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Paul Ford: Distraction commentary on NPR's "All Things Considered"

NPR : Distracted No More: Going Back to Basics

Paul Ford's guest post from last month evolved into an excellent commentary on tonight's All Things Considered. Go Paul.

Distracted No More: Going Back to Basics

by Paul Ford

Commentator Paul Ford has a solution for avoiding the endless distractions a computer provides.

You can listen to it on the NPR site.

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If you click on the...

If you click on the listen link, you should be given a choice of Real Audio or Windows Media, I have the official Windows Media Player for OSX Installed from MS, and it loads quite nicely, I do use the g4 Optimized Firefox builds, so I don't think it has any default association for anything, and I just told it to play using WMP. YMMV, email me if you have any questions, those Linux users out there, you can, I think, convert Real Audio to MP3 or such with Gstreamer, any willing to convert it and post it should or I suppose, someone using WMP on OSX and AudioHijack could do similar. Cheers

 
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