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Comment Spammers

02 February 2005

This weblog presently has over 750 unwanted comment spams waiting for me to find time to delete. The Register has an interview with a comment spammer. According to him, I've brought this on myself by inviting people to comment on my weblog. Yeah, right.

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Sport-Safe Earbuds/Headphones

15 January 2005

While running with my iPod the other day, a drop of sweat fried one of my original iPod headphones. Could anyone recommend a set of good sport-safe earbuds or headphones? Please email me at matt (at) makalumedia (dot) com Thanks!

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Apple Business Plan

15 January 2005

Apple Business Plan: "Paul Nixon seems to have nailed the business plan Apple's following. He's created a very nice infographic of the Apple products and pricing, and how they relate to Consumers. How closely do you think he nailed it?"

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Take Control of Your Airport Network

15 January 2005

I really like the idea of the Take Control series of instructional PDF documents. For $5, I purchased the Take Control of Your AirPort Network book (155 pages!), by Glenn Fleishman, and used it to improve the setup of my home WiFi network. Now, I have my Airport Extreme base station secured with the WPA Personal authentication and encryption system, have configured my network with an Access Control List, and have my Airport Express setup as a WDS bridging network extender, with AirTunes music streaming enabled.

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OSX Application Help

06 January 2005

When I'm using an OS X application, and need to refer to the Help menu, I jump for joy when I find access to a PDF user's manual, and nearly break down in tears when finding the alternative -- i.e. something implemented for Apple's Help Viewer. Given that so many developers build Apple-based help for their applications, there must be some advantages. I would guess these advantages are more aimed at developers, because as a user I'd prefer PDF any day.

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A MacOS X System for Automating Movable Type Comment Spam Deletion

12 December 2004

On this weblog, I use Movable Type version 2.x and the MT-Blacklist 1.6.5 plug-in for the management of comment spam. As I mentioned in this article, it can be really time consuming to manually process all the incoming spam notification emails from MT-Blacklist. I've now implemented a solution to help automate this processing. It's not perfect, but it is saving me a lot of time.

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