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Prevent iTunes web previews from opening iTunes automatically

by TJ Luoma (Mar 25th, 2010)

Ever since Apple rolled out web previews for iTunes links several months ago, I've been meaning to find a way to disable those pages from automatically opening iTunes, which I don't usually have running. <del>These pages have a "View in iTunes" link already, so if I want to open iTunes, ...

App Store devsugar: Browser-based previews and URL tricks

by Erica Sadun (Feb 5th, 2010)

TUAW reader Gabby tipped us off this morning that Apple has expanded its new browser-based iTunes previews to include App Store offerings. Sure enough, I pasted a standard App Store URL for Apple's Remote application into Safari and was treated to the preview shown just above. This new preview ...

App Store loses "All Free Apps" link

by Mike Schramm (Sep 29th, 2008)

Apple's made some strange changes to the App Store lately. While the reviews change was a good one, this latest update is just confusing: they removed all of the "See all" links from the sidebar of the main App Store page, including the much-visited "All Free Apps" that many of our readers used to ...

Terminal Tips: Modify iTunes arrow links

by Cory Bohon (Sep 2nd, 2008)

Do you know those little arrows that appear in iTunes when you have a song selected? You know, the ones that appear just after the title of the song, artist, and album and link to the iTunes Store when clicked? Yeah, those! Well, if you want the arrows to link to your iTunes library instead of ...

Stumbi: StumbleUpon for Safari

by Mike Schramm (May 27th, 2008)

Being a Firefox user (I know, I know, and it crashes on me all the time, but still I run back to it ashamedly), I had no idea that there was a gap in the functionality of StumbleUpon (a handy little link-finding and sharing browser plugin) for Safari users -- it only works with IE and Firefox. But ...

iPhone 101: Special Link Types

by Erica Sadun (Jul 25th, 2007)

The iPhone offers three special kinds of links that receive special treatment. Each of these links can appear in Safari or in your mail. When clicked, they tell the iPhone to launch a specific application to handle them. The first, the mailto: link, you're probably already familiar with. It's just ...

iPhone Tip: Tap and hold on a link for a description popup

by David Chartier (Jul 1st, 2007)

Safari on the iPhone might be slightly limited in some areas (for example: you can't double-tap contacts in Meebo to begin a chat), but we're discovering all sorts of useful goodies that I don't remember Jobs or the Apple videos ever highlighting. In this screenshot of my iPhone (sorry I couldn't ...

Cocoa Blogs, by Scott Stevenson

by David Chartier (Dec 12th, 2006)

I have to admit right up front that I'm not as familiar with the Mac dev community as I'd like to be. I don't know a lick about developing, and I get a bit intimidated as I know it's one of those trades that has a completely different set of constraints and connotations to manage; there's nothing ...

Macgamefiles offers free game hosting

by David Chartier (Jun 6th, 2006)

Macgamefiles.com has announced free game hosting for shareware and freeware game developers (but not for things like maps, mods, etc.). The only catch is that the game's developer needs to point their download links to the game's product page hosted at Macgamefiles.com. This, I assume, is so MGF can ...

Widget Watch: CreativeBits Widget 2.0

by David Chartier (Mar 22nd, 2006)

CreativeBits, a design and OS X-centric creative community, has produced a really slick looking update to their widget that acts as a portal for their site. Users can view the latest articles, forum posts, critiques and links. Clicking on a title in the widget opens the entire article in your ...

Terminal Tips: Lynx

by C.K. Sample, III (May 27th, 2005)

The UNIX and Open Source section of Apple's Mac OS X Downloads site features Lynx today. Lynx, as well as Links (another favorite of mine), is a Terminal-based, text-only web browser. Why would you want to use such a thing, you ask? Well, because since it simply ignores all non-text items in a ...

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