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One year with the best universal remote I've ever used: Logitech Harmony Universal Remote

That's pretty much the review right there in the headline, but as I continue to stall actually finishing my work for, uh, work (I'm suffering from the coder equivalent of writers block on one problem at the moment), here's a quick endorsement for the Logitech Harmony line of universal remotes. While a bit expensive for most casual TV viewers, it's a great device for those of us with more than 3 things attached to the TV.

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Washed out colors on a MacBook Pro (or any Mac OS X Computer)

Another bit of Google fodder, in case others run into this problem. BTW, this applies to a computer running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), but I'm assuming similar controls exist in Leopard. I'll know in a day or two. :) So, on my work MacBook Pro, I noticed that the colors were extremely washed out. The gradients in the title bar of my applications almost looked like two color stripes. NetNewsWire lost the nice pinstripes, and on my development application, some of the tints on my background colors were off or not visible.

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