Seemingly randomly, Spotlight indexing goes on and on…. seemingly forever. It was painful to hear the hard-drive cracking away in the background. A quick search on Apple’s suport forums gave me the solution – add your bootcamp drive / partition to the exclusion list of Spotlight (in System preferences). Indexing stopped instantly !
Tag: Apple
iPod Touchy
So.. I received my iPod Touch today. It was pre-ordered mid September through the Apple website, with a customization on the back. Announced to be available on the 28th. Shipped and received within two days – not bad. Nevermind the fact that the Touch was already available in stores at the same time the Apple site was listing it as…
Support Internet Radios
Music for inspiration, without the brainwashing of ads. More signal, less noise. Support internet radios such as Radio Paradise – eclectic online rock radio or Radio Akasha These radios, like many others, are under direct threat from the music industry to fall under the weight of a royalties system not adapted to an internet age. The sad thing is that…
The Filter
I discovered The Filter in one of those ‘Top 10 software you can’t miss’ articles. At first, it seemed a little esotheric – would it really create a useable playlist from a sample of only 3 songs ? After using it for a few months, I can say yes – it is working fine on both Mac and PC. This…
iTunes 7 and a tip to refresh of iTunes library
iTunes 7 is out, and it looks good so far 🙂 …. a good occasion to add a nagging tip to this little collection. As I was trying to keep my iTunes library synchronized between my desktop (windows) and my laptop (mac OS), I found it frustrating to have to delete and reload my library each time I did a…
Cover Art
Found in a recent link from Slashdot to an entry of Phil Ryu’s blog about the top ten most beautiful Mac OS X apps – coverflow puts to a good use these neglected cover art pictures in your iTunes library and turns them into a fluid, intuitive interface to select albums you want to listen to. Now if only Apple…
Smarter Playlists
So I have spent some time recently making sense of my little collection of songs. 4214 songs. 11.3 days. All paid and accounted for 🙂 … and always listening to the same 2 or 3 static playlists. Something had to change. I picked up some great advices from Smart Playlists.com and came up with the following tips to help organize…
iCleaner revived my iPod
I made the mistake to keep my iPod for a few weeks in a jacket, with keys and coins… and no protection… while I was waiting to receive a Vajacases leather case. Needless to say, the scratches that ensued were as nagging as grain of sand under an eyelid. It took me a while to find a good solution. Unfortunately,…
Eyecandy for Windows XP
While I was away at a conference a few weeks ago, I found myself surrounded by researchers and students all typing away on their cool Mac laptops. Seeing the eyecandy of Mac OS-X, I wished I could find the same vidual comfort on my windows XP desktop. A few weeks later, I found the right combination of desktop gadgets to…
iTunes time travels
With all that hype surrounding it, it is easy to overlook a very simple reason that makes a service like iTunes so attractive. iTunes is a Time Machine. I spent a few hours (and dollars) going over their catalog, looking for particular albums and as I was coming across some unexpected titles, it hit me – there are so many…