From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Test Driving Genius Playlists

October 21, 2008

Over the years, I have done a fair amount of tinkering with smart playlists in iTunes in a never-ending quest to get that “ultimate” mix of great music out of my music library, so I was really excited last month when Apple added “Genius Playlists” to iTunes 8. While I had played around with the feature somewhat, I did not really test it out until this past weekend. I took advantage of the eight hours I was going to be in the car driving up and back to a friend’s wedding, and loaded up my iPhone with 100% Genius Playlist-powered music to listen to over the entire trip.

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A Quick Introduction to RSS

October 17, 2008

Since I started this blog, I have had more people than I would have expected ask me about how RSS feeds work, how they can set up a feed of this blog on their iGoogle page, and other similar questions. What follows is a short overview of RSS and how you can use it to subscribe to a website’s feed.

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Hello, world!

October 12, 2008

Over the last several months I have had an ongoing desire to share and discuss some of the ways I have been using technology in my day-to-day life. Sometimes I would have an idea that I believed was unique, while other times I simply had a thought that I wanted to share with friends, family, and colleagues in a more structured setting than just a simple email or conversation. So today I got started.

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