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_Make:_ and new Life Hacks column premieresMerlin Mann | Feb 5 2005O'Reilly's Make: Magazine premieres with Danny O'Brien and my first "Life Hacks" column. read more »11 Comments
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Friday night remainders, 2005-02-04Merlin Mann | Feb 4 2005It’s been a while since we’ve had a round of remainders—good stuff I've wanted to mention that never found their way into a full post. Here's a few to chew on over the weekend. read more »POSTED IN:
Delicious Library: Personal media managementMerlin Mann | Feb 1 2005I finally picked up an iSight camera from Amazon the other day. Not so much to share my meatbeard with my iChat buddies as to finally play with Delicious Library, an OS X app that lets you create a personal catalog of your books, CDs, DVDs, and games by either manually entering the info or, preferably, by just scanning their barcodes with an iSight. Library is a very pretty program, and I can see why it might appeal to collectors, but it didn’t immediately click for me until I hooked up the iSight and started scanning. Even then, I have to confess a few reservations. First—no question—it’s just really fun to use. It’s satisfying to hold up a CD, hear the little “I got it” tone, followed by the robot voice reading back the info on your latest entry (which it pulls down automagically from Amazon.com). Once entered, catalog items can be modified, sorted, munged, and grouped however you like using an elegant bookshelf metaphor. You can also view related titles and do other stuff with your collection via Amazon info and links. Although, candidly, it’s a little cheesy that a $40 commercial product won’t let me change the Amazon Associates ID from theirs to my own (or that of a favorite charity, or what have you). That really should change in a future release. read more »POSTED IN:
How to be a product 43 Folders loves (and reviews)Merlin Mann | Jan 23 2005(Pardon a largely administrative post.) I’ve been pleased to receive so many inquiries from people who’d like me to look at their application or hardware device in order to mention it here on 43 Folders. This is good. I love looking at stuff. It’s what I do. But to save us both time and misunderstanding going forward, here’s a rough idea of the factors that are more likely to get your stuff mentioned here (in more or less descending order of importance). Only #1 is really set in stone, but please do read all the way through before prodding me to talk about your product—especially if it costs anything at all to use. read more »POSTED IN:
More cool searches for Sogudi & QuicksilverMerlin Mann | Jan 22 2005More of the neato little search shortcuts I like to use. Includes UPS/RSS read more »POSTED IN:
Using a kids' CD filer for organizing index cardsMerlin Mann | Jan 21 2005Locker CD holder is a simple way to keep your cards together. read more »POSTED IN:
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