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	<description>Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn</description>
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		<title>Dropbox Launches Dropquest 2012 Internet Scavenger Hunt</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/05/13/dropbox-launches-dropquest-2012-internet-scavenger-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 09:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools & Techniques]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dropbox has launched their Dropquest 2012 Internet scavenger hunt, with loads of prizes (mostly virtual: free space on Dropbox). You have to solve a series of puzzles, and you&#8217;ll get a free 1 GB of Dropbox space if you finish. First place is 100 GB for life, plus some Dropbox swag. Don&#8217;t have a Dropbox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Every-Disc Player: Cambridge Audio 651BD</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/05/12/the-every-disc-player-cambridge-audio-651bd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 11:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Available from Amazon.com &#124; Amazon UK &#124; Amazon FR As a music lover, and especially as a reviewer for MusicWeb International, I am confronted with a number of different types of optical discs. CDs and DVDs are, of course, the most common, and have been around for a long time. But in the past couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Machine: Perhaps the Worst Interface Apple Has Ever Made</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use Time Machine to perform hourly backups of my home folder on my Mac, and I like the way it is transparent. I don&#8217;t back up the entire system, because I prefer making manual clones, which are easier to restore. I don&#8217;t often need to access my Time Machine backups, but occasionally I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrei Tarkovsky&#8217;s Stalker, the Great Existentialist Science Fiction Film</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/05/07/andrei-tarkovskys-stalker-the-great-existentialist-science-fiction-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Films & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;d been years since I had seen Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky&#8217;s excellent science fiction film, and I watched it last night. For a science fiction movie, Stalker is certainly an oddity. Released in 1979, loosely based on the short novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and directed by Tarkovsky, the masterful Russian director who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next iPhone to Change Aspect Ratio, Dock Connector? I Don&#8217;t Think So</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/05/04/next-iphone-to-change-aspect-ratio-dock-connector-i-dont-think-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/05/04/next-iphone-to-change-aspect-ratio-dock-connector-i-dont-think-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 10:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[iLounge is reporting on new iPhone specs which include two major changes: a different aspect ratio, and a new dock connector. This seem surprising for two reasons. First, changing the aspect ratio would mean that all apps have to be updated. Unless the additional space is something like the Dock in OS X; a list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropbox and Automatic Camera Uploads</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/27/dropbox-and-automatic-camera-uploads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple & Mac OS X]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t take a lot of pictures, but when Dropbox offered a beta of their software that automatically downloaded (and uploaded) photos, I tried it out. (I wrote about it in February.) When you connect a compatible device &#8211; digital camera, iPhone, etc. &#8211; Dropbox detects it and asks if you want to upload photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 20th Birthday BBEdit!</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/12/happy-20th-birthday-bbedit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/12/happy-20th-birthday-bbedit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple & Mac OS X]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People occasionally ask me what tools I use in my work; which programs I use to write blog posts and articles, and to tweak my website. While I regularly use a number of text tools &#8211; depending on my needs, and who I&#8217;m working for, I may use Word, Pages, Scrivener or a text editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotify Takes a Good Idea and Wraps it in Stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/11/spotify-takes-a-good-idea-and-wraps-it-in-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/11/spotify-takes-a-good-idea-and-wraps-it-in-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spotify announced today the availability of a widget that people can use to &#8220;embed&#8221; music on their blogs and websites. When I first read about this, my initial thoughts were, &#8220;brilliant idea; now lots of people will discover Spotify, and different types of music.&#8221; But I forgot how stupid Spotify can be. If you go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bare Bones Updates TextWrangler: The Free Text Editor for Mac</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/10/bare-bones-updates-textwrangler-the-free-text-editor-for-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/10/bare-bones-updates-textwrangler-the-free-text-editor-for-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bare Bones Software has released TextWrangler 4.0, the amazing free text editor for Mac. Over the years, Bare Bones has maintained this free text editor and provided the Mac community with a powerful tool that does most of what you&#8217;ll need to do with a text editor. Yet I don&#8217;t use TextWrangler; I use the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100: Smaller Footprint, Higher Sample Rate</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/05/cambridge-audio-dacmagic-100-smaller-footprint-higher-sample-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/04/05/cambridge-audio-dacmagic-100-smaller-footprint-higher-sample-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following Cambridge Audio&#8217;s products since I reviewed the company&#8217;s original DacMagic for Macworld, back in 2010. The company has been kind enough to provide me samples of some of their devices, and I recently received a DacMagic 100, their newest DAC. The DacMagic 100 is similar in concept to the original DacMagic, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Box Sets to Remember Gustav Leonhardt</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/28/some-box-sets-to-remember-gustav-leonhardt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/28/some-box-sets-to-remember-gustav-leonhardt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt passed away in January of this year, leaving behind a huge legacy of recordings. The record companies are getting ready to release (or re-release) a number of box sets of his many discs. Here are a few of them. Sony has a 15-disc Jubilee Edition, originally released in 2008, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Bach&#8217;s Birthday, Discover Complete Editions of His Works</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/21/for-bachs-birthday-discover-complete-editions-of-his-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/21/for-bachs-birthday-discover-complete-editions-of-his-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 327th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, undoubtedly the most important composer in the history of western music. His work is vast and varied: it ranges from solo keyboard music to choral passions and oratorios; from concertos to organ works; from sacred cantatas to solo works for violin or cello. Appreciating Bach&#8217;s output [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Eliot Gardiner Seeks Funding to Record and Release Bach&#8217;s Ascension Cantatas</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/20/john-eliot-gardiner-seeks-funding-to-record-and-release-bachs-ascension-cantatas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/20/john-eliot-gardiner-seeks-funding-to-record-and-release-bachs-ascension-cantatas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow this blog, you know that I&#8217;m a big fan of John Eliot Gardiner&#8217;s Bach cantata pilgrimage, a Quixotic yet successful year-long concert tour performing all of Bach&#8217;s sacred cantatas (and some other works). (Photo: Anima Mundi Festival, Pisa) Well, there&#8217;s news from Gardiner&#8217;s Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists. They are planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Apple TV Constantly Dropping Network Connections</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/18/new-apple-tv-constantly-dropping-network-connections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/18/new-apple-tv-constantly-dropping-network-connections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday mornings, I often like to sit in front of my stereo and listen to music, while I read a book, or the latest New Yorker. This morning, I wanted to listen to a new disc I bought (Towards the Horizon; Modificata; Incantations by Einojuhani Rautavaara), and since I had gotten my new Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is iTunes&#8217; Radio Service Wigging Out?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/13/is-itunes-radio-service-wigging-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/03/13/is-itunes-radio-service-wigging-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPod & iTunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed this over the past couple of days, since the iTunes 10.6 upgrade. I don&#8217;t have the Radio library visible, and never use iTunes&#8217; radio streaming service. But I&#8217;m seeing alerts like this constantly: It seems to get stuck, waiting for a response, as this displays for a long time. I know that iTunes&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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