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  Thursday, 9 June 2005

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TDR Interview: Geoffrey Cook
Geoffrey Cook is the author of Postscript (Signal 2004), a first book of poems that has recently been shortlisted for the 2005 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Cook was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and currently teaches in the English Department of John Abbott College in Montreal. He is a past poetry editor of The Danforth Review and a regular contributor to Books in Canada. Jennifer Varkonyi interviewed him via email in April 2005.

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Wil Shipley compiles the Delicious Library on Xcode 2.1

Wil Shipley:"It turns out all Apple has ready now are prototype machines, which are in plentiful supply here at WWDC. So, we went into their lab, opened up our source code for Delicious Library, clicked on the "compile for 10.4 only" option, and compiled our program for Intel processors. "
[Via house of warwick]

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News: WWDC: Developers unfazed by Intel switch

Monday morning’s announcement that Apple was switching to Intel processors had all the makings of a rude awakening for Mac developers. But the developers we’ve talked to have taken the news in stride, with many predicting a smooth transition.
[Via MacCentral]

This kind of reaction is what I'm reading everywhere. It's very important since the main concern about the Apple to Intel switch was that developers might not buy in.

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Both require Filemaker 7.

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- Extract Field Data From Found Set
- Find iPhoto Item Paths
- Apply Quark Box Names
- Open Documents in InDesign
- Place Images in InDesign Document
- Place Text in InDesign Document
- Retrieve Quark Box Names
- Save InDesign Documents

An example workflow for generating a real estate catalog in QuarkXPress is included with the solution.
[Via Mac OS X Downloads - Automator Actions]

Sweet.

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If you carefully position yourself on the window sill just outside the Air Canada lounge in Dorval airport in Montreal, just in front of Gate 3 in the domestic / international terminal, you can grab the lounge's Bell-branded Wifi. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina]

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The Big Campaign. Anybody Clicking?

In an unintended effort to further devalue digital music, MSN Music has bumped up the ad dollars on its "Buy One Get Five Free" campaign to lure customers to its rather boring but completely functional music store. MSN is positioning...
[Via Coolfer]