When I’m working on my computer and listening to some music, I’ll usually set iChat’s status message to ‘Current iTunes Song’ so those on my buddy list can see what I’m listening to. This does just that, displays the song title only. I wanted it to also display the artist name, and the fact that […]
Print CD Covers from iTunes
As you probably know, iTunes has had the ability to store and display album artwork for your music collection for some time now. This is useful for things like Cover Flow, listing with artwork, Front Row, iPods, iPhones, AppleTV, etc. What you might not know, is that iTunes has the ability to easily create jewel […]
Finder Plugin for Adding Songs to iTunes
If you’re like me, you have a massive collection of .mp3 audio files which, lets say you, acquired, online through various methods. I’ve been on a quest to properly organize, tag, and convert every song in my collection and add it to iTunes. As I said, the majority of these were acquired pre-iTunes store with […]
Quick Access to Time Machine
UPDATE: As of OS X Leopard version 10.5.2, Apple includes a menu bar item to provide this same quick access to Time Machine. Keeping the same sense of simplicity I try to apply to my Dock, I think I’ll keep this out of the menu bar and save on some of that limited screen real […]
Make iPhone’s Bluetooth Useful
So you’ve got a shiny new iPhone, but can’t do much with it’s built in Bluetooth other than use a headset, right? Wrong. Using Proximity, an OS X menu bar application, you can run any AppleScript when your bluetooth device (in our case, the iPhone) comes in and out of range of your Mac. This can […]
iTunes CD Text
When did Apple slip this one in? I’ve just noticed that as of at least version 7.6, iTunes now has the ability to burn CD-Text information to audio CDs. Back in my days of using Roxio Easy CD Creator for Windows, this was a pretty slick feature. I was glad to find that Roxio’s Toast […]