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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/HomePage.html
“Don’t know about you, but I find browsing a list of album names somewhat uninspiring, to say the least. One of the big appeals of a physical album is the beautiful packaging and aesthetic appeal, something that’s sorely missed with the digital equivalent.
CoverFlow aims to bring that aesthetic appeal to your mp3 collection. It allows […]
iTunes Registry
Thursday, July 21st, 2005http://www.itunesregistry.com/register.php
This site allows its users to upload their iTunes playlists and run them through a (growing) series of reporting tools in an effort to help you, the listener, better understand your musical collection.
Some of the interesting things available (once you make an account) include a Browse-By-Letter tool for your iPod, rankings of entire songs […]
Apple Mail plug-ins and tools
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005http://www.tikouka.net/mailapp/
What is this place?
A repository of plug-ins and tools that extend the functionality of Apple’s Mail.app (v. 2.0 and above). New plug-ins and tools are periodically notified on the site update notification list.
Mac OS X only peer-to-peer server and client
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005http://www.zankasoftware.com/wired
Wired is an open, modern and free version of the BBS-style client/server system, providing chat, messaging and file transfers. Zanka Software maintains the protocol standard, as well as server and client implementations.
It’s similar to Hotline or KDK if you’re familiar with those.
Cool hidden or unknown features in Tiger
Sunday, May 15th, 2005http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/13/tiger_tips.html
Tiger shortcut for word definitions (hidden feature)
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005If you have Tiger installed, hold your cursor over any word, anywhere. Then hold down [control”>+[Apple”>+[d”>. After pressing those 3 keys, you’ll see a nifty little definition window pop up. You then can let up on those 3 keys and hold the cursor of any other word and the definition […]
Do you hate the new look of OS X Tiger’s Mail.app?
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005Apple’s Mail.app version 2.0 is a drastic change from the previous version. I’m not totally sold on the new look. Here are some free applications that will hack the resources of mail.app so that it looks different.
Cagefighter:
http://otierney.net/cagefighter/
Mail Fixer, looks like it’ll work with themes so users can create their own theme […]
OS X Tiger, 200+ new features listed
Thursday, April 14th, 2005http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/newfeatures.html
iTunes controll from ANYWHERE on your Mac.
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005SizzlingKeys
This app is so incredible! I can’t believe that it’s been out for year now and I’ve just discovered it.
You can completely controll iTunes by using quick key combinations. It lets you play, pause, rate songs and more, using hotkeys you define via an intuitive Preference Pane plug-in.
It […]
OS X deployment document
Sunday, January 30th, 2005OS X deployment documentation
This is what I’ve been using for deploying OS X to my clients. The document comes straight from one of our Apple reps. I’ve never seen it posted anywhere. It’s been working very well for us. It contains the following topics:
‘Creating an Apple Software Restore (ASR) […]