Soundflower now Universal

by Scott McNulty (Aug 8th 2006 8:00AM)

Soundflower, a freeware app that is near and dear to many a podcaster, has been updated and is now a Universal Binary. It'll now shunt audio to places audio wasn't able to go before on Intel Macs, and yet it is still free. Ahh, Mac developers, how I ...

Why Path Finder 4 is Tiger only

by Scott McNulty (Jun 5th 2006 11:30AM)

We've mentioned Path Finder, the full featured Finder alternative from Cocoatech, a number of times here on TUAW. I am sure there are a few of you that were upset because the latest version of Path Finder only works with OS X 10.4. The MacDevCenter s...

iTunes: all about the small touches

by Scott McNulty (Jul 19th 2006 7:30PM)

The MacDevCenter has a nice post up about some of the often over looked UI niceties of iTunes. I didn't know that you could convert video to an iPod friendly format right in iTunes. Genius! Additional columns, pop out windows, and that little triangl...

iTunes 7: cover art tidbits

by Scott McNulty (Sep 14th 2006 3:00PM)

The feature that got on of the most enthusiastic responses from the crowd the other day was album art retrieval in iTunes 7. This seems like a no brainer, I mean Apple has lots of cover art and it gives users a nice warm fuzzy to get something for fr...

5 Ways to Play with Audio Hijack Pro

by C.K. Sample, III (Dec 4th 2005 1:01PM)

MacDevCenter has a pretty interesting article up by Erica Sadun detailing Five Fun Ways to Play with Audio Hijack Pro. The five ways covered are: Digitizing legacy music-scrub up those tapes and records. Recording Skype and iChat convos-useful f...

Apple creates iTunes free video page

by Scott McNulty (Aug 14th 2006 9:30PM)

Apple has been pretty generous doling out free videos on the iTunes Music Store (at least to those of us in the United States), but they made it a bit challenging to find all the sweet, sweet gratis content. Enter the new Free Downloads page (iTunes...

HDTV on your Mac

by Scott McNulty (Sep 11th 2006 8:00AM)

Who needs a TV these days, what with mammoth iMac and giant monitors. Just watch TV on your Mac, but how? The MacDevCenter has the lowdown on how to turn your Mac into a HDTV over the air watching machine. With the right hardware, and software, you c...

A Security Primer for Mac OS X

by Sean Bonner (Feb 25th 2004 11:27AM)

O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has posted “A Security Primer for Mac OS X.” In light of all the recent talk of the holes in Windows, this article covers some precautions that every person using Mac OS X should take. Author Fran&cced...

OS X Mail.app And Junk Mail

by Sean Bonner (May 19th 2004 11:02PM)

O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has just published part 2 of their ongoing article about how Mail.app works with Junk Mail. The Fight Against Spam, Part 2 focuses on how the program determines a piece of mail is spam, and how it learns. Very de...

TUAW Video: A Mac Moment with Adam Goldstein

by Dan Pourhadi (Jan 22nd 2007 2:00PM)

We're on a roll: In this edition of TUAW's Mac Moment series, I sit down with Adam Goldstein, the young author of AppleScript the Missing Manual. "But Dan," you ask, puzzled, "what's so special about this particular author?" Just watch the video to ...

A Kinkless Desktop

by Mat Lu (Jun 26th 2007 11:00AM)

Ethan Schoonover is the creator of Kinkless GTD, the series of AppleScripts for OmniOutliner that was one of the first serious GTD implementations on the Mac. He has since contributed to the development of the forthcoming OmniFocus. Ethan's productiv...

Tail

by Scott McNulty (Sep 20th 2005 2:00PM)

Robert Daeley has posted a very useful overview of the UNIX command tail at the macdevcenter. His post really sums up the idea that UNIX is full of simple commands that do one thing and do it well (sound like anyone's favorite computer company?...

Manage MySQL on OS X

by Scott McNulty (Dec 14th 2005 12:00PM)

You've just installed MySQL on your Mac, now what? How do you manage your users, your tables, and all the other open source database goodness that MySQL has to offer you? Fear not, aspiring DBA's, Robert Daeley has heard your pleas and has penned an ...

Lost, Desperate Housewives, Ghost Hunters season passes

by Scott McNulty (Mar 30th 2006 11:00PM)

The title says it all. You are now able to buy 'season passes' for Ghost Hunters ($15.99), Desperate Housewives ($34.99), and Lost ($34.99) on the iTunes Music Store. If you aren't familiar with the iTunes Season passes, it works like this: for one ...

Technical tidbits about the iTunes Music Store

by Scott McNulty (Apr 26th 2006 2:00PM)

If you don't have an interest in how large scale web applications work, then Erica Sadun's recent post on the MacDevCenter isn't for you. She reveals some of the web service calls that the iTunes Music store uses, as well as breaks down the actual We...