Earlier today I mentioned about . Awaken is a small application that you can use to set iTunes to go off at a particular time. This means that you can use it as an alarm clock. Although Awaken is a good application the main function, or setting aniTunes alarm, can be done free with a little bit of scripting and know how. This post will show you the basics. You can then take it further as you see fit.
As your music collection grows and you buy, download and add more songs to your library you will eventually run out of space on your hard drive. As a result you may want to move you songs to another disk to free up some space. This can be done very simply, but you just need to make sure you do the correct steps in the right order or you end up having to re-import your songs and that is always a pain.
I’m starting to like Twitter. Its kind of fun, and a good way to keep up to date. I have a Mac Tricks And Tips Twitter feed, if you want to keep upto date with the latest posts, news and updates. I will probably be using it a lot over the next couple of days as this site is updated. Anyway, I have been playing around with a couple of AppleScripts that are really fun. They are designed to post your current iTunes track to Twitter. The potential to run up hundreds of tweets is bound to happen.
The games on iPods are, frankly, a bit boring. Thankfully some cleaver people have managed to put a small installation of linux onto an iPod but some top quality games on there. Some games include, doom, poker and a whole manner of other. Great fun if you have an old iPod and don’t mind hacking the software to bits.
I have found a really cool iTunes plugin that lets you find out more about upcoming converts and albums from your iTunes music collection. Its called iConcertCal. It is designed to run in iTunes and takes a mixture of iCal and an normal iTunes visualizer to produce a very cool output.
Once as you have followed the installer instructions and you have picked iConcertCal from the menu and brought up the visualizer you will be presented with a normal looking calender pane. Once as you have entered your city, and State if applicable. The program will search the internet for shows and upcoming CD releases.
Here is this this weeks free single of the week. There are some really cool singles being offered this week, so grab them up as soon as possible before they are gone and you have to purchase them.
