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		<title>Aperture 3 hint of the day: Import to the selected item</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you were annoyed by how Aperture 3 imported to a new project rather than using your selection, you can fix this. Go to Preferences-> Import, and change the &#8220;default import location&#8221; to &#8220;selected item&#8221;. Yay!]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=266</link>
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		<title>No video on my Macbook Pro, again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I restarted my Macbook Pro at the beginning of the week and was greeted with a black screen. Yes, for the second time this year my laptop had the Nvidia GPU die. The first time Apple fixed it they were supposed to have put in a new board that wouldn&#8217;t have the problem again. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=262</link>
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		<title>Another Aperture update, another bug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aperture 3.03 was released recently. And of course, the first thing I try to do exposes a bug in it that didn&#8217;t exist in previous versions. Basically, the functionality for mapping pictures to GPS tracks from a GPS device is broken. It appears to place photos off by one hour when you tell it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=260</link>
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		<title>Aperture 3: Update failed, the fix(?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you read my last post, you know how Aperture won&#8217;t upgrade due to unrealistic expectations in terms of disk space. Here is what I had to do so that I could use the new version: - I moved my 76.3 GB Aperture library to an external hard drive. - I started Aperture. It created [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=249</link>
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		<title>Aperture 3 upgrade: A failure in software engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably been obvious from previous posts that I use Apple&#8217;s Aperture photo management software for all my photo processing and management. The size of my Aperture library on my laptop is 76.3GB. It is the largest folder on my harddrive. In fact, it takes up roughly half the harddrive space on my laptop. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Aperture 3.0.1: Lots of bug fixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I already bought Aperture 3.0, I&#8217;ve been waiting to install it after hearing about how buggy the release was. Well, luckily I haven&#8217;t had to wait long as Apple has already come out with their first bug fix update for it. Looks like lots of important fixes in here. Makes you wonder why Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>What is it with electronics recently?  HDCP issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like I have been having a lot of big electronics failures recently. This time it was my TV. Last week my TiVo started displaying a message saying that it couldn&#8217;t display over an HDMI cable on any of the highdef channels. After some troubleshooting it appears that my Samsung LNR238W LCD TV is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=228</link>
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		<title>My Macbook Pro has a defective video chip, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s being fixed. for FREE! I brought my Macbook Pro into the local Apple store genius bar. (Had an appointment) I told them I wanted them to run a hardware diagnostic because my laptop wouldn&#8217;t boot but only show a checkboard pattern over the grey Apple logo. (See my previous post) They plugged in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=226</link>
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		<title>My laptop is dieing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the picture says it all, but my laptop may be dead. If it is, I hope my time machine backups actually work.]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Mac twitter clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A added a new page with a list of Mac twitter clients. If you have any thoughts on which of these are better, post them in the comments. Twitter Clients for Mac]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Shuttle Launch STS119</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drove out to the cape for the shuttle launch tonight to the Max Brewer Memorial Parkway (406). It was a quick drive out there, but the way back was extreme gridlock. I ended up heading driving a big loop to avoid traffic. First out east on the 406 and up north to A1A, then south [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=175</link>
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		<title>WordPress blogging tools?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone know of a good free WordPress blogging application for the Mac? On my iPhone i use the official WordPress application. Currently on my Mac I just use the web interface. It works, but would like something that could browse my photos in Aperture more easily.]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=173</link>
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		<title>My wife wants EA SPORTS Active for the Wii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though May 19th is an important date in our family for other reason, I would bet that my wife is going to be asking me if I can bring home EA SPORTS Active from the work company store. I always like games that come with accessories. Although is it still a game if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=171</link>
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		<title>Help out a good game and spread the news: Henry Hatsworth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry Hatsworth is a fun and novel game combining an action platformer with a puzzle game. It&#8217;s one of those games that isn&#8217;t quite like anything you&#8217;ve played before. If you haven&#8217;t heard about it, check out EA&#8217;s marketing site: EA: Henry Hatsworth. It&#8217;s bound to at least be a cult classic. If you like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=169</link>
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		<title>When is a browser not a browser?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently when it&#8217;s a specialized browser. Hulu just asked Boxee to remove Hulu. What&#8217;s next, will they ask Safari to remove Hulu? http://origin-blog.hulu.com/2009/2/18/doing-hard-things I never watched Hulu before Boxee. I don&#8217;t expect to watch it after. I like to watch tv shows on a *gasp* TV. But hey, go ahead and turn away your fans. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=167</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a plane in the Hudson. The power of technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many people with phones that have cameras and internet connectivity these days that pictures like this are starting to seem common place. A picture of the US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson taken by someone on the ferry to go rescue the passengers. There&#8217;s a plane in the Hudson..]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=165</link>
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		<title>iPhone bugs &#8211; Taking the nuclear option</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my iPhone has been really buggy recently. It won&#8217;t let me re-install several programs that had disappeared at the last iPhone firmware upgrade. I even tried deleting them on both the iTunes and iPhone end, even going in and removing the applications from the iTunes folder. However, when I re-download them from iTunes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=145</link>
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		<title>ARRGHHHH!!!  iPhone data loss.  Time Machine doesn&#8217;t work.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just lost some critical data from my iPhone. Time Machine should have saved me, but it didn&#8217;t. Read my email to Steve Jobs for the whole story. On Sep 14, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Richard wrote: Steve, I&#8217;m writing this letter to let you know of my recent disappointment with using Time Machine (with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=143</link>
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		<title>iTunes iPhone application updating defective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loaded up iTunes today. It showed that I had one application that had an update available for download. (In fact, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen this not say their was one update available for quite some time.) I clicked on the link to show me the available update and it proceeds to the &#8220;My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=138</link>
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		<title>WordPress for iPhone review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again WordPress provides a first class blogging experience. I just downloaded the iPhone WordPress app and am writing this post using it. Setup only requires your name and password and you are ready to post. You can work on your post, save it as a local draft and post it whenever you are ready. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Think Time Capsule is a piece of junk?  Try forcing a reset.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife got me an Apple Time Capsule for father&#8217;s day. The Time Capsule is a network device that is supposed to work in conjunction with Apple&#8217;s Time Machine backup software to backup your computer wirelessly on a regular basis. It also serves as a 802.11n access point that I&#8217;ve been using to provide access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=124</link>
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		<title>iPhone 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So iPhone 2.0 has been out for a week now. What do you think? There were three main reasons that I was anticipating the new firmware. - Activesync for work. - VPN for work - App store so that I could finally transfer all my passwords from my Treo to my iPhone and get rid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s in your face advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I plugged my iPhone into my computer to make sure it was synchronized and all backed up nicely before I go on a business trip. iTunes started up like normal, but for some reason it didn&#8217;t start the sync process. I clicked on the iPhone in iTunes and instead of showing the iPhone page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=122</link>
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		<title>Patience: iPhone SDK &amp; Enterprise &amp; Firmware 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple released information on it&#8217;s iPhone SDK on Thursday. You can sign up to be an iPhone developer on their website. They also released info on their Microsoft exchange support for enterprise email and calendar. They are accepting applications for businesses that want to participate in their iPhone Enterprise beta program. They now will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=121</link>
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		<title>Cursor 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in January, my friend Ben sent me a link to this innovative game called Cursor 10, but I never got around to posting about it. It&#8217;s a great use of time as a key game play element. If you are at all interested in video games, this is one that you are obligated to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Have you played EA Sports GameShow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on the topic of video games, have you played EA Sports GameShow? If you like sports trivia or sports talk radio, this is the game for you. It has a live DJ, sports trivia questions based on current events, and best of all, it&#8217;s free!! To download it, go to http://www.eagameshow.com If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=119</link>
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		<title>GDC 2008 &#8211; Did you go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another year has come and gone of the Game Developer&#8217;s Conference. I wasn&#8217;t able to attend this year, but there are always places that provide some news coverage of the events. I thought one of the biggest announcements was Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox Live Community games. Providing a forum for people who aren&#8217;t official game developers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>iMovie bug &#8211; Sanyo Xacti HD700 is not supported</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I forgot to post about this bug I found in iMovie in December. Basically, if you import from camera iMovie lowers the quality of the movie. But if you choose &#8220;Import Movies&#8230;&#8221; it works as expected. So I just got a reply from Apple (I entered it as a bug in the developer bug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Does anyone who isn&#8217;t related to me read this site?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that back in the day when podcasts were just starting, I was one of the few original podcasts and had a small following of people who read the site. However, I&#8217;m guessing that when while techshorts gathered dust that people wandered away. So does anyone actually read this site who isn&#8217;t related to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Aperture 2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple has released their latest upgrade to Aperture (their photo management application). Apparently, not only does it have user interface improvements and new features, it also is much faster. You can download a free trial from Apple. I&#8217;ve already ordered my copy. Interested, but not sure if it&#8217;s the right thing for you? Check out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Seam carving for content aware image resizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen this, it&#8217;s a neat technique for reducing or enlarging the size of an image while preserving important content. The paper with the research: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/imret.pdf A windows application implementation of the technique: http://peterw.000webhost.com/resizor/index.html Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if you&#8217;re favorite mobile browser could do that on webpages? Especially the ones that waste [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wishing everyone the best in the New Year. Happy New Year!]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>iPhone update 1.0.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I installed iPhone update 1.0.1 on Heather&#8217;s phone. Worked like a charm. And as a bonus, the iPhone now will play music over her Griffin iTrip, so she can listen to music from her iPhone in the car. My iPhone had been modded by adding some custom ringtones. Prior to the update I removed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Bug in iTunes synchronization with Aperture albums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I reported this to Apple&#8217;s iPhone feedback, but thought I&#8217;d post it here in case someone runs into the same issue. Under specific conditions, adding a new album to Aperture will change the albums that are selected for synchronization in iTunes To reproduce: Make sure you have an Aperture library with several projects that contain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Happy Fourth of July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Independence Day to my United States readers! Today is a good day to give thanks for what we have as a nation and to remember to be vigilant of threats to restrict or limit our freedom, both internal and external.]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Indie games on Wii?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to computerandvideogames.com Nintendo has indicated that they may have indie games available for purchase through the Wii Shop sometime in the future. It will be interesting to see what form the &#8220;programming system&#8221; that Nintendo refers to will take.]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Nintendo Wii-mote with your Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to use your Nintendo Wii-mote with your mac? Well, you can with DarwiinRemote. Don&#8217;t have a Mac yet? Well, they have program for windows to read the Wii-mote as well: WiinRemote For other drivers, check out WiiLi.org]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=107</link>
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		<title>Xbox 360 controller driver for Mac OSX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colin has posted Mac OSX drivers for the controller on his Tattiebogle website. http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver I only have the wireless controllers, so haven&#8217;t tried it out, but it sounds cool!]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=106</link>
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		<title>Comment requirements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You now have to be registered and logged in if you want to comment. I got sick of dealing with deleting spam, and this seems like a way to reduce the amount of spam. Sorry for making it more difficult to comment, but it&#8217;s not like anyone comments on this blog anyway except for spammers.]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=105</link>
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		<title>Aperture 1.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are into photography you probably have heard that Apple&#8217;s Aperture 1.5 has been released. You can find some great info on Bagelturf I&#8217;ve had a few problems with crashes myself, so you might want to read the Aperture Discussion forums before jumping on the upgrade.]]></description>
		<link>http://techshorts.com/?p=103</link>
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