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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>Book recommendation: &#8220;Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep thinking I should go ahead and join the e-book revolution, but I haven't. One reason: I love books as beautiful objects. Now there's a book that really captures this: "Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books." ]]></description>
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		<title>1,000+ Microsoft Word docs, plain text, and a file format mess</title>
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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>Why do I have three (yes, three) photoblogs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so maybe you haven&#8217;t really been wondering this, but it&#8217;s the truth. I now have three separate photography blogs. Not long ago, I wasn&#8217;t even blogging, and now I feel like I&#8217;m something of a blogging maniac, in part because of the ease of creating and managing a blog with Tumblr. So what are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Ulin on the lost art of reading</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/david-ulin-on-the-lost-art-of-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distracted Living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2009, David Ulin of &#8220;The Los Angeles Times&#8221; wrote a short essay, &#8220;The Lost Art of Reading.&#8221; The premise was simple: Our lives make it increasingly difficult to focus on reading. (And reading, in this context, doesn&#8217;t mean reading your Twitter feed.) Why is this? It&#8217;s because our lives are filled with noise, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My anti-Facebook rant in the Star-Ledger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how I open today&#8217;s column in the Star-Ledger: &#8220;Facebook is a big, sprawling mess, and there’s no saving it.&#8221; Yes, this is something of a rant, and it was a lot of fun to write. The column was based on a simple idea: Could I figure out Facebook&#8217;s privacy settings and other options in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The iPhone is my new favorite writing tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this will sound crazy to a lot of people, but I&#8217;m really into using my iPhone for writing. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;ve developed some fancy method to use my fingers and thumbs with the virtual keyboard. For writing on my iPhone, I use Apple&#8217;s wireless Bluetooth keyboard &#8212; my favorite keyboard, ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to publish a Kindle book?</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/want-to-publish-a-kindle-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of these days I&#8217;ll publish a Kindle book (or some sort of e-book). For now, I&#8217;ve got a column with tips on how to do this. It&#8217;s not all that hard, really. A lot of the challenge, it turns out, is in formatting the book properly for the Kindle (or for any other e-book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just helped fund a Kickstarter project for an iPhone tripod</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/just-helped-fund-a-kickstarter-project-for-an-iphone-tripod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just dropped $20 on an iPhone tripod and &#8220;kickstand&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t even exist yet. Sounds sorta weird? Well, it&#8217;s actually part of a project at Kickstarter, a website that&#8217;s all about funding innovative and creative projects. The name of this product-to-be is the Glif, and here&#8217;s how it&#8217;s described: Glif is a simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophisticated and powerful tools for email lists and e-newsletters</title>
		<link>http://www.allanhoffman.com/sophisticated-and-powerful-tools-for-email-lists-and-e-newsletters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an online world obsessed with viral video and social networking, the simple, functional email list can seem downright dowdy. What is it, after all, other than a list of email addresses for sending out periodic messages? In fact, email lists can be a lot more complicated and multifaceted than you might think (and more [...]]]></description>
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