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09-06-10 -
No Hints Today - Happy Labor Day!
It's the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. today. We'll be back tomorrow with some more iTunes 10 hints, while awaiting the iOS 4.1 and Mac OS X 10.6.5 updates.
09-03-10 -
Get Automator working again in iTunes 10
As has been already reported in Macworld, Automator actions that talk to iTunes all broke upon the release of iTunes 10.0. This is because each action specifies in a text string in its Info.plist file that it requires iTunes version 4.6 or higher,...
09-03-10 -
iTunes 10 Album Art Controller
iTunes 10 includes a QuickTime X-like controller available right from the album art! I was playing around with iTunes 10 today and happened to click on the album art in the Now Playing section (lower left corner) and the album art window popped u...
09-03-10 -
Use Sync Apps Search Field in iTunes 10
In iTunes 10, Apple has removed the filter/search field from the Sync Apps window for an attached device. The text field allowed you to search for a string and filter your list of apps like in Spotlight. It's not really missing; it has just been r...
09-03-10 -
Restore the old iTunes icon
A lot of people find the new iTunes 10 icon unattractive and out of place. This hint goes well together with other hints about restoring what was preferred about iTunes 9. This simple trick will restore your old iTunes icon (or you can replace it...
09-02-10 -
Improved iTunes 10 Classic Visualizer
The iTunes Classic Visualizer is great. For starters, it keeps you interested, and it seems uncannily good at matching the mood of the visuals to the style of music. The new Visualizer style just doesn't make sense to me -- pulsating orbs? Anyway...
09-02-10 -
Make the iTunes 10 control buttons horizontal
iTunes 10 provides a different layout for the Close, Minimize and Maximize buttons. Instead of being ordered horizontally, in iTunes 10 they're arranged vertically, like a traffic light. Reverting the buttons to a horizontal layout can easily be d...
09-01-10 -
Display location information in Safari 5
Whenever I go to a website that asks for my location I wonder what exactly I am giving out. I found a neat Safari 5 extension from Upper Atmosphere called FindMe. FindMe displays your location in a tool bar. Your location is just a button press aw...
09-01-10 -
Get details about your iOS apps in a .csv file
Since iTunes does not give you a lot of information via print or export of your apps, I wrote a little shell script to retrieve information from the app files themselves. The script creates and opens a .csv file. To correctly display the columns,...
08-31-10 -
An updated guide to recording HDTV signals
This hint is an update to this rather old hint which explains how to record HDTV signals from a FireWire capable box. For the most part, everything is the same as in the original guide, however there are a few differences. First, with the rise of...
08-31-10 -
Easy quitting of multitasking apps in iOS 4
Apple made it quite easy and intuitive to quit out of apps in iOS 4; however I have not seen this method mentioned anywhere. Double tap the Home button to bring up the multitasking applications view, then tap and hold on an app (as if you were ar...
08-30-10 -
Save Safari 5 from the FastBrowserSearch plugin
There are some obsolete plugins that can give Safari 5 a lot of grief, and there are some reports on the Apple forums of a problematic plugin called FastBrowserSearch. It's apparently not new but I didn't see it posted here so thought I'd submit i...
08-27-10 -
Move VMware Fusion to another drive/partition
I had moved all my /Applications to /Volumes/apps/Applications, and VMware Fusion 3 would not start. What VMware Fusion is looking for is to use the shell command "cd" ../Library to look for its files. So I sym linked /Library to /Volum...
08-27-10 -
Remove arrows from aliases updated
I dislike the Windows-like arrows in the lower left corner of alias icons. Ever since Panther came out, I'd been using the technique described in this hint to get rid of them. After updating to 10.5.8 the pesky arrows were back, I had a little tro...
08-26-10 -
10.6: A Service to shorten URLs
Services are all the rage in 10.6 now. Since Apple let non-developer users make their own Services in Automator, people (like me) have been suggesting many services. This hint is how to make a shortened URL using a lesser-known service named qgf....
08-26-10 -
Typing tricks and shortcuts in iOS
These are not my creation, but I've found the tips in this webpage very useful for mastering iPad (and iPhone) typing. Full credit goes to that site. There is a list of ten useful tips for making efficient use of the onscreen keyboard(s) in iOS b...
08-25-10 -
Mail.app plugin for bottom posting of reply text
The QuoteFix plugin for Mail.app formats your email reply for bottom posting. It puts the original message on top of your reply and sets the cursor between the original message and your signature. Mail's default action in to place the reply text a...
08-25-10 -
Fixing appointment times on iPhone's Calendar
I've been noticing for weeks now that several of my repeating appointments are showing up at the wrong time on my iPhone's Calendar application, even though the right time shows up in iCal on my desktop. The appointments are showing up on the righ...
08-24-10 -
10.6: Add screen grabs to Stickies
This might already be well-known but I've never spotted it before. If you right-click a Stickies note, there's an option for Capture Selection from Screen. This effectively brings-up the screengrab tool and you can click and drag to not only captu...
08-24-10 -
A few free fonts from iMovie '09
I was changing some preferences in iMovie '09 when I noticed there's a cool font in the last tab - Coolvetica. I was sure I don't have it installed on my system, so I dug in the application itself and there it was, together with some other nice ...

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