The new iPhone is really, really cool. It has been some time since I have been so impressed with features from a phone. Love the design, love the ideas, and Cingular is absolutely the right network to be with. I’ve heard some comments already that the iPhone might experience low sales, but I disagree. […]
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My Rocky Relationship with kGTD; Enter the Mistress Actiontastic
Published January 7th, 2007 in Mac and gtd. 0 CommentsFor the past year or so, I’ve been using Ethan Schoonover’s awesome Kinkless GTD (kGTD) to manage my active (and inactive) task lists. My brother Chris introduced me to GTD some time before that, and I was immediately hooked. The comments floating around the Web heralding GTD as a great solution for the […]
ITaP will start using Apple’s iTunes U in the near future. From the press release: “BoilerCast has become the most successful academic podcasting service in the world,” Collins said. “By partnering with Apple, we are bringing together the two leaders in academic podcasting, and there will be tremendous innovation and benefits.” Damn straight!
Although not publicized, iTunes now has a feature to let you create your own “widgets” with an iMix you create (or one you just like). Here’s an XMU one I found: On the iMix page in iTunes, click “Publish to the Web” on the right and you’ll get the code for your own “widget”. Oh Apple, […]
Stolen from Clint… How many total songs? 23,060 songs/videos, equal to 75.9 days or 126.21 GB. Sort by song title - first and last? First: “!!!!!!!” by The Roots from their album Phrenology Last: “πr2 by Clint Mansell from the “Pi” soundtrack Sort by time - shortest and longest? Shortest: “Flip Sting (SFX)” (0:04) from the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack Longest: “China” […]
I almost choked on my drink when I saw this in my inbox today: From: maczone@ecat.zones.com To: Me Subject: Free Accessory Kits with Select Camears - New G5 PowerBooks Notice the multiple errors in that single subject line…
Stanford just released a custom section of the iTunes Music Store with Stanford audio and video, including lectures, speeches and musical performances. Very cool. What’s even cooler is that you don’t have to be a Stanford student to get it all - it’s open to everyone. I think I’ll start with Steve […]
Can anyone tell me why this is something I shouldn’t get? Selling the PowerBook will be a necessary step, but eventually I’d like to supplement the iMac with a 12″ iBook for presos and such. Here’s the specs: 2.0GHz 20-inch iMac 2.0GHz G5 processor 512MB DDR3200 RAM ATI Radeon 9600 w/ 128MB RAM, AGP 8x 250GB SATA drive 8x […]
Note to self: X11 forwarding in Tiger has changed. -X no longer works; instead, use -Y. Source: Apple Discussions
My experience with AppleScript/Automator is limited, but I need a script to do the following: From a list of URL’s, grab the first one and load it into Safari. Copy the text of the page (not the source) to a text file in TextEdit (or whatever). Spell check the page. Go back to the list and start over with […]
