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		<title>Why is my TV so complicated to set up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how I started a recent Star-Ledger column: &#8220;Among your home gadgets and home electronics, what&#8217;s the most difficult one to set up and operate?&#8221; What&#8217;s your pick? Your computer? Your smart phone? Maybe your camera? I doubt it. I don&#8217;t know about you, but for me it&#8217;s the TV, and I know I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The joy of minimal, easy-to-follow instructions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays have come and gone, and with them, several weeks of intermittent box opening, toy assembling, and instruction reading. Much fun was had, but I do have a complaint/observation: Why must companies continue to churn out really, really bad instructions? The instructions included with toys, gadgets, and other miscellaneous whatnots are laughably bad. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delicious vs. Pinterest: Wondering how I should organize my bookmarks and links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a number of years, I&#8217;ve been using Delicious, the web-based bookmarking service, to store and organize my bookmarks. In fact, it was really more than a bookmarking tool for me. (I saved a lot more than my &#8220;favorites.&#8221;) I used Delicious to store, as a simple title and URL, anything I came across that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe it&#8217;s not too late to send a holiday card</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another set of holiday cards. Actually, judging from our mail, lots of people are scaling back on traditional, USPS holiday greetings. (Uh, I guess it could also be we&#8217;re just not that popular.) Certainly the zeitgeist argues against going over-the-top with a lavish, expensive card. But here&#8217;s the great thing: With e-cards, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, I like the Kindle Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's what I had to say about the Fire in the column I wrote about it: "I’m impressed by the Fire, and I think millions will buy it and love it. Apple’s finally got big-time competition for tablet computers."]]></description>
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		<title>The column I didn&#8217;t write: &#8220;What Not to Buy Your Kids for the Holidays&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I have an idea for a column, and then I never get around to writing it. Maybe it's because I've lost interest in the topic, or it seems dated -- too many others have written about it -- or I've realized there's not enough there to make a column. Here's one I planned to write and chose not to: "What Not to Buy Your Kids for the Holidays."]]></description>
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		<title>1,000+ Microsoft Word docs, plain text, and a file format mess</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/1000-microsoft-word-docs-plain-text-and-a-file-format-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of days, I’ve been opening 1,000+ Word documents on my computer, one by one, and converting them from a very, very old Word format (“Microsoft Word 1.x-5.x”) to something I’ll actually be able to read and open on my computer. It’s a laborious process. When Microsoft “upgraded” to Office 2008 for the Mac, the company decided it was necessary to make it super-difficult to work with some older Word file formats.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;The Book of Audacity&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 21:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I was preparing an audio slideshow with the wonderful tool Slideshare. I needed an audio editor for the audio track, and I wasn’t sure where to start. I had very little experience with audio editing, and a colleague directed me to an open-source tool, Audacity. Though it took me a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Business Review: The long history of information overload</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/harvard-business-review-the-long-history-of-information-overload/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allanhoffman.com/harvard-business-review-the-long-history-of-information-overload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distracted Living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a fascinating, if brief, article by Ann Blair at the Harvard Business Review website:  &#8220;Information Overload&#8217;s 2300-Year-Old History.&#8221; As Blair notes: In 1255 the Dominican Vincent of Beauvais articulated eloquently the key ingredients of the feeling of overload which are still with us today: &#8220;the multitude of books, the shortness of time and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Quora unfathomable? Or a cultural phenomenon?</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/is-quora-unfathomable-or-a-cultural-phenomenon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quora has been the hot startup for a while now, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about it for my column. I finally did that, and here&#8217;s how I opened things: &#8220;Maybe it’s a sign of an internet startup’s likelihood of success that its initial attraction is entirely unfathomable — or even unexplainable — to [...]]]></description>
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