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After 8 months of neglect, the Unadopted Podcast is finally back! Music this time from Goose, Santigold, Hot Chip, Soulwax, Joe Goddard and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good and buy the tracks you like, it’s […]
Continue ReadingI’ve used Google Chrome almost exclusively as my main browser since 2009, but after seeing Apple’s WWDC keynote last week I decided to give Safari another try, because being able to send a tab from one device to another (without using Pastebot to just copy/paste the URL across devices), is one of my most-wanted features. […]
Continue ReadingI recently had to install an old version of RubyGems (v1.7.2 to work around an incompatibility with a Rails 2.3.x app I’m working with. This caused Capistrano to freak the older RubyGems version out with this error: Invalid gemspec in [/Users/myusername/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2012.01@mygemset/specifications/capistrano-2.11.2.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2012-02-22 00:00:00.000000000Z” This broke RubyGems so bad that every […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast is 5 years old! To celebrate, here’s a new session with a bunch of great music I discovered in 2011. Bit of a mixed bag this one, with some Azealia Banks, Holy Ghost!, Evil Nine, LCD Soundsystem, Zombie Nation, Daft Punk, Ladyhawke, Bag Raiders and much more! If you love the Unadopted […]
Continue ReadingYep it’s Monday again, but here’s something to make the week go that bit quicker! Music this time from Tiga, Cut Copy, Carte Blanche, Ladytron, TEED, Eyerer & Chopstick and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good […]
Continue ReadingRight then, here’s a bunch of nice music I’ve been listening to lately: MSTRKRFT, Depeche Mode, Foster The People, and even a bit of Jamie XX remix action. If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good and buy the […]
Continue ReadingHaving trouble removing some pesky icons that have gotten stuck in the Finder’s sidebar? If you’re on Lion or Snow Leopard, the solution is easy: Click on the folder and drag it away from the sidebar Before you let go of the mouse button, hold down the Command (⌘) key Now that you’re holding down […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast is back with an action-packed set of fun electro tracks to get you warmed up for your Intro weekend, with music from Alex Metric, Boys Noize, Dragonette, Lykke Li and Crookers! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! […]
Continue ReadingIt’s easy enough to start out with an Ubuntu Server machine and install the desktop packages, leaving you with an Ubuntu Desktop machine. Just run: sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop …and you’re done. Unfortunately, going the other way isn’t so easy. Just removing the ubuntu-desktop package doesn’t remove all the other packages for me, I had […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast is back with 1 hour and 8 minutes of great music from Mylo & Cut Copy, Miike Snow, Phoenix, Uffie, Alex Metric, The Rapture, Twelves, and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good […]
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