Archive for October, 2006
PC Pro Magazine says Mac Pro Best PC Ever !
The December 2006 issue of PC Pro magazine contains a very interesting review of the new Mac Pro. The model reviewed was the dual 3Ghz Xeon processor model with 4Gb of RAM running Windows XP under Boot Camp and the conclusion of the reviewer, Dave Fearon, was that the Mac Pro was not only the best designed and engineered PC he had ever seen but it was also the fastest by a considerable margin.
Food for thought for all those Windows fan boys who claim that a Mac will never be as good as their beige boxes !
HOWTO Sync iTunes Playlist to your Mobile phone ( or non iPod MP3 Player ) – Mac OS X Only !
Posted by webmaster in iPod/iTunes on October 14, 2006
My new Sony Ericsson K800i, like many new mobile phones, is also a fairly reasonable MP3 player. With the addition of a largish memory card it is quite possible to carry around quite a few albums worth of MP3’s and still leave plenty of room for lots of photos. To transfer music to the phone the standard way requires you to plugin the phone by USB and allow select File Transfer mode. This mounts the camera and the SD memory card as seperate volumes which you can then navigate to using Finder ( or Explorer on Windows ).
By default there is a folder on the camera and also on the SD card ( once initialised ) called Music into which you can then drag your MP3 files from your PC’s hard disc. If you are a Mac iTunes user however there is a much more slick solution that I have come across which uses an Applescript from the popular Dougs Applescripts for iTunes
site. The script called “Sync playlist files to folder” is designed to synchronise an iTunes playlist to a folder that is accessible from your Mac. The script has to be very slightly edited then copied into your iTunes script folder, it will then be accessible from within iTunes to run.
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Changing the Default Browser in Apple OS X
Safari is an excellent browser, but many OS X users still prefer to change their default browser to Firefox, Opera, Camino etc. Unfortunately OS X still sees Safari as the default browser and any web links in emails etc will still launch Safari rather that the preferred browser.
To change this behaviour you have to go into Safari, select Preferences / General Tab and set the default browser there… After that any web links should launch in this browser rather than Safari…
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