Saturday, 30 April 2011
iPad 2 Is Here
iPad 2, the next generation of the magical device, went on sale today at all 236 Apple Retail Stores in the US and through the Apple Online Store. Every customer who buys an iPad 2 at an Apple Retail Store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPad 2 by setting up email, loading new apps from the App Store, and more, so they?ll be up and running with their new iPad 2 before they leave the store. iPad 2 is also available starting today at AT&T, Best Buy, Target, Verizon Wireless, Walmart, and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
High resolution screen captures
Sometimes I want to get a higher resolution screen capture so I can include it in a printed document. Although my monitors are big, if I stretch a window out very large, that doesn't make the text, buttons, or menus bigger. This hint tells you how to scale the window itself, so you get a better screen capture.
Here's the problem: I want a screen capture with as many real, useful pixels in it as possible. If I have a window, say the Eclipse IDE, that looks good when it's, for example, 1000x800 pixels in size, it tends to just fill up with white space if I stretch it out to 1600x1050 (the size of my monitor). Certainly the icons and such don't scale.
If I take a screen capture of the 1000x800 pixel window, and then I scale it using a raster graphics program, the text gets scaled and jaggy, along with the UI elements. For many programs I find it time consuming and annoying to try to change all the fonts and preferences to make the text larger, and even if I do, the U ...
Here's the problem: I want a screen capture with as many real, useful pixels in it as possible. If I have a window, say the Eclipse IDE, that looks good when it's, for example, 1000x800 pixels in size, it tends to just fill up with white space if I stretch it out to 1600x1050 (the size of my monitor). Certainly the icons and such don't scale.
If I take a screen capture of the 1000x800 pixel window, and then I scale it using a raster graphics program, the text gets scaled and jaggy, along with the UI elements. For many programs I find it time consuming and annoying to try to change all the fonts and preferences to make the text larger, and even if I do, the U ...
Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=0f8ebc68ed468e9bef8b4daf64c082dd
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iPad 2 Stars in Vacation Videos
USA Today?s Jefferson Graham describes how he was able to capture and edit on-the-go travel videos in New Zealand using iPad 2 and the iMovie app, then instantly demo his movies on the ?nearly 10-inch sexy screen.? Writes Graham: ?Most people never get around to editing their videos. So having easy-to-obtain software on a device that lets you edit anywhere, like the iPad, will, hopefully, result in more polished videos.?
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-20-ipad2-videos.htm
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Logitech makes just $5m from Google TV, hints future models
Logitech was herald of wider problems with Google TV on Thursday after its winter fiscal results (PDF) revealed very low numbers. The peripheral maker made just $5 million in sales from the Revue and all its accessories. At $300 per device, the figure would have seen it ship fewer than 16,700 of the Android-based media hubs....
Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=d929a346d54942888cd2efc3852e7966
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White iPhone Launch Notes: Lines in China, Ship Times Slip, Thickness
Apple finally launched the white iPhone 4 yesterday, and despite being just a new look for phone that's nearly a year old (in a market where the vast majority of smartphone users feel obsolescence sneaks up quick), it made quite the splash.
Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/white-iphone-launch-notes-lines-in-china-ship-times-slip-thickness/
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ITC judge rules Apple did not infringe Elan multitouch patent
International Trade Commission judge Paul Luckern has ruled that Apple did not violate a patent held by Taiwanese touchscreen maker Elan Microelectronics.
Source: http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=22251ab235306a8361894f6989fdb39b
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Catalog your CD collection using iTunes
Have you ever wanted to catalog your CD collection in a searchable database but didn't want to shell out the $30 to $40 some cataloging apps cost? You don't have to spend a cent. Everything you need is already on your Mac.
Begin by creating a destination folder with a clever name. I came up with 'CD Collection.'
Get a stack of your CD's and open iTunes. Put a CD into your drive. If the contents of the CD don't appear as a playlist in iTunes, click on 'Advanced' and select 'Get Track Names.' You need to be online and iTunes should then get the track information from Gracenotes.
Next, click Edit » Select All. Right Click in the blue highlighted area and select 'Copy.' Open TextEdit and right click in the white area. Select 'Paste.' Close TextEdit and save the file with the artist's name followed by the album name, like this:
Various Artists_My Big Mix 2
Move the text file you've just created to your CD Colle ...
Begin by creating a destination folder with a clever name. I came up with 'CD Collection.'
Get a stack of your CD's and open iTunes. Put a CD into your drive. If the contents of the CD don't appear as a playlist in iTunes, click on 'Advanced' and select 'Get Track Names.' You need to be online and iTunes should then get the track information from Gracenotes.
Next, click Edit » Select All. Right Click in the blue highlighted area and select 'Copy.' Open TextEdit and right click in the white area. Select 'Paste.' Close TextEdit and save the file with the artist's name followed by the album name, like this:
Various Artists_My Big Mix 2
Move the text file you've just created to your CD Colle ...
Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=1ac543d5ebe2c0dfc24133ed44ae266d
Backup Mail Notes
This hint offers a low tech solution to an all too common problem. The forums are filled with exasperated people who have lost months of notes they created in Mail after a crash, update or simple mistake.
Perhaps Apple is assuming we all have a Time Machine drive hooked up. Whatever the reason, they have not seen fit to provide a straightforward way to backup Mail.app Notes.
There are two easy solutions, and while they will not update or sync in any way, at least you can recover your notes if you inadvertently lose them all.
If you have just a few notes, the first and simplest is method to make a text clipping.
The second involves digging around in the Finder to find w ...
Perhaps Apple is assuming we all have a Time Machine drive hooked up. Whatever the reason, they have not seen fit to provide a straightforward way to backup Mail.app Notes.
There are two easy solutions, and while they will not update or sync in any way, at least you can recover your notes if you inadvertently lose them all.
If you have just a few notes, the first and simplest is method to make a text clipping.
- Select all of the text in your note.
- Click and drag the selected text onto the desktop or your backup folder.
The second involves digging around in the Finder to find w ...
Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=0fc6af3b1ed9661ad06f58604981862e
Friday, 29 April 2011
Skyhook chief: Android data privacy much worse than iOS
Skyhook chief Ted Morgan in a discussion Wednesday accused Google of having much worse privacy in Android than Apple does in iOS. He argued that Android was quietly collecting data much more frequently, "1,000 times a day," and was sending background pings to Google on its own instead of just explicit location requests. Google's claims that location tracking was strictly opt-in and anonymized didn't hold up, Morgan explained to SAI, since it was not only a much more complete and traceable record than what an iPhone obtained but was being passed on to Google's serve...Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=eaef068c72a33fa3beb953787b88827f
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Spotify rumored near starting early access movie service
Spotify, the web-based music service, is nearly ready to launch a movie-streaming service, according to TechCrunch. Deals have been negotiated with a number of major movie studios, said a source, with Universal likely among them. The best guess the source of this news has for a launch date for the service is this fall....Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=e4a91782929c3fbc5bb1e34fe887d2ef
AppleScript to open a collection of Safari tabs
Here's a simple AppleScript that replaces the current Safari window with a collection of tabs, each open to a different URL. I've seen several scripts that attempt to do something similar, but this one improves on them in a couple of ways:
- It closes all of the old tabs, rather than just adding new ones.
- It opens the new tabs directly in AppleScript, which is much faster than using system events.
tell application "Safari" activate -- close all but one tab of the front window try repeat close tab 2 of window 1 end repeat end try -- open the URLs in separate tabs tell window 1 set URL of tab 1 to "http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USMD0100.html" ma ...
Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=71d6b65e02d5814f1a0b37d4d3a5761c
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