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last.fm / slacker.com mashup

I’m late to the game but I’ve just discovered that there is a mashup of slacker.com and last.fm. You can listen to music on slacker.com and it’ll update your last.fm profile.

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Leopard Screen Sharing Image Quality

ScreenSharing within Leopard doesn’t give you the fine grained control over the remote screen’s image quality like Apple’s professional remote control application ‘Remote Desktop’. If you’re controlling the remote computer over a slower network, such as wifi, you’d want to change this setting to a lower image quality for faster screen refresh. Leopard’s built-in ScreenSharing [...]

10.5 Leopard, Time Machine woes and how I got around them

I bought Apple’s new operating system, 10.5 Leopard, on Saturday. One of the main selling points for me was its new automated backup software called Time Machine. I have gigs and gigs of personal data that screams at me every night to take proper care of it. Movies, Photos, Music. I had one near catastrophe [...]

Remote Buddy adds iPhone support

Control your Mac from your iPhone with Remote Buddy.

Watch the video demo here.

Control iTunes, EyeTV, presentations and many more applications remotely with your iPhone.

“Remote Buddy turns the remote control in your hands into a key to your entire system. No matter, whether you want to control applications and presentations, browse and playback [...]

Replug

Replug

This is just like the new Macbook’s magnetic power cord release but for your headphone jack.

“Replug transforms any 3.5mm audio jack into a breakaway connection, protecting your audio jack from the rigors of daily use. When too much force is appled, Replug simply detaches from itself, preventing catastrophic damage to your audio device. [...]

Interpol ringtone for your iPhone

  Interpol’s “Roland” from Turn On The Bright Lights as an iPhone ringtone

updated iTunes related plugins (iLike and iConcertCal)

iLike:

iLike has been updated recently…

get iLike here my iLike profile

iConcertCal:

“iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS X and supports worldwide searches.”

New features in iConcertCal 2.0:

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Sound enhancement for iTunes

I read this article about digital audio sound enhancement in the NY Times earlier in the week.

I remember before iTunes existed I used something like this when I used SoundJam back in the late 90′s. This is a great thing to use, especially for me. It’s incredible how it works and fools you into [...]

Remote Buddy for OS X

It’s time for another Mac related post. It’s been a while. With Remote Buddy you can practically, fully control your Mac from afar with a remote.

Remote Buddy turns the remote control in your hands into a key to your entire system. No matter, whether you want to control applications and presentations, browse and playback [...]

DockArt: Change your iTunes icon to Album Art

DockArt is a nice little iTunes plugin that does something simple, and does it well. When installed it will change the iTunes icon in your dock to the album art of the currently playing track (assuming of course that it has album art). The developer is on the ball and recently released an updated [...]

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