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

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

“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

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

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

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

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 ➜

What to use instead of Oink (waffleswaffleswaffles and jam)

here’s the list of OiNK alternatives. audionews.ru (Music production) blackflowermusic.com btbeat.com bt.etree.org btmusic.org chronictracker.com deepbassnine.com dimeadozen.org djiq.org filemp3.org funkytorrents.com indietorrents.com kerrazy-torrents.net libble.com metal-torrents.com onemoresolo.net pj.sidewalkcrusaders.com (Pearl Jam) punkhc.dyndns.org punktorrents.com purelivegigs.com smithstorrents.co.uk (The Smiths/Morrissey) stmusic.org thecellar.afraid.org themixingbowl.org thetradersden.org torrentazos.com tracker.twee.se trancetraffic.com zombtracker.the-zomb.com exigomusic.org vipmusic.org modetrance.com tranceroute.com softmp3.org punkoiska.com metalbits.org tracker.gunsnroses.us mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_beta/ (Japanese/Asian) nipponsei.minglong.org (Anime OSTs) tracker.shoegaze.lt … read more ➜

New Radiohead available today… if you can get to it.

The new Radiohead album, ‘In Rainbows’, is out today. It’s only available online, legally, from their site www.inrainbows.com. Radiohead is no longer under contract with a distribution partner so they can do as they please with their newly created music, such as offer it up online for free, or whatever you feel like they deserve. … read more ➜

myspace hack warning and fix

Lots of people are having their myspace accounts hacked by inadvertently entering in their email and password on bogus myspace login sites. What makes this worse is that actual myspace profiles are redirecting users to fake myspace sites, thus proliferating the problem throughout the myspace community. Once hacked, the folks who successfully fooled you are … read more ➜

Replug

Replug This is just like the new Macbook’s magnetic power cord release but for your headphone jack. “Replug transforms any 3.5mm audio jack into a breakaway connection, protecting your audio jack from the rigors of daily use. When too much force is appled, Replug simply detaches from itself, preventing catastrophic damage to your audio device. … read more ➜

updated iTunes related plugins (iLike and iConcertCal)

iLike: iLike has been updated recently… get iLike here my iLike profile iConcertCal: “iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS X and supports worldwide searches.” New features in iConcertCal 2.0: “Today … read more ➜

Sound enhancement for iTunes

I read this article about digital audio sound enhancement in the NY Times earlier in the week. I remember before iTunes existed I used something like this when I used SoundJam back in the late 90’s. This is a great thing to use, especially for me. It’s incredible how it works and fools you into … read more ➜

Remote Buddy for OS X

It’s time for another Mac related post. It’s been a while. With Remote Buddy you can practically, fully control your Mac from afar with a remote. Remote Buddy turns the remote control in your hands into a key to your entire system. No matter, whether you want to control applications and presentations, browse and playback … read more ➜

DockArt: Change your iTunes icon to Album Art

DockArt is a nice little iTunes plugin that does something simple, and does it well. When installed it will change the iTunes icon in your dock to the album art of the currently playing track (assuming of course that it has album art). The developer is on the ball and recently released an updated version … read more ➜

Display song lyrics on your desktop automatically!

  Display iTunes song lyrics on your Mac desktop with GeekTool. 1. Download and install GeekTool.2. Put this as a shell command into GeekTool (with all quotation marks, in one line): osascript -e ”’tell application “iTunes” to set currentLyrics to the lyrics of the current track”’ This should display the lyrics of the current song … read more ➜

How to master your iTunes EQ

How to master your iTunes EQ Web site MethodShop takes a close look at the 10-band iTunes EQ, explaining how to get the most from your music by tweaking the EQ. The post describes which sounds are most effected by each of the 10 bands of the iTunes equalizer. For example, ‘The 2k frequency can … read more ➜

iTunes Artwork with Curator

iTunes Artwork with Curator Kavasoft has released version 1.0 of Curator, an iTunes Artwork management utility. Curator allows you to search for missing artwork and download any MIA items from Amazon. It also has a few spiffy features like creating Finder icons for your music and helping you perform custom searches for hard-to-find artwork. It … read more ➜

13 iTunes AppleScripts

Hack Attack: Top 13 iTunes AppleScripts: “ by Adam Pash If you use iTunes on the Mac, you should know about Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes, a repository of scripts that add tons of useful functionality to Apple’s music player. Doug’s AppleScripts not only plug obvious holes in iTunes’ feature set; they also add functionality to … read more ➜