How insane is it that iTunes can’t watch a folder - it’s such a simple concept, when I add an MP3 to folder X, automatically add it to my music library, and add it to the ‘Recently added’ playlist, I’m sure it’s folder actionable, but please, I know I’m not the only iTunes user scratching his head over this glaring omission. I just realized..iTunes syncs with freeking everything BUT my Mac, ipods, iphones, appleTVs, Motorola cellphones, and a host of other things..
I’m sure it’s a business decision, his royal Steveness thinks the only music on my computer is either purchased or ripped via iTunes, and in the library already as a result.
God forbid you like to rip your music differently. after all it WAS Apple that ncouraged me to ‘Think Differently’
Now if Frank Sinatra had that nickname it’s doubtful he would have gone very far, believe it or not Resene Lochmara is a fancy-pants name for a very specific shade of blue, one of the millions of meaningless names for that specific shade of blue - my industry (the graphics industry) standardized colors years ago, but of course our clients (the unwashed and color loving masses) still refer to colors by their crayola/sherwin williams/glidden/vegetablesque/celebrity eye/M&M colors - and honestly I thought I’d heard them all - I have an endless array of email asking for a certain red to be more ‘Plum’ or for a certain blue to be a bit less ‘Sharky’ (as opposed to a blue being much too ‘Dolphin’) - GOD I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS UP -
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In quest of minimizing our somewhat cluttered lives we did the unspeakable today - we cleaned out the attic. Hard work without a doubt, but the truly intresting part was the Mac boxes, years and years of Mac boxes and various peripherals.
- 7100 (featuring System 7.5)
- Sonnet 7100 upgrade daughter card
- G3 (beige pizza box)
- 22 inch Cinema Display
- G4 Quicksilver
- Apple 17” Studio Display (CRT)
- G4 15” Powerbook
- Mac II (4 bit/40MB/Dual Floppies)
- Mac 9500 Tower
- 2 40MB Syquest Drives
- 4 External SCSI drives
- ADB Wacom Tablet
I’ve recently gotten rid of the 7100 and the beige G3 but the rest of that will be in the trash come trash day, I can only imagine what me neighbors must think about the small mountain of computer boxes in my drive way (since it’s doubtful they’re aware of the chronology of those boxes). So can YOU put those models in chronological order?
So I haven’t mentioned it but my Ipod died, it’s really been bugging me, because I really babied it and the darn thing lives in a waterproof ballistic acrylic case, so I would have though it was somewhat immune to the typical issues that plaque Ipods. Now I know that Ipods are essentially a consumable item that even under ideal conditions would probably only last 2 years or so, but I totally wasn’t done with mine yet, and it appeared to be fixable, and that generally turns my OCD on high - if it WAS fixable - I had to fix it: Read More »
Tagged: Ipod Battery, Ipod Repair, Ipod Repair Success Story
Are you a Mac user? When was the last time you launched Sherlock, I’m not sure if I’ve EVER intentionally launched Sherlock, but today I misclicked and Bam! — Knee deep in crap UI design and redundant functionality.
I personally would have though Apple would have dumped Sherlock when they started pushing Dashboard Widgets, because this is clearly one app that bypassed both the publicity and UI departments in Cupertino. Oh how the mighty have fallen A quick peek on my bookshelf confirms my suspicion that sherlock WAS the big news in the release of System 9.5.
Intrestingly A quick visit to www.apple.com/sherlock pushes you to apple.com/macosx/jaguar/sherlock.html which is still basically a 404 page, but it is intresting that it tosses a reference to Jaguar in there.
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I’ve mentioned Quicksilver in the past, it’s a hugely handy utility that makes using a Mac even more of a joy, what follows is my favorite timesaver, leveraging the power of the unix mkdir command with the speed and simplicity of Quicksilver. 99% of my projects start with me creating the following folder hierarchy:
Project Name
- client_assets: (hold all client provided materials)
- vc_assets: (holds all my created or collected assets)
- build: (the root of the project build)
— img : (webready image assets)
— ast: (js, css, etc.)
Nothing hugely exciting, but that’s the bones of a project, and the key to consistency - here’s how simple mkdir makes it: (Note the linebreak ¬)
mkdir -p ~/Desktop/Project\ Name/ ¬
{client_assets,vc_assets,build/{img,ast}}
I know it looks intimidating, but it’s not like I have to type it ever again, that’s where QS comes in - using the ‘Run Command in Shell’ action and saving the whole thing as a trigger - and BAM! I’m a project-folder-making sensei.
So aggravating, I had a fellow illustrator do some artwork for a project, and he sent it over as a password-protected PDF, and of course, neglected to provide me the password, to further piss me off, he wasn’t reachable by either email or phone from 9am to 7pm - so in a deadline induced frenzy - I had to somehow get around the password, it was actually really easy. Read More »
So now that I kind of have a decent playlist, I decided to ‘kick it up’ a little bit, by eliminating the annoying gaps between the songs — of course Itunes can do this automatically, just switch on ‘crossfade between tracks’ & ‘gapless playback’ and you’re all set, but sadly this seemingly obvious feature isn’t available once you move your playlists to your my ipod [I realize the new ipods CAN play gapless - but NOT cross-fading].
I could have burned my playlist to a CD and then re-imported it back into itunes, but that seemed so analog — I chose instead to use Read More »
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