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Entries for the ‘OS X’ Category

How to serve your iTunes library to your Sony PSP using WiFi internet

How to serve your iTunes library to your Sony PSP using WiFi internet is a nice little how-to for OS X users:

Dot Tunes looks at your iTunes library and generates a simple web page based on Album or Artist listings that can be accessed across the internet. Once you have generated the web page, it’s [...]

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Getting Google Talk working on a Mac

Check it out.

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ckAbstract Screen Saver

Using this cool little tool that I found via DownloadSquad, I took this flash animation that I made several years ago and I converted it into a screen saver that you can get from here (659KB direct download link). It is OS X only. Use at your own risk.

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Flock has landed.

Flock has landed and I want to play with it, but it is invite only right now. Anybody want to hook a guy up with a Mac invite to Flock?

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I’m infamous!

Scott pointed me to this part of this Flash Insider post:

Our sister site The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) is reporting from Macworld in Boston this week and it really seems to be boring them. The infamous C.K. is even longing for the old Macworld New York days.

I’m infamous. Who knew?

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iHate iPhoto


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Testing Posting to my blog with WordPressDash

Cool little widget, WordPressDash.

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Gene Steinberg takes my latest AppleMatters piece to task

Wow. There’s no permalink (update: found a weekly archive permalink), but check out this June 2nd attack on my article:

The case in point is an article from C.K. Sample III, of AppleMatters, where he says he’s really frustrated over some problems he’s encountered with Tiger. In reading his demands that Apple must fix the [...]

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Apple Fix Tiger: Waiting for 10.4.2

My Apple Matters rantarticle, Apple Fix Tiger: Waiting for 10.4.2, is up and ready for reading:

Apple seems to be “pulling a Windows.” Rather than addressing the problems in Tiger, they are ignoring them publicly and talking about all the new features to distract us from the truth. They recently announced a new version of iTunes [...]

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PS3 rumormill - Apple

iTunes compatible PS3 and PSP? Interesting: PS3 Forums :: View topic - PS3 rumormill - Apple

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TUAW Podcast, the First

Check it out: TUAW Podcast, the First.

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Pleased with Panther

My biweekly Apple Matters article, Pretty Pleased with Panther, is up and ready for reading. Here’s an excerpt:

With Tiger right around the corner, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at the year (and a few months) of Panther. Overall, I’d have to say that I have been [...]

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Finally!

Got iWork and iLife today, and Tiger is supposed to be delivered in 10 days.

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Apple - Hot News

Crazy! One of my weekend posts at TUAW got picked up over at Apple - Hot News:

Trent Reznor’s GarageBand Release
“Trent Reznor just did one of the coolest things an artist could do,” writes C.K. Sample, III, for tuaw.com, “and he did so in a specifically Apple-centric way. He released Nine Inch Nails’ new single, The [...]

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The Burger Thief

*Check out this post for how I did this.

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AOL TOS Talk

Hello to any BoingBoing readers who hopped over here from this post: Boing Boing: AOL weasels about its Terms of Service. Just wanted to provide a quick bit of re-routing. I actually didn’t write about this here, but over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (or TUAW). The link to the relevant entry [...]

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Google Maps now supports Safari

Check it out: macosxhints - Google Maps now supports Safari. Huzzah!

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Witch

Check out Witch:

Have you ever wanted to switch to a certain window — not just the application it belongs to? While you can use Exposé to switch windows, doing so can be very clumsy if you’re the keyboard-only type of user. And don’t all of these windows look just the same when they are scaled [...]

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NetNewsWire Lite Beta

I’ve been using the new beta of NetNewsWire Lite over the past week or so, taking advantage of the new Bloglines compatibility. Unfortunately, every other time it syncs with Bloglines, it crashes. Same for the non-Lite version. Back to the Bloglines web interface…

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Microsoft Office: 2004

I finally have the full professional version of Microsoft Office: 2004 complete with Virtual PC. I’ve had the full Office suite sans VPC, but now I have the full meal deal and will report back if there is anything stellar that I notice. I know I like the new Word better than the [...]

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