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TUAW Resolutions
Christmas is over, and you know what that means: New Year's is just around the corner. When the calendar turns to yet another year people around the globe make promises to themselves, promises that they will better themselves by doing a number of things. These 'promises' are known as resolutions and everyone knows that they are often difficult to keep.TUAW has got your back this year. Today we start a series called 'TUAW Resolutions' in which we gives you ways to accomplish this year's resolutions with a little help from your Mac (or iPod).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
brian said 8:49AM on 12-26-2006
I think if TUAW wants to make a resolution it should be to focus on the quality of the information posted and to cut down on the pointless drivel.
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Jack said 10:59AM on 12-26-2006
New Years = New Year's
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Ed said 9:54AM on 12-26-2006
I agree with Brian, exactly what I was thinking.
1. Don't double post
2. Try and write impartially, if you aren't writing impartially, tag it as an EDITORIAL or OPINION piece.
3. Check your links before you post
4. Make it so we can register so I don't have to check my email after every post
5. Check your facts before you post, there's countless times you've just reposted some 'drivel' from somewhere else that's been completely incorrect.
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Scott said 10:55AM on 12-26-2006
Actually Brian, I think a good place for the TUAW folks to start on your suggestion is to do away with posts like yours.
They provide, fun, informative Mac commentary. If you don't like it, you could always check out the Microsoft Channel 9 blog - they provide such great pro Microsoft commentary... (insert sarcasm right before "you could always...)
Merry Christmas (belatedly of course)
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John Anthony Evans said 9:43AM on 12-26-2006
I would second that Brian. It would be ok to see less posts if it would mean an overal increase in quality, most of the posts here are simply links to articles elsewhere, there is little in the way of original content. A very unscientific test indicates in the last few days about 1 in 10 'stories' could be considered to have enough orgiinal content to consider them as 'orginal' and not simply a link to almost the same content from another site.
Also within the last few days we have items like:
"stories that I hope I will no longer have to read about in 2007:" with the three things being, iPhone; MacZot, MacHeist et al and Zune/Vista bashing. Which I find hilarious as TUAW fuels the fires all of those things regularly. Now of course calling for some perspective on these issues is commendable but to do so without any recognition that TUAW is a major proponent of all of them is a bit hypocritcial dont you think?
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Sheridan said 9:56AM on 12-26-2006
One of my Mac related resolutions is to scan in all the album covers I have for iTunes. I have a bunch of old classical cds from the early 90's and iTunes could'nt find the artwork and the images I found on the web are ugly, small, and highly compressed.
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J.Patrick said 10:42AM on 12-26-2006
Start more iPhone rumors. Yikes, that might only last 8 days.....Oh well.
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Ink Master said 8:26PM on 12-26-2006
Yeah Sheridan - I have the exact same problem, but for me its not the old music, but rather the imported music - like I can get the covers for 99% of the US albums, but for like European music (German especially) there's absolutely nothing...
I did find a few solutions however; for one try Wikipedia, for most albums, people add high resolution scans of the covers, and another sites you could try are http://www.cdcovers.cc/ and http://www.freecovers.net/ - hope that helps.
PS: for like 50% of the covers you'll find at those site you'll need to play around with them in Photoshop; that is to say rotate em properly; trim them to be 1:1, adjust the colors (those usually get screwed up during scans) and resize em to be 600x600; basically do everything to make em iTS quality :)
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John Willoughby said 2:45PM on 12-26-2006
My resolution for the new year: 1440x900. That is all.
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chris said 7:54PM on 12-27-2006
Ban your bloggers from reading. 90% of the articles I find on TUAW are simply articles that were linked from Digg earlier in the day. It's ridiculous. Ironically, I have seen double submits from articles TUAW grabbed from Digg, and then people resubmit the TUAW link. I'm so sick of all of the dupes. With all of the apple stuff going on, surely you can find other sites to get your content from. Digg is not the end all be all. If you look back, I can almost promise 90% of the posts appeared on Digg before Tuaw. Please stop regurgitating articles.
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FamousPete said 6:43PM on 12-31-2006
Bah. Ignore all these humbug naysayers (i.e., Brian, John, Ed, etc.). As someone who recently decided that he cannot possibly remain a halfway productive existence and *still* process all the noise from so many Apple-related RSS feeds, I gladly opted for TUAW as the one feed to rule them all.
So, keep up the great work. Spare me from digg's thrice-daily "Top 10 Mac Apps You Must Have" posts, continue to link to interesting content from elsewhere on the internets (with a brief explanation of why we should care about it), and keep up the great writing, witty banter, etc.
You guys (and gals) rock!
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