When I bought my first iPod I was still on Windows and the software delivered with the Windows iPods (yup, Windows specific iPods back then) was a version of MusicMatch. The software was OK, but just OK. It was slow and a pain to build playlists. One of the reasons I bought the hard disk [...]
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I currently use iPhoto as kind of a digital asset management system. I have about 16,000 images in it that I’ve collected over these many years. I don’t use it for anything other than a quick crop or edit and I never save the changes back. So I decided to see what it would be [...]
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Apple has released iTunes 7.3. It’s available through Software Update or as a direct download from Apple.
The first time you start iTunes after the upgrade you’ll need to agree with the license and then wait while iTunes updates your library. The update took about 20 seconds for my 7500 or so items but your times [...]
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I’ve noticed that people are complaining that Avast announcing “Virus database has been updated” is an annoying feature. A compaint I whole heartily agree with. Here’s how to turn that off:
Start Avast AntiVirus
Select Settings from the menu
Select “Sounds” from the settings dialog
Click the “Settings” button (or just check “disable all sounds” and be done with [...]
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During the drought of blog postings I encountered the return of my problem with iPhoto, where it would crash whenever I emptied the trash, leaving empty icons behind. You can read about that experience here.
I did the usual stuff, index and thumbnail rebuild,etc… without success, I did some web searches and came upon a new [...]
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