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Removing ‘Genre’ and Store Links from iTunes 8 in Windows & Mac
September 10, 2008

iTunes’ browser as God intended: No. Genres.

 
As a little addendum to last night’s piece on how to get rid of the useless and disconcerting ‘genre’ column from iTunes 8’s browser view in OS X, I’m posting the solution for Windows users. This information’s probably all over the place by now, but having just tried (and [...]

Apple prepares to ‘Rock’ in a hard place
September 8, 2008

 
How the green-eyed monster may be stalking backstage at tomorrow’s Apple Event 
As Apple gears up for its imaginatively titled ‘Apple Event’ in San Francisco tomorrow at 10 a.m. (6 p.m. BST), the usual outlets of internet rumour are sourcing, crafting and spinning the usual variety of scoops and predictions about the show’s content.
This is, of course, entirely normal: [...]

Anti Auntie Ageing Cream
August 31, 2008

Or: Applications for Keeping BBC Downloads Forever (on Mac and iPod/iPhone)
A bad start to the post, but it’s late, and things can only improve from here in – and they do, at least for UK residents, to whom alone is this post applicable. Sorry, everyone else.
The Beta iPhone iPlayer from the Beeb is quite wonderful: [...]

Raison d’être
August 30, 2008

The astounding reasons for my decision to foist another blog upon the world.