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| Podcasts app vs iTunes - keeping played episodes
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I keep reading warnings that setting "Episodes to Keep" to All Unplayed will also delete podcasts from iTunes when you sync. As many of my podcasts are only available for one week from source this is...
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| Posted by miawj, on Jan 27, 2014 at 03:34 AM, in iOS Apps |
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| If true this is one of the most bizarre business...
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If true this is one of the most bizarre business stories ever. Or, perhaps, the UK is not the centre of the universe (I mean, not the center). Over here Panasonic is the default brand for the default...
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| Posted by miawj, on Oct 17, 2012 at 11:48 AM, in Tech News |
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| Eh? 27" but a resolution of 1920x1080! What is...
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Eh? 27" but a resolution of 1920x1080! What is the point of that? Why does it matter it is compatible with Macintosh and Windows computers - all that counts is if it is compatible with broadcast...
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| Posted by miawj, on Oct 3, 2012 at 03:45 AM, in Tech News |
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| First thing to try is to check the 'part of a...
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First thing to try is to check the 'part of a compilation' checkbox on the options tab of the Get Info window.
That is, firstly highlight the tracks in the album (try the 'Recently Added' list...
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| Posted by miawj, on May 11, 2012 at 12:38 PM, in Applications |
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| I am delighted* to say I had to resort to Google...
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I am delighted* to say I had to resort to Google to identify that person. Never even seen her name before in passing. (Unfortunately a frightening and embarrassing number of times such a protestation...
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| Posted by miawj, on Aug 13, 2011 at 05:22 PM, in Applications |
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| Yes, I think it was just a random hang from...
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Yes, I think it was just a random hang from trying to drag something somewhere else rather than some sort of playlists label.
(And thanks for the approval of Daniel Johnston. Defensively I perhaps...
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| Posted by miawj, on Aug 13, 2011 at 03:24 PM, in Applications |
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| Managing not-podcasts as podcasts
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Does anyone have a pointer to a page describing how to manually handle files with iTunes to behave like podcasts?
I have messed about with various tags but the results are not too clean and a...
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| Posted by miawj, on Sep 9, 2010 at 05:02 AM, in Applications |
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| No, you have not made a mistake. And you can't...
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No, you have not made a mistake. And you can't get Numbers to display the real value. Although you probably know that fractions and irrational numbers lead to approximations you may wonder why binary...
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| Posted by miawj, on May 29, 2008 at 08:06 AM, in Applications |
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| I know, I know. It just seems such a pointless...
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I know, I know. It just seems such a pointless object. A 100MHz difference don't mean squat. An extra 50GB don't mean squat. But the different video card does make a real world material difference. I...
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| Posted by miawj, on Apr 30, 2008 at 08:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Blast it, Apple. Play fair!
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I've got one and half - two grand sitting around to give to you but I can't pull the trigger. £300 extra for an extra 256MB VRAM? What year is this, 1998? If you only want to provide two alternatives...
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| Posted by miawj, on Apr 30, 2008 at 07:30 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Heh heh. Another pressing critical issue! ;)
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Heh heh. Another pressing critical issue! ;)
Since more than 90%* of portable headphones have cords that are too short to use with a computer (even when on the 'correct' side) I think it is a bit...
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| Posted by miawj, on Feb 18, 2008 at 08:27 AM, in Mac Desktops |
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| Mail and gmail - one message at a time
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Instead of 255 at a time Mail has started to retrieve just one message at a time from gmail. Is this a temporary traffic management measure by Google's servers or is something awry elsewhere?
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| Posted by miawj, on Feb 16, 2008 at 04:13 PM, in Applications |
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| Word
Three things still as rubbish as ever: ...
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Word
Three things still as rubbish as ever:
1. Still not possible to paste sensibly. It takes four clicks to paste in a selection from a different document due to not being able to default to...
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| Posted by miawj, on Jan 17, 2008 at 02:35 PM, in Applications |
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| It probably does work fine in practice. It just...
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It probably does work fine in practice. It just seems counterintuitive. If I'm turning a physical page, I swipe right to left to go forwards. And in software, with a hand-grab tool, if I drag it from...
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| Posted by miawj, on Jan 15, 2008 at 06:31 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| MacBook Air touchpad gestures
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Three minutes in to the MacBook Air guided tour video they demonstrate using three fingers to swipe forward or backward a page in Safari. But the direction of the swipe is opposite to what seems...
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| Posted by miawj, on Jan 15, 2008 at 05:18 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Have you checked via a web browser that your...
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Have you checked via a web browser that your account is still receiving new mail? I can't set Mail to empty the gmail trash - it will only transfer items to the trash folder. I have to log in with a...
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 22, 2007 at 04:51 PM, in Applications |
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| Ah, yes, that's what I'm looking for (except in...
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Ah, yes, that's what I'm looking for (except in an editor.) Why can't [Warez2008 that may not be discussed here] feature useful stuff like this instead of all that pointless page layout and trashy...
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 22, 2007 at 12:41 PM, in Applications |
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| I can't see any way of making Pages have even a...
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I can't see any way of making Pages have even a single column wrap to a window. When I choose two columns, the bottom third disappears off the bottom of the screen and the top of the second column...
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 21, 2007 at 09:13 PM, in Applications |
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| Any word processors for the short and wide?
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Are there any text editors out there that support a multiple columns wrap-to-window view? I'm getting sick and tired of changing my paper size to and from a customised foolscape landscape layout (and...
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 21, 2007 at 05:49 PM, in Applications |
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| iTunes - CDDB composer info
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Is iTunes compatible with the way CDDB's composers info is stored? I'm getting an awful lot of blanks where I'd expect the information to have been supplied by the contributers.
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 18, 2007 at 12:53 PM, in Applications |
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| iTunes 7.5 - editing multiple "sort as" tags
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Am I being dumb and missing something obvious? Get info only gives access to the first page of fields. The sort as fields are only accessible when you are editing one record at a time. How do I set...
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 18, 2007 at 12:40 PM, in Applications |
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| I don't know about XP but on Macs you can use...
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I don't know about XP but on Macs you can use QuickTime Player to Save As a reference movie (instead of 'self-contained') and the resultant .mov wrapper file will usually import (without conversion).
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| Posted by miawj, on Nov 14, 2007 at 11:50 PM, in macOS |
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| Never mind extracting a single file...
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Never mind extracting a single file. It was, embarassingly, literally years before I worked out how to uncompress a whole archive. I worked out you could use the ctrl key to to compress folders but...
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| Posted by miawj, on Sep 15, 2007 at 05:58 AM, in macOS |
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| USB 2 with USB 1.1 Socket
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I read a description of USB that suggested the only difference was throughput and not power consumption/supply. Not sure I entirely believe that. I have a clamshell iMac with just USB 1.1 available....
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| Posted by miawj, on Feb 9, 2007 at 11:40 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components |
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| Bypassing system level CD access.
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What can I use to turn off system level access to a cd that is readable on a domestic dvd player but doesn't register with the computer? (Mac OS 10.3.9)
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| Posted by miawj, on Oct 25, 2006 at 06:20 AM, in Applications |
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| Erik, index marks are subdivisions of tracks....
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Erik, index marks are subdivisions of tracks. Mostly used to split long pieces of classical music. In the olden days, when CD players were bigger than betamax recorders and remote controls had larger...
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| Posted by miawj, on Apr 6, 2005 at 06:26 AM, in Applications |
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