iTunesVolume
Publicado por - Publicat per - Published by Cory Bohon en - in The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) | Monday, 12 May 2008 - 3:00 pm
Filed under: Software, Freeware, iTunes
There are a ton of Mac volume controllers out there. CoverSutra is one of the best that we have seen, however, if simplistic and free is what you like, then why not try iTunesVolume. Just as the name implies, you are able to control the volume of the iTunes application with this small app.iTunesVolume definitely takes the Steve Jobs “one button is good enough for everything” approach. The slider controls everything — you can move it to control volume in iTunes or hold the button down to get a pop-up menu with extra options.
iTunesVolume is a free 2 MB download from the developer’s website.
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Choose storage destination for iTunes’ Convert feature
Publicado por - Publicat per - Published by MacOSXHints.com | Monday, 12 May 2008 - 2:30 pm
You may have known that holding the Option key down before activating the Advanced menu in iTunes yields the ‘Convert to [format]…’ (where [format] is the audio format you’ve chosen in iTunes’ Preferences) menu item, which is useful for selecting a file on your computer to convert to your preferred audio format and adding it to iTunes.
If in the Open dialog, however, you select your desired file(s) and then again hold Option before clicking the Open button, iTunes will immediately open another file dialog asking for the destination in which to place the converted file, regardless of music folder location preferences.
Note: The converted file is still added to the iTunes library. This hint just gives you control as to where the file will be saved in the Finder.
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Choose storage destination for iTunes’ Convert feature
Publicado por - Publicat per - Published by MacOSXHints.com | Monday, 12 May 2008 - 2:30 pm
You may have known that holding the Option key down before activating the Advanced menu in iTunes yields the ‘Convert to [format]…’ (where [format] is the audio format you’ve chosen in iTunes’ Preferences) menu item, which is useful for selecting a file on your computer to convert to your preferred audio format and adding it to iTunes.
If in the Open dialog, however, you select your desired file(s) and then again hold Option before clicking the Open button, iTunes will immediately open another file dialog asking for the destination in which to place the converted file, regardless of music folder location preferences.
Note: The converted file is still added to the iTunes library. This hint just gives you control as to where the file will be saved in the Finder.
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10.5: How to ‘wrap around’ the Command-Tab switcher
Publicado por - Publicat per - Published by MacOSXHints.com | Monday, 12 May 2008 - 2:30 pm
I had grown accustomed to using Command-Tab and the Right- or Left-Arrow keys to switch apps in 10.4, but that functionality changed a little in 10.5.
In 10.4, holding the Command key, tapping Tab, then using the Left Arrow twice, one could get the end of a (potentially long) list of running apps — the first Left Arrow press would select the ‘previously used’ application (the leftmost icon in the Command-Tab bar), and the next Left Arrow press would jump to the icon at the far right of the Command-Tab bar. Basically, if the leftmost app icon was highlighted, hitting the Left Arrow would highlight the app at the right end of the list, and vice versa. 10.5 doesn’t allow this wraparound feature; pressing Left Arrow with the leftmost icon highighted does nothing at all.
The solution? It was hidden in this…
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Solve a problem where Docked items move or vanish
Publicado por - Publicat per - Published by MacOSXHints.com | Monday, 12 May 2008 - 2:30 pm
I use SyncTogether to keep my iMac and MacBook (both Leopard) in sync. I usually sync iCal, Address Book, bookmarks, notes and Dock items. Several days ago, however, I started to notice a very annoying issue with my iMac’s Dock: some items started to move around on the Dock, or completely disappeared from it. Even if I placed the vanished items back on the Dock and selected Keep in Dock, they vanished after a while.
I can’t remember what was I doing when it started, but yesterday, the problem replicated itself to the MacBook. Other accounts were working normally, but not mine. I deleted the com.apple.dock.* files, but nothing changed. After using fsevent for a while, I noted some recent activities in ~/Library » Application Support » SyncServices » Local.
I decided to make a backup of that whole directory, and in a brute force way, I then deleted the content of the clientdata and DataRefer…