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Right 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 […]
Continue ReadingHere’s an interesting thing to consider next time you’re looking through your web stats: the popularity of Safari 4 and later (the desktop version, not the iOS one) probably looks way higher than it actually is. Safari’s “Top Sites” feature checks sites to see if any content has changed since you were last there (and […]
Continue ReadingNews Corp wanted me to tell you about something, but I don’t have an iPad so I don’t care.</ipad-jealousy>
Continue ReadingSeeing something like this while compiling libmemcached or trying to install the memcached gem? checking for style of include used by make… GNU checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: in `/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcached-1.0.2/ext/libmemcached-0.32′: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log’ for more details. *** extconf.rb failed *** […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a much more mainstream one, including Alex Metric’s awesome Fenech-Soler remix, Delphic, PUZIQUe, and some noisy upstarts called Be Quiet. Shout Loud!, whoever the hell they are. :) I’ve been sitting on this one for almost a month now, so I think it’s well overdue a release! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast is back with a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been listening to in the three months since I last put one of these thingies out. Some of it’s new, some of it’s not. Expect nice electro things like Late Of The Pier, The Black Ghosts, Goose, Foals and … Saint Etienne? :) […]
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