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Maintain is proud to announce the release of Cocktail 4.1.2 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail 4.1.2 (Leopard Edition) is the latest maintenance update for Cocktail (Leopard Edition). It adds possibility to disable dictionary and calculator results in Spotlight, improves performance of Pilot scheduler and fixes other bugs discovered in the previous release.

Extendible OS X search agent targets deals on Craig’s List, Ebay & more - Published on 05/23/08

Black Pixel Luminance announces Agent Craig, the internet search agent for OS X Leopard. The application currently provides automated background searches for deals on Craig's List and Ebay, and can be extended to do considerably more via 3rd party plugins.

Seattle, WA - Black Pixel Luminance has released Agent Craig, an internet search agent for OS X Leopard that helps users respond quickly to new ads posted on Craig's List as well as Ebay auctions.

The software runs as a background application, providing an unobtrusive way to look out for items of interest during work or at home. Discrete pop-up messages notify the user of new results matching their search terms, and each search campaign can be customized with a distinct audio alert.

"We needed Agent Craig for ourselves and could tell early on that it was going to be a popular tool," said Dan Pasco, Black Pixel's CEO, "we look at contract gigs for our professional services group on Craig's List, but we needed a way to poll for ads instead of checking them manually. We also needed better ways to track the status of jobs we had applied for."

Users can browse search results matching their criteria, annotate results with notes for future reference, and blacklist search results deemed irrelevant to prevent them from showing up in subsequently defined search queries.

"We are excited by the potential of Agent Craig," said Black Pixel director of engineering David Brown, "The extensibility provided by the API is allowing us to take it in directions we hadn't anticipated.  There is certainly more to it than meets the eye."

Although presented as a tool primarily intended for bargain hunters, the software is highly extensible via its plugin API. Black Pixel is currently working on new plugins capable of taking the application to a much broader market, and 3rd party developers can write add-ons of their own as well.

Pricing and Availability:
Agent Craig sells for $29.99 and is available for evaluation and purchase at the Black Pixel Luminance website.

Black Pixel Luminance: http://blackpixelluminance.com
Agent Craig: http://blackpixelluminance.com/agentcraig.html
Direct Download Link: http://blackpixelluminance.com/updates/AgentCraig_1.0.dmg
Purchase Link: http://blackpixelluminance.com/agentcraig.html
Screenshot: http://blackpixelluminance.com/AgentCraig.png

Black Pixel Luminance is a software development group focused exclusively on iPhone and Mac software development.  The group, which was founded in February 2008, has created Agent Craig, a collaborative task management application known as Aria, and two yet-to-be-announced applications for the Apple iPhone.

Easily Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB flash drive | USB Pen Drive Linux
Install and Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB Thumbdrive

In this simplified USB Ultimate Boot CD walkthrough tutorial, we will demonstrate How To create a USB bootable Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) using a Windows host PC to create the USB UBCD. Ultimate Boot CD is an awesome PC diagnostics tool that condenses over 100 useful PC diagnostics and hardware troubleshooting tools into a single easy to use interface.

USB Ultimate Boot CD Screenshot:

Simple USB Ultimate Boot CD How-To:

1. Optional: Format the USB pen drive stick as Fat16 or 32 using the HP USB tool
2. Create a folder named UBCD on your Windows host PC
3. Download the UBCD ISO and move to your UBCD folder
4. Download the UBCDfix.exe file and run it, extracting to your UBCD folder
5. From the UBCD folder, click fixubcd.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
6. Move the contents within the /UBCD/USBUBCD folder to your USB flash drive
7. From your USB flash drive, run makeboot.bat to make it bootable
8. Reboot and set your computer to Boot from the USB device
9. On next launch, you should be booting Ultimate Boot CD from your USB stick

Updated 12/27/2007 simplified the tutorial to include batch files that automate the Ultimate Boot CD USB installation process.

How to convert .flac files to .mp3 using Windows - Simplehelp

Now why can't everything be this simple and easy to do.

couple minutes converting 20 minutes re-tagging, simple HI HI

Ok, so I finally got a Twitter account. Odd service that.
Some Odd tweets (Twitter update messages) out there.
Some odd programs and add-ons for Twitter too.
Wonder if there is one for the Cymbian 60 phone OS.
If not, then I guess I will have to stick with sms tweets :-p

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OPINIONATED NEWS ITEM: HOLDING MULTICULTURALISM HOSTAGE Posted:Thu Apr 17 14:07:39 2008
NOT MULTICULTURALISM, BUT COVERT COLONIALISM:

Since we purchased a Toshiba Laptop for my Mother to use, instead of my Father’s Mac Pro (she never has seemed to grasp the OS X concept it seems). I have been battling with moving her mail from Mac back to a PC. Most write ups on the interweb have nothing to do with Vista only XP. So attempting to use these as a guide, I tried my best, only to find that Vista Mail will not import from Eudora. After countless hours and much hair pulling as well, I have an epiphany. Simply setup a Gmail account, enable IMAP, and move the mail to the Gmail servers, then download them to the Vista machine. after 5 minutes setting up the account, 10 minutes making sure I have all the mail moved to the servers , 5 minutes wondering “WTF why isn’t it seeing the server" (set the security options in the advanced tab folks) and-10 minutes pulling all the mail back to Vista Mail. We have it done, Bob’s your Uncle and all is right with the world once again, and you can finally let your hair grow back out where you were constantly pulling it out HI HI.

Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!

No-- wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind.

(And after the jump, how to make your own.)

WordPress.com Banned Again: Why Aren’t You Concerned? « Lorelle on WordPress

Very good Blog post, and a very troubling topic as well.

Had a doctors appointment this morning. Discovered I have a major herniated disc in my neck, C-Spine vertebrae C5/C6 and minor bulge at C6/C7 last month. Still need to see if I can get the images of my MRI from the imaging site on a CD so I can upload the images if I want. My primary care physician deemed it necessary for me to go to a specialist. So I talked to a neurosurgeon today. After the initial exam pleasantries, we get to my MRI films. First thing out of his mouth is "Those aren't friendly" never a good sign. Seems due to the severity of my bulging/pinching therapy is not an option, I have to have surgery to fix my problem. Just hope it will actually fix the problem in one try, since I will be off work for a month, then on limited duty for another month after (I do not have any idea how to not work full tilt or take it THAT easy for a month) I mean I admit I am a lazy shit, but when I work, I WORK.. Plus all this means I am not going to be able to really work on my jeep for at least a month and not likely to be able to offroad it for couple 3 months :-s Too say I am worried, is a bit of an understatement, hell I am willing to go as far as to say I'm scared shitless, never been thru anything even coming close to this before. Keep your fingers crossed for me people, I may need it to get thru this....