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Free admission to Macworld Expo in San Francisco, January 9-12. Use priority code E-SFVA.

Travis tipped me off to a great deal on SubEthaEdit from the CodingMonkeys. There’s something called BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com, where they give away software based on the number of people who blog about it (up to $105,000).

I just picked up a copy of SubEthaEdit for $6.95. Blog about it/buy now/buy before the end of the day. :)

so some guy got people to donate money so he could buy a G5 and blew up his G4. too funny.

I found a card at SXSW for a free music sampler from Verve. They want you to go to verveforecast.com/sxsw, then register, thenenter in the “download code” of vforecastsxsw.

The music sampler (Jamie Cullum, Brazilian Girls, Jackie Greene, Rhett Miller, Susan Tedeschi, Teddy Thompson) comes in four formats, all of which are annoying:

• WMA, zip
• WMA, sit (who’d want this?)
• QT, zip
• QT, sit

The QuickTime files are .mov files with an embedded AAC track. However, QuickTime won’t let me extract the track cleanly — I can only export as AIFF, AU (why?) and WAVE.

Glenn Anderson has some handy QuickTime Exporters, including one that will save it as AAC (after downsampling from 256 to 128).

Anyone have any better solutions?

The title here is a bit misleading. My favourite Tiger feature really is Spotlight. But I want to talk about something really cool that nobody is talking about:

kABWithinIntervalAroundTodayYearless

kABWhat?

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Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista.

The Cardinal Inquirer interviewed Steve Wozniak:

Sometimes the engineers are true artists and really care what they’re doing, doing a really great job. Although, I don’t know how much I can even say that because the big companies, Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the crappiest products, you know, software-wise. The ones that have the most bugs, the most items that are supposedly in there but don’t work. The most things that are left out because they aren’t finished. The most things that are inconsistent with the way they did their last program. I get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple.

Wil Shipley on ideas:

Delicious Library was not an original idea. It was a new approach to an idea that’s been around for as long as computers. Hell, longer. I think the first cavemen carved on rocks when they lent out their, uh, sticks to other cavemen. Which wasn’t efficient, but still worked better than Microsoft Windows.

free Macworld Expo passes, courtesy of Peachpit Press.

roundup of text editors for mac os x: SubEthaEdit, Textmate and skEdit.