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I heard on the radio this morning that iTunes will have Led Zeppelin in the store on November 13th. I did some searching this morning and stumbled upon this article to verify it.
This is great for any Zeppelin fan who enjoys acquiring their music legally!
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I was syncing my iPhone this evening and decided to check for an update. I have been anxiously awaiting the firmware update that allows the iPhone access to the iTunes WiFi Store. Guess what?! It was available!
I downloaded and installed it just now but haven’t had a chance to play with the new store yet. I was too excited and just had to blog about it. Anyway, it’s available. It may have been available, who knows… Obviously, I didn’t. I have it, am gonna play with it, and will report back later to tell you how great it is. Yes, I sad great… I mean, come on, it’s by Apple, it has to be good!
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UPDATE: Apple has also changed the appearance of the Calculator application’s icon. Why?! Who knows…
Today I was working around in Safari on my iPhone and it just locked up. I couldn’t get the home button to respond. I couldn’t hold down the Sleep/Wake button to get the “Power Off” prompt… Nothing… I did some searching and found this article which enlightened me on two different features I didn’t know about. I’ll share them here.
Obviously, we’ve already covered that if you hold down the Sleep/Wake button (this button also silences incoming calls when you don’t want to deny the call but just want it to quit ringing aloud) on your phone for a few seconds, you’ll be prompted to move a slider to power off your phone. To power the phone back up again, press the same Sleep/Wake button.
The next tip that the article told me about was this. If you have an application lock up on you, where your iPhone seems frozen, you can hold down the Home button (the round button at the bottom of the phone with the white rounded square in it) for six seconds and it will terminate the frozen app and return you to the iPhone’s Home screen. I did not know what…
And, the last trick this article told me was how to do a hard reboot of the phone. Basically, you just hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button simultaneously for a few seconds and the iPhone will power off. This is what saved me in my situation earlier. Again, to power your phone back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
I hope this helps someone out there. I take no credit for determining these tricks on my own. reference the article I mentioned in the first paragraph for my source.
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Well, well, well… I woke up bright and early this morning at 7:15AM and went to the good ole’ MacBook and had a message from a buddy of mine from Spain. He sent me a message about the iPhone being $399.00 USD. Well, I looked it up and here is the proof. How disgusting! I mean, like, 40-45 days ago I paid $200.00 USD more than that for the 8GB iPhone… Oh, well… I guess you have to pay to play…
While I was digging around on Apple’s Web site I noticed that they did unveil another iPod called the iPod Touch.. This is an iPhone without the iPhone. Nice! Great design though… I mean, if the iPhone is beautiful then this little device is beautiful… It just looks really bare without the additional icons that the iPhone has… Again… Oh, well….
$399.00?!?!?!?!?!???!!!?!??!!!!?!?!!!oneone
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I am working on a Web site and needed to use part of the client’s logo for the site’s Favicon. Since I work on a Mac, I needed something that was quick and easy without a lot of fluff… I mean, come on… I just need to convert a A
I stumbled upon this nifty command-line tool called png2ico. Did you hear me say “command-line”?! You know what that means, right?! Just issue a simple command on the command-line and you’re in business. This is exactly what I needed!
I downloaded the source and was about to compile it when I decided to see if it was already in the MacPorts collection of third-party Unix applications. GUess what?! After running % sudo port selfupdate to get my MacPorts up to date, I ran % port search png2ico and this was returned:
% port search png2ico
png2ico graphics/png2ico 2002-12-08 Converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.
Great! After running % sudo port install png2ico I was in business. I quickly ran % png2ico favicon.ico favicon.png (where favicon.ico is the output file and favicon.png is my input file) and I had my conversion done in a matter of milliseconds…
If you need to quickly convert PNG image files to ICO image files on a Unix or Mac system, give this utility a try. No bulky UIno , fancy command line switches, just the basics to convert your file. Nice!
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