Monthly Archive for August, 2002

inessential: Thought for the day

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blanco
on 8/22/2002
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Thought for the day. Thought for the day: if President Bush can learn a foreign language—Spanish in his case—then you can learn a foreign language too. [inessential.com]

Photoshop 7.0.1 update available

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blanco
on 8/22/2002
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Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 update is now available.

Tripping switchies to OS X

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blanco
on 8/21/2002
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Tripping: a personal weblog on Switching to OS X
I switched to OS X from Linux. I’m now using OS X at work and attracting a lot of attention. Last Friday my boss decided she had had enough. So she gave up her Windows laptop and got an iBook. The president is thinking v hard of getting a TiBook. He keeps coming over to my desk and admiring the screen (it’s much brigher and easier to read than his high-end ThinkPad).

I love hearing these stories.

Meeting Miss Silvia

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blanco
on 8/21/2002
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CoffeeGeek - Meeting Miss Silvia A well written piece on a common theme among espresso afictionados (read: coffee snobs like me).

The skinny on Sound Check

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blanco
on 8/21/2002
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Want the skinny on "Sound Check" and iTunes 3? Well then have a quick look at AppleCare Document: 61655 cleverly titled " iTunes 3: About Sound Check". Personally, I found the macintouch.com readers to be very knowledgeable on the subject. I’m still experimenting with it’s effects before I unleash it on my entire mp3 librabry.

Oh yeah, I’m working on a little essay about issues with iTunes 3 and iPod firmware v1.2 — it’s still in progress, but you can get an early look at it in the stories section.

iPod v1.2 - iTunes 3 problem

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on 8/21/2002
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iPod v1.2 - iTunes 3 problem Updated: 4/13/04; 9:50:32 PM.

Most of the information here (specifically the “Problem”) is out of date, see the followup [story][1] on how iTunes 4 solves the checked song issue.

After playing around with the iPod 1.2 update, I decided to change my mp3 ‘workflow’ from manual to synchronized. This would allow me to use a cool new feature called smart playlists. I just needed to figure out how select which songs to sync from my huge mp3 library to the 10GB iPod. Continue reading ‘iPod v1.2 - iTunes 3 problem’

Working on new PHP/MySQL Project

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blanco
on 8/20/2002
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I’ve been extremely busy with a new project, it’s my most advanced PHP/MySQL site to date. I’ve changed the way I think about relational databases and object oriented code. Dreamweaver MX is key to the project. I’ll post more information as it gets closer to release.

Let me say that the documentation on selective sync-ing is 'hard-to-find', as I figured, you just need to check which songs you want to sync to your pod in the iTunes library. ![Check the songs in the Library that you want to sync with iPod][2] No problem, I can handle that. The only problem was, it didn't work, I was missing something and I didn't know what. Finally, I stumbled across the preference that was hiding in plain sight. The one that not only instructs iTunes to go into 'sync' mode with the iPod, but there's also an option to have iTunes observe the check marks and not to send the 'unchecked' songs to the iPod. Thus allowing you to have a 20GB iTunes library live happily with a 10GB iPod. ![iPod Only Play Check Songs][3] So I've got my selective sync going, everything is fine right? Wrong, I set up a few Smart Playlists and then noticed something strange... ![smart playlist][4] Even though a song was 'unchecked' in the iTunes Library, it was marked as 'checked' in the smart playlist and consequently getting sync'd - weather I wanted it to or not (see below). ![In Smart Playlists All songs are checked by default][5] **The problem is iTunes will put unchecked songs from your Library into a Smart Playlist thus defeating the purpose of using "Only Update Checked Songs" in the screen above.** Apple needs to add a checkbox field to the Smart Playlist Dialog that says "Only Update Checked Songs" or allow "Song is Checked in Library" to be one of the match conditions. [1]: http://jumpserve.com/blanco/archives/2003/04/29/itunes-4-smart-playlist-solution-kind-of/ [2]: http://jumpserve.com/blanco/images/library_checked.jpg [3]: http://jumpserve.com/blanco/images/ipod_only_checked.jpg [4]: http://jumpserve.com/blanco/images/smart_playlist.jpg [5]: http://jumpserve.com/blanco/images/smart_all_checked.jpg [post_title] => iPod v1.2 - iTunes 3 problem [post_category] => 0 [post_excerpt] => [post_lat] => 40.5897 [post_lon] => -73.7411 [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => ipod-v12-itunes-3-problem [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2004-09-28 18:43:49 [post_modified_gmt] => 2004-09-28 23:43:49 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://jumpserve.com/blanco/archives/2002/08/21/ipod-v12-itunes-3-problem/ [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [ancestors] => Array ( ) ) [6] => stdClass Object ( [ID] => 415 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2002-08-20 23:09:55 [post_date_gmt] => 2002-08-21 04:09:55 [post_content] =>

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