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Safari 5 extensions

Safari 5 introduces extensions in a simple way. I’ve already found more useful extensions than I found for Firefox: Tynt-Blocker: Stops copy-paste tracking shenanigans. Autocomplete: Stops banks, etc from disabling autocomplete. No More iTunes: Prevents iTunes from being launched automatically when … Continue reading

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iTunes zoom behavior

iTunes prior to 9.0 used a click on the zoom widget to convert to the mini player, leaving people like me who actually like to zoom a window option-clicking it. iTunes 9.0 finally fixed this. A click on the zoom … Continue reading

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Minimized iTunes player

Paste this into AppleScript Editor: tell application “iTunes” repeat with b in browser windows set the minimized of b to true end repeat end tell Save it in ~/Library/Scripts. And while you’re in AppleScript Editor, turn on Show Script menu … Continue reading

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Palm doesn't need iTunes to sync music to the Pre

Palm’s USB trick to get iTunes to load the Pre was a clever, if unethical1, hack. Today, iTunes 8.2.1 broke that. But despite the ridiculous accusations of lock in, Palm doesn’t need the Pre to sync music to the iTunes. … Continue reading

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Are you sure?

My biggest pet peeve in iTunes is undoubtably how it asks you “Are you sure?” before doing anything, and always in an unhelpful way. As an example, I mentioned to my wife a Christmas album I used to love. I … Continue reading

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Could the MSN Music shut down have been calculated?

Macworld | A year after iTunes Plus, Apple faces stepped-up competition – Page 2 Music services shutting down may let DRM finally shows its teeth. [...] Microsoft is one company that’s recently had to deal with just this sort of … Continue reading

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