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I am amused at the Ads that Google Adsense places on my site, and the one that has kept coming up recently finally got my attention, and I visited it. Screencasting is actually something I would be very interested in. I often need to teach others how to do something, and the ability to add this into my website might be useful. Unfortunately for Camtasia Studio, I use a Mac, so I will have to look for other software. And there seem to be some free ones out there worth looking at.

X11, or XWindows, is a throwback to the glory days of Unix, when you often ran software on one computer, but wanted the display to appear on another. Apple bundle a version of this with Mac OS X, but for some reason it doesn’t install on Tiger. You can install the X11 SDK, or Software Development Kit, but the User install is somewhat hidden. What you’ll need to do is install it directly from the Tiger DVD, under /System/Installation/Packages/X11User.pkg Most people won’t need X11, but if you want to install osx2x, and use one mouse and keyboard between a Mac and a PC, then you will need it. I recommend, if you have a Mac and a PC next to one another, that you do this. It is very cool.

I’ve posted before about crap features of Word. The biggest bug, IMHO is the handling of objects (images, text boxes and the like) that are near a page border, and the Layout style is Square (or others, other than In Line With Text). When you move the object too close to the top of the page, it jumps up and sticks to the top of the page. Here is the Text box on my page. When I press the up arrow (keyboard) with the Text box selected, it jumps up to the top: You cannot place it closer to the top of the page, without it being right at the top of the page, and outisde of the border, and over the header. This is bad, bad stuff.

I uploaded my XML file last night, and it’s analysed it, and given me some useful feedback.

You appear to like Chillout the most, with Wicked Beat Sound System your favorite, which makes sense, since they have the most playtime in this genre. Chillout is your favorite common genre, and you have more Rock songs than anything else. Honey is your favorite overall artist, but you listen to BBC Philharmonic the most. Jet ain’t too bad, either.

Genres 22; Artists 1,381; Albums 2,050; Tracks 6,039; Total Time 18.46 days Last Played Cotton Fields, by _Beach Boys _ Playcount 6,498 Total Playtime 19.54 days You can see what it’s like now, by visiting Schinckel’s iTunes Registry. I might make a script/program that checks to see if the computer is online, and if it is, gzips the XML library file and uploads it. That way, these would be updated regularly.