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	<title>Thoughts on Tech</title>
	
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		<title>To Jailbreak or Not to Jailbreak</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/11/to-jailbreak-or-not-to-jailbreak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To Jailbreak or not to jailbreak.  That&#8217;s the question. No longer. For a while my iPhone 2G was jailbroken.  It was a neat novelty back when there wasn&#8217;t an app store and there were a few cool features you could add via a simple web hack in iPhone OS 1.1.  Some days I miss the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A return to the cult of Mac</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/04/return-to-the-cult-of-mac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently taken the plunge and purchased a new aluminum macbook, the first mac I&#8217;ve owned in nearly 16 years. This article is the first in a series on my return to Apple as my primary computer. Many years ago I was an avid fan of the &#8220;other&#8221; computers out there. I&#8217;ve had, over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TwitStat Lists Top Twitter Clients</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/02/twitstat-lists-top-twitter-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/02/twitstat-lists-top-twitter-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mashable has a post up about the most popular twitter clients according to TwitStat. I&#8217;m not surprised by many of the notable entries on this list, such as TweetDeck.   I use it regularly at work and load it up occasionally on my Mac, but like most AIR applications it is a resource hog and doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress SEO – Can it be improved?</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/wordpress-seo-can-it-be-improved/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/wordpress-seo-can-it-be-improved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided that improving the SEO level of WordPress will be my next plug-in project.   I expect it to be a learning an eye-opening experiment, as there are at least as many opinions on what is optimum SEO as there are themes for a WordPress blog. All in one SEO has been the standby for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 implements OS X dock</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/windows-7-implements-os-x-dock/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/windows-7-implements-os-x-dock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[OS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this early review from Gizmodo, the best feature so far in Windows 7 is the dock.  Not surprisingly, the dock looks a lot like the OS X dock that&#8217;s proven so useful in the Mac world. First, you&#8217;ll notice that the Quick Launch Bar (the little tray on the left in XP and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picasa for Mac</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/picasa-for-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/picasa-for-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google announced today during Macworld the immediate availablity of Picasa for the Mac.   While I&#8217;m beginning to become a little pessimistic the Google matra (I have yet to actually use Chrome for more than a passing hour), Picasa is a solid photo library management utility that will certainly keep iPhoto on its toes. I&#8217;ve not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media outlets lagging in Mobile Web</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/media-outlets-lagging-in-mobile-web/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/media-outlets-lagging-in-mobile-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Browsers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Random Gemini has a great post about the state of local news outlets and the state of the Mobile Web. Many news web sites, especially those using platforms such as WorldNow and flash-hungry or proprietary video players simply aren&#8217;t ready for the Mobile Web.  I think this is a great opportunity missed for many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storm comes up short against iPhone</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/storm-comes-up-short-against-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/storm-comes-up-short-against-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study by ChangeWave research (as reported in Information Week) puts the iPhone as the contining leader in customer satisfaction amount SmartPhone users, though this article says not to count RIM out quite yet. Here&#8217;s the truth of it tho.  RIM has spent years focusing their products on the business customer.  Blackberrys do email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Updater 3.02</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/twitter-updater-302/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/twitter-updater-302/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[updater]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some more minor tweaks to Twitter Updater to make it work better with WordPress 2.7. Some major things have changed in the post screen! Twitter Updater 3.02]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Updater 3.01</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/twitter-updater-301/</link>
		<comments>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/twitter-updater-301/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://polestar.org/blog/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter Updater 3, previously announced here, has now been updated to version 3.01. This is only a minor cosmetic fix to integrate it properly into WordPress 2.7. Additional features and more URL shorting services coming soon. Twitter Updater]]></description>
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