Archive for November, 2008

Two Ways to Set Metadata Columns in iTunes

A great feature of iTunes is the ability to set extensive metadata for every track in your library. There are two ways to set how much of that metadata shows up within your library.

Review of Twitter Clients

Smoking Apples, a site I recently discovered, gives a decent rundown of a few Twitter clients. I didn’t previously know about EventBox, but it looks like a great way to pull info in from several different social type networks.
Incidentally, you can follow me on Twitter if that’s your style.

Winter iPhone Use

Mac OS X Hints with some advice for winter iPhone use:
There are “alternative” ways to interact with your iPhone without having to uncover your fingers. For basic actions such as accepting a phone call or unlocking it to read a text message, you can use either your nose or, for some more precise gestures, your [...]

Keep iTunes Mini Player On Top

MacTipper: Keep iTunes MiniPlayer on top of all other apps with this arcane check box in the advanced pane of iTunes preferences.

Beautify Your iTunes Library

Now that I have an iPod Touch, I’m much more conscious about the appearance of my iTunes library. Here are a few tricks to make sure your music looks as good as it sounds.

New iPhone Apps Page Launched at Apple

iPhone Your Life is a new section of the iPhone 3G’s page at Apple.com which details some top iPhone applications from 3rd party developers. Apple has really turned to hyping apps for the iPhone as a major selling point of the device, and rightly so. I’m glad to see a new place to find [...]

Set the Background Color of Preview to Match Your Blog

I often use the Instant Alpha tool in Preview to quickly extract transparent images for use on MacMembrane. Here is a quick way to make sure your images look as good on your blog as they do in Preview.

Reveal Image Boundaries in Preview

The MacTipper Blog: hold down Cmd + Ctrl in Preview to reveal the boundaries of a transparent image. I use the instant alpha feature in Preview often and this has been a trouble for me. -The MacTipper Blog is worthy of its name.

Prototype MacBook Air found on eBay

MacRumors with pics of a mid-2007 MacBook Air found on eBay. The bottom of the casing is made from black plastic!

MarsEdit Breaks its Silence with ‘Sent to Weblog’ Sound

Want MarsEdit to make a Mail.app like sound when it sends your blog post up to the web? No problem. Just use Growl.