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Many tracks fail (with no error) when importing thousands of songs into iTunes (Mac)
I recently had a mammouth clean-up of my iTunes libraries, which basically involved bringing everything together in one new location on an external HD, and re-importing 10,098 tracks into iTunes (that’s about 59GB of music).
Problem was, I ended up with a few thousand less tracks actually in iTunes than expected, no matter which obvious way of importing them I used. I had tried dropping my content into the “Automatically Add to iTunes” directory, and I’d tried dropping my content from the Finder directly into the iTunes window (each time about a dozen artists per batch, in case it failed half way through). Here’s what finally worked… (more…)
The Government Digital Service is hiring!
I started work for the new Government Digital Service (GDS) earlier this year. We’re revolutionising the way citizens interact with UK Government, by creating a cross-Government family of online transactions which are easier to use than the traditional offline versions.
The department (part of the Cabinet Office) is taking a refreshingly revolutionary approach, and we’re currently looking for a couple of dozen world-class web folk to join us!
Social login + social history
Estimated reading time: just a minute!
More and more sites are using third party authentication to set up an account or sign in to their services. Typically, I’ve experienced this as “login with Facebook”, but some offer many different login options: Google, Twitter, Open ID, Windows Live… (more…)
Looking back at old web design freelance rates
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I’ve been shredding some old paperwork today, including some invoices from my days as a freelance web designer (roughly 2003-2006, with a few small projects before and after that).
Discussing current rates publicly is considered by some to be bad form (and besides, I’m not a freelancer these days), but I thought a little retrospective on Twitter might prove interesting. I thought of it almost like an anonymous salary survey since the data is historic and wouldn’t expose anyone’s recent earnings, in case they were worried about such things. (more…)
How a vote against capital punishment could help get it reinstated
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Earlier this week, the new Government Digital Service published the first user-submitted petitions on the new Directgov “e-petitions” website.
The press duly made a scandal out of nothing by running headlines claiming that as a result, the Government would soon be forced to debate the return of capital punishment.
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