Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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  • Democracy is now Miro

    miroAs the world of internet tv heats up, there are more and more options to keep track of. Joost has made the most noise, though YouTube has been a large internet-based presence. Well for most of the time there’s been Democracy Player, which allowed users to grab just about any internet video streams and play them in a single application.

    If you’ve launched Democracy Player recently you may have found it’s ripe for an update - and a name change. It shall henceforth be known as Miro. Miro looks a little more polished, and boasts some great features. Many have been there all along, but the whole experience feels much more fluid now. Grab HD content, YouTube, BitTorrents, and just about anything else you can think of from around the web.

    A nice update and change to a good piece of software. Have a look when you’ve got some time to kill.

    Thanks to Chris for the tip

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  • What's eating my disk space?

    grandperspectivelogo.jpg Working on a MacBook Pro is a real joy. It’s a beautiful and amazing machine, and I don’t know how I ever got along without it. But I’m painfully aware of the pitfalls associated with working on a laptop - especially limited disk space. So when I let unneeded files or apps slip through without being deleted or uninstalled, it becomes obvious rather quickly. If my space drops significantly, I’m manually sifting through my files and folders to find the culprit.

    But in this month’s Macworld I was thrilled to read about GrandPerspective, a handy little (free) utility that shows your disk space usage graphically. You can set it to scan a particular folder or your entire disk, find the space eaters, and reveal them in Finder for removal. After running it once I was able to reclaim a couple gigs.

    It’s a great little utility, a must have for your laptop. Did I mention it’s free?

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  • Moody: Mood tag your tunes

    Moody Logo For the past month or so I’ve been using Crayon Room’s Moody app almost religiously. It’s just so good.

    Moody lets you tag your iTunes music based on color with “upper red” being for sad-intense music and “lower green” being for happy-calm music. There’s no right or wrong way to tag a tune, so it’s an extremely personal app that customizes itself to your taste/needs.

    Tagging your tunes

    moodytag-1.png Tagging your music can be a bit of a daunting task at first (especially if you’ve got a huge collection), but it’s well worth it. It’s a fairly simple process of simply listening to your music and clicking on the corresponding “mood color” that you feel the song is. After clicking the color block, the next un-tagged song plays letting you move quickly through your collection.

    Listing to your mood

    moody4.png After you’ve tagged a substantial number of songs (you certainly don’t have to do your entire collection to make this work), all you have to do is go to the “Listen” tab and then select the color blocks that fit the mood your in. You can select as many or as few as you’d like. Moody will then start playing the songs tagged with that color and you’ll have a dynamic playlist created for your the exact mood your in right at that moment.

    How does it work?

    Moody Playlists Moody works closely with iTunes by creating a series of playlists for each color block. When you select the mood colors you’d like to listen to, it creates a temporary playlist with the songs from those colors and plays them.

    What’s really cool about the core of how all of this works, is that the mood color is attached to each song file…meaning you can take your songs out of iTunes and they’ll still have their “mood” attached, letting you create your own mood playlists in other apps/platforms (such as your iPod or to Windows Media Player on Windows).

    Currently the Moody tagging app only works on Mac but a Windows version is coming.

    Oh, and I almost forgot…it’s free. Go check it out.

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  • Apple's iPhone Bluetooth Headset Now On Sale

    applebluetoothheadset.png Apple’s much anticipated Bluetooth headset is now available to order in the Apple store.

    It will run you around $130 and is scheduled to ship in 2-4 weeks.

    The headset also includes the iPhone Dual Dock and iPhone Bluetooth Travel Cable.

    Thankfully there are no blinking lights on this headset. It keeps true to Apple design and is small, sleek, and unobtrusive.

    Thanks for the tip Chris.

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  • Postage printing on Mac

    Endicia for Mac I currently run a small urban vinyl toy shop where we run all of the shipment processing from mac-based software.

    At the moment we exclusively use USPS for all shipping (both domestic and international), and lucky for us there is some software that helps streamline that entire process.

    Endicia for Mac provides an interface for calculating, weighing, printing postage, and a few dozen other things. It has probably cut package processing time in half (if not more).

    What has really be fantastic is that it will fill in all the various customs forms for you instead of having to hand write it all yourself which not only helps cut down on time but helps eliminate mistakes.

    We use Endicia in conjunction with a DYMO LabelWriter 400 to quickly print off postage, delivery confirmation, and address labels.

    A couple of other highpoints:

    • Discounted domestic and international postage (up to 8% in some cases)
    • Automatic Address Verification - Helps avoid mistyped addresses
    • Mailing Log - Very useful when needing to find a previously shipped package
    • Bulk postage payment - Purchase your postage upfront in “bulk” instead of having to pay one transaction at a time
    • AppleScript integration
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  • Flickr Interestingness: 7-18-2007

    Here are a couple of photos with Apple related content from Flickr. I have plans of doing this type of post regularly…we’ll see how that turns out.

    Wake Up

    This is a killer angle that shows a near perfect reflection of his computer screen in his coffee.
    Wake Up

    Home Office

    This pic almost looks like an ad for Coke…
    Home Office

    Ci-Ci & PB

    Don’t sit there and say this isn’t cute…you know it is.
    Cat on Mac

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