I had some Sherlock issues on my new iBook, but this page at Macworld had a solution (under the heading “Baffled by Sherlock”).
Category: Apple
new iBook
My new iBook showed up today! So far, so good. Migrating information from the old iBook was really easy, using Tiger’s Migration Assistant. It took about an hour over FireWire. Now, I’m letting it run Software Update. That looks like it’ll take another hour or so. When all is said and done, I should have an iBook much like my old one, only with a bigger screen, faster processor, bigger hard drive, etc, etc. Much less hassle than I’d have migrating a Windows machine.
iTunes 5
You know, I completely missed this until I saw it mentioned in an article today. iTunes 5 has playlist folders! I’ve been waiting for this one for quite a while. It’s a really obvious feature, and I could never understand why it wasn’t there.
50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod
Here’s a list of 50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod. I believe I’ve only done one of these.
firewire blues
After much research and many failed experiments, I have decided that my old iPod just doesn’t want to work with my PC. I don’t know if it’s hardware, software, or some combination, but it just doesn’t work reliably. So I gave up and went back to the iBook. I reformatted the iPod on the iBook, set up iPodder, downloaded a bunch of podcasts, and synced them to the iPod. It worked great, no problems. I’m thinking about setting up my newer iPod to sync everything but the podcasts, but I don’t think that’s really necessary; there’s plenty of room on it. Meanwhile, as long as I’m using the Mac, I’m looking at iPodderX.
podcasting stuff
I’ve been listening to a number of podcasts lately on a fairly regular basis, and I decided to take the next step today, and actually start listening to them on my iPod. I’d been simply pressing them to audio CDs and listening to them in my car via the CD changer. This works fine, but I usually don’t want to listen to a given podcast more than once or twice, so it’s kind of a waste of a CD.
I decided to use my old first-gen 5GB iPod for this, rather than clutter up my newer iPod with podcasts. Getting this set up turned out to be quite a production. The old iPod was Mac-formatted, so, at first, I set it up to sync with my “received podcasts” directory via XPlay. That worked OK, but I thought I could do better by switching to iTunes. So I reformatted the iPod and set it up to sync with iTunes. I didn’t get very far. I started getting disk errors, so I reformatted again and set everything up again. I did a little better this time. I got one disk error at one point, but it’s been good since. I’ve been playing around a bit, trying to stress it and see if it’s going to keep working or not. So far, so good.
I also decided to upgrade to iTunes 4.8, just for yuks. That worked fine, except that it broke iPodder. I upgraded to iPodder 2.0.3, and everything seems fine now.
So, after all that work, I now have an iPod full of podcasts that I can plug into my car stereo via an old casette adapter. It sounds OK, but not great. I also ordered a car charger from XtremeMac, so I can keep the thing going, since the battery life ain’t what it used to be.
Tiger
Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts — something I’ve been looking for: a simple list of the Emacs key bindings for text editing in Mac OS X. And a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts.
Flying Meat: VoodooPad
VoodooPad is another Mac application that looks a bit like OneNote. These guys are going with a Wiki-like structure, which is kind of interesting.