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- iPhone may be delayed
Our sister blog Blogging Stocks reports that rumors "are swirling" that the iPhone may be delayed by quality problems. Website LoopRumors relays rumors from the always controversial but occasionally correct Smarthouse that say that insiders at Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn/Han Hai are concerned about the iPhone's battery and it's talk time. They suggest that Apple may not meet its June
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Filed under: Mac 101
A file icon's stylized display often shows you a relationship between the file and the application that it opens in. For example, an HTML file that stores web page information might display a small Safari compass or a Firefox globe. Word files are marked with a blue W, Powerpoint files with a P, QuickTime movies with a stylized Q. These icon hints indicate which program will open and attempt to read the file when you double-click it in Finder.
Many file types can be used in more than one program. For example, you can play MP3 files in QuickTime or in iTunes, you can open a text file in TextEdit or in Word, movies in QuickTime or VLC. Finder allows you to change the application associated with each file. Here's how: Control-click (right-click) any file. A contextual menu opens over the file. Release any keys you are pressing and then press the option key. The menu item that had said "Open With" changes to "Always Open With". Select any application from the Always Open With submenu. Two things happen. First, your file will open in the application you select. Second, Finder updates the file's association so it will always open in that application. Its icon updates, changing to reflect its new "native" application.
Say, however, you want all your MP3 files to open in QuickTime or all your text files to open in TextEdit, or so forth. Do this instead. Select any representative file in Finder and choose File -> Get Info (Command-I). Locate the section of the Info pane named "Open with". Select the Application you want to use from the pop-up menu and then click Change All... By doing this, you instruct OS X to change the application association for all files on your computer that share the same type, text, MP3, MOV, XLS, or whatever.
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Filed under: iPod Family, Odds and ends
Sara Blask loves her white 3G iPod. And when she lost it in Iceland, her new one just didn't carry the same emotional connection. So she was surprised to receive an email written in Icelandic after returning to the US. Some friends helped her translate it and discovered that someone had found her iPod and tracked her down and e-mailed her. She was reunited with the iPod upon returning to Iceland. Blask suspects she'd never have found the iPod had she lost in in New York. Perhaps so, perhaps not. Honesty and kindness can be universal human traits. Still, it's nice to read a story like this with a happy ending. Wandering iPods sometimes do come home.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
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Filed under: How-tos
One of my recent posts showed you how to rotate videos shot in portrait orientation. While this technique restores your video to its proper orientation, the results are not particularly usable in your favorite video editing programs like iMovie because of their unusual aspect ratio. The following gallery demonstrates how to matte your video onto a plain background using QuickTime Pro to restore a proper 4:3 (or 16:9) ratio.
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Filed under: Humor, iPod Family, Odds and ends
If iPods had existed in my youth, my Mom would never have put up with them at the table. There was to be no TV, no radio, no books, no magazines. Dinner time was dinner time and that was the end of it. Times have changed. Today, table-side iPod use has apparently become a common manners problem. Not so at the Fat Duck restaurant, where customers will be encouraged to wear iPods while dining. The Fat Duck Chef, Heston Blumenthal, intends to use iPods to enhance the dining experience. Customers will listen to recordings of breaking waves while eating to make oysters taste stronger and saltier. The restaurant will provide the iPods.
In other duck-related Apple news, a man was charged following a iPod speaker theft that involved shoplifting, car assault, and a duck.
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eMusic announced today that its subscriber base has now topped 300,000 users. This makes it the second largest online music service after iTunes according to this Sys-Con report. The eMusic catalog contains 2.5 million tracks from over 13,000 labels which are distributed in MP3 format without DRM. eMusic specializes in independent labels, providing many artists and tracks not available on iTunes. eMusic uses a subscription model that allows you to download a fixed number of tracks each month, starting at $9.99 per month. This is different from, say, the Zune Marketplace model that allows you to rent unlimited tracks for $15/month. You own all the eMusic tracks you download and they do not stop working after your subscription expires. If you can swing the money each month, the eMusic selections nicely complement the iTunes catalog.
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Filed under: Internet Tools, Widget Watch
Last week, Mat Lu found a Quicksilver plugin that plays well with Stikkit, the online personal info organizer that thinks so you don't have to, but there's also another method for all you Dashboard junkies out there: a full-on widget from James Adam. This widget, like its Quicksilver plugin cousin, is great for getting your stuff into Stikkit, but it also has the advantage of being a compact window into your Stikkit world. You can create or edit any number of Stikkits and sync them when you want, making this widget a sort of offline, syncing client for Stikkit.
Adam is providing this widget free of charge, and you can grab your copy from his interblah.net site (love the domain Adam!).
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Filed under: iTS, Features, Deals
It's Tuesday and time for another edition of freebies. We've gathered these selections from the iTunes stores around the world. As usual, we have brought you free music, video, and audio books for US, Australian, Canadian, French, British and New Zealand iTunes customers. Make sure you follow the jump at the bottom of this post to see the entire list of free selections.
International
Australia: Jenny Don't Be Hasty (Live At Parr Street) by Paolo Nutini
Each week, we find tracks from artists who are on the cusp of success and bring them to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Scotland's Paolo Nutini writes songs about the intricacies of love and life and injects them with a bit of his own world-weary soul. How does a 19-year-old get so world-weary? No sob story here - just a young man who was tuned into the ways of Ray Charles and Van Morrison early on. "Jenny Don't Be Hasty" is the opening track on Nutini's debut and this live version is our free Single of the Week. Also, be sure to check out his debut album, These Streets, now available at a discount price.New Zealand: Jenny Don't Be Hasty (Live At Parr Street) by Paolo Nutini
Each week, we find tracks from artists who are on the cusp of success and bring them to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Scotland's Paolo Nutini writes songs about the intricacies of love and life and injects them with a bit of his own world-weary soul. How does a 19-year-old get so world-weary? No sob story here - just a young man who was tuned into the ways of Ray Charles and Van Morrison early on. "Jenny Don't Be Hasty" is the opening track on Nutini's debut and this live version is our free Single of the Week. Also, be sure to check out his debut album, These Streets, now available at a discount price.Canada: Catcher Song by Great Lake Swimmers
Each week, we find a track from a band or an artist who is on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Tony Dekker doesn't sound like the kind of songwriter who takes his inspiration from the comings and goings at the local club. His palette seems more coloured by natural surroundings - sea, sky, land. A little bit of flesh and bone now and then. "Catcher Song" is taken from Great Lake Swimmers' album, Ongiara, and it features Dekker's lost, mournful balladeer voice over a slowed-down, circular banjo melody. It's our free Single of the Week.France: War Hero by Antibalas
Chaque semaine, nous trouvons un morceau d'un artiste ou d'un groupe à l'orée du succès et le mettons à votre disposition gratuitement, dans le cadre de notre Single de la semaine. « War Hero » est un morceau parmi d'autres sur le nouvel album de l'ensemble afrobeat Antibalas, qui démontre que le groupe s'est finalement créé son propre courant funk. S'inspirant depuis longtemps du style inventé par Fela Kuti, Antibalas utilise ce morceau pour créer un groove funk profond et glissant, entrelacé de touches nettes grâce à John McEntire de Tortoise. L'ombre de Fela n'est jamais bien loin, mais le groupe a largement dépassé le stade du mimétisme. « War Hero » est notre Single de la semaine.UK: Elouise by Maps
Each week, we find tracks from artists who are on the cusp of success and bring them to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Maps further the plan of (in)action started by a few shoe-gazing indie fans back in the early '90s. The group stands behind a wall of gauzy noise and lets tantalizingly sweet vocal melodies drift out over the noisy abyss - you can almost smell the bangs and striped shirts. However, Maps are no mere revisionists. The band brings more structure, more electronic percussion, and more layers of sound to the mix. Fans of Caribou or Ulrich Schnauss should take note.More free items after the jump...
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