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Hopefully this will be handled easily. I have a few EMI tracks, but I'd like to be offered the chance to seamlessly "upgrade" to the higher-quality, DRM-free versions.
Consumers who have already purchased standard tracks or albums with DRM will be able to upgrade their digital music for $0.30 per track. All EMI music videos will [...]

A while back I signed my name on a postcard with a black sharpie. I scanned it, desaturated it, and adjusted the levels in Photoshop to white out the background and make the darkest black true black. All is well.
Now, I'd like to use the signature as a semi-transparent watermark on some of my images, [...]

Shutdown Day

I did it. I didn't use my computer for an entire day, on Shutdown Day 2K7.
I'm writing this post on March 17 at 6:03pm, but I'm going to date it 11:59:59pm on March 24, 2007.

LogoMaid - a design chop shop - has ripped off Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits logo, then gone so far as to threaten a lawsuit against Dan claiming he stole the logo.
Yeah, right.
John Gruber has more on this, and I'm posting merely to add my PageRank weight to the side that roots squarely against outfits like (and [...]

@aol.com

Real businesspeople do not use @aol.com email addresses. I'm sorry, they just don't.

MediaTemple Performance

I'm absolutely livid with MediaTemple currently. LIVID. For the past two weeks, my server - which hosts a vBulletin forum, two popular blogs (with caching enabled), and a few other little piddly sites that are lucky to get 1000 hits per day.
I'm hosting with the $50 (dv)Base plan, and despite a month and a half [...]

This is a bit of a LazyWeb request here, or rather an "I'm busy doing other things and don't yet have the two hours necessary to find the answers, but maybe someone knows offhand" type of post.
Anyway, the question is this: are there any forum packages that "expose" their member list for extensibility and use [...]

On Choosing a Gravatar

I am, in no particular order, a geek, a Mac user, a husband, a (step)father, a golfer, a pool player, a TV viewer (with a few favorite shows), and a photographer (kinda). I play pool, I work for myself and do a variety of tasks, and I live in Erie, PA but have lived elsewhere, [...]

It's simple: for the month of March, allow iTunes songs to be sold without DRM. See whether your sales increase or decrease. People buying songs from iTunes are buying it despite the DRM (i.e. they're honest people, or they're too lazy to look for pirated music - either way, they're paying). The people who are [...]

Bill Gates Goes Stupid

Saying "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally": dumb.
Daring hackers to attempt to do bad things to your OS: even dumber.
What, I've linked to the same small page? Yeah - because Gates said and did these [...]

Box Shadows

It's nice to see WebKit add support for the box shadow property in CSS3. I look forward to the day when we can sit back and talk about the good ol' days when we had to build three separate images and stitch them together with clever CSS and HTML just to get a darn shadow.
My [...]

Now that OpenDNS has fixed the "caching" issue, I'm down to one reason not to use them: the removal of the "auto-.com" feature wherein I type "apple" in the location bar of my browser and it dutifully tries first the local network before quickly switching to "apple.com." This feature even works with subdirectories, like "apple/trailers" [...]

Thanks to someone who will remain nameless (simply so he's not inundated with other annoying questions like my own), I found/replaced 1292 links in The Sand Trap's move to WordPress (and its new URL linking scheme).
In BBEdit, search for: ("http://thesandtrap[.]com/.+?)([.]php") and replace with: \1/".
If you're using Perl or PHP, the replacement is $1. The tricky [...]

MediaTemple has released their (dv)3 package. Within the next week or so, the Plesk migration manager will enable customers to move their domains, but until then, this document informs you that:
Early adopters comfortable moving site files and databases between servers can immediately open a support request to have a new (dv) 3.0 service added to [...]

The MediaTemple (dv) upgrade (dubbed "(dv)3") has apparently slipped a few days to December 21. Still, I'm very much looking forward to the upgrade, as I've patiently waited for about two months now to move The Sand Trap over.

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