June 12, 2007
Article from Scotts.com
Dog urine contains high levels of nitrogen, which causes grass to become greener. Under certain conditions (i.e., heat or drought stress) the nitrogen may actually burn the grass, causing it to die and leaving a bare spot in the lawn with a dark green circle around the dead grass. This type of reaction is similar to the damage caused by an over-application of fertilizer. The excess nitrogen in the soil causes the plant to give off moisture, instead of absorbing it, and if the area is not watered thoroughly it may cause the grass plant to die.
This damage can usually be avoided by watering these areas thoroughly to dilute the concentration of nitrogen in the area. If the areas are already dead, they will have to be removed and re-seeded. No home remedy is available, nor will changing your dog’s diet help. A solution that may work for you is to train your dog to eliminate in the same area, such as the back of the yard where it is less noticeable, or in an area with no grass such as a shady spot or a gravel driveway.
June 7, 2007
borrowed blog post from ProfessorIpod
real article here
June 4th, 2007 by professoripod
The new iTunes Plus songs do not have copy protection but still contain your email address and other private information. This information is in the metadata in the music file. If one of your iTunes songs is placed on a P2P site, your personal information will be available for everybody to see. This is great as it is a resistance to people giving all their files away. However, if your music is stolen (through spyware or other means), you might be considered a pirate!
Soon people will release automatic methods for doing this, but you can do it right now with currently available software.
1. Download AtomicParsley for windows or mac.
2. Uncompress it into your music directory
3. Open a command line box in windows (RUN -> cmd.exe) or open the terminal in OSX
4. View all the metadata with the following command:
atomicparsley song.m4u -t
Here is some example output:
Atom “©nam” contains: Everybody Whatever
Atom “©ART” contains: Yoyou
Atom “aART” contains: Yoyou
Atom “©alb” contains: Sandballs for Diggers
Atom “gnre” contains: Rock
Atom “trkn” contains: 1 of 14
Atom “disk” contains: 1 of 1
Atom “©day” contains: 2003-02-14T08:00:00Z
Atom “pgap” contains: 0
Atom “apID” contains: xxxx@xxx.com
Atom “cprt” contains: ℗ null 2002
Atom “cnID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “rtng” contains: Inoffensive
Atom “atID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “plID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “geID” contains: xxxxx
Atom “sfID” contains: United States (143441)
Atom “akID” contains: 0
Atom “stik” contains: Normal
Atom “purd” contains: xxxxxxxxx
Atom “covr” contains: 1 piece of artwork
5. If you want to remove one of the atoms, using the following command:
atomicparsley song.m4a –manualAtomRemove “moov.udta.meta.ilst.ATOM”
For example, to remove the email address, one would do the following…
atomicparsley song.m4a –manualAtomRemove “moov.udta.meta.ilst.apID”
6. The new file stripped with the information will be created as a new temp song file. Test it in iTunes to make sure it still works before deleting your original.
7. If you want to remove several pieces of metadata at once, you can stack commands like the following:
atomicparsley song.m4a --manualAtomRemove moov.udta.meta.ilst.cnID" --manualAtomRemove "moov.udta.meta.ilst.atID" --manualAtomRemove "moov.udta.meta.ilst.apID"
