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I finally sat down today to migrate my Twonkymedia Server to my AppleTV so I can get the automatic updating of the library via iTunes without my horrible rsync scripts to my old TwonkyServer.
Why do I need a media server if I have an AppleTV? So I can share music with my Xbox 360, […]

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I found this video on YouTube and it lead me to www.yubliss.com, looks pretty interesting. Certainly a new way of looking at stuff in the world.

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It is my opinion that people on Facebook need to sit down, stop playing pirates and ninjas, or whatever, and REMOVE apps from their profiles, I went to leave a quick message on a friends wall just now and it took 20 minutes to find the wall in their 2 mile long profile page, […]

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So we got Leopard on a MacBook Pro we purchased at work today so I thought I’d try out Mail.app and see if the rumours about being able to subscribe to imap folders is true.
It seems like the functionality is there, but I can’t seem to actually get it to work, the problem seems to […]

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So I decided to become fully apple-ised…. I’ve got myself an AppleTV to replace my Zenzonic Z500 that wouldn’t play H.264 and have spent the last couple of days ‘tweaking’ my apple tv, it now supports samba, has gained 100Gb of hard drive space, and has the ability to play media of various types including […]

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I just watched this presentation on identity on the online world.. The speak brings up some good points and offers a solution, I’m not sure I’d be willing to implement it right now, but if a few big Web 2.0 companies jump on the band wagon I might:

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So! I’ve decided that due to time constrants imposed by the new venture here in California that I’m going to have to sell 0064.co.nz, its a shame, its got a great deal of potential as a business, but needs a lot more dedication than I can provide at the moment.
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So I’m in the states after my first week of work over here, we now have a plan to go forward with our ideas, and now starts the research to see if we can achieve what we want to.
I’m blogging this from my new MacBook Pro using a rather cool piece of software that appears […]

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XFM seem to have decided to limit the streaming service to UK residents only by asking for a postcode on the website, luckily for me, I’ve located the actual server which opens up the stream just fine on my Pocket PC:
http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/playlist.asx?streamid=9

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Wosh have carried out an upgrade to the service resulting in download speeds jumping from around 100Kb/s to 180Kb/s which means I now reach the 10Gb data cap even more quickly now

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