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.
Ignoring Bots in IRC Channels using Colloquy
I’ve recently started using IRC again. Unfortunately, one of the channels that I use is somewhat infested with bots. This is a pity because when there’s signal in the channel it’s very useful stuff to be aware of. So, instead…
Hacking AntiRSI
I love AntiRSI. It’s a little application for the Mac that watches when you’re using your computer and then tells you to take a break at appropriate times. One of the nice things about using AntiRSI is that when…
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…
Norton Internet Security woes
People who know me well will tell you that I have a deep-felt aversion to Norton Internet Security. I’ve previously had to look after a small network of home PCs that had it installed on some of them, and boy…
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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How to ask for help with Standardista Table Sorting
Since I released Standardista Table Sorting a couple of months ago, I’ve been constantly surprised by the amount of attention it receives. The article announcing it now has the most comments I’ve ever received about anything…
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SourceForge CVS Servers Get an Upgrade
A couple of months ago now I decided that it would be a good idea to put Standardista Table Sorting onto SourceForge. There were two main reasons for this…
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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FeedDemon too reliant on NewsGator
I love FeedDemon. I use it at work, and until I swapped my desktop box from a Windows PC to a Mac Mini I used it at home as well. I really like that it integrates with NewsGator so that…
iTunes Agent
I’ve only just discovered iTunes Agent, and like most great discoveries it was made completely randomly. iTunes Agent is a little Windows application that allows you to synchronise playlists in iTunes with any MP3 player that connects to your PC…
Yahoo! User Interface Library Revealed!
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo released their JavaScript user interface library to the world. This is the very library that Yahoo uses internally for its miriad of products, and so was very likely that it would be highly stable,…
Nine Fantastic Firefox Extensions!
Since I started my new job (one of the reasons for the amazing lack of posts around here lately) I’ve been doing a lot more web development on a day to day basis than I have in a couple of…
Problems creating a SELECT box using the DOM in Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 6 has lots of “issues” when it comes to displaying SELECT boxes. Last week I found one which manifests itself when you create a SELECT box using the DOM. Then I found a way to fix it.
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New Firefox and Mozilla
Wow. You wait ages for one update to this site, and then two show up at once! Firefox and Thunderbird have both just been updated to version 1.0.2. These updates cover a few security bugs mostly, so it would…
Google AutoLink creates an AutoStink
Recently, Google released a new beta of their popular Internet Explorer only Google Toolbar. One new feature in this toolbar has received far more press than any other - AutoLink. The AutoLink’s raison d’etre is to alter web pages…
iTunes DAAP Servers
I’ve been meaning to post about DAAP servers for quite a while now, and almost got around to it last month when deleet’s DAAP Project wiki picked up my “iTunes streaming now only allows five users per day” blog…
Windows Services for UNIX 3.5
I’m a bit out of the habit now, but whenever I spend some time on a Linux box I always come back to my main computer (which runs Windows) and end up trying to ls -l to display the…
A Year of Stuff - The Ugly Stuff
This is the final entry in my “A year of stuff - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” series. Unfortunately, there’s only one thing which I feel is ugly enough (I don’t know where to lay the blame…
Obligatory Firefox Post
Firefox 1.0 Final has been released. Go update yourselves now if you’re already using it, and go give it a download and try it if you aren’t. The site is, understandably, being a little slow at the moment though. Keep…
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…
Firefox 1.0PR
So, Firefox has very nearly made it to version 1.0. What a milestone! And the revisions look good. I must admit that I’ve not spent too much time fiddling with it yet, but here are some of the things…
Public Service Announcement
If you are using Mozilla, Firefox or Thunderbird on a Windows box, you should upgrade to the latest version now. The reason for this is a security vulnerability on the Windows platform involving the shell: protocol handler. It has…