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digital media · pictures · videos · weird · interesting · the past · the present · the future · the arts · tipsThe Guardian Culture Professionals Network recently asked arts marketers/PRs to tell them which words they'd like to see banned from press releases. I'd say the list also applies to all arts copy.
The list was presented by the Guardian as a fancy word cloud, but I thought it would be more useful as a plain text list. Here it is, with the most hated words and phrases at the top.
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As a happy OS X user with a healthy distrust for Apple and the App Store, I wanted to back up my apps to a DVD-R. After having to reinstall OS X one day, I reached for my backed-up apps disc, only to find a significant problem: it takes ages to copy them back. So long, in fact, that I ended up downloading them all from the App Store again, which rather defeated the point of backing them up.
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I always seem to end up searching for half an hour to figure out how to get get_iplayer working under OS X Snow Leopard, so this is more a reminder to myself than anything else.
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