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Podcast with preview
With the new iTunes 9.0.3, slightly released after the iPad Keynote, there is a nice and big surprise for all podcasters.
Previously, when a user clicked a link leading to a podcast, it brought you to an empty white web page. Then, iTunes was opened – and if not installed you got a offer to download [...]
VirtualBox3 vs. Parallels5
The Parallels Desktop virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price!
Pricing
In my humble opinion the price for this update is very much to much. Some months ago, I just bought the update from 3 to 4. [...]
Closed lid with open eyes
A MacBook can close it’s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you.
One of those moments could be
A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don’t want anybody to touch it [...]
Social Whale
The Social Whale is a great replacement for the twitter.com website or a local installed application. It does look almost like the original website, but has some nice features the original should ever have:
multiple accounts
auto refresh with countdown and caching
API limit counter
view followers by reciprocals, new followers and quitters
integration of twitter counter statistics
picture upload, URL [...]
Lock your iPhone
My iPhone is my personal assistent, my friend, my all time companion, weather consultant, and so much more. Because of all those things on my device are private, I do not want anybody to have a look at.
Lock your iPhone
Like on all other mobile cell phones you can set a lock code. Once it is [...]
Youtube Video link power
When embedding or linking to a Youtube video, you have lots of parameters you can put in the URL. Those are influencing the player’s behavior and view. This is very useful, especially on embedding directly into your website or blog.
Playback with a seek
One of the most unknown and rarely used parameters is the playback with [...]
Chrome Browser for Mac
As a Webkit lover, of course I love the Safari browser. It is fast, reliable, powerful and easy to use. I wish Firefox would use its engine, but there are lot of discussions in the Mozilla forums, that it will remain using the Gecko engine.
From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and no [...]
Welcome to the Google Wave
So many people are talking about the Google Wave. It is still beta and Google limited the amount of users who may have access. You can either fill out a form and wait for an approval or get invited by someone else who still has invites left.
Since I got an invite (special thanks to Leuk [...]
Getting back a lost podcast episode
For podcast management I am using iTunes of course. I like iTunes. Really!
Sometimes my fingers are too fast and something is trashed, especially podcast episodes. If you are wacking the same as me, then I am sure this or the other time you want it being undone.
Of course there is a simple and quick way:
Just [...]
G-Mail within Apple Mail
Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer.
Take the following settings, to enable [...]
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