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The Always-On Wrap-Up is a camera case with attaches to your point-and-shoot’s tripod mount, and wraps around the camera to protect it. (Though there is little to no protection on the sides.)
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“[P]rofessional grade shotgun mic” for “any Camcorder that has the standard camera-shoe fitting and utilizes a stereo mini jack for audio output.”
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Backpack-toting road warriors may want to check out this exo-shell pack. There’s a briefcase version, too.
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“This package contains a BBEdit codeless language module for the simple to-do list format used by TaskPaper. It is intended for Mac users who want to edit their TaskPaper lists in BBEdit from time to time…”
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If you carry a shoulder bag, you may want to look at Skooba’s Superbungee Strap as a replacement for your bag’s strap. It features a “high-density, floating bungee/shock cord ring which acts as a shock absorber, minimizing carrying shock…”
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“[L]ets users carry a single compact power adapter to charge iPod and many popular mobile phones at home or on the road.”
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Affix a tag to your electronic gadget, register it on the zReturn web site, and should it be lost, and found by a honest member of society, they can log in to the zReturn web site and contact you for the device’s return.
Month: November 2007
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“The best league in college football this season is not the Big 12, or the always overrated Big Ten. Nor is it the Pac-10, where its handful of good teams has been tested twice or thrice.” And this comes from a guy in TEXAS, ladys and gents.
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Have a custom jigsaw puzzle made from the front page of The New York Times, or from a U.S. Geological Survey map, centered on whatever you prefer, like, your house, for instance, or a famous landmark.
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Duncan’s promotion of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono over Monaco as his preferred monospaced font in Terminal generates a lively discussion of monospaced fonts in the comments.
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The Deja Vu fonts are based on the open source Bitstream Vera Sans family.
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“[A] TrueType version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Macintosh bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-spaced Macintosh system font.”
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$50-per-year kid-friendly search engine, supposed to help children avoid adult-oriented content while they search the web.
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Find a local FM frequency that’s not being used so you can get the most out of the FM transmitter you’re using with your iPod or iPhone to play tunes in your car or home stereo.
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Hugh MacLeod, of Gaping Void, interprets the Twitter mascot.
Yeah? Why not?
Here’s the rub, looking at the latest AP poll and BCS rankings:
Ohio State may be unbeaten, but they haven’t exactly had a tough time in their lossless season. Of the three ranked teams they’ve played, and beaten, none of those teams have been ranked higher than 21. The Big Ten is not so big this season.
LSU, on the other hand, plays in the toughest conference in the land, widely acknowledged as such by the sports media and honest college football coaches and fans. As Mark May said one night on College GameDay Final, “Where do NFL scouts go first? The SEC.” LSU has played twice as many ranked teams to date as OSU, with a record of 5-1 against those opponents. None of those opponents were ranked lower than 17.
Sure, LSU hasn’t been putting up the big numbers against their opponents like the Buckeyes have done, but it’s easy to pad the score and go undefeated when you’re playing a bunch of nobodies. And this nonsense about Kansas leapfrogging the Tigers should the Jayhawks go undefeated? Please. The case for Kansas being number one or two is weak. Their only win against a ranked team was in-state rival Kansas State, which clocked in on the October 6th game day at number 24. Oklahoma has a much better case, even with its one loss, at a higher ranking, since both of its wins came against teams ranked above twenty. The Big 12 as a conference isn’t its usual powerful self this season either, but based on their schedule, I’d still put the Sooners ahead of the Buckeyes–and right behind LSU.
The Tigers have definitely had the hardest road to the national championship, and unlike OSU or Oregon, will have to play one more game to get there. (Barring, that is, back-to-back stumbles against Ole Miss and Arkansas, both in the bottom half of the SEC West.) Looking at the rest of the season, it’s very likely that LSU will be facing a Top 10 opponent in Georgia for that contest, eclipsing by ranking the twelfth-ranked Wolverines OSU faces on the seventeenth.
Ever since, and including, the game against Florida, LSU has been it’s own worst opponent, not the folks on the other side of the ball. Ivan Maisel calls it. The Tigers have played sloppy and undisciplined. It cost them at Kentucky, and made for much closer games against Florida, Auburn, and Alabama. Yet the Tigers still find ways to win against teams the likes of which Ohio State has nightmares about (Florida in Glendale earlier this year), and Oregon prays they won’t have to play in the post-season.
Why is so hard for an undefeated team to emerge from the SEC? Because the conference is just that good. Witness the rankings this week: no conference has more teams in the Top 25 than the SEC. Last season, no conference played in more bowls than the SEC. Last season, no conference won more bowl games than the SEC. (No one won as many as the SEC did, either.) You want to talk strength of schedule? Start with the Southeastern Conference, because that’s where the strength not only lives, but has drilled deep to lay the foundation the rest of college football wishes its conferences were built upon. At least five members of the sports media got it right this week: they cast their number-one votes for the Fighting Tigers of LSU.
If Les Miles can, ahem, “enlighten” his team to the point that the same Tigers who dismantled number-nine Virginia Tech in the second week show up for the rest of the season, the SEC Championship, and the national title game, God help whomever their opponent is.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
The November issue of About This Particular Macintosh is now available for your reading pleasure.
Wes kicks off the month by covering–what else?–the blogosphere’s reaction to Mac OS X Leopard. He also has a choice bit regarding the ZFS file system, which I encourage you to read. I realize that particular topic sounds boring–I teased Wes I was printing out that part to help me get some sleep–but he’s done a stellar job of condensing a boring subject in to easy-to-understand layman’s terms. Our intrepid blog investigator also dishes out the links on the forthcoming iPhone development kit for application programmers, as well as a few other choice bits.
Mark–who seems to have the same attitude toward mobile phones as my parents–talks iPhone from the Brit perspective, while also pondering the Google goings-on in the mobile phone space. Speaking of pondering, Mark’s also beginning the laptop or desktop? dilemma. He gets extra points for using a title from one of my favorite authors. Lee’s taking a break from his great column, Photoshop for the Curious, returning in our February edition. To tide you over until then, he documents some other Photoshop-related links you may be interested in.
Sylvester offers a great how-to on extending iTunes’ abilities with content presets. ATPM reader Graham Lindsay was nice enough to share photos from his native Australia for this month’s desktop pictures. Just as all seems lost, our intrepid hero reenters the Mudrix to save the woman he loves in this month’s Cortland.
Small business owners may be interested in Ed’s review of Billable, whereas many folks may be interested in Paul’s look at Graph Paper Maker. Yours truly makes an appearance this month, as I contribute to the iPhone Case Roundup, with Lee and David. Lee likes XtremeMac’s Luna, and Ed is impressed with Nisus Writer Pro. Finally, Eric puts SuperSync through its paces.
As usual, you can read this month’s issue in a format of your choosing.
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New Trojan Horse malware. (Not a virus, but still really nasty.) Just keep your mind out of the gutter and stay away from any naughty Britney pics, and you should be okay. If you otherwise get, ahem, dirty, follow these instructions.