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Monthly Archives: January 2006

Front Row

January 13, 2006 at 00.17

Upgrading to OS X 10.4.4 broke my previous hacked installation of Front Row, but it turns out that only a reinstall is needed. Check out Andrew Escobar’s tutorial to install it. It involves a bit of deep-rooted changing (the Bezel Services framework, for one), but it seems to be ok. I had to log out … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Posted in Howto, Music, Software | Comments (0)

iTunes 6.0.2 Mini Store Privacy Concerns

January 12, 2006 at 11.35

UPDATE: Apple has changed the behavior of iTunes. Thank you, Apple. Apple updated iTunes on Tuesday, and yesterday, pretty much the whole Apple blogosphere went off the wall talking about how Apple now infringes on basic privacy rights with a new feature called the iTunes Mini Store (iTmS?). I decided I needed to weigh in … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Posted in Music, Security / Privacy, Software | Comments (0)

Google Earth For OS X

January 11, 2006 at 10.29

Google has finally released an OS X version of the superb Google Earth application. This makes a grand total of two applications that Google has made for the Mac OS. I’m not at home to test it out, but it looks pretty neat from the screenshot. This is cool, even amongst all the other recent … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Posted in Software | Comments (0)

John Cage Is (Nearly) Immortal

January 6, 2006 at 22.16

Yesterday, the second chord change of the longest concert EVER occurred. Serene.

By Thomas Upton | Posted in Music | Comments (0)

iPod Navigation

January 6, 2006 at 20.47

Sucks. Sure, Apple’s money-maker has been praised the world over for both hardware design and ease of use, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a few suggestions. My music library is over 12000 songs large, and growing. I have over 300 separate artists, and almost 800 albums. Getting to what I want to … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Posted in Articles, Music | Comments (1)