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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes

The old iTunes allowed continuous play of podcasts on an iPhone or iPod touch using an ordinary playlist. You had to drag and drop the podcasts into the playlist, then "shuffle" them on the device. It was a manual process, but a vaguely intuitive one and one broadly known to users.

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Unix Tip: Grepping on Whole Words

If every time you grep for a specific word or string, you get a pile of lines that don't match what you were looking for, maybe it's time to learn about whole word searching. In today's column, we examine two ways to get what you want, the whole of what you want and nothing but what you want.



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How to set up a Ubuntu 9.10 desktop

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

| How-to | Open Source | Operating systems | 11/03/09 at 7:34 am |


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iPhone Hints: Lock picture orientation in Photos

For our first installment of our new iPhone Hints, we delved into the confusing world of subscribed calendars, and even after several hundred words on the topic, I was still getting lingering questions via e-mail. This week's tip heads in the opposite direction--ultimate simplicity.

| How-to | Personal tech | 11/02/09 at 1:40 pm


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Calibrate my HDTV

Alex Goldstein wants to know the best way to adjust a new HDTV.

| How-to | Personal tech | 11/02/09 at 11:10 am


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