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	<title>Peter Elst &#187; Rants</title>
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	<description>Flash Platform Consultant</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Podcasts exempt from doing research?</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/podcasts-exempt-from-doing-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/podcasts-exempt-from-doing-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 07:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I download the latest MacBreak video and what do I see &#8212; 

&#60;rant>
This is probably the worst description of any product I&#8217;ve ever seen. First of all, Bordeaux is not Thermo &#8212; secondly there&#8217;s already quite a bit of information out on Thermo since the MAX conference last October. 
Two minutes of research or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telenet consumer malpractice</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/12/14/telenet-consumer-malpractice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[update] Turns out it isn&#8217;t quite as bad as I thought &#8212; the pay as you go is 0,26 Eurocent or 0,0026 Euro vs 0,00099 Euro buying the extra monthly blocks. Still wish Telenet had better package options and did something about those ridiculous download limits.

Telenet is one of a few broadband internet providers here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Adobe/Apple Relationship</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/11/01/the-adobeapple-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Its no secret that, being in the business of developing software for creative professionals, Adobe has traditionally had a proportionately large chunk of Mac users. With Adobe acquiring Macromedia and going all out to extend its reach to web, desktop, mobile and beyond (hosted services seems to be their next big thing) it seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference speaking arrangements</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/10/19/conference-speaking-arrangements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/10/19/conference-speaking-arrangements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or what is all the fuss about? If there&#8217;s one controversial topic in the community its speaker arrangements with regards to covering their expenses for conferences. In the last few years several people have been pretty vocal in expressing their opinion on the issue.
Just to put this into context, I&#8217;m not pointing the finger at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacBook Pro power adaptor&#8230; not again!</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/09/29/macbook-pro-power-adaptor-not-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/09/29/macbook-pro-power-adaptor-not-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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Just half an hour before I need to head out to the airport and what do I see? My MacBook Pro power adaptor is at it again &#8212; what the heck is wrong with these things? Last time it burned through at the magsafe connector, this time its happening at the base.
First stop in Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft vs. Adobe</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/04/14/microsoft-vs-adobe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/04/14/microsoft-vs-adobe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read an interesting post by JD where he talks about how little Microsoft staff have commented on Apollo compared to the rest of the blogosphere &#8212; Scott Barnes, seems to be one of the few that is open to some debate on the topic and, although his position is pretty clear, he does at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter API</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/02/10/twitter-api/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter has rapidly become my new addiction &#8212; its a really cool way to stay in touch with friends and if you turn off text message notification and use something like twitterific I&#8217;ve found it is actually quite usable.
One thing I just don&#8217;t get is the AS2 and AS3 libraries they released, instead of simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for innovation?</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/30/time-for-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/30/time-for-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen my fair share of Flex projects over the last year but lately can&#8217;t help thinking there&#8217;s a distinct lack in innovative uses for the technology. Sure there are cool things out there like the Noise Monitoring System Schiphol (note that its Flex 1.5) by MediaCatalyst or the hybrid Flex desktop sync apps like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acer support - does it exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/25/acer-support-does-it-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/25/acer-support-does-it-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a difficult person but is it too much to expect support to do its job? For a few months I&#8217;ve been struggling with my old Acer Travelmate notebook (overheating and randomly shutting down when not plugged in).

Having taken an extended warranty on the thing I finally decided to get in touch with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CS3 icons&#8230; a mistake?</title>
		<link>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2006/12/21/cs3-icons-a-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2006/12/21/cs3-icons-a-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; I certainly believe so, if I didn&#8217;t see it posted on John Nack&#8217;s blog I honestly wouldn&#8217;t have believed this was for real.
I won&#8217;t profess to be the worlds greatest designer but the whole look and feel doesn&#8217;t work for me at all. Particularly the two-letter icons just look horrible. Not sure if its [...]]]></description>
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