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		<title>Fix for iTunes 10&#8242;s violation of Apple human interface guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple have very specific design rules for applications that run on OS X &#8212; you could sum a bunch of them up by saying something like &#8220;thou shalt not fuck with how the application looks&#8221;. With the release of iTunes 10, they&#8217;ve gone and broken their own rules with awful new left-aligned window resize and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=669</link>
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		<title>Virgin Blue network review and Etihad partnership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, DJ&#8217;s new CEO is really starting to make his presence felt &#8211; looking back over the last few weeks, quite a few changes have been made: New Zealand domestic flights cancelled completely Joint ventures with NZ and DL on track for possible approval later in the year Upcoming capacity increases in Australian domestic flights, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=664</link>
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		<title>Howto Mac: software for a new user</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was asked to get a family member set up with a new laptop &#8230; naturally enough, I recommended a Mac. Got a great deal on an end-of-line model, but have been a little stumped with what software to put on it. It&#8217;s for general use (Internets, games, photos and so on), and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=659</link>
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		<title>US ESTA to cost $14 from September 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US Customs and Border Protection press release Kinda surprising that it&#8217;s been free as long as it has. Basically, if you&#8217;re travelling to the US under the Visa Waiver Program, you&#8217;ll have to pay USD 14 to obtain the electronic travel authorisation to do so. The authorisation lasts for two years. Somewhat annoyed by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=655</link>
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		<title>MX busy falling apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexicana, oneworld&#8217;s newest member and the 4th oldest commercial airline in the world has been operating on borrowed time it seems &#8211; filing for bankruptcy protection in both the US and Mexico to stop moar planes being seized (depending on which report you read, two or three were temporarily held in Canada like this one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=651</link>
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		<title>OnTheFly &#8211; mobile fare finder from ITA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick iPhone App review &#8211; OnTheFly by ITA Software, the genius behind the fare shopping engine that many airlines use (and they&#8217;re nice enough to make it available to the public &#8211; try it out for yourself!) The app allows you to search for fares from A to B, and allows you to define up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=647</link>
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		<title>Apple Magic Trackpad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For no particularly good reason, I decided I needed one of these gadgets &#8211; I mean, my existing mouse works just fine, but it&#8217;s not nearly as cool as one of these, right? Apple fanboy comments aside, it&#8217;s pretty awesome. Documentation is fairly sparse (where&#8217;s my apple stickers dammit!?), however it&#8217;s nice that they actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=642</link>
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		<title>New member for oneworld</title>
		<description><![CDATA[oneworld, that fun-loving group of airlines has announced that they have a new member elect in form of Air Berlin. What&#8217;s curious about this is that Air Berlin have long been considered a low cost carrier, yet they have trimmings like long haul business class (not lie-flat yet but apparently in the works), lounges and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=639</link>
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		<title>QF mobile check-in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally managed to get around to trying Qantas&#8217; mobile check-in function that has been rolled out across their domestic network. First attempt at using it failed abysmally. I&#8217;m not entirely sure what happened, but for my flight MEL/BNE I got an error that it was unable to complete mobile check-in, so I had to resort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=632</link>
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		<title>Virgin Blue and Skywest expand relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems DJ and XR have gone from dating to being engaged &#8211; as announced yesterday, the two carriers have agreed to an expansion of the existing arrangements to include full codeshare and baggage interline, as well as earning/burning Velocity points on XR and lounge access for eligible XR pax. Prior to this expansion, XR [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bombast.net/?p=629</link>
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