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Yesterday I posted quite a few things about iPods, video, and the iTunes Music Store. I spent most of the afternoon attempting to find some way to automate the process of downloading movie trailers, encoding them in the iPod video format, and copying them into iTunes (so that they would be synchronized to the iPod). […]

The iTunes Music store employs a lovely little reflection on its videos in preview mode, but the video loses the reflectivity when playing: What a great opportunity to use CoreVideo! I mean, c'mon Apple, put some effort into it! The videos in the store would look so much better with that lovely little reflection.

Since my resource forks were blown away by Backup, a lot of the iMovies I've kept on disk failed to work because all of the "Clip"s in the Media folder were wiped of their creator code and file type. If I added ".dv" to the files, iMovie complained that it could not locate the files. […]

While requesting my (lost) license for Trans Lucy so that I could watch Lords of Dogtown today, I saw that CE Software is now called "Startly Technologies" (eh?) and that they had a product called "Docktopus" that could basically put useful little badges on your dock icons. I was very interested in two of the […]

Today I attempted to use the Apple iTMS Link Maker to make a search template for LaunchBar and the iTunes Music Store, but that didn't go anywhere. Then I remembered that I had blogged about itms:// links. That post contained the information I needed. So, here for those who care is a LaunchBar template for […]

Prior to my reinstallation, I seem to recall that closing a tab in a series of Safari tabs would result in the tab to the right of the closed tab being selected. Now, after reinstalling everything, the tab to the left is selected. Is it just my imagination? Did I change some setting eons ago […]

This weekend while I was in North Carolina, my primary hard disk decided to corrupt itself. A minor inconvenience, I figured. After all, I'd been backing up with Apple's "Backup" application every night. Note: small changes made (11:29am, Oct. 18) since John Gruber decided to link to me. I may as well clarify things… Little […]

Is iTunes' "video stuff" not ready for prime time yet? I can't get any of the Desperate Housewives videos to preview at all, and just now, the Apple web server gave me "Server Error - The following error occurred: [code=CANT_CONNECT] Could not connect because of networking problems. Contact your system administrator" when I was trying […]

Despite David's Holy Assholy-ness, Inquisitor is pretty nifty. And, for now, that's about all I have to say about that.

Clever name, that unlockupd. I've installed it, and I'm just blogging it here so I know that I've done it and can remove it when Apple fixes the issue. Removal, is rather simple: killall unlockupd rm -rf /usr/local/bin/unlockupd rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/Unlockupd rm -rf /Library/Receipts/unlockupd.pkg I don't imagine this will fix much on my system - […]

I thought that Backup 3.0 would allow me to back up nightly, one disk to another. I didn't even care so much if the backup wasn't bootable. I awake this morning to an error: insufficient free space on the destination. Phooey, Backup. Are you still this useless?

It's not yet 10 p.m., but Gruber is drunk: AQUA: Howdya fuckin' like it now, bee-yotch? WHOO HOO! BRUSHED METAL: Fuck you, Aqua. AQUA: WHOOO! Heh heh. Oh, we Mac users…

For the past month or two, Mac OS X - or more particularly, certain applications - lock up for an incredibly long time when I open or save documents. Why? iDisk. As soon as I log off the AirPort network, the open/save dialog appears instantly. The problem seems to lie mostly with Carbon applications, but […]

Did Safari 2.0 (412.2.2 - the one you get with Security Update 2005-007) break table-copying behavior for anyone else, or just me? I used this page as a test. I pasted into BBEdit (8.2.3). Safari had been working properly for quite some time, but just now - several times - it pasted with one piece […]

So much for my uptime: Security Update 2005-007 (aka the "Bond, James Bond" of Security Updates). For the record, it was: % uptime 17:46 up 33 days, 19:29, 3 users, load averages: 0.15 0.57 0.67 BTW, I hate, hate, hate waiting for Saft updates. Dum dee doo… twiddle my thumbs… no idea what 20 tabs […]