Archive for the ‘Apple Software’ Category
Apple Scripts Introduction and Best Scripts for iTunes
Posted on 13 November 2008 in Macintosh Tips & Help, iTunes | No Comments »
Apple Scripts are actions (or sets of actions) that can be launched from almost all of your Mac’s (bundled) Apple applications.
These scripts are time saving solutions especially for repetitive actions.
And here’s an example with iTunes and some of the best Apple Scripts (to me).
First thing to do, check if you do have the scripts folders for iTunes, the best way to make sure you do have it is to run iTunes and take a look at the menu bar, it should looks like this:
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The Apple Scripts logo is the one you see before “help”.
If you don’t see it, just go to your Home Folder:Library:iTunes and create a folder and name it “Scripts”:

To find my Top 3 iTunes Scripts, please make the jump.
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Back: Apple’s September 9th’s Event, iPhone Nano 4G & Chrome
Posted on 6 September 2008 in Rumors, iPhone & iPhone 3G, iPod & iPod Touch, iTunes | No Comments »
Sorry for the absence, I was very busy the previous days!
Let’s go back MacAmouring (Loving our Mac) with some rumors first of all.
As I said many times, I’m not pro rumors, but these ones are more likely than unlikely.
iTunes 8.0, iPhone Firmware version 2.1 and maybe a new iPhone Nano.
The September 9th Apple Event: “Let’s Rock” will be more based on the Apple devices (iPod and iPhone as we said) than on the Mac (Computers and OS).
More audience as a result, that’s a sure thing, a Windows user will be interested with the latest iTunes version as well as the latest iPhone firmware’s version.
It’s sad, I wanted to hear about a new iLife’09 and iWork’09, some more on the upcoming version of Leopard (Snow Leopard).
Many pictures of the iPhone Nano 4G are available on the web.
The most “possible” one is the one under (on my opinion):

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TuneConnect 2
Posted on 28 August 2008 in 3rd Party Software, Freeware, iTunes | 1 Comment »
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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Uninstall/Remove Inquisitor
Posted on 4 August 2008 in 3rd Party Software, Macintosh Tips & Help, Safari | 9 Comments »
For those of you wondering how to remove Inquisitor from their system here are the locations of the files to delete (while Safari is closed) to remove it:
Inquisitor.bundle (in Library/InputManagers/Inquisitor/)
Inquisitor folder (in “user=you”/Library/Application Support/)
inquisitor.pkg (in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitorPreflight.pkg (also in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitor folder (in Library/InputManagers/)
iTunes 7.7.1 and a Security Update are Available now
Posted on 31 July 2008 in Mac OS X, iTunes | No Comments »

Apple has released iTunes 7.7.1, a minor update to the media playback/purchase and iPhone/iPod sync tool, through Software Update. Apple’s release notes state only that the update ” includes fixes to improve stability and performance.”
Typical problems after iTunes updates include:
- iTunes cannot locate music files, fixes When the issue manifests, any attempts to play some songs are met with error messages indicating that iTunes cannot find a specified file.
- Freezes when connecting an iPod/iPhone If this problem manifests, try deleting the following files from ~~/Library/Preferences/ (your user library preferences folder):
com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
com.apple.iTunes.plist
Tutorial on how to Sync your Google Calendar right from iCal
Posted on 29 July 2008 in Address Book, iSync & iCal, Macintosh Tips & Help | No Comments »
Google just added CalDAV support to Google calendars, here’s a tutorial on how to synchronize Google Calendars on iCal without any third party application or plugin installed:
- Go to preferences from iCal and select the “accounts” tab
- Click the “+” button to add a new account

- Fill the pop up with these informations:
Description: This will be the title for your CalDAV calendar list
Username: The complete email address you are using with Google Calendar (example: steve@gmail.com).
Password: The password you are using to sign in to Google Calendar.
In the Server Options drop-down, enter [ https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/ [ your Google Calendar email address ] /user ] as your Account URL (example: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/steve@gmail.com/user)

- Then click on add and wait a few minutes until your calendars are completely synched to your Mac; all subsequent syncs are instantaneous.





