read cluttered web pages in an uncluttered layout. Load [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ulysses Gets Censored Again; This Time by Apple</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/07/ulysses-gets-censored-again-this-time-by-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/07/ulysses-gets-censored-again-this-time-by-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s strategy of censoring apps that contains content unsuitable for children is certainly defensible, but sometimes the results are ludicrous. A comic adaptation of James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses was denied approval until the developer and artist made some changes, notably reframing the image below: Come on, Apple, even the famous court decision overturning its censorship in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Latest Appearance on the Tech Night Owl Live</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/04/my-latest-appearance-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/04/my-latest-appearance-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On this week’s all-star episode, author and commentator Kirk McElhearn rants about cable clutter and possible solutions to the “rats nest” behind your computer and below your desk. He’ll also examine the various comments Steve Jobs made in his recent interview at the All Things Digital conference. Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell will be on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple and App Store Censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/16/apple-and-app-store-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/16/apple-and-app-store-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the deal with this censorship, Apple? Ok, you banned jiggly boob apps, and even all apps that have babes in bikinis. One can argue for this in some ways, but you still sell an app from Playboy. So now you censor a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist for satire. This is an app with political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Me Discuss the iPad on the Tech Night Owl Live</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/16/hear-me-discuss-the-ipad-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/16/hear-me-discuss-the-ipad-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this week’s all-star episode, the iPad remains front and center, as Apple reports selling 500,000 units the very first week. What this means is that the international rollout is delayed until May. But that didn’t stop columnist Kirk McElhearn from having one sent by a friend in the U.S. to his home in France, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witch: A Great Window Switcher for Mac</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/07/witch-a-great-window-switcher-for-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/07/witch-a-great-window-switcher-for-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a copy of Many Tricks&#8217; $19 Witch today. It&#8217;s a window switcher for Mac OS X. Now this might need a bit of explanation. You probably know that you can press Command-Tab to switch applications, but you can&#8217;t choose which window &#8211; if an application has multiple windows &#8211; you&#8217;ll go to. Witch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Classical Music Tips for Working with iTunes and the iPod</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/25/some-classical-music-tips-for-working-with-itunes-and-the-ipod/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/25/some-classical-music-tips-for-working-with-itunes-and-the-ipod/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my latest Macworld article, I present a few tips that can help classical music fans who use iTunes and the iPod. Learn about working with FLAC files, getting better CD rips, and a neat tagging trick that can help save time.]]></description>
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		<title>Latest iPad SDK Has Dvorak Keyboard Layout</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/19/latest-ipad-sdk-has-dvorak-keyboard-layout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/19/latest-ipad-sdk-has-dvorak-keyboard-layout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;software&#8221; keyboard. TUAW reports that the latest SDK allows users to choose the Dvorak layout for a hardware keyboard, that is one connected via a dock or Bluetooth. I wrote, a few months ago, an article for Macworld asking for a Dvorak layout for those of us who use that type [...]]]></description>
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