Below are posts from March 2008
Mar 31, 2008 | | Tags:
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“You have new mail, Master…”
I find that I tend to keep Entourage in its own Leopard Space. That Space is typically in the background, and when I return to it I am almost always greeted with a few new messages and at least one to which I could (or should) have immediately responded.
If you wish to use the script, place it in a folder such as ‘Documents’ and apply it using a rule, as seen below. If you have questions, please post them in the comments, below.
http://babygotmac.com/dl/Entourage_Speak_Sender.scpt
So I thought to myself, “Hey stupid, why don’t you harness the power …
Misu – a very cool program that allows you to copy the music from one iPod or iPhone to another – is expected to be released on Monday the 31st of March.
Some of the features added to the app include:
iPhones and iPod touches are now supported!
Transfers can now be cancelled by simply pressing Esc
Comprehensive help documentation has been added
Multiple user experience details have been tweaked (it’s all in the details!)
Random bugs have been squashed
Additional features include copying *all* of your iPlayer music back to your computer (into iTunes), which will make backing up before a restore much …
Caterpillar is a new iPhone program from some of the guys at Unsanity (the same group that brought you such apps as FruitMenu, ShapeShifter, APE and LabelsX). The new company is RipDev, out of Russia.
Caterpillar adds numerous features to your iPhone – be sure to see the gallery below this feature review:
FaceLift is a major new feature that allows you to use Summerboard themes without having Summerboard actually installed, which saves some memory and even adds some features to those themes – see this page for more info. You can see some screenshots of this below.
uCalendar, which puts a calendar/event list on your iPhones ‘Locked’ screen – basically allowing you to see your agenda with a single click of the home button. Those of us who have used Palm or Windows Mobile devices can certainly appreciate having this little feature back.
Uninstall allows you to remove any program that has been added to your iPhone as if it were a web shortcut – meaning that if you hold down the icon until it wiggles, you will see a black ‘delete’ icon, which will remove it from your system just as if you had used the Installer.app program to remove it. Very, very convenient and cool.
System Font let’s you change the font used by everything from your Dock icons to system menus. While some items don’t display properly using specific fonts, most do and it certainly adds a little more personality to your iPhone.
Reminder will do just that – remind you via repeating vibrations or sounds when you have received a message and not yet viewed it. You can also specify the sound set to use and use pre-defined profiles (see the screenshots below).
Smart Dialer adds yet another feature many switchers will be quite familiar with. When in the iPhone dialer, you can hold down the # key and as you type a number (letter), a popup list of contacts whose information matches is displayed. So much better than constant scrolling…
ScreenShotter turns on the hidden iPhone API call that let’s you take a high quality screenshot of the iPhone by holding down the ‘home’ button while toggling the ‘mute’ switch. The screenshots below were done using this method.
Privacy, last but not least, gives you the option to turn off that annoying SMS preview that always interrupts me when I am I the middle of something else, or shows a message from my friend Andy which usually contains some sort of graphic and vaguely unsettling homo-eroticism. I like this new option.
(Review and screenshots after the jump…)
If you are one of the folks who have ‘jail broken’ their iPhone or iPod Touch, you have probably seen pointers that will tell you to ‘add a source’ to install a program. Basically, this means that you are telling Installer.app to look at a different server in order to gain access to more software.
To do so, open Installer, then click ‘Sources’ on the far right:
Next, click ‘Edit’ on the upper right, then choose ‘New’. Enter the URL given by your software provider, then click ‘OK’:
Installer …
If you are one of the folks who have ‘jail broken’ their iPhone or iPod Touch, you have probably seen pointers that will tell you to ‘add a source’ to install a program. Basically, this means that you are telling Installer.app to look at a different server in order to gain access to more software.
To do so, open Installer, then click ‘Sources’ on the far right:
Next, click ‘Edit’ on the upper right, then choose ‘New’. Enter the URL given by your software provider, then click ‘OK’:
Installer …
Helium Foot Software, Dejal Systems, Decimus Software and Xeric Design are delighted to work together to give Mac users discounts of 8-50% on their most popular products through March 31, 2008. Joining together under the moniker “Mac Indie Deals”, the group provides discounts on the following products when purchased using the coupon code DF08:
* MercuryMover: Don’t let the mouse slow you down! Move and resize windows on your Mac with the keyboard.
* Simon: The essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X.
* Caboodle: Collect random snippets of text or images
* Narrator: Read out stories in multiple voices
* BlogAssist: System menu item to help with HTML markup for blogs and more
* Synk Backup: Quick and easy backups, harnessing all the power of Synk with minimal complexity.
* Synk Standard: Advanced synchronization and backup for the rest of us.
* Synk Pro: The professional’s synchronization toolkit.
* DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere
* Screen Mimic: Do it, shoot it, share it
* EarthDesk: The World on Your Desktop.
Mac Indie Deals
I am, of course referring to virus scanners on the Mac and the unholy WTF called VirusBarrier X5 from Intego.
Seriously, it’s bad enough to scare Switchers into thinking their Macs are as susceptible to virus’ and malware as a Windows machine, but to then display this fluorescent blob of what I can only imagine is some sort of ejaculate from the Matrix…well, it just ain’t right, folks.
After assisting in two more jailbreaks this weekend (that just sounds so dire…), here are my quick and easy instructions for those who want to jailbreak (allowing them to add apps, wallpapers, themes and so on) to their AT&T iPhone.
If you are looking for unlocking or anything else, check out ZiPhone (below) as it does that too, but it’s not what this post is about.
Ok, here we go:
Download ZiPhone from the official site or this mirror: http://babygotmac.com/dl/ZiPhoneOSX.zip (8mb)
Unzip it, then run ZiPhone. Choose ‘Jailbreak’ and let it do it’s thing. iTunes will give you a couple …
http://blog.oregonlive.com/elections/2008/03/back_at_the_benson.html
The man can’t even hold onto his iPod…how can we expect him to hold a phone at 3am? 
Obama dropped his iPod on the sidewalk. A Secret Service agent scooped up the MP3 player and ushered the senator inside.
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