Category: Apple

One of the coolest features of iTunes 7 is the album cover browser. Problem is if you don’t have the album art its pretty useless. iTunes does come with an option called “Get Album Artwork” but you need an iTunes music store account to get it working and to get an iTunes music store account you need a US credit card. Sucks but there is some good news. Before iTunes 7 when there was no “Get Album Artwork” option I used to use a script called Fetch Art to download the album covers. I just tried it now and it is still working with iTunes 7 so I figured some people might find this script usefull. Its only works on Macs though so PC users need to find another option. [Link]

update: I just found this other software which seems cool while trying to find a Windows version. [Link]

update 2: PC users, here are 2 programs that downloads art. [Link 1] [Link 2]

Amazon just put up a page with all the new iPods that were released yesterday. You can now preorder one of the new iPods and they will ship it to you once they have it in stock. [Link]

This has got to be the coolest MP3 player ever. [Link]

My desktop is cluttered with a ton of jpgs, urls, txt files and other random shit. In fact, the majority of Mac users desktops are cluttered. Its a Mac thing.

This is where Hazel comes into play. Hazel can help you keep your desktop and any other folder organized. You could create rules that will tell Hazel to do a certain thing once these rules are met. For example, you could tell it that any JPG that is placed in the Desktop to automatically take it and place it in the Pictures folder. Or if you find a movie file place it the movie folder. You could also set rules based on time, for example you could tell it to delete files from the trash that have been there for more then a week. Its really flexible and you could really do a lot with it.

Problem is its not free, but what I am doing is trying it out and if it turns out the software is actually practical I will pay for it. Check it out. [Link]

A friend of mine is selling his silver iPod mini. The iPod is 6GB and he is selling it with his Griffen iTrip (FM transmitter) and silicon protective case. The iPod comes with the original box and manuals.

His asking price is KD40 (negotiable)

If you are interested call him on 6867610

update: iPod is SOLD and is no longer available.

Desktopia can automatically change your desktop picture based on a specified time of the day. For example a beautiful sunrise at 7:00AM or a starry sky at 10:00PM. [Link]

The Apple Store, Mac & More located at Marina Mall just got a new supply of Crumpler bags.

I love the way how Apple always manages to find a cool way of attacking Microsoft. Tonight is the Worldwide Developers Conference where Apple will be introducing some new products and someone managed to take a picture of a banner for the new Mac OS which has the headline “Introducing Vista 2.0”. If you didn’t get what it means its basically taking a shot at the upcoming Microsoft Vista (the new Windows) which is already more then 2 years late. Basically the poster is saying that OSX (Macs operating system) is already way more advanced then Vista. [Link]

update: another banner reads “Redmond has its own cat. A copycat.”

Chicken of the VNC is the best VNC client I have ever used on the Mac. Its super fast, has a cool name and its free. [Link]

This has to be one of the strangest screen savers I have ever seen. Its Mac only. [Link]

I found this cool Mac software via Digg called Kip. What is Kip? According to the description on their website, every house has cardboard boxes full of receipts, important medical records and old letters. Kip finally gives you a tool to keep all these documents in one place, instantly retrievable and searchable.

Whats also cool about Kip is that it looks and works like iPhoto. You can tag your documents so you can later find what you want quickly. I am going to use it to scan some of my receipts, contracts and letters which should turn out cool. Its also free so check it out. [Link]

Just what I needed. Firefox looks really cool now. [Link]

If you don’t come back, Nibaq gets your MacBook, I get your Nano.

Just got the iPod nano I won from toot delivered to my office. No matter how many times I have seen the nano it never ceases to amaze me how tiny it is. Since Nat is in Lebanon I am going to enjoy it till she gets back. Thank you toot!

Nats MacBook arrived today and sadly for her she isn’t here to enjoy it!