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Audible DRM issue

I hit a very annoying issue using Audible.com on my Mac with iTunes and my iPhone. I thought I’d document it in case others hit it.
Setting the Stage
I got a MacBook Pro in early 2009. I buy audiobooks from Audible.com and store them in iTunes. From iTunes I sync the audiobooks to my iPhone so [...]

AppleScript to resize Safari for recording a YouTube HD video

Occasionally I need to produce YouTube HD videos showing me doing something in a web browser. Up ’till now I’ve had to painfully, manually resize the browser window to 1280×720 so that the video didn’t get unnaturally shrunk or expanded by my screencast rendering software. Tonight I figured out a way to automatically resize my [...]

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ebook love

I used to read a lot of tech books, like a an hour or two a day. Several years, several promotions, two kids, and one deteriorating eye later, I realized I wasn’t reading much anymore. The combination of work commutes / Audible.com / iPod helped me keep up with novels and non-techy non-fiction, but I [...]

the awkward url-uri terminology dance

As my dear colleagues Simon Johnston and James Branigan have mentioned in various blog posts, on the Jazz project that I work on, we’ve (finally) fallen in love with the web/REST story. Because of this, we spend a lot of time in technical conversations using the standard REST alphabet soup vocabulary you’d expect – HTTP, [...]

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