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Playlist: Ripping episodic DVDs

Let's say you've hypothetically picked up a DVD of hypothetical episodes of The Larry Sanders Show, and now you want an easy way to watch them on your hypothetical Apple TV. Well, Macworld's handsome Chris Breen comes to your hypothetical rescue with the help of HandBrake's new "Queue" functionality:

From the Title pop-up menu select the first episode that you’d like to rip (if it’s a TV show it will be 20 - 60 minutes long). In the Destination area you’ll see a File field. Give your file a unique name—BlahEpisode1, for example. Click the Presets button at the top of the window and, in the resulting Presets pane, select the appropriate preset (HB-AppleTV if you intend to rip that content for Apple TV, for example). Finally, click Add to Queue.

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"A little while ago, my hour-old daughter laid on my chest for 30 minutes and sucked my pinky. I. Just. Wow. http://www.eleanormann.com/"

Things only get better from here. (You may want to repeat that as a mantra at 3am when you've had an hours sleep in the last 50 :D)

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Mac at Home, Windows at Office, PDA in pocket - GTD everywhere?

I recently got into the GrandCentral (GC) beta as a means to consolidate phone numbers and use the convenience features. As I was updating my contact info in Mac's Address Book and on Plaxo I realized that I had trouble "letting go" of posting my other phone numbers.

One reason is people's understanding and their judgment of you and your phone number. If new (or existing) people with whom I maintain professional and personal relationships see I have one phone number, will they assume I work out of my basement or that I'm too cheap to buy a business line? Neither which is true.