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	<title>A Smartass Education</title>
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		<title>Making Hulu, Pandora and Last.FM work in other countries outside of USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been living in Prauge for a month and a half now.&#160; At a certain point when i settled in I decided to start watching my favorite tv shows again.&#160; To do this I was downloading torrents.&#160; However I was still not content.&#160; It was faster to just watch the videos on hulu.&#160; 
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/smartass/making-hulu-pandora-and-last-fm-work-in-other-countries-outside-of-usa.htm</link>
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		<title>How To Make .m3u Playlists For Entire Directories in Seconds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1999 I made these cool mp3 cd&#8217;s that auto played when you put them in the drive.&#160; I kept making a lot of cd&#8217;s so I didn&#8217;t want to make a new playlist every time I made a new cd, yet I needed the playlist to make all the music on the cd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/how-to-make-m3u-playlists-for-entire-directories-in-seconds.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Dominate The World in 5 Easy Steps (By Google)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step 1) Index all things and make it easy to access, ease people into using this with a search engine that helps people find what they want and a catchy slogan like &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Evil&#8221;.
Step 2) After building trust with your market convince them to use your open source software.  In case they aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/smartass/how-to-dominate-the-world-in-5-easy-steps-by-google.htm</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome (Web Browser) and IE8 Beta 2 Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I tested 2 different beta browsers.  Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and Google Chrome.  
Finally browsers are starting to evolve at a faster rate.  Firefox 3&#8217;s &#8220;awesome bar&#8221; has become a must have feature that other browsers are working to clone and CSS support is starting to not suck quite as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/google-chrome-web-browser-and-ie8-beta-2-review.htm</link>
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		<title>Coolest Trick Ever To Muck Up A Webpage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok so load a page with a bunch of images.   Then go to the address bar and paste this in:


javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300;
y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName(&#34;img&#34;);
DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style;
DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+&#34;px&#34;;
DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+&#34;px&#34;}R++}setInterval('A()',5);
void(0);

It won&#8217;t move all images, but a lot of them will start floating around.  Works on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/neat-tricks/coolest-trick-ever-to-muck-up-a-webpage.htm</link>
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		<title>As Technology Increases, Standards MUST Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I just found the world&#8217;s greatest RMA process (Seagate if you are wondering).  It took me absolutely no searching around and I was done in 2 minutes online without talking to anybody and it even printed me a label.  I have NEVER seen something go so smoothly, so it got me thinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/internet/as-technology-increases-standards-must-change.htm</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3, Not a beta anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woot, Firefox 3 is out, and not just a shitty beta anymore.  
Seems to work quite well and most of the extensions I use still work.  Well, the ones that didn&#8217;t I &#8220;forced&#8221; to work with &#8220;Mr. Tech&#8217;s Local Install&#8221; which has a &#8220;make compatible&#8221; option that removes the version number of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/firefox-3-not-a-beta-anymore.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Install Shit on Your iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know I like my tutorials to be short&#8230; embarrassingly short  in fact.  Well this one will take the cake.  
To install shit on your iPhone the easy way install newest firmware 1.1.1 at the time of this writing and then go to: http://jailbreakme.com phone.  
THAT&#8217;S IT.   Ok technically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/iphone/how-to-install-shit-on-your-iphone.htm</link>
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		<title>Explains &gt; British English to Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was work and had reason to reference some British words&#8230; I thought it would be worth posting them to the site because I enjoyed it.

 ACCOMMODATION in the sense of lodging is singular in English
  and plural in American English 
 ADMIRALTY in Britain is the Navy Department in the U.S. 
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		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/smartass/explains-british-english-to-americans.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Fix COX Internet&#8217;s Routing Fuckups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday that you call Cox High Speed Internet, you hear a message that was re-recorded that day saying &#8220;as of today [insert day] many customer in Arizona are currently experiencing difficulty getting to many large website, we are aware of the error and our technicians are blah blah blah&#8221;.  I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s in more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/internet/how-to-fix-cox-high-internets-routing-fuckups.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Create XHTML DivX, QuickTime &amp; Flash Players</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look.  I am sick of every people making something, and then making a really sloppy way to use it.  If you go to youtube or googlevideo they give you this &#8220;embed&#8221; code.  The Embed tag DOES NOT VALIDATE.  I write my code by hand and don&#8217;t want it to be sloppy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/web-design/how-to-create-xhtml-divx-quicktime-flash-players.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Watch iPod Video On TV Without a Dock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I have lots of gadgets, but sometimes I can&#8217;t rationalize ones that seem like they will go unused.  One of these examples would be the video dock for the iPod.  Now I was fairly sure I could convert my car player to be able to output to my TV with little effort. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/neat-tricks/how-to-watch-ipod-video-on-tv-without-a-dock.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Have a Remote Desktop on the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this is just damn cool so I needed to share.  You can go to:  LogMeIn.com and make an account which when configured properly lets you use your iPhone to connect to your home PC!   I mean DAMN is it cool.  
Simply download/install LogMeIn.  Right click system tray icon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/iphone/how-to-have-a-remote-desktop-on-the-iphone.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Get a Direct URL to YouTube&#8217;s FLV Files!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok so I have had my own method of getting YouTube FLV files before today, but thanks to Google and their wonderful archiving of all things there is now an easier way!  A way that could be automated (hint hint).   Flash videos are not only sexy, but they come without the ugly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/internet/how-to-get-a-direct-url-to-youtubes-flv-files.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Talk to a Real Person @ Big Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I get annoyed talking to a machine.  Most of the time I can get by with just pressing 0 after I call.  Sometimes it&#8217;s more of a pain in the ass since even to talk to a real person you now have to talk to a machine&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/neat-tricks/how-to-talk-to-a-real-person-big-companies.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Get to OiNK When It Appears To Be Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update 7/6/07: OiNK just decided due to their dns problems to change their url.&#160; Instead of oink.me.uk it is now oink.cd.&#160; The instructions below still apply since they kept the same IP&#8217;s.&#160; I have updated it to list those as well. 
Ok.&#160; Right now OiNK&#8217;s registration shows up as suspended.&#160; This makes it frustrating to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/internet/how-to-get-to-oink-when-it-appears-to-be-down-updated.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Use .htaccess to screw over a hotlinking asshole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so with my page it&#8217;s not just images people try to link to, it&#8217;s entire pages.  Why?  Because a lot of them look pretty damn good as stand alone pages and are just much easier to work with inside iframes.  
So I saw this guy in my statistics that was hotlinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/web-design/how-to-use-htaccess-to-screw-over-a-hotlinking-asshole.htm</link>
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		<title>Safari 3 Beta for the PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Web Developer I am bloody thrilled that Apple has just released Safari 3 Public Beta for the PC!!!!   I don&#8217;t have a mac and can&#8217;t test my websites on mac.  I knew that would be changing soon since I am buying an iPhone which comes with safari built into it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/computers/web-design/safari-3-beta-for-the-pc.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Power Mp3 Player With Potatoes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/neat-tricks/how-to-power-mp3-player-with-potatoes.htm</link>
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		<title>How To &gt; Cheat at Blackjack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, perhaps it&#8217;s not really cheating but if you are noticed counting cards the casino&#8217;s will blacklist you.  Just don&#8217;t get greedy and nobody will notice.



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		<link>http://www.thesmartass.info/writes/ase/neat-tricks/how-to-cheat-at-blackjack.htm</link>
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