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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Data Detectors is the best feature from upgrading to Leopard 10.5.2 this week.</p>

<p>Hover over an event, phone number, or address and you&#8217;ll have an option to add to Address Book or iCal.</p>

<p>Watch this video to learn more:</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#maildatadetectors">Source</a></p>

<p>Creating this post I learned:</p>

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            <title>Alan Cooper - An Insurgency of Quality</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>I was invited to join an <a href="http://www.ixda.org/">IxDA</a> event at <a href="http://www.hotstudio.com/">HotStudio</a> last night by some members whom I met at <a href="http://sxsw.org/">SXSW</a>. </p>

<p>I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what to expect (and didn&#8217;t do my research about the speaker&#8230; Alan Cooper is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672316498/">The Inmates Are Running the Asylum</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/0470084111/">About Face</a>), but I really wish that I&#8217;d invited my collegues to join as Alan&#8217;s speech was full of tips and concepts that we&#8217;ve been doing at Six Apart&#8230; having the process defined is very helpful.</p>

<p>Here&#8217;s the video. It&#8217;s 40 minutes, but chock full of great insights about success in the digital age.</p>

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