In Mac OSX lion holding a keyboard key reveals a contextual menu allowing you to choose different variations of the character. This happens to be a major annoyance for me since I don’t really use that feature. So here is how you can disable it using a terminal command if you decide to revert back the typical performance of repeating characters while you’re holding the key.
Just run the Terminal.app and enter the following command.
With the release of iTunes 10 there has been a flood of hatred towards it’s newly designed icon. No one likes the icon and they want to change it immediately.
If you are on a PC you can quickly customize the icon by going to the properties of the iTunes shortcut and changing the icon from the customize tab. If you are on a Mac it’s a bit tricky, because the default way of changing an application or folder icon posted on Apple’s site doesn’t work for iTunes.
So everyone is freaking out over the disappearance of the ringtone editor from iTunes 10. You just have to relax, because you can still get your custom ringtones in iTunes 10 for free and without using any additional applications.
Follow the following steps in order to get custom ringtones in iTunes 10:
iTunes 10 has a HUD style player with full controls that wasn’t available in the previous versions. If you are an Album Arts lover, then you need to check this out.
When playing a song press the cover art button. The cover art button is the fourth of the four buttons located at the bottom left of the main iTunes window.
CloudMagic is a free browser extension that adds spotlight search like functionality to your Gmail. It’s super fast and occupies little space.
Currently available for Chrome and Firefox (Windows and Mac) and only for Gmail and Google Apps email users. The creators are planning on releasing versions for other email clients like Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and services such as Google docs. All that said this extension is a must have for any Gmail user. Take a look at the video demo to see the magic.
It’s really annoying when you are using other media players like VLC and you hit the F8 key to play/pause the media file and suddenly iTunes pops up (This problem is only true for Snow Leopard).
There are temporary solutions for this such as opening Quicktime and just leaving it at the background. This is a good solution since Quicktime doesn’t take up a lot of memory.
If you want to permanently stop this behaviour, follow the following steps:
With the release of iTunes 10 there has been a flood of hatred towards it’s newly designed icon. No one likes the icon and they want to change it immediately.
