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Seven Reasons why iTunes Match is worth the $25.
I’ve been using iTunes Mach for about a week now and it is well worth the $25 dollars. Here’s why.
iCloud Storage
All your music gets added to iCloud. Unlike other services, you don’t have to upload it all. iTunes only uploads what it can’t find a match for on their servers. This significantly cut down on the time it would have taken for all my music to upload. I think it was more like days with Google or Amazon’s cloud sites and only hours for iTunes Match.
Missing the magic in the Magic Trackpad
Magic Trackpad
I’m all for the latest Apple gadget and I’ve been eyeing up the Magic Trackpad for some time now. I finally got one earlier this year and have been testing it out for a while now. Sadly, I’m not overjoyed with it; yet.
The first day was the worse. The cursor was extremely jumpy and the trackpad lost connection a lot. Figured out that a restart solved the connection issue. The mouse is still jumpy at times, but from what I read, this is an issue with Apple’s OS and external monitors. So I’ve come to accept that one. It’s not a huge issue though.
What are Macs made of? Sweet, majestic unicorn tears.
I think that’s why they are so awesome.
From Chrome to Safari to Firefox and back again.
It seems that I can’t find a browser that is perfect. I try them all, I love parts of them all, and there are always things I don’t like.
With Chrome, its startup speed is annoying me. It takes a while to do something on startup and I’m not sure what that is. I think it’s loading the start page images, but whatever it is, its been taking to long. It seems you can’t go anywhere until it’s got that thing done so I’m stuck wanting to go somewhere, but can’t.
So I switched to Safari.
Get more out of Twitter for Mac by using mouse gestures.
If you’re running Twitter or Mac and you have Apple’s Magic Mouse, or trackpad, you can move around Twitter for Mac just by swiping with two fingers.
Best of all, there is no additional software or configuration needed.
What can you do?
If you hover over a tweet that is a part of a conversation, swiping to the right brings up the conversation.
If there is a link in the tweet, and it’s not a part of a conversation, then it’ll open that link.
If the link is a picture, Twitter will use its built-in picture viewer just as if you clicked on it.
Shakeup With Mac Desktop Twitter Apps
Seems that there has been a lot of news this week regarding Mac Twitter apps; and it’s all good. Old favorites are coming back while others have been acquired.
Tweetie 2
Tweetie 2 is released! Ok, so it should be released today when the new Mac App Store launches. TechCrunch as confirmed it so now we just have to wait a few more hours.
Tweetie was the best Mac Twitter app around until the developer was acquired by Twitter and the new app release was delayed. It’s missing quite a few features, but the new version will bring fans flocking back.
What are you asking Mac Santa for this year?
What kind of cool Mac gifts are on your Christmas wish list this year?
I’m hoping to get iLife 11 as it’ll be a nice upgrade from my iLife 08. I’d like iWork 11 as well, but that’s not out just yet.
I’m also hoping Santa brings me an Apple iPad case. I love my iPad but lack a decent case.
And maybe a set of composite AV cables. I hear good things about people being able to project videos and photos on the TV and I’m thinking maybe I’d like to do that.
16 Mac Apps That I Can’t Live Without
The other day I bit the bullet and erased my iMac. I wanted to combine my partitioned drive into one and I wanted to clean out the crud.
Now my iMac is neat and clean again. I’m being very cautious of what apps I put back on as I don’t want to add a bunch of stuff that just ends up slowing down my machine again.
So far, here are the 16 Mac apps that I realized I can’t live without.
1Password – Most of my passwords and serial numbers are organized in 1Password. Without it, I’d be lost. I’ve tried LastPass but found 1Password much nicer on the Mac.
32 iTunes Replacement Icons
Don’t like the new iTunes 10 icon? Well you’re not alone. Graphic designers have been working to create new iTunes icons and below are 32 iTunes replacement icons that would make a great addition to your desktop.
Easily Control Multiple Macs With 1 Mouse & Keyboard
Do you have more than one Mac on your desk or at your office? If so, then you should grab Teleport and control them all.
Teleport is a system preference that allows you to control other Macs with the keyboard and mouse that you’re currently using. Just scroll off the edge of your screen and on to the other computer. Then keep using the keyboard and mouse as you normally would and you’ll be working on the other computer.
Better yet, it can synchronize the clipboard between machines and you can drag files back and forth between computers.
