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Whitelist for Adium?

In his recent IDEO video, I thought I heard Merlin say that Adium has an easy way for you to filter who sees you online. I think I inserted wishful thinking into what I heard because I can't find what I'm looking for. Maybe you can point me in the right direction.

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Replacements for Sciral Consistency

I really like the concept and implementation of Sciral Consistency, but I'm not about to pay $25 for a piece of software that hasn't been updated since 2005. Heck, its still a PowerPC-only binary. It seems to me like it's a dead app, and I'm concerned that I'll never see any updates.

So what do people suggest as an alternative? I've been hacking away at a Ruby on Rails clone of it, but I haven't made as much progress as I'd like to.

ICal and events list

ICal and events list

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Forum Topic Feed Item Title Links

Wow, that subject line reads like a paranoid schizophrenic wrote it. I'm not - no matter what you may hear around the intertubes.

What I'm getting at is this: When I view a new forum item via RSS and then I click on the title, I'm taken to the forum topic listing rather than to the particular forum topic with its comments and such.

Hope that makes sense.

Happy Discardia: Let something go

Discardia: What is it?

Today begins the next season of Discardia (this one runs today through October 3rd). ‘Tis the season to get rid of some crap. Dinah says:

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GTD: difference between Processing and Organizing?

GTD: difference between Processing and Organizing?

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GTD for Linux

GTD for Linux

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iTunes copying songs twice.

I imported my songs awhile ago from a pc to my new mac. However, I just realized that I could potentially save a lot of space:

I have seemingly all of my music in my /music folder -- in addition to that, I seem to have all my music in /music/itunes/itunes music/ folder, except its divided by albums. If I deleted ALL of the music in just my /music folder, would that effect anything my music collection/itunes? Or does my mac somehow require them to be in both places?

Thanks!

TOPICS: Mac OS X

Sexy declutting of your desk using pegboard

Sexy decluttering of your desk using pegboard

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