Wired has a nice guide on how to burn a DVD on your Mac. It pretty much relies on www.mactheripper.org/ which I’ve mentioned here a few times before. It strips off restrictions like region encoding and other dumb stuff that companies like to force on us for no good reason.
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Got your spellcheck on? Grammar checking your longer posts? Good. So how about typography mistakes? Whaa - ? I hear you cry.
Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi. Below are ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on [...]

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We all know that their is one search monster in the world and that monster is Google. It’s the biggest and best search tool going. If your start page, the page that opens when you start Internet Explorer or Firefox, is not Google then change it now. It’ll save you so much time. Here’s how:
IE: [...]

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How to Protect your Laptop, MacBook or MacBook Pro
So you’ve just spent a small fortune on your new laptop? Money that could have gone toward gold plating your dog, cat or toddler. Although you missed on on the gold plating, you do have a wonderful new shiny laptop. All is well with the world - [...]

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If you want to know what someone is really thinking you watch their eyes. Here’s a quick and dirty guide on what people’s eyes are revealing:
Straight Eye contact. Consistent eye contact is a sign that the person is interested in the conversation. Prolonged eye contact can mean that the person is trying to intimidate and/or [...]

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Looking for a good robots.txt file for WordPress? Well here’s a good example, culled from a few different guides around the web and rolled into one file:
example_robots.txt
The crawl delay prevents bots using too much of your site bandwidth by over crawling.
example_sitemap.xml.txt
You can auto generate your basic Sitemap here. Auto generate a 500 page Sitemap here.

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What is a blog? What should a blog be? What’s your blog’s point?
Well one of the original bloggers, Jorn Barger, gives his views in this Wired article. Some of his points I agree with, some don’t make sense and take the power and bite out of the collective production and sway of the blog.
At [...]

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In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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