How to make “Genius” Playlists work on the iPhone
So, yesterday the 2.1 firmware came out for the iPhone. Amongst other things, it promised the ability to use Genius Playlists on the phone itself. Hooray, I thought.
Except that the blooming things wouldn’t work for me. Oh dear.
Why I won’t be buying an iPhone
First off, lets get one thing straight. Generally, I love my Apple products. I have a MacBook Pro, a Mac Mini, a G4 iBook, a 160Gb AppleTV, a 30Gb iPod Video and a 1Gb iPod Nano so that I can…
Changing a file’s icon in Mac OS X in 5 easy steps
A couple of days ago, I came across the problem that I wanted to be able to set the icon of a file that I was going to open under OS X independently of the application that was going to…
Apple Battery Recall
Just in case you haven’t been told by someone else yet, Apple are recalling a load of G4 iBook and Powerbook batteries. If your battery is one of the ones affected, you simply fill in the form on the Apple…
Six Things I’d Like to See iTunes Do
A little over a year ago, I wrote about some of the things that I wished that iTunes would do. Soon afterwards, collapsible playlist groups actually were implemented and I came away a happy boy. Over the last month and…
Hooray for the Regent Street Apple Store
About five weeks ago now, I bought myself a shiny new black 30Gb video iPod from Apple’s Regent Street store for £219. It was lovely, and worked fantastically, but I was a bit pissed off that it cost £35 more…
Listening to events generated by iTunes on OS X
Is it possible to listen for events generated by iTunes running on OS X? When iTunes is running on Windows it is possible to listen for, say, “OnPlayerPlayEvent” - an event which is fired every time a song starts playing….
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NetNewsWire 2.1 released, should I buy it?
For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been using NetNewsWire at home on my Mac Mini. I decided to go with it because from everything I’d heard it was the best RSS reader available for the Mac. It syncs with…
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Mac Mini To Do List
Just a list of the things I need to do to get my Mac Mini up to speed and doing everything I need.
I bought a Mac Mini
After my post about buying a Mac Mini on sunday I decided to run out to Apple’s Rgent Street store just before they closed at 6pm and buy one. What I got in the end was a 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo Mac Mini with 1Gb of RAM and a 100Gb hard drive, for £699.
Should I buy a Mac Mini?
It looks like Daisy (my main Windows PC) is on her way out. I’ve recently had intermittent problems with her recognising all her memory (both sticks are fine though) and now she’s starting to reboot on me randomly. Wouldn’t you…
Mac IE Dead
I know this is old news now, but there are enough of you out there who don’t actually read Slashdot who might want to know. As of four days ago, IE for the Mac is officially dead: In June…
MAMP - The Mac Apache, MySQL and PHP installation
For the past week and a bit, I’ve been staying in Alderney with my lovely girlfriend and her family. It’s a pretty little island, and I’ve enjoyed my time here, but unfortunately for me my girlfriend has had to…
iTunes COM Interface for Windows updated in iTunes 4.8
It turns out that the release of iTunes 4.8 did bring with it an update to the iTunes COM Interface for Windows. Version 1.3 of the iTunes Type library adds the IiTunes::ConvertOperationStatus() property, IITIPodSource::SoftwareVersion() property and the _IITConvertOperationStatusEvents::OnConvertOperationCompleteEvent() outgoing…
FYI: Apple Recalls Laptop Batteries
I found out today that Apple are voluntarily recalling certain iBook and PowerBook batteries due to a problem which could cause them to overheat, leading to a fire hazard. Clearly having ones nether regions set on fire is not…
iTunes 4.8 released
iTunes 4.8 has just been released by Apple. I’ve just downloaded it now, and will report back later if I find anything like the five users per day limitation going on again. According to SmartPlaylists.com, the following features have…
Wednesday Clean-out
Once again, it’s time for me to clear out my list of links that I keep meaning to blog about, but haven’t got round to. I might start doing this clean-out on a weekly basis now… Browser Speed Comparisons…
OS Update Time
Both Microsoft and Apple are having “update parties” today - time to break out Windows Update or Apple’s Software Update and get installing….
Thursday Links
No real entry today, just a bunch of links that I keep meaning to post. I Ate iPod Shuffle - A geeky poem extolling the virtues of eating the Shuffle. Lego PC - Usable PC cases built out of…
Apple Keynote Speech - Because posts are random…
Well, if you’ve got any interest in Apple Computers at all, you’ll know that on the 11th Steve Jobs gave his keynote speech at the MacWorld Conference over in San Fransisco. During the course of his speech, two nice…
A Year of Stuff - The Good Stuff
I know that it’s a little early to start with the yearly retrospectives, but who cares? This entry is all about the good stuff that I’ve either aquired or been involved in this year. They all get my thanks…
Java and the iTunes COM interface REDUX
This entry has now been superseded by the Using the iTunes COM Interface with Java and Swing article, which contains a fuller explanation of how to use the iTunes COM interface with Java Well, yesterday I said that I’d managed…
Java and the iTunes COM interface
This entry has now been superseded by the Using the iTunes COM Interface with Java and Swing article, which contains a fuller explanation of how to use the iTunes COM interface with Java I’ve spent the entire afternoon playing with…