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Rumor: iTunes 8 to include Genius recommender, grid view, new visualizer

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 4th, 2008

Kevin Rose is at it again, with a brand new round of rumors about iTunes 8, supposedly premiered next week at the big Apple iPod event. Did I miss the meeting where we all declared him king of iPod rumors? King or not, he's got what he claims is inside information, including a writeup about something called the "Genius" sidebar, which creates recommended playlists for you, a new grid view (like Delicious Library?), and a new music visualizer.

Additionally, Rose's tipster mentions HD TV shows in the iTMS, and reiterates the previous rumors of new IPod nanos and Touches. None of these things are a huge surprise -- while the Genuis system will certainly be interesting to see (and make fun of) if real, HDTV and the new iPods are old news in Rumorville by now.

Is it OK if we hope for some faster and easier iPhone syncing with a new version of iTunes as well? Whatever is coming next week, we'll find out all about it then.

Tags: digg, genius, grid-view, hd-tv, hdtv, itms, itunes-8, kevin-rose, rumors, software, update

Filed under: Widget Watch

Widget Watch: Digg.com widget 1.1

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Mar 4th, 2008

If you are addicted to Digg like we are, then the Digg.com widget from Hasan Alayli might be just right for you. This very simple Dashboard widget allows you to quickly browse the most dugg stories on Digg. On the creator's website, he says that it is developed using the Digg API and the AJAXSLT javascript library.

Digg.com widget is available as freeware from the creator's website or from the Dashboard widget section of Apple's website.

Tags: Dashboard, Digg

Filed under: OS, Hacks, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Leopard

How to tweak the Leopard Dock's color

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 30th, 2007

Earlier, I posted about how you can revert those new lights in Leopard's Dock back to Tiger's old triangles (and I can't say I was too surprised to find out that most of you didn't want to revert anything-- do what feels right, man), and I said that the next thing to go would be Leopard's shiny Dock-top.

And now, here we go-- Something Awful's echobucket has apparently found the files that need to be changed to edit the look of the dock. As with the triangles, the Dock elements have a few sizes to them, so replace the "scruve-x.png" files (where x is "l," "m," "sm," or "xl") in the Dock package's /Contents/Resources folder (make sure to back up the original files just in case, too), and then type "killall Dock" in the Terminal to restart it, and bingo, a slightly less bright dock.

In fact, just by changing the color of those pictures, you can change the color of the Dock itself (here's an orange dock on a black background for Halloween, via Digg commenter HacKing). It can't be too long before some enterprising programmer figures out how to put all of this inside an easy-to-use app, but here's the real question: if it's all this easy, why didn't Apple offer us this kind of customization ourselves? Sure, when you hand the paintbrushes to the people, things can get ugly, but they can also get much more beautiful, too.

[via Digg]

Tags: black, color, customization, digg, dock, files, hacking, orange, smoky, tweaking

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Odds and ends, Internet Tools, iPhone

POP Takeout lays out social news in MobileSafari

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 6th, 2007

Sometimes you want a list of what's hot on the social news sites at a quick glance-- an easy-to-access look at the Zeitgeist, if you will. And for those times, there's POP Takeout, a site Wade M put together and sent to us that offers up a quick list of social news headlines from Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, Tailrank, and Newsvine, all listed in a site that's easy to browse and right on your iPhone (or iPod Touch-- I guess we should just start saying "in MobileSafari").

The only complaint I'd have is that each link goes to the social news site's page for the story, and not the actual link for the story itself. I'd use something like POP Takeout because I don't want to visit Digg or Tailrank, and hitting the link and making me click through causes me to do that anyway.

On the other hand, if I worked for Digg, I'd have a serious problem with someone listing my articles and not providing a link through to the site-- it's content theft, more or less. But if Wade could work out a way to keep Digg happy and send me to the news stories with just one click, it'd be a better solution all around.

Tags: delicious, digg, iphone, ipodtouch, mobilesafari, newsvine, poptakeout, reddit, social news, SocialNews, tailrank

Filed under: Odds and ends, Internet Tools, Blogs, iPhone

Digg releases official iPhone interface

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jul 11th, 2007

We've come full circle on the iPhone software merry-go-round-- the first app we saw for the iPhone was a mockup built with Digg's API, and now Digg has released their own iPhone application.

And it works pretty well, even if you're not using an iPhone. You can log in right there in the interface, and even browse topics through a drop-down menu. Perhaps the biggest new feature is a "mini-permalink" page that will automatically grab the top 5 moderated comments from the regular Digg page and only show those. That right there is almost enough to make me browse the iPhone Digg rather than the regular Digg, even on my desktop-- the fewer and more useful Digg comments I can see, the better.

Kevin Rose also promises a way to see the top stories in the iPhone interface is coming, and since there is no way to actually add comments yet (you have to go to the main Digg page for the article to do so), they may work on that in the future as well. After all this app was supposedly thrown together in 48 hours-- Rose promised coder Joe Stump that if he did it in two days, he'd get an iPhone, and apparently he did.

Tags: beta, browing, comments, digg, diggs, interface, iphone, joestump, kevinrose, stories

Filed under: WWDC, Internet, iPhone

iPhone webapp mock up

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jun 12th, 2007

We all know that Mac developers aren't thrilled with the 'iPhone SDK' which boils down to creating webpages with JavaScript. This isn't anything new or exciting, since we've known for awhile that the iPhone is running a full version of Safari.

David Cann has whipped up a demo page that shows you what this web experience might look like on the iPhone. Using the Digg API, David wrote this Digg page that lets you skim Digg's categories. He has made the source code available, so you can dive in for yourself. Oh, and I tested it in Safari 3, and it works so I assume it'll work on your iPhone.

Tags: apple, digg, iphone

Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, Rig of the Week

Rig of the Year (So Far)

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Jan 2nd, 2007

Digg today brings us our first TUAW rig of the day/week/month/year. Owned by flickr user washington_dc_photographer, this workstation sports three 30 inch Apple Cinema displays, 1 G5 Quad, 1 G5 Dual, 1 15 inch PowerBook, 6TB of external storage, 6 CF card readers, and a 15 inch Sony wireless TV. I can only imagine the kind of money that he must have spent on this setup, but I certainly see why this would be needed for a full time professional photographer shooting large RAW files and running Aperture.

In any case, this setup certainly sets a high bar for future 2007 rigs, so don't forget to submit yours to the TUAW flickr pool.

Tags: awesome, digg, photographer, rig, tuaw, workstation

Filed under: Podcasting

Digg Podcasts

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Dec 19th, 2006

Digg just went through a interface overhaul, adding a few new features and surprises to its collection of user-powered ranking tools. A new "Podcasts" ranking area joins the News and Videos sections, allowing users to view and rank popular audio broadcasts, as well as link to those podcasts for download. Unfortunately, this new feature proves to be less compelling than News and Videos because of the relatively stagnant nature of the listings. Unlike the other features which ebb and flow over time, few new podcasts are introduced on a daily or even weekly basis and the popular items tend to float to the top of the list and just stick. Digg's strength lies in tracking trends, and podcasts, unfortunately, don't seem to have trends.

Update: read more about Digg's new features here.

Tags: digg, enhancements, interface, podcasting, update

Filed under: Software

My Dream App Semifinals voting ends tonight

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Oct 14th, 2006

Voting for the Semifinals round of the My Dream App contest ends tonight at Midnight (EDT), and with it, seemingly any chance of Desktop Wars (my original choice) making it to the final round. Digg founder Kevin Rose, Peter Cohen and Jason Snell from Macworld, David Pogue of the New York Times, and netcaster Leo Laporte are just some of this rounds Big-Name™ judges. Everyone who votes in this round will get a free copy of playful recording software Voice Candy.

So get out there and Vote! Show your patriotism.... or something like that.

Tags: app, candy, cohen, contest, digg, dream, jason, kevin, krose, laporte, leo, my, mydreamapp, peter, rose, semifinals, snell, voice

Filed under: Software, Open Source

Questions about BitRocket abound

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Sep 5th, 2006

News is coming in via digg commenters and posts on forum threads linked therein which seems to indicate and give evidence that BitRocket uses code taken from the Transmission.app source without giving any attribution as required by the MIT license under which Transmission is released. These accusations are further supported by the fact that the developer of BitRocket, Julian Ashton, previously developed XFactor, a P2P application, which was proven to take code from the Poisoned project, again without proper attribution.

Update: Scott, our fearless leader, did some digging and found a post on the forum thread linked that I seem to have missed. According to at least one account, BitRocket does properly credit the source it uses.

Tags: bitrocket, bittorrent, code, digg, evil, poisoned, stolen, torrent, transmission, xfactor

Filed under: Internet Tools

Apple Matters launches Macitt, Apple-focused social news site

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Aug 7th, 2006

I knew something was up when I noticed my Apple Matters feed turn brown in NetNewsWire (that color means the feed hasn't been updated in over 60 days), and sho 'nuff, I was right. Today Apple Matters launched Macitt, an Apple-centric social news site (or: 'digg clone', if you wanna go that route). Logins for Apple Matters will also work for Macitt, and all the typical social news features seem to be present. A tabbed panel with a list of categories adorns the top right of the page, while accompanying tabs list top users, a tag cloud and a submit section. Yea, that's right: a big advantage Macitt has over digg's system is tagging, which other social news sites seem to be adopting more and more often.

Ultimately, it looks like a strong offering that will probably be well-accepted as long as the word gets around, but I'm starting to worry about an overabundance of social news services. After all, a guy can only take so much socializing before he starts mis-tagging headlines and forgets to vote.

Tags: apple matters, AppleMatters, digg, macitt, network, news, social, vote

Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools, Software Update

iUseThis

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Jul 10th, 2006

iUseThis is a new site which can be best described as an union between digg and MacUpdate. The front page of the site displays a listing of the most recent updates for OS X software. Registered users can click on the applications they use to, in a sense "voting" for them. The more people using an application, the higher up on the page it is. This lets visitors easily see the most popular software releases at a glance.

iUseThis also has the handy feature of storing a list of the applications you use, providing a quick reference if you ever need to re-populate your Applications folder. The developers of the site are also working on an "advanced" recommendation engine that will suggest new applications based on what you currently use.

Despite the seemingly complex nature of this idea, its really quite simple when you play with it, and could turn out to be quite cool.

Via Phill Ryu

Tags: digg, iusethis, mac, osx, software, update, vote

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

Inquisitor goes web-based

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 17th, 2006

Inquisitor, the Safari and Camino plug-in that brings Spotlight to searching the web, has been ported to a web-based search engine. Upon entering a search into its pleasantly minimal interface, you will be presented with a list of search recommendations and a variety of search engines to focus on, including digg, Amazon and their A9 search, Flickr, Google, Technorati and Yahoo!. Neat.

[via Daring Fireball Linked List]

Tags: A9, Amazon, Camino, digg, Flickr, Google, Inquisitor, instant, plug-in, plugin, Safari, search, Technorati, web, Yahoo

Filed under: Software, Widget Watch

Widget Watch: Digg Search Widget

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Apr 27th, 2006

Digg is everyone's favorite social news site (with a decided focus on all things tech). With all the things that get 'dugg' it is hard to keep up, and that's where the Digg Search Widget (for Yahoo! Widget Engine) comes in. The widget can search a number of different Digg categories and can display up to 15 items from any Digg RSS feed. That's not all that this little widget can do, so go check it out.

Thanks, James.

Tags: digg, konfabulator, widget, widget watch, widgets, widgetwatch, yahoo widget engine, YahooWidgetEngine

Get your digg.com fix from your menu bar

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jan 7th, 2006

Sure, there are digg widgets for Dashboard, but for all the menu bar nuts out there, it doesn't get much better than DiggUpdate, a free menu bar app that provides instant access and update notifications for new digg front page stories. When new stories pop up that you haven't seen yet, the icon's lamp turns yellow. Clicking the icon offers a drop down list (pictured) of the most recent front page stories, along with a brief description. Pretty handy for those of you (TUAW traitors!) who just need that digg fix.

DiggUpdate is free and distributed under the GNU GPL (General Public License).

[via digg]

Tags: app, Digg, menu bar, MenuBar, update

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