Muskoka Mac User Group » 2009 » January
Twitter and Identi.ca must really be becoming mainstream fast!
Witness – From the Desk of David Pogue – Twittering Tips for Beginners – NYTimes.com
I’d also like to point out that Identi.ca now supports groups. I went ahead and started one for the Muskoka Mac Users Group – I expect all of you on it by the end of the month 
Just a reminder to everybody our January meeting is coming up quickly.
Same time, same place, same great people – and hey, we can always use some new faces too, so if you’re a lurker, come on out of the shadows and join us at the Macs At Work store in Huntsville at 7.30 pm Monday Jan 12th
Bring a chair!
This month is registration month for the year.
We’ll take your questions, talk about nifty things we’ve found, discuss all the news from the MacWorld show this week, and I thought I’d continue the whole social networking theme with some comments about Facebook.
See you there!
This story has been done to death elsewhere, so I don’t want to do much with it. To be honest, even though I speculated a bit about this in the comments here earlier, I’m finding the whole thing kinda ghoulish. I’m not saying another word on the subject from here on out. I’ll leave that up to xkcd
xkcd comic used with permission – THANKS!
The only angle of interest at all is the way Apple handled the whole thing rather than his actual health status, but, like I said, I’m dropping this one. Read these links for starters if you’re still interested.
I just upgraded the site to Wordpress version 2.7
The biggest change is ‘backstage’ The site administrator and authour pages have been completely reworked and moved around. I think the new layout there is 100% better, and should make it easier for everyone to contribute to the site.
So I flipped over the ‘Users’ page and took a look. I was shocked – we have 46 users signed up! Ok, some of them are duplicates, but that’s after I deleted the half a dozen spam bots etc. We have more than 40 people who took the time to sign up, but only 3 or 4 ever post anything here….
So, if you are reading this, you’ve now got a job. Poke the comment button and tell me why you’ve never posted an article or comment here before. I know you are out there, you’re just awfully quiet, and maybe if I know why, I can help you ‘find your voice’
Please, give us your feedback so we can make 2009 this website’s best year ever!
I’ll go over the changes at this months MMUG meeting if requested – but I can see from the list of users many of you don’t attend. That’s fine – this site isn’t strictly for regular attendees – but if you don’t attend you’ll have to comment here!
The address book in Tiger (and earlier IIRC) has this nifty feature. It’s labeled ‘Look for duplicate entries…’
I was cleaning up my address book, and wanted to do just that. So, I click it – and it tells me it found two duplicate entries and asks if I want to merge them? One problem – No where I can see does it tell you exactly what two duplicates it found! And I wasn’t too interested in having my address book mangled blindly.
Here’s the (rather geeky) solution.
- Command – A to select all cards
- File -> Export vCard and save the file in your home folder
- Go to Applications -> Utilities and start Terminal
- Type sort vCards.vcf | uniq -c | grep FN | sort -
Tada ! Found five duplicates and listed them at the end so I can now actually look at those cards and decide if they should be merged, folded, spindled or mutilated….
HTH somebody else…