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Huh? Why? I'll just keep on keepin' on with Adium.

So Apple has this pretty awesome way to create your own little jingles and things. It's called Garage Band. And Apple has this nifty little phone that can play little jingles and things. It's called the iPhone. But there's no way to get something from the first thing onto the second thing. None at all.

Two great applications - EagleFiler and Cyndicate - are being offered this week for a combined "bundle" price of $55. Cyndicate, of course, I've written about before. I continue to believe it's the best feed reader/aggregator on the market today and one of its killer features - ratings - was developed with help from EagleFiler's […]

According to iDefrag, my main disk has about 0.2%/0.5% fragmentation ((Which, by the way, is 4,000+ files.)). Big whoop. My Catalog has six fragments. Again, big whoop. Mac OS X has had, for awhile now, "built-in defragmentation." Something like any file under 20 MB is automatically defragmented when it's touched by the system - to […]

It's true. Now if only he would buy the Pirates…

Safari's 3.0 beta's "restore" functionality typically works really well. Unfortunately, history and the "restore" functionality seem far too closely tied to each other to work really well. If I open five tabs in one window, clear my history, quit Safari, re-launch, and immediately choose "Reopen All Windows From Last Session, ((Since when is the word […]

Speaketh Steve: Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned. I'm still "tuned." It's mid-day Thursday.

Ringtones aren't quite ready. I've seen several notes about this, but thus far very few of the artists I've searched for have had ringtones, so I've not really played around with it. Today I took the opposite approach: I clicked one of the top five ringtones at the iTMS home page. Oddly, this is the […]

Select a non-iTMS track in iTunes and, via the contextual menu, choose "Create Ringtone…". Gee, thanks. How about you disable the freaking menu for items to which it doesn't apply rather than insult my intelligence? Gruber pointed this out to me. Wow. 😛

Paul's comments on the dock in Mac OS X 10.5 have generated over 100 comments. Read them all if you're really, really bored. If you haven't got quite that much time, I've got a simple question: {democracy:22}

I've been considering what to do with my "free" $100 from Apple. My list thus far: Renew my .Mac subscription. Get that Apple Bluetooth headset thingy. Get $100 in iTMS gift certificates Put it towards a new laptop to replace the aging 12" PowerBook. Sell it to someone for $95. Get an iPod Shuffle or […]

Though I'm not personally terribly upset at Apple, I called to see about getting a small refund for my "bad luck" of having bought an iPhone three days before the cutoff. I talked to a woman and her manager, both of whom told me that August 22 (the day I received my iPhone) was the […]

Relayed to me by a friend, I've verified that this works pretty nicely… Visit the iTunes Music Store. Find a bunch of songs you like and drag them to an "iPhone" playlist. No need to purchase the songs - you're just adding the previews to the playlist. Select the playlist, then export it ("File" -> […]

First off, I bought my iPhone something like 17 days ago, at $449. Now the 8 GB model is $399 without the discount. Wow. Bummer for me. Has Apple ever cut a product's price by 33% just over two months after its introduction? I mean, Wow! And a 160 GB iPod ("Classic") that holds 40,000 […]

1) The Help Menu 2) Preview in Order Preview finally opens images in the proper order. No longer will "image04.jpg" be shown after "image21.jpg." 3) Screenshot Coordinates When you press shift-cmd-4, the crosshairs appear with screenshot coordinates. If you just want to quickly approximate the size of an image or take a properly sized screenshot, […]