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Using Apple Airpods As Hearing Aids – Tips and Instructions

November 18, 2024November 17, 2024

Apple has enabled a new feature that allows you to use your Airpods Pro 2, or later models, as hearing aids. They’ve made some of the functions unnecessarily confusing. Below I’ve outlined steps for some various tasks that you may be struggling with. Also, here are some Apple links that may help but I find … read more ➜

Apple’s newly redesigned Music app is a band aid on a much larger problem

June 14, 2016

My first article on Medium: Apple announced yesterday at WWDC that they are redesigning the Apple Music app, “from the ground up.” While it is much needed it isn’t enough. Apple’s Music app was a mess and was in need of a redesign. It looks like they had too many Cooks in the kitchen, pun … read more ➜

Apple Music, this is the savior?

January 21, 2017June 30, 2015

Today Apple released their new Apple Music application and streaming music service, which includes a redesigned Music app for iOS and iTunes for desktops. It also includes a new live radio called Beats 1.

Apple is supposed to be the epitome of design. Simultaneously making something simple and intuitive yet engaging at the same time. After playing with the new Apple Music app, I’m left doubting that I’ll make the switch to Apple Music from Spotify. Spotify isn’t all that special either but Apple hasn’t capitalized on their strengths to surpass Spotify’s weaknesses.

iPhone 6 camera lens flare

October 7, 2014October 2, 2014

The iPhone 5 had issues with lens flare. Many photos that had a bright sun in it managed to almost always blow the sun out into a purple mess. Apple’s response? Move the camera. Now that the iPhone 6 is out I was curious how it handled similar shooting situations. Tonight I went for a … read more ➜

Display “Now Playing” info on your Desktop with GeekTool or Ubersicht

March 1, 2019June 25, 2014

I listen to Seattle’s KEXP streaming radio fairly regularly and even when I’m not I like to know what they’re playing. I use GeekTool to display KEXP’s “Now Playing” song on my Mac Desktop. Note that this doesn’t work anymore. If you have a way that works then please let me know. For Spotify, I … read more ➜

‘Stereo’, an iTunes music player replacement app for album art fans

June 18, 2014

Stereo is a new music player from Appothecary. Stereo is currently at version 0.3.1 and is offered at “an introductory price” of $1.99, down from $3.99. It’s designed to be a simple iTunes music player replacement designed to put importance on album covers. The interface is barebones and puts the album covers front and center. There … read more ➜

Thoughts on Apple’s acquisition of Beats

June 4, 2014May 28, 2014

Beats Music is really no different than Pandora, Spotify, Rdio. Sure they all have their own recommendation methods but in the end they are quite similar. None of them has done anything groundbreaking. Pandora has a rather limited library and has been living off of its Genome Project since its inception. Spotify’s apps are interesting … read more ➜

Resolve the “login not recognized” iPhone Comcast app error

November 2, 2020March 21, 2010

I downloaded the Comcast iPhone application excited to see what, if anything, it had to offer. I’ve become a bit jaded with Comcast over the years due to the lack of a real technology push. I’ve always wanted set top box built-in picture-in-picture and the ability to set my DVR from the internet or my … read more ➜

Steve Wozniak likes Nine Inch Nails… but he likes Tetris more… way more.

July 8, 2011May 25, 2009

This weekend we went down to Mountain View to see Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. We went into the venue through the VIP gate and went up to the bar to get our drinks. We noticed that sitting down near the bar with a few friends was Steve Wozniak, Apple cofounder. We got our … read more ➜

“Steve Jobs Just Died”, MacRumorsLive hacked during keynote

January 6, 2009

MacRumorsLive has been hacked during the live keynote. Various ads and bogus announcements, such as “Steve Jobs Just Died”.

iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

November 12, 2008November 7, 2008

The following is from, Slashdot: Apple iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition mallumax writes “The truth is, iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most Apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on Linux and Windows. A feature as basic as monitoring … read more ➜

iTunes 8, using the Genius playlist option to do what you want

September 11, 2008

iTunes 8 features a new playlist creation tool called Genius. To create a playlist with it, you find a song you like and select it in your iTunes library, then you click on the ‘Genius’ button at the bottom right of your iTunes window. iTunes then gives you a few, albeit overly simplified, options. One, … read more ➜

Stream your music collection to your iPhone

December 8, 2008August 15, 2008

http://www.simplifymedia.com/ Simplify Media software connects you directly to your music with your iPhone. Enjoy songs that are on your home computer while at work or from any WiFi location. Explore friends’ music while they are online. Hoping to spur a strong early reaction, Simplify Media is offering the iPhone edition of its utility for free … read more ➜

How to install and setup Jinzora (streaming media server) in OS X

August 13, 2008

simplehelp.net has instructions Per Jinzora: “Jinzora is the ultimate web based media streaming and management system. Streaming your media with Jinzora gives you quick and easy access to your online music and video collection from any device with a web browser. Enjoy your media from your PC, notebook, PDA, Smart Phone, Xbox, PS3 or Wii.”

PandoraJam, a must have app for Pandora.com fans

July 23, 2008

“PandoraJam enables fans of the fantastic Pandora.com music service to easily listen, record and stream tunes to an Airport Express. With support for scrobbling tracks to Last.fm and Twitter, PandoraJam is essential software for net music lovers everywhere.” Features include: Stream music wirelessly to a sound system (requires Airport Express) Record music for iPod or … read more ➜

beatunes – clean up your mp3 tags

November 17, 2024May 2, 2008

BeaTunes’ powerful inspection feature let’s you clean up your iTunes track data in a way unrivaled by any other software on the market today. Easily find typos or different spellings of artists’ names, automatically fill in the album artist names, and much more. No more R.E.M. and REM in your iPod’s artist list! beaTunes can … read more ➜

last.fm / slacker.com mashup

March 13, 2008

I’m late to the game but I’ve just discovered that there is a mashup of slacker.com and last.fm. You can listen to music on slacker.com and it’ll update your last.fm profile. lastslacker.com

Leopard Screen Sharing Image Quality

December 5, 2007December 1, 2007

ScreenSharing within Leopard doesn’t give you the fine grained control over the remote screen’s image quality like Apple’s professional remote control application ‘Remote Desktop’. If you’re controlling the remote computer over a slower network, such as wifi, you’d want to change this setting to a lower image quality for faster screen refresh. Leopard’s built-in ScreenSharing … read more ➜

10.5 Leopard, Time Machine woes and how I got around them

July 5, 2025October 30, 2007

I bought Apple’s new operating system, 10.5 Leopard, on Saturday. One of the main selling points for me was its new automated backup software called Time Machine. I have gigs and gigs of personal data that screams at me every night to take proper care of it. Movies, Photos, Music. I had one near catastrophe … read more ➜

Remote Buddy adds iPhone support

October 10, 2007October 10, 2007