When you have 2 or more Macs, it’s easy to see one’s mac iTunes library and listen to it from another Mac.
But you may want to control your main Mac’s iTunes ( the one connected to your speakers for example ) when you’re using another Mac : you’d want to browse your songs, see the cover of the playing song, etc…
TuneConect 2 is a free and very well done app which exactly does what i described above.
* First step you enable your main Mac as a server : just install the pref.pane provided with TuneConnect.
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A new Beta of AOL Radio 2.0 requiring at least Mac OS 10.5.2 is available.
It’s still the same good app referencing radios by genres, but it also has some new features like showing the cover of the current song instead of its icon in the dock and still the Growl-like notifications when changing the station.
You can download AOL Radio 2.0b1 here
AOL Radio is also available as a free App for iPhone/iPod Touch.
You can get it from the iTunes Music Store or directly from the iPhone’s AppStore.
This version is really slick and is the Apple Design Winner in 2008’s iPhone Developer Showcase.
Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client (that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Facebook and more) packaged as portable application.
As a result, you’ll be able to carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk).
All you need are 50 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.
Adium application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Adium.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Download Portable Adium here.
Los wifiTunes le permiten controlar iTunes vía safari en su iPhone, tacto del iPod o cualquier browser moderno. Construye un puente entre los iTunes y su web browser, proporcionando a un web server
Descargar WifiTunes (LIBRE).
PS: éste es el 1,111o poste en el blog de MacAmour 
Last part of the detailed analysis of Firefox 3.
As I’m typing this post, I’m using Safari 4 developer preview, this post isn’t 100% neutral because my favorite browser ever is Safari….
If you take a look at the resources used by both browsers, you’ll notice Firefox 3 needs more CPU than Safari, which is not a good point for the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox.
Popup Ad blocking is a feature that we don’t need to talk about anymore: it became a “normal” feature.
The new Google smart search bar isn’t better than Safari + the Inquisitor Add on (released more than a year ago).
As I said previously, Safari’s displays pages in a much better quality than Firefox 3.
Performances? I’m expecting to see very soon a benchmarking made by professionals to see which of the web browsers is faster, but honestly, when you have a very fast internet connection, it comes a point when you won’t feel any difference between two browsers.
The only good point for Firefox seems to be the ability for users to install Add ons (that will surely use more bandwidth and make the browser consume more system resources).
Safari 4 adds the ability to save pages as web applications, a feature that do not exist for the moment on Firefox 3.
My very own Conclusion: I’ll stick to Safari of course (expecting a lot from Safari 4); and I’ll wait for Camino 2.0 to install as a secondary browser.
Second level of analysis I’m going to do is OS X based ones. As we already said before, Firefox is going to move from the Carbon API, to the modern and classy Cocoa.
As a result, Firefox gets that native Aqua style forms we’re used to like the search button in Google.
Firefox also uses Core Graphics (which uses the Quartz technology) now instead of the Quick Draw technology (available on Macs since 1984)… The consequence is hardware acceleration provided by Core Graphics that leads to increase performances!
Now Mozilla’s projects for OS X are simple: replacing more and more Carbon by Cocoa to finally reach 64 bits versions of Firefox.
Aside from the usual bug squashing, we’re going to focus on minimizing Carbon usage and getting ready for 64-bit. Gecko 1.9.0 is generally Cocoa-based but it still contains a modest amount of Carbon and other code that is not 64-bit-ready. We’re probably not going to be Carbon-free or 64-bit-ready for the Gecko 1.9.1 release, but we can make a lot of progress. (Josh Aas)
Flawless! That’s a fact. And a beautiful interface! Like many others I’ve noticed the fact pages are lighter in Firefox 3 than Safari, I did the Apple.com test to see the difference, and.. no doubt, it’s like HD (Safari) compared to standard definition.
First, wanted to say it was not very bright to overwhelm their servers while they wanted to break a world record of downloads in a 24 hours period… The servers were off for hours…
Let’s first analyze the address bar:
- Type in a URL and it acts like Spotlight through your history; same thing with the Google menu (with popular searches)
- Favorites are marked with a star, clicking on the star adds the URL to your bookmarks (very cool)
- The RSS logo is now blue (a color, we, Mac users love more than the old orange)
- When you type in a URL, the “go” button appears as a blue “Play” logo, didn’t like it all, but it’s just a detail
- The address bar changes when you visit a secure page like PayPal reacts as a phishing center, increasing your security while browsing in sensitive websites, that is a very cool feature!
- Try to drag your Tabs to re-organize them and you’ll get an ugly thing compared to Safari’s smooth animation
- Firefox 3 has a very nice glow effect when you point your mouse cursor on one of the tab, you’ll see the site’s favicon glowing, Apple’s looks awesome!
That’s all I noticed for the address bar.
Yes, this new release of Firefox is amazing!
Firefox 3 will bring many changes for all Mac users (mostly good), as this is the first release of Firefox that is built primarily using Cocoa for the underlying Gecko 1.9 engine (a project that’s been in the works for years). Along with better redraw speed (CoreGraphics vs. the older QuickDraw API) and improved memory handling, the new engine provides the groundwork for a pure-Cocoa, 64-bit clean version of Firefox in the future. Firefox 3’s UI is more Maclike now, with Aqua-style widgets improving the view.
You can read more here.
