Archive for the 'Apple' Category

CoverFlow is a beautiful application that lets you browse your music collection by album cover. The interface is intentionally kept simple, allowing users to simply scroll through albums and make selections (that’s it). So what makes CoverFlow so great?

Here’s a quick tip on how to customize the view options for Finder windows in Mac OS X.

Most Mac users already know that every Finder window (in the current version of OS X) can be viewed in three different ways: Icons, List, or Columns.

But did you know you can fully customize each view for specific folders?

While in the Finder, go to View > Show View Options.

The Camino Browser is a alternate browser for OS X built on the same technology as Firefox, however it uses the native OS X interface and has attractive icons and menus, to really give it an “OS X feel.” The idea is to take the stability and performance of Firefox, but capture the attractiveness of Safari and other native OS X applications.

Album artwork comes with every purchase from the iTunes Music Store. If you don’t purchase directly from the iTunes Music Store, but still import your CD’s into iTunes, you’ll need a “quick” way to insert the album artwork, for each song.

It’s too cumbersome to scan in artwork from the actual liner notes, or even to get the artwork from Amazon.com, every time you import a new CD.

Clutter takes care of all of this, for us.

With Christmas around the corner, many iPod owners are contemplating some accessories for their beloved music player. The first thing on most lists is an iPod dock.

Unfortunately, unlike past iPod models (like the iPod Photo), Apple doesn’t get rid of their older iPod docks when a newer model comes out. This is because different iPods have different “docking needs” and a single iPod dock can’t cover them all (although there is one that almost does). I guess you could say that iPod models advance too fast for the docks to keep up with. So, we still have old docks available.

This article is a quick and dirty guide detailing my experience getting X11 Forwarding to work on OS X. You don’t need to know all of the details of the X Window System or of the XFree86 Project to get this working, I found I just needed to know which ssh flags to use with the computer I was connecting to. One of the really useful things about my new iBook is having a system running ssh and capable of X11 Forwarding out of the box.

Making the transition from PC to Mac has not been very difficult for me, but this is likely due to some familiarity with OS 8/9 in the 1990s, and some experience with Unix. Nevertheless, some advanced functionality of Windows that I have come to use on a daily basis, I expected to be able to “port over” to OS X immediately, and was not able to. On top of that, my first exposure to OS X is on a notebook, where the complexity of keyboard commands increases due to multi-functional keys.