Many of the professional economists who formally endorsed John McCain's economic plan are expressing bewilderment with his most recent proposal to rectify the home mortgage crisis. In interviews with the Huffington Post, roughly a dozen of McCain's economist supporters said they disagreed with the Senator's recent proposal.

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I threw away two batteries yesterday. I know, I know—it's almost the same as chopping down like five old-growth oak trees or something, but it was just so damn easy. And what else are you gonna do with dead batteries? That's exactly why I am jazzed about this Energy Seed concept by Sungwoo Park. You collect all the batteries that no longer power your digital cameras, baby toys and TV remotes, and you deposit them in the base of this lamp. The lamp then glows, because even a mostly spent battery will be able to power an ultra-efficient light source.
Park seems to think this is only a temporary solution, saying:
Of course once the bins are full, we’re left with the same original problem. Somebody has to collect all those spent batteries and recycle them.But I say, that's just pessimism, Sungwoo—if you get some hippy cities like SF and Seattle to install these as points of collection, people would participate and the recycling would get done. Seriously, in this world of half-baked ideas, this one makes a lot of sense to me. Now, to go dig those dead D-cells out of my trash. [Yanko Design]
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/Energy_Seed_1.jpg" width="150" height="287" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"I threw away two batteries yesterday. I know, I knowmdash;it's almost the same as chopping down like five old-growth oak trees or something, but it was just emso damn easy/em. And what else are you gonna do with dead batteries? That's exactly why I am jazzed about this Energy Seed concept by Sungwoo Park. You collect all the batteries that no longer power your digital cameras, baby toys and TV remotes, and you deposit them in the base of this lamp. The lamp then glows, because even a mostly spent battery will be able to power an ultra-efficient light source./p pPark seems to think this is only a temporary solution, saying:br/p blockquoteOf course once the bins are full, we’re left with the same original problem. Somebody has to collect all those spent batteries and recycle them.br blockquoteBut I say, that's just pessimism, Sungwoomdash;if you get some hippy cities like SF and Seattle to install these as points of collection, people would participate iand/i the recycling would get done. img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/Energy_Seed_2.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="285" style="display:block;float:none;" /Seriously, in this world of half-baked ideas, this one makes a lot of sense to me. Now, to go dig those dead D-cells out of my trash. [a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/10/10/trashing-batteries-for-brighter-sidewalks/"Yanko Design/a]/blockquote /blockquote br style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:deb696fe6e29812b344ebec0694d83ee:Zeht%2Fuz1nRS7z%2ByjEkwIyuSx%2FrgvFmIxYFtNY7soqSufhupVbl%2BFZaRpheE2KtTF8dBTb5ifmw86Tw%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Poll' alt='Poll' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/poll_securityslow.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=b3ce9e4d24eba7b53d0fbcc2b7dbc188" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=b3ce9e4d24eba7b53d0fbcc2b7dbc188" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/gizmodo/full?a=yZpa1O"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/gizmodo/full?i=yZpa1O" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=z7EkM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=z7EkM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=sZBNM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=sZBNM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=PEeZm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=PEeZm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=WK70m"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=WK70m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/417260592" height="1" width="1"/

“This is worse than a divorce. I’ve lost half my net worth and I still have a wife,” said one shell-shocked share trader at the end of the worst day on the stock market for twenty years. There was the usual grim and politically incorrect humour. There was the usual blaming of everybody else, particularly the politicians. But the main emotions were panic and fear. Panic at what was happening and fear that it might get worse. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Bank of England’s half-point interest rate cut on Wednesday was supposed to show its determination to prevent an economic slowdown turning into a slump. The £500 billion support package for Britain’s banks was supposed to restore confidence in the financial system. But, of course, the unprecedented moves also sent another signal. If the Bank and the Government are prepared to take such desperate measures, they must be really worried. The biggest worry is not that the actions taken by the Government -which are likely to be copied by other countries - will not work to stabilise the financial system. The worry is that even if they do work they will not prevent a deep worldwide recession. It was that fear that lay behind yesterday’s panic in the markets. The crisis has spread way beyond its origins in the US financial system. One of the triggers for the latest stockmarket slump was concerns about General Motors, whose shares tumbled 31 per cent to their lowest since 1950 on Thursday on worries that it might go bankrupt. And investors fear that the economic slowdown in the US and Europe is now spreading to fast-growing Asian markets. The panic in London started as soon as traders saw the slump in New York trading on Thursday night. A sudden collapse in the last hour of trading left American shares down about 7 per cent. Many London traders saw the news on TV screens in City bars where they were quenching the “Thursday thirst”. They left early to get into the office first thing next morning. When they arrived they surveyed the damage in Asia, where the Tokyo market dropped almost 10 per cent, for a fall of 24 per cent on the week. Within minutes of the London market opening at 8am, the FTSE 100 index was down 10 per cent, as more than £100 billion was wiped off the value of Britain’s top 100 companies. Shares swung wildly during the day and the losses were pared back in the afternoon, helped by a rally in early New York trading. But as US shares slumped back London followed, driving the FTSE 100 back down to close 8.9 per cent lower at 3,932. Investors dumped shares and anything deemed remotely risky, putting the money into gold and cash. “There are only two positions you can have in this market: cash or foetal,” was the gag going round the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The volume of trading was relatively light with the big pension funds and insurance companies sitting on the sidelines. This gave the optimists some hope. They argued that much of the fall was due to selling by hedge funds and other investors that had debt secured against their shareholdings. When these fell in value they were forced to sell by their banks, putting further pressure on share prices. Some of the selling was by investors who had been lent money by Icelandic banks that were pulling in their loans after being nationalised this week. But the pessimists said there could be further to go. “The market is trying to find the bottom and it’s just not there,” said the head of one of Britain’s biggest banks. “Irrational fear has gripped and it seems that markets will now trash almost anything that walks. For now it is unstoppable,” said Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners. The collapse was particularly alarming as it came after this week’s emergency half-point interest rate cuts by Western central banks and the unveiling by the Government of a £500 billion plan to support Britain’s top banks. “We may well see another round of interest rate cuts next week,” said Mr Wheeldon. “Whatever, it is increasingly clear that attempts by the US and UK government to address the vast number of capital market issues just isn’t enough.” The bank support plan was widely acclaimed as stopping the rot in the financial system by forcing the banks to raise more capital, with taxpayers’ money if need be, and by guaranteeing new bank borrowing. In particular, it was hoped that the plan would boost confidence in the banks who have become unwilling to lend to other banks because they fear they may not get the money back. But the interest rate at which banks are prepared to lend to each other has increased since the support plan was unveiled. The head of one of Britain’s leading banks said that confidence should start to improve over the next few days. But some bankers say it is essential that other countries follow the UK lead by forcing their banks to raise capital. Other countries are examining the British plan and the US Government is looking at offering taxpayers’ money to inject into American banks, and considering guaranteeing bank debt. In London, banks were the biggest fallers with Royal Bank of Scotland down 25 per cent and HBOS down 19 per cent, as investors worried about how much the value of existing shares will be diluted by the news of the capital that must be raised. Shares in big mining companies fell sharply on fears that lower growth in India and China will reduce demand and hit metal prices. This also weakened the oil price which fell almost $8 to $78.86, compared with a high of $147 in July. But gold, seen as a safe haven in the current turmoil, rose. There were wild swings in currencies, with the pound falling to $1.69, its lowest level for five years against the dollar, and it was down 1.2 per cent against the euro. Shares in fund management companies fell sharply amid fears that retail investors will pull money out of unit trusts. European stock markets were down in line with London while trading in Moscow was suspended. The meltdown was being dubbed the Crash of 2008 and older traders were comparing it with Black Wednesday in 1987. The fall this week of 21 per cent was not as bad as the 28.3 per cent fall 21 years ago. But some traders were saying it was worse. $“At least then it was a short, sharp, shock on one day. This has been relentless all week.” All eyes are now on the meeting in Washington of finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the West’s leading economies. The US stock market recovered towards the end of trading and the Dow Jones average closed down only 1.5 per cent. If governments can provide some reassurance in Washington the optimists say that shares could rebound on Monday, when New York trading is closed. The doomsters say the FTSE 100 has another 1,000 points to go before it hits bottom. Traders are expected to be in early again on Monday morning.

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In some rare instances, it may be required to remove all traces of iTunes from your computer. Use the following steps to remove iTunes from Mac OS X.

Note: If you are having issues with iTunes or other applications, you should first run Disk Utility. iTunes library content such as music, videos, and iPod games are saved in your Music folder by default and are not deleted by removing iTunes or it's associated files and folders. If you are having issues with content of your iTunes library try re-creating it.

1. Quit iTunes.
2. In the Finder, choose Go > Applications.
3. Locate iTunes and then drag it to the Trash.
4. Choose Go > Utilities. If Utilities is not available under Go, then choose Go > Go to Folder, type in /Applications/Utilities/, and then click Go.
5. Open Activity Monitor.
6. In the process list locate and select iTunes Helper. Click Quit Process. When asked if you really want to quit the process, click Quit.



7. Quit Activity Monitor.
8. Open System Preferences (choose Apple > System Preferences).
9. Choose View > Accounts and then click Login Items.
10. Look for the iTunesHelper entry and select it, then click the "-" button to remove it from the list.



11. Quit System Preferences.
12. Restart your Mac.
13. Empty the Trash. This should fully remove iTunes.

Additionally, you may need to remove files and folders associated with iTunes. Use the following steps to remove these files and folders.

1. In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder and type in ~/Library/ and click Go.
2. Locate the iTunes folder and then drag it to the Trash.
3. Choose Go > Go to Folder and type in ~/Library/Preferences/ and click Go.
4. Locate the preference files that have names beginning with com.apple.iTunes and move them to the Trash.
File Names should be:
-------------------------* com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
-------------------------* com.apple.iTunes.plist
-------------------------* com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
5. Choose Go > Go to Folder and type in /Library and click Go.
6. Locate the iTunes folder, and then move it to the Trash.
7. Choose Go > Go to Folder and type in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ and click Go.
8. Locate the preference files that have names beginning with com.apple.iTunes and move them to the Trash.
9. Empty the Trash. This should fully remove the files and folders associated with iTunes.

To reinstall iTunes please download and install the latest version.

Information simply taken from iTunes :)

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/imap.png" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="377" height="381" style="display:block;float:none;" / Google adds another experimental opt-in feature to its roster of Gmail Labs experiments: Advanced IMAP Controls, a way to selectively decided which of your Gmail labels are available to your IMAP client plus other tweaks. With the new feature enabled, go to the Labels tab under your Gmail account's Settings area to select and de-select "Show in IMAP" on a per-label basis. Google describes a few other "obscure" IMAP features you can configure, as well./p blockquote pThe IMAP protocol allows messages to be marked for deletion, a sort of limbo state where a message is still present in the folder but slated to be deleted the next time the folder is expunged. In our standard IMAP implementation, when you mark a message as deleted, Gmail doesn't let it linger in that state mdash; it deletes (or auto-expunges) it from the folder right away. If you want the two-stage delete process, after you've enabled this Lab, just select 'Do not automatically expunge messages' under the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab in Settings./p pSimilarly, most IMAP systems don't share Gmail's concept of archiving messages (sending messages to the [Gmail]/All Mail folder rather than [Gmail]/Trash). If you'd prefer that deleted messages not remaining in any other visible IMAP folders are sent to [Gmail]/Trash instead, Advanced IMAP Controls lets you set your preferences this way. In the 'IMAP Access:' section of the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab, find the 'When a message is deleted from the last visible IMAP folder:' option. Select 'Move the message to the Gmail Trash.' If you want to take it one step further, you can select 'Immediately delete the message forever.'/p /blockquote pEnable advanced IMAP controls in the Labs area; click the beaker on the top right bar inside your Gmail account to get there./p div class="related"a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-advanced-imap-controls.html"New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls/a [Official Gmail Blog]/div br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=5d462a33a59dacaeef51435367d36dae" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=5d462a33a59dacaeef51435367d36dae" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?a=cm6Tbs"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?i=cm6Tbs" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=t7u8M"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=t7u8M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=MiUnM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=MiUnM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=qhh1m"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=qhh1m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=o5p5m"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=o5p5m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/416311661" height="1" width="1"/

ok so i was using burn (dunno if its relevent or not) and i tryed to burn some .vobs to a dvd so it asked me where to save the files so i choose my desktop. when i went to my desktop all my files were gone from my desktop. some documents and apps. i checked the trash bin but they weren't there. i havent configured time-machine so i cab't recover them that way. is there a solution to recover them. i tryed a demo from StellarPhoenix but that one doesn't recognise .docx and .app

Tidy Up! 1.4.6

Tidy Up! is our next generation duplicate finder and disk tidiness utility.

Here are a few Tidy Up! features:

• Search for duplicate files and packages; by the owner application, content, type, creator, extension, date modified, date created, name, label, visibility and more.
• Search by the tag, duration and bit rate of MP3s and AACs audio files, search the content of the iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes and iPod dababases, search the messages of Mail and synchronize deletions with iTunes, iPhoto and Mail.
• Search for duplicate folders; by name, date modified, date created, label visibility, empty folders, their contents and more.
• Tidy Up! is fast, from 20% to 50% faster than the already fast Doublet Scan. With its multitasking capability, you can do more searches at a time and take advantage of the latest Macintosh computers and operating systems
• Tidy Up! has a security system that assures you will keep at least one file of the duplicate group on your disk, the ability to undo copied and moved items and the ability to restore trashed items as long as the trash is not emptied, even after a restart of the computer.
• Tidy Up! comes with a list of tasks with which you can do some common searches and for a customized strategy, it offer Strategy Wizard. Based on your choices it creates the appropriate criteria with which to search for duplicates and a new "Smart Basket" that will contain the items to be removed.
• Offers a full-size preview of the most commonly used files such as: audio, media, text, pdf, graphics, fonts and more...
• One of the most interesting features of Tidy Up! is the capability to separate, for quick and easy organization, found items using custom criteria via "Smart Baskets."
• Of course Tidy Up! allows you to trash, move, burn and export into html files all found items.
• Tidy Up! is fully customizable and allows you to create your preferred workspace.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.4.6:

• Added the possibility to search for a missing song tag.
• Fixed a bug that in certain cases crashed the application when a search used the Type criterion.
• Fixed a bug that in a very rare instance crashed the application when trashing items.
• Fixed other bugs.

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