TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Webloghttp://www.tuaw.comTUAW - The Unofficial Apple Webloghttp://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/feedlogo.gifTUAW - The Unofficial Apple Webloghttp://www.tuaw.comen-usCopyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Make an SSB with Chrome on the Machttp://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/28/make-an-ssb-with-chrome-on-the-mac/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/28/make-an-ssb-with-chrome-on-the-mac/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/28/make-an-ssb-with-chrome-on-the-mac/#comments

A site-specific browser (SSB) is a great way to "package" a web app you use every day into a dockable, clickable app that maintains its own cookies, settings and preferences versus your everyday web browser config. On the Mac, the easiest way to make an SSB is via the handy Fluid app, which supports independent prefs in its paid version.

Chrome's preliminary "packaged app" support, which will take the SSB concept to the next level, has been supported via dev builds on Windows and Linux since the beginning of the month; you can get a sneak preview of the App Launcher on the Mac, but actual packaged app support is still TBD.

If you love the Gmail-savvy simplicity of Mailplane, but can't quite get around the price tag, you might consider an SSB for Gmail, which gives you some of the same functionality. Unfortunately, Fluid builds its SSB support on top of Safari and Webkit, which means your SSB won't be quite as Gmail/Google Docs-savvy as it would be if you were using Chrome. (Try printing a font-heavy Google Docs file from Safari.)

There is a way out of this pickle: build an SSB using Chrome as the underlying engine instead. With a quick script and a few Terminal tweaks, you can make a double-clickable fresh Chrome SSB that keeps its own profile well clear of your normal settings. Don't like shell scripts? The CreateGCApp utility packages up the script and does all the work for you.

Having a separate instance/SSB of Chrome is particularly handy if you have trouble with Gmail's multiple-account support in your regular browser, as sometimes can happen if one account uses single sign-on via a third party.

Once upon a time, you could make SSBs with Firefox via Prism, but that project has been left to wither on the vine.

[via Lifehacker & Bracken King]

Make an SSB with Chrome on the Mac originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 28 May 2013 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>applescriptbrowserchromehacksMacssbtipsMichael RoseTue, 28 May 2013 13:00:00 ESTCan I Stream It makes movie night simplerhttp://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/05/can-i-stream-it-makes-movie-night-simpler/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/05/can-i-stream-it-makes-movie-night-simpler/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/05/can-i-stream-it-makes-movie-night-simpler/#comments

The way we watch movies and television is evolving, as more people adopt on-demand video. But still, the old question remains: "What's on that's worth watching?"

The free web service Can I Stream It can help provide an answer. It lets you search for your favorite shows and movies to see if they are available on popular streaming, rental and digital purchase services. Can I Stream It will notify you when a currently unavailable program or film later becomes available on your selected services.

Can I Stream It is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and as a Chrome extension. Just today, I was poking around and discovered Snatch, one of my favorite Guy Ritchie flims, available on YouTube for free. Being so used to watching streaming content via Netflix and Hulu Plus, I had forgotten YouTube streams many full-length movies because of large content providers like Crackle.

The next time you find yourself in the mood for some Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Kaufman or Ernest P. Worrell, Can I Stream It can whisk you away into the cinematic worlds of The Newsroom, Synecdoche, New York or Kamp Kikakee.

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]]>Amazon VideoAmazonVideoandroidchrome extensionsChromeExtensionshow toHowTohuluIOSNetflixstreamingwebserviceWindowsPhoneShawn "Doc" BoydFri, 05 Apr 2013 08:10:00 ESTApps and tips for coping with Hurricane Sandyhttp://www.tuaw.com/2012/10/28/apps-and-tips-for-coping-with-hurricane-sandy/http://www.tuaw.com/2012/10/28/apps-and-tips-for-coping-with-hurricane-sandy/http://www.tuaw.com/2012/10/28/apps-and-tips-for-coping-with-hurricane-sandy/#comments

All of us in the northeast US (which includes myself and TUAW colleagues Megan Lavey-Heaton, Dave Caolo and Kelly Hodgkins) are keeping a wary weather eye on the approaching maelstrom that is Hurricane Sandy. While we continue to hope for minimal impacts to life and property, it's overwhelmingly likely that millions of people will be facing days or weeks of power outages, constrained transportation and other serious challenges.

As we noted last year with the approach of Irene, there are several apps and simple tips that can help keep you safe and secure in emergent conditions. Of course, the most important advice is also pretty simple: follow the instructions of local authorities with regard to evacuations, road closures and travel restrictions.

On the app front, the big kahuna is Hurricane HD from Kitty Code, which provides up-to-the-minute storm tracking detail. It's a paid app that tracks all named storms in the Atlantic and Pacific; given that it's the tail end of the season, mostly what you'll get from it post-Sandy is historical info until next time around. True weather nerds may prefer to pick up Base Velocity's RadarScope, which delivers high-resolution radar data from around the US to your Mac or iPad. Also on your Mac, Zipline puts an RSS ticker of weather data on your desktop for immediate alerts. (Base Velocity's development partner WDT makes the handy iMap Weather Radio app, which delivers location-specific weather alerts for thunderstorms and other hazards.)

Our in-house weather maven Mel Martin recommends CaneCast as an alternative to Hurricane HD, with similar storm tracking and warning alert capabilities. Mel also likes Emergency Radio Free, which provides thousands of live feeds to NOAA weather reports and emergency/local first responder scanner broadcasts; and the Hurricane Safety Checklist Lite app.

Cnet points out ICE Lite, which allows you to quickly file all your "In Case of Emergency" info in one place for first responders or medical personnel. Don't put all your eggs in one app basket, though: you can use Evernote, Dropbox, iCloud notes or Google Drive to easily transfer some of your vital info to the cloud. Then, print out a copy and keep it in your wallet or glove compartment.

ABC's Joanna Stern notes that both the Federal Emergency Management Administration and the American Red Cross have helpful apps available for the iPhone. FEMA's app includes contact information for emergency services and recovery assistance; the Red Cross app gives instructions on preparing an "go bag" as well as the locations of support/evac centers. You can also use the Red Cross app to send an "I'm Safe" social media alert to Facebook and Twitter, although if your phone is working you can probably just post directly to those services yourself.

Before the storm hits, follow Scott Beale's advice: Always Be Charging everything with a battery in it. In the event of power outages, the vintage technologies may hold out better than modern digital versions: a battery-powered radio and landline phone may remain operable when TVs and cellphones don't. Keeping your iPhone charged, however, is a plus if it's feasible; it can provide emergency communication, navigation and a slew of other capabilities. As a bonus, a tethering plan may be able to provide bandwidth for your computer even if your home ISP connection goes down.

You can charge an iPhone or iPad from a laptop, or from an uninterruptible power supply; low-capacity models can be had for under $100, which will give you just enough time to gracefully shut down your computer, or happily provide juice for mobile gadgets for much longer. Best Buy actually has all the APC models on sale now, which means they'll likely go fast. Remember that you need to charge your UPS before the power goes out.

Kelly H. recommends turning off your UPS and unplugging all your drain-inducing gear as soon as the power cuts out, then turning it on only to charge the iPhone or iPad. If you're using a generator for backup power, Kelly strongly recommends not plugging your delicate electronics (MacBook Pro, etc.) directly into the generator output, unless you have a pure sine wave inverter providing clean AC power. Put a surge protector or UPS inline to keep that "dirty power" from frying your laptop.

Aside from minimizing your iPhone power drain by turning off unnecessary services and Wi-Fi (no point in searching for a network if the access point's offline), you can charge your phone from a backup battery or a hand-crank charger. Plenty of companies are offering AC-chargeable battery packs, including Zagg, PowerStick, Belkin and countless others. When you're looking for a power pack, keep in mind that an iPad needs a 2A USB port (twice the power of a normal USB port) for full-speed charging, although it will trickle-charge fine from a standard port.

Putting some elbow grease into the equation, we turn to the cranks. Eton's power products include chargers that can give you enough juice for a five-minute call after some vigorous cranking. Its line that's co-branded with the American Red Cross includes the Rover pocket-sized crank radio, which includes weather bands, USB charging and a LED flashlight for about $50; it's available at Radio Shack and other electronics retailers.

For your Mac, back it up -- and consider shutting down and unplugging ahead of power outages if you think they're likely. If you're using Time Machine and Mountain Lion, keep in mind that you can set up multiple, auto-rotated backup targets, so get a solid backup of all your machines on a drive or two and then tuck them away in the floodproof safe (or even better, on a shelf at a family member's house on high ground). If you've got a cloud backup via CrashPlan, Backblaze, Carbonite or Dolly Drive, make sure it's current.

In New York City, residents can register for SMS and voice alerts from the city's 311 information system by signing up for NotifyNYC. The NYC Office of Emergency Management's alerts can also be found on Twitter at @NotifyNYC. In other areas, check your local emergency management website to make sure it's accessible on your mobile devices. You can also track all the Sandy updates via our sister site Skye at weather.aol.com.

Wherever you are this weekend, stay safe! Please let us know how you're weathering the storm via our comments, Twitter or our Facebook page.

Image from NOAA-NASA GOES-13 satellite, Sandy at 5:55pm ET 10/28/2012

Apps and tips for coping with Hurricane Sandy originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>5 apps5Appsemergencyfeaturesfive appsFiveAppshurricaneiPhoneMacsafetysandyweatherMichael RoseSun, 28 Oct 2012 20:45:00 ESTTUAW Help Line: holiday gift questions & answershttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/12/25/tuaw-help-line-new-holiday-tech-questions-and-answers/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/12/25/tuaw-help-line-new-holiday-tech-questions-and-answers/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/12/25/tuaw-help-line-new-holiday-tech-questions-and-answers/#comments

The goose is cooked, the cookies crumbled, the wrapping paper thrown away and the relatives released to their neutral corners. Finally, you can get down to the post-holiday fun of setting up your new iPad, or transferring your data from your old PC to your new Mac! Unfortunately, the end of a long day of cooking, eating, drinking and merry-making might render your personal IT skills a bit less than optimal. Whatever shall we do?

We're here to help. Got a pressing Mac, iPhone, iPod or iPad setup question? Wondering how best to arrange your iTunes store accounts, chat with Siri or configure iCloud? Leave a comment here, hit us up on our Ask TUAW Twitter account, or swing by our Facebook or G+ pages. We may not be able to answer all the questions, but we'll help as much as we can.

TUAW Help Line: holiday gift questions & answers originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>helpholidayipadiphoneipoditunessetupsupporttwitterMichael RoseSun, 25 Dec 2011 20:05:00 ESTOne trick for getting iTunes Match to recognize older trackshttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/20/one-trick-for-getting-itunes-match-to-recognize-older-tracks/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/20/one-trick-for-getting-itunes-match-to-recognize-older-tracks/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/20/one-trick-for-getting-itunes-match-to-recognize-older-tracks/#comments

Welcome, iTunes Match users. After you've coughed over your 25 bucks and waited all night for your music library to reconcile with the great iCloud in the sky, you may have noticed those mysterious cloud status icons scattered through your tracks. Apple's tech note summarizes the icons; Macworld's thorough rundown gives more status detail and recommends that you add the iCloud Status column to your iTunes list view for diagnostic purposes.

In my library, I saw a fairly substantial number of 'ineligible' icons, mostly on tracks that I had imported from my CD collection years and years ago. Some of my most vintage files show a 'Date Modified' in 1999, and were encoded into MPEG-1 Layer 2 (yes, an MP2 file) with MPecker or SoundJam MP (get off my lawn). Most of these, however, were recognized just fine by iTunes Match; more recent files seemed to have trouble.

Checking the standards of the iTunes Match process, Apple's tech note shows that only certain music files are fit for matching. If your music was encoded below a bitrate of 96 kbps, iTunes Match will simply skip over it. When I took a closer look at my problem tracks, the issue was clear: in an attempt to save some disk space way back when, I had opted to go with variable-bitrate (VBR) MP3 files when ripping these CDs. This took somewhat longer, but kept quality reasonably high while creating smaller files.

Present-day me is now somewhat irked with past-me; how to get these vintage tracks synchronized with iTunes Match? I figured out a way, which was independently pointed out by Lex Friedman last week.

As Richard enthusiastically realized in June, one of the most helpful features of iTunes Match is how it 'normalizes' any tracks that exist in the iTunes store catalog up to 256 kbps AAC files, the same quality as iTunes Plus music that you buy from the store. While he was interested in lowering the storage requirements of his audiophile-friendly (and massive) ALAC files, this fix works in the other direction: getting low-bitrate or variable-bitrate files up to the standards of current-day digital music.

Step 1: Sort your library by the iCloud Status or cloud icon column. Just click on the column name to sort the track list, and then scroll to the end where all the ineligible songs are. You can take this an album at a time, to keep it simple. In the image above, you see an album's worth of ineligible songs. You can click a track and choose Get Info (⌘-I) from the File menu to verify that the problem is inadequate bitrate.

Step 2: Double-check your iTunes import/conversion settings. You'll find these under the iTunes preferences, in General, when you click the button marked "Import Settings." For our purposes, AAC 128 kpbs "High Quality" is fine, and chances are that's the default setting you already had. Click OK and close the Preferences dialog.

Step 3: Select all the tracks in the album you want to iCloud-ify. Right-click or control-click any of the selected tracks and choose "Create AAC Version" (also available under the Advanced menu in iTunes). Watch the tracks convert before your eyes.

Step 4: Once the conversion is done, you'll have two copies of those songs in your library: the older VBR tracks, and the just-converted AAC 128 tracks. iTunes Match automatically kicks in and begins scanning the 'new' tracks, and (since they now meet the minimum criteria for matching) they're matched!

If they exist in the iTunes store, the iCloud versions of them will be the store's iTunes Plus 256 kpbs version; if not, they'll be the 128 kbps AAC versions you just created. You can tell the difference by looking in the iCloud Status column, which will helpfully say 'Matched' or 'Uploaded.'

At this point, for your tracks with 'Uploaded' status, what you've got is what you've got: VBR originals and AAC re-conversions, which may be a bit lower quality than the source files. If you have the disk space to keep both, you can, or give the AACs a listen and see if they sound OK to you. The other alternative is going back to the CDs to capture those files at a higher bitrate.

For the tracks with 'Matched' status, however, you can revitalize them to current standards by actually -- gulp! -- deleting your local copies and downloading the matched versions to replace them. Macworld has a walkthrough of using Smart Playlists to do this for the entire library, or you can go an album at a time if it makes you nervous to delete huge tracts of tracks (or if your Internet connectivity is metered and you can't safely download gigabytes of music at one go). Simply delete both your originals and your local matches -- careful NOT to check the box to delete from iCloud -- and note that the matched tracks stay listed, with a little download icon next to them. Click it to grab the full-glory version of the song back from iCloud, or optionally just leave it in the cloud until you need it again to save yourself some disk space.

Got any killer tips for working with iTunes Match that you want to share with the world? Whisper them into our comments or hit our tip line.

One trick for getting iTunes Match to recognize older tracks originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>featureshowtoitunes matchItunesMatchMichael RoseSun, 20 Nov 2011 12:00:00 ESTGet back your HD info in Lionhttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/get-back-your-hd-info-in-lion/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/get-back-your-hd-info-in-lion/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/get-back-your-hd-info-in-lion/#comments

Looking for that handy readout at the bottom of every Finder window telling you how many items are in the active folder, and how much free space is on your hard drive? In OS X 10.7 Lion, it's turned off by default (part of the cleaner, scrollbar-free new UI style). Easy enough to restore it, though: just choose Show Status Bar (⌘-/) from the View menu, and continue on with your fully-informed computing day.

More Lion tips coming all week long!

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]]>10.7capacityfinderhard driveHardDrivelionmac os xMacOsXos xOsXstatus barStatusBarMichael RoseWed, 20 Jul 2011 15:55:00 ESTLion: Ten things that bug mehttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-ten-things-that-bug-me/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-ten-things-that-bug-me/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-ten-things-that-bug-me/#comments It's not that I hate OS X 10.7 Lion. It's an excellent operating system. It's just that there are a bunch of things that make me throw up my hands and say, "What were you thinking, Apple. Are you trying to make the MobileMe Operating System?" Are there no OCD slave-drivers left at Infinite Loop any more making sure that each OS feature is absolutely perfect?

So I'm going to take a few deep breaths. I'm repeating this mantra: "Lion is meant for iOS-to-Mac switchers." There's plenty to love in there, but maybe not as much for veteran Mac users to latch on to.

Now, let's get on to the complaining.

  1. [*] On Lion, the default behavior for scrollbars is that they disappear when you stop scrolling (check 'Always' in General Preferences to show them in perpetuity). It's cleaner, right? Simpler, right? Not if you do any text editing on a regular basis. GUI elements shouldn't pop in and out of the screen. It's disorienting and ugly. Scrollbars give you context -- important context, at that. On mobile systems scrollbars may be extraneous, but on desktops they're not. Whenever you want to ask yourself, "How much of the file does this visible portion represent?" -- a scrollbar answers with a glance.
  2. Who killed my "Save As" menu item and what are these odd imposters they replaced it with (check out TextEdit to see what I mean)? Save a copy? Save a version? Export? Duplicate? Did someone design this system after too much Nyquil? What was wrong with the old options? People want to save their work or create a copy. When they move between paradigms, they should be able to export to a new format. Beyond that? Not so much. The new autosave and versioning features may be powerful and snazzy, but Apple might have forgotten to think of the actual user experience here.
  3. [*] I miss choosing "Don't Save" from the keyboard. You used to be able to use Command-D in Snow Leopard. Not in Lion. It's the fine touches that got tossed from the OS. Something helpful, handy, and obvious to anyone who does enough editing that their hands want to stay centered on the keyboard without reaching for a mouse. (Thanks to everyone who pointed out Command-Delete. You guys rock!)
  4. I hate Lion's zooming windows. To get the full effect, jump into TextEdit or Safari and type Command-N a few times in a row. Drives me batty. Brings on migraines. No way to disable it that I have found -- and oh how I have tried. Can't find any good preferences to tweak on that.
  5. In the New and Improved QuickTime Player, you can no longer go Full Screen on just one screen. Instead of turning my second monitor into a full playback device, the way I used to with Command-F on the external, QuickTime Player insists on blacking out both my screens and moving playback to my primary monitor. Yuck. It's Command-3 for now, I suppose. I miss the automatic black backdrop and full zooming.
  6. [*] Bring back the Lozenge -- that small button at the top-right of Finder windows that hides and reveals the sidebar. I miss it. There's a workaround (right-click/show-hide) but it's all a matter of recall, not recognition, that key component of user design. A lozenge offers an affordance, an object that invites interaction and provides a helpful feature. Forcing users to remember an obscure menu option is less friendly and more frustrating, especially when condensed windows offer no clues as to why they're "broken."
  7. [*] Reversed scrolling is horrible. Bring me a touch-screen Lion and we'll talk. But for regular Lion installs, especially on iMacs and minis equipped with good old mice vs. touchable trackpads, it just doesn't make any sense. (To switch to the old scrolling, go to your Mouse or Trackpad system preference and uncheck 'natural' scrolling.)
  8. It's gray. Everything is gray. Gray, gray, gray, gray. Ugly gray scrollbars, ugly gray toolbars, it's like the entire OS was designed by a Communist-era Soviet committee four years behind on the next five-year plan. Grey linen is *not* the new Aqua.
  9. [*] Autolocking my files, Lion? That's not cool. I don't want Lion to prevent me from editing files that I rarely access. Lion does *not* know better than me, so stop protecting me from myself. That's why I have Time Machine in the first place.
  10. [*] Lion hides my Library folder. I know what the Library folder is and I want access to it, thank you. (chflags nohidden ~/Library/) Again, Lion's trying to protect me from myself. Not surprising, considering that there are millions of potential iOS-to-Mac halo switchers out there who don't know better than to mess with the Library's contents -- but not cool.
  11. You cannot access Safari's new Downloads popover unless you are either actively downloading something or save at least one prior download in the list. As with Snow Leopard, you can still paste a URL in the downloads pane to start a new download -- but *not* if you cannot access it. Unfortunately, customizing the toolbar only produces a disabled button unless you have that single prior download. So frustrating.
  12. An angry NYC cabbie doesn't have as many gestures as Lion. Many gestures contradict each other in various apps/OS areas. And there's no way to naturally discover them. If there isn't some natural correspondence between what your fingers do and what happens on the Lion screen, it's broken.
  13. Farewell to thee, blithe Rosetta. Thou wert too much needed, too easily overlooked, too little loved, too late appreciated. Among all the now-unavailable PowerPC apps, two will be sorely missed... RIP Eudora 6 and Quicken for Mac. I loved you guys.

[*] I've managed workarounds for all starred items, and mentioned a couple of the most critical (lack of scrollbars and/or backwards scrolling might actually make you throw your computer out the window, if you're the irascible type). While some are simple preference settings, other workarounds may involve ugly UI scripting (I used QuicKeys), editing defaults at the command line, and so forth. I'll be detailing these in upcoming posts.

[**] Okay, so that's slightly more than 10. I didn't realize I would be graded on math.

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]]>10.7annoyancefeaturesgripeslionMacmac os xMacOsXpainErica SadunWed, 20 Jul 2011 13:00:00 ESTQuick tip: AirPlay with unsupported appshttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/03/quick-tip-airplay-with-unsupported-apps/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/03/quick-tip-airplay-with-unsupported-apps/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/03/quick-tip-airplay-with-unsupported-apps/#comments

Back in January, we reported that Apple had begun approving third-party apps that support AirPlay, Apple's new wireless audio streaming protocol for listening to iPhone or iPad music over a speaker system hooked up to a compatible Apple networked device, such as an Apple TV or an Airport Express.

But few applications so far have released updates to take advantage of that capability. However, you can easily trick your iDevice to stream audio from an unsupported application to your stereo.

All you have to do is go into your iPod app, start a song and choose your AirPlay speakers. Then return to your home screen and boot up the app that has the audio you want to hear. Your iDevice should automatically switch audio source from iPod to the app, because most apps, when booted, retain the current state for audio output, which in this case is AirPlay.

Bingo. AirPlay on apps like Hulu, or Pandora! Note that this only supports audio, not video. Apple has also announced some updates to AirPlay in iOS 4.3, coming next week.

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]]>airplayairport expressAirportExpressiPadiPhoneLauren HirschThu, 03 Mar 2011 09:30:00 ESTTUAW Tip: Generate iTunes Store RSS feedshttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/21/generate-itunes-store-rss-feeds/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/21/generate-itunes-store-rss-feeds/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/21/generate-itunes-store-rss-feeds/#commentsiTunes obviously has a great deal of data about its sales; Apple is quite aware of the top sellers among its music, apps, movies and podcasts. That information is also available through RSS feeds. If you want to share that data on your website, or even if you just want it in your RSS reader, you can use the official iTunes RSS Generator to get the right feed.

You can refine the RSS feed created by Country, Media Type, Feed Type, Size and whether to allow explicit content. The Media Types available include Music, Podcasts, Audiobooks, TV Shows, Music Videos, Movies, Mac Apps and Apps. There are obviously many options under each media type, so you should check it out and see what's available. Just punch in the criteria you want to follow, hit "Generate" and then hook up that feed to an RSS reader, and you'll be kept up to date on the latest changes in the iTunes stores.

TUAW Tip: Generate iTunes Store RSS feeds originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>feedfeedsgeneratoritunesitunes rss feeditunes-101ItunesRssFeedrssrss feedRssFeedMichael GrayMon, 21 Feb 2011 16:00:00 ESTGet an iTunes or Mac App Store account without a credit cardhttp://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/07/get-an-itunes-or-mac-app-store-account-without-a-credit-card/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/07/get-an-itunes-or-mac-app-store-account-without-a-credit-card/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/07/get-an-itunes-or-mac-app-store-account-without-a-credit-card/#commentsiTunes App Store account with no credit card

Parents, the safest way to keep your kids from accidentally spending your money in any of the iTunes stores, including the App Stores, is to give them their own iTunes Account that doesn't have an associated credit card.

Whether you want to let your kids play around safely, or just don't have a credit card, you can use an Apple Account with no credit card to try one of the hundred free apps in the new Mac App Store or download free apps on an iPhone or iPod touch.

You can't create an account in the main iTunes Store without a credit card, but you can from the App Stores.

From iTunes, if you're already signed into an account, sign out. Choose your country (use the country flag at lower right), then navigate into the App Store section using the top nav bar. Now, you must try to "buy" a free app, such as Apple's iTunes Remote. You'll be prompted to Create a New Account. Go through the process, making sure to choose "None" for your payment option. Check your email and click the link to verify your account. The process is essentially the same from an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, but you'll specify your country after you click Buy.

Now you have an iTunes Store Account without a credit card on file, and you don't have to worry about your little snowflakes raiding your wallet for the latest holiday edition of Angry Birds.

We found this tip in the new Mac App Store Support site. For a step by step guide, along with instructions for setting up the free account from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, see Apple's Knowledge Base article.

UPDATE: In the comments, some readers are saying this is not working for them. I've confirmed on the iPhone, in iTunes, and even in the Mac App Store itself: as of 10 PM UTC on 7 January 2011, this tip still works as described. Sign out any existing ID. Find a free app, click to buy, and follow the steps to create a new account. For your Credit Card type, choose None, exactly as shown in the screenshot above for iTunes, the button labled "None" in the Mac App Store, or the last item in the scrolling menu on your iPhone or iPod touch.

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]]>iphoneiTunesitunes 101itunes storeItunes101ItunesStoretipsMichael TerrettaFri, 07 Jan 2011 11:00:00 ESTiPad 101: Downloading and installing iTunes on Windowshttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/25/ipad-101-downloading-and-installing-itunes-on-windows-for-your/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/25/ipad-101-downloading-and-installing-itunes-on-windows-for-your/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/25/ipad-101-downloading-and-installing-itunes-on-windows-for-your/#commentsDid you find a shiny new iPod touch, iPhone or iPad under the tree this morning? Congratulations -- we're sure you're going to enjoy it. First things first, though: if you don't own a Mac, and you haven't been using Apple's tools to manage your music, you're going to have to download and install iTunes to sync and manage your new iDevice. Not to worry -- it's just a few quick steps, and we'll walk you through it. You'll be up and running in no time.

[Regular TUAW readers who are staring in disbelief and muttering "Are they really writing up the iTunes for Windows install process?" -- relax, go have some egg nog, we'll be back to normal in no time.]

We're also taking questions all day Christmas day on our tricks & tips Twitter account, Ask_TUAW. Pipe up if you need help!

First step: download the software. The URL is easy to remember, though... itunes.com, then click on the Download iTunes button at the top right.

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]]>holidayhow-toipadipad 101Ipad101iphoneipoditunesitunes downloaditunes for windowsItunesDownloadItunesForWindowsmacsoftware installationSoftwareInstallationMichael RoseSat, 25 Dec 2010 07:30:00 ESTTUAW iPhone Tips: Typing the Apple symbol, iOS 4 folders in the dockhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/10/tuaw-iphone-tips-typing-the-apple-symbol-ios-4-folders-in-the/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/10/tuaw-iphone-tips-typing-the-apple-symbol-ios-4-folders-in-the/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/10/tuaw-iphone-tips-typing-the-apple-symbol-ios-4-folders-in-the/#comments

As you go into this weekend looking for things to do, you might be thinking about how to organize your iOS 4.x iPhone and use the Apple symbol in the process.

The first tip, courtesy of Macenstein, deals with labeling of apps and folders. Back in the iPhone OS 2.x days, you could use the Japanese keyboard to type the Apple symbol. That feature disappeared, but now there's a way to bring back that Apple symbol.

The solution is to create a folder in iOS 4, which is done by dragging one app onto another. Give the folder a name, like "Rename me," then sync with your computer. With your iPhone selected in iTunes 10, click on the Apps tab. There you'll see all of your apps and folders, and you can double-click on the folder you just created to rename it. Use the Mac keyboard shortcut Option-Shift-K to type in the Apple symbol () and whatever else you want in the folder title, press Return to enter the change, and then click the Apply button to rename the folder on your iPhone. If you ever need to type an Apple symbol into another app, you can simply copy and paste it from the folder name.

Our second tip, from TUAW reader Adam, uses the obvious (but little-used) fact that you can put folders into the "dock" row of icons on your iPhone home screen. Why is that important? With one touch, you can have access to up to 12 of your favorite apps in the always-available dock row. Join the two tips together, and you can have an  Apps folder in your iPhone dock containing all of those Apple apps that you can't get rid of.

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]]>apple logoAppleLogofoldersios 4Ios4iphonemacensteintipsSteven SandeFri, 10 Sep 2010 18:30:00 ESTTUAW Tips: Designing covers for the iBookstorehttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/30/tuaw-tips-designing-covers-for-the-ibookstore/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/30/tuaw-tips-designing-covers-for-the-ibookstore/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/30/tuaw-tips-designing-covers-for-the-ibookstore/#commentsFor budding novelists, one of the most exciting things about Apple's iBookstore is the chance to self-publish their writing and have it potentially available to the 100 million people that own iOS 4 devices. A novel is a daunting task, and once the writing is done, the hard part is over ... kinda. There are still two things you need to do: get your book on the iBookstore and make sure it has a compelling cover. We've told you before how to go about self-publishing on the iBookstore, but one thing that many writers are left pondering is what to do about the cover for their novel.

Cristina Lopo, owner of the London-based graphic design studio Loop Box, gave me some advice when we met at a book reading a few weeks ago. "The old saying is 'Don't judge a book by its cover,' but unfortunately, books are judged by their covers -- at least at first, and especially on the iBookstore. The cover is what is going to get people to click on your book to learn more about it when they are scrolling through a list of 25 books on a tiny iPhone screen." Click "Read More" for more tips on cover design for the iBookstore.

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]]>book coverbookscoverebookfeaturefeaturesibookstoreiPadipad booknovelTUAW tipswriterMichael GrothausMon, 30 Aug 2010 10:00:00 ESTTUAW Tips: Play internet radio in background on your iPadhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/29/tuaw-tips-play-internet-radio-in-background-on-your-ipad/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/29/tuaw-tips-play-internet-radio-in-background-on-your-ipad/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/29/tuaw-tips-play-internet-radio-in-background-on-your-ipad/#commentsThose of us who love to stream internet radio on our iPads can quickly turn into ogres when we switch to another app and the music stops. Until the iPad supports iOS 4 (soon) we're stuck with no background capability, which makes background streaming impossible.The folks over at FairerPlatform have come up with an easy way to listen to many of your favorite streams without a need to jailbreak your iPad or wait fruitlessly for Flash to make an appearance on the platform. While this trick won't work for every streaming Internet radio station -- Pandora is a perfect example of this -- it does work with others like Live365.

What you need to do is find a radio-only stream that is playable in Safari, start playing the stream, and then go on to those other apps while listening to your music. As an example, FairerPlatform cites Soma FM, a San Francisco-based, user-supported internet radio station. Their music is available in the pls multimedia playlist format, which the iPad's Safari plays without a hitch. Once you've started the stream, you can do any other work you need to and the stream plays on in the background.

If you're a fan of any of the live shows on the TWIT network, you can listen to those shows in background as well. Just point Safari to live.twit.tv, tap "Live Audio Stream," and then you can listen to their shows while doing real work instead of looking at Leo's face. TWIT AM uses the m3u format, which also loves Mobile Safari. It seems that most of the internet radio streams using pls or m3u work beautifully with Safari.

Of course, this doesn't work with every radio station, internet or otherwise. I tried to see if a local radio station's coverage of the Colorado Rockies would stream -- nope, they use a Flash player. But this is a good trick to know until we're able to run the native streaming players as a background process on the iPad in a few days or months.

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]]>FairerPlatforminternet radioInternetRadioiPadmobile safariMobileSafarisafaristreaming audioStreamingAudioSteven SandeSun, 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 ESTiPhone 101: How to force quit an unresponsive apphttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/11/iphone-101-how-to-force-quit-an-unresponsive-app/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/11/iphone-101-how-to-force-quit-an-unresponsive-app/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/11/iphone-101-how-to-force-quit-an-unresponsive-app/#commentsWe here at the TUAW headquarters rely pretty heavily on our iPhones when we're away from our desks. This is especially true for the lucky ones on the floor at Macworld 2010. Sometimes however, our little pocket computers go haywire and refuse to respond to our commands.

To force quit an unresponsive app all you have to do is press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until you see the red slider. Normally, this is what you would do to power down your iPhone or iPod touch. In this case however, when the slider appears, release the sleep/wake button and then press and hold the Home button. If it works correctly, your iPhone will forcefully quit the unresponsive app and return you to your home screen.

I have found this especially useful on the rare occasion that Mail begins to choke on my multi-thousand message inbox. Sometimes this simple kick in the pants is all that is needed and is a lot quicker than a hard reboot followed by the waiting required during boot up.

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]]>appiphoneiphone 101iphone 3giphone 3gsIphone101Iphone3gIphone3gsipod touchIpodTouchunresponsiveAron TrimbleThu, 11 Feb 2010 19:30:00 ESTTUAW Tip: Character building with Mac OS Xhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/21/tuaw-tip-character-building-with-mac-os-x/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/21/tuaw-tip-character-building-with-mac-os-x/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/21/tuaw-tip-character-building-with-mac-os-x/#commentsI've previously demonstrated how to use LaTeXiT to create and display complex math formulas and other symbols, and thank you readers for the additional recommendations!

While providing a means to display almost every imaginable existing symbol or character, a LaTeX-based solution may prove too complex and unnecessary for some. For the less "mathletic," Mac OS X's built-in character viewer is one of the easier ways to display characters of all sorts.

To enable the character viewer, open Mac OS X's System Preferences and select the "Language & Text" icon. Once there, click on the "Input Sources" tab and place a checkmark next to the "Keyboard & Character Viewer" box and "Show input menu in menu bar" box. The Keyboard & Character Viewer is now accessible on your menu bar.

Now, displaying special characters on your document, email, or whatever it is you're working on is just a drag and drop away.

TUAW Tip: Character building with Mac OS X originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>character viewerCharacterViewerlanguagemath equationsMathEquationssymbolsSang TangThu, 21 Jan 2010 20:00:00 ESTTUAW Tip: Get an instant definition of any word in a pop up windowhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/15/tuaw-tip-get-an-instant-definition-of-any-word-in-a-pop-up-wind/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/15/tuaw-tip-get-an-instant-definition-of-any-word-in-a-pop-up-wind/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/15/tuaw-tip-get-an-instant-definition-of-any-word-in-a-pop-up-wind/#commentsGee, I love stuff like this, and I wish I would have known about it a long time ago. The tip comes from OSXhelp.com and it's a great one.

Need a quick definition of a word in Safari or an email? Yes, you probably already knew you could right-click on a highlighted word and bring up the OS X dictionary, but how about this? Press Command+Control+D while hovering over any word, and up pops the definition almost immediately. If you continue to hold down those keys you can slide your mouse over any other word and get a definition as well. Let go of the keys, and click somewhere else and the dictionary vanishes.

This little feature doesn't work everywhere. It requires you be in a Cocoa application, like Safari or Mail. It works in Pages, but not in MS Word because it was based on Carbon. Sadly, it doesn't work in Firefox. In fact, you can't right-click in Firefox and get a definition in the 'normal' Apple way.

If you want even more information than the little definition, click on the word 'more' at the lower right of the pop-up, and you'll get a lot more stuff from the Apple dictionary app, including usage suggestions and the origins of the word.

A couple of notes: If you are using a macro program like QuicKeys, make sure you aren't mapping the key combination you need to activate this feature, or re-map it to something else. If you click on the word 'dictionary' you can bring up the thesaurus, and if you launch the Apple dictionary application you can get into preferences and change the order of display, so you get the thesaurus as a default. You can also change your right-click behavior to open the concise panel instead of the larger definition page. Once I memorized the command key sequence I find myself using this all the time. It's quick and dirty. Let us know if you like it.

Thanks to OS X Help for all the little tips they regularly come up with, and to my fellow blogger Erica Sadun for testing this feature with QuicKeys. Sharp eyed readers will note we've covered this tip before here and here but I think it bears repeating.

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]]>applecarbondefinitiondefinitionsdictionaryfirefoxhidden featurehighlightedmailosx-helpquickeyssafaritiptuaw-tipwordsMel MartinFri, 15 Jan 2010 16:00:00 ESTDear Aunt TUAW: What's the low down on battery packs?http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/dear-aunt-tuaw-whats-the-low-down-on-battery-packs/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/dear-aunt-tuaw-whats-the-low-down-on-battery-packs/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/dear-aunt-tuaw-whats-the-low-down-on-battery-packs/#commentsDear Aunt TUAW,

Boxcar is killing my battery life (at least, that's what I'm guessing -- I love Boxcar, but since I began getting 20+ notifications a day, I'm seeing the battery drain quite a bit faster). What kind of battery pack can you recommend to help my poor iPhone stay online and available? I need to stay connected.

Thanks in advance from your favorite nephew,

Mikey

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]]>Aunt TUAWAuntie TUAWAuntieTuawAuntTuawBatteryBattery lifeBattery packBattery powerBatteryLifeBatteryPackBatteryPowerBoostersjuice pack airJuicePackAirmonopricemophieMophie Juice Packmophie juice pack airMophieJuicePackMophieJuicePackAirmorphieErica SadunThu, 14 Jan 2010 17:00:00 ESTUsing Safari's Activity window to download mediahttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/using-safaris-activity-window-to-download-media/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/using-safaris-activity-window-to-download-media/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/14/using-safaris-activity-window-to-download-media/#comments

Although Firefox can be dressed up with a host of extensions, many of which are great, most of the time I like my browser to be a plain Jane. That's why I prefer using Safari most of the time. Well this, and the fact that I can't stand the jerky scrolling of Firefox (when using a mouse scroll ball) compared to Safari on the Mac.

One of the neat features in Safari is its "Activity" window, which you can use to examine each element of a webpage -- be it an image, audio file, or video file. To access it within Safari, click on "Window" and select "Activity." Whatever opinion you may have of Flash, much of the content on the web -- both audio and video -- plays through a Flash-based media player. As the iPhone doesn't support Flash (except sorta kinda), the Activity Window provides a means to download otherwise unplayable content onto your computer, which you can then transfer to your iPhone. Opening an element (say an MPEG-4 video) listed in the Activity Window is as simple as double-clicking it. Alternatively, you can also copy the URL of the element and paste it somewhere to use in another app.

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]]>activity windowActivityWindowdownloadflashmediasafariSang TangThu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:00 ESTSSH and the case-sensitive username in Snow Leopardhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/02/ssh-and-the-case-sensitive-username-in-snow-leopard/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/02/ssh-and-the-case-sensitive-username-in-snow-leopard/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/02/ssh-and-the-case-sensitive-username-in-snow-leopard/#commentsMac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard introduced a lot of under-the-hood changes and many are not very obvious. One such change is to the authentication requirements for logging in remotely via SSH.

In 10.5 logging in remotely via SSH was a pretty standard affair. In 10.6, however, security has been beefed up a bit to require case-sensitive login credentials. While this requirement has already been imposed on passwords, Snow Leopard now requires a case-sensitive user name as well.

In other words, when logging in via SSH, Snow Leopard differentiates between the username "aron" and "Aron." This threw me for a loop for quite some time and is another one of the numerous reasons I have held off upgrading my Mac mini to 10.6.

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]]>10.6remote accessRemoteAccesssnow leopardSnowLeopardsshtuaw tipTuawTipAron TrimbleSat, 02 Jan 2010 18:30:00 EST