Category Archives: software
About Recorded Music, Albums, Rdio, and Streaming iTunes
This is how I’ve been using Rdio: I find an album I’m interested in and add songs I like to my Rdio collection. If I add enough songs to the collection, say half or more of the tracks, then I’ll … Continue reading
iTunes Library Corrupted? Just delete the Genius database.
Brian wrote in to give a tip about the Checking iTunes Library dialog box he read on Apple’s user forums. I asked him if I could post it here since I think others would find it helpful. I googled “checking … Continue reading
What does that button mean?
I don’t believe I’m the only one who finds the leftmost button confusing. Among music controls, which I think will be the most used controls for this multitasking menu, I think it’s easy to assume that this button is meant … Continue reading
Lady Gaga on the Rdio
The best thing about Rdio is you can listen to a bunch of stuff you would NEVER EVER EVER EVER buy. Like this Lady Gaga person. Let’s see what she’s all about. 5 Minutes Later EWW GROSS! She wants your … Continue reading
Rdio: First impressions
I got an invite to Rdio. First impressions after playing with it for 20 minutes: Ooh, it’ll actually try to stay in sync with my iTunes library. Doesn’t upload anything, just scans iTunes to match things up. That’s nice. AHH … Continue reading
Things I’ve noticed in iTunes 9.2
Drag artwork from the artwork viewer to your desktop. Used to be .pictclipping, now it’s whatever the original artwork was (jpg, png, …maybe even bmps or tiffs). When the artwork switches in the artwork viewer it’s all Core Animationy or … Continue reading
How is Instapaper still around?
I wonder why the Times et al. haven’t complained about Instapaper yet. It might not technically infringe on copyright, but magazines and newspapers can’t be too happy about an app that strips out all the advertising from their articles…as much … Continue reading
Styles in Pages and Word
Spoiler: Pages is a lot better. Fortunately (well unfortunately, really) almost nobody I know actually uses styles. They just don’t know they exist. In fact, most people I’ve met who use word processing software don’t really need it. They could … Continue reading
On second thought…
The Record interface can get intimidating very quickly.
Spotlight for the Help search box
I wish there were a Spotlight-like keyboard shortcut to get up to that help menu.
