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Apple reportedly readying Replay service for streaming iTunes purchase history

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 3rd, 2011)

According to AppAdvice, Apple may be prepping a new re-downloading and streaming service called iTunes Replay. The service would let you re-download select movies and TV shows from iTunes and stream that content to a variety of iOS devices. The Replay service will supposedly let you access ...

Where to find the download progress for your Lion install

by Mel Martin (Jul 20th, 2011)

Lion is a multi-gigabyte download, coming in around 4 GB, but when you start there is no onscreen indication of how it's going aside from the tiny progress bar in the Dock. Where's the little graph like the one you get in Safari when you are downloading software in the Mac App Store? Well, the ...

Quick tip: fixing Safari's fumbles

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 22nd, 2008)

Have you ever downloaded a file using Safari and ended up with an extension like .dmg.bz2, only to find that no amount of double clicking will actually get you to a mountable disk image? Here's the down and dirty: Safari has a habit of guessing at what you're downloading and appending an extension ...

iPlace: Image download helper for Safari

by David Chartier (Aug 21st, 2007)

Considering the graphical nature of the web, I'm surprised more features and plug-ins haven't appeared to solve the problem of downloading images from sites as well as iPlace does. Operating as a SIMBL plug-in for Safari (including the 3.0 beta), iPlace allows you to specify multiple locations on ...

Transmission 0.8 released with selective file downloads, UI changes and much more

by David Chartier (Aug 7th, 2007)

You TUAW readers have spoken loud and clear: Transmission is your favorite BitTorrent client. If you're nodding your head right now, you'll be happy to know that v0.8 of the cross-platform app has gone official, ushering in a boatload of new features and fixes for all OSes it works on, as well as ...

Running a bittorrent client from the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 25th, 2007)

A few days ago, TorrentFreak speculated about how someone might create a bittorrent client for the iPhone. While it seems technically possible (except for that nagging "no SDK" problem, which makes it hard to get code running on there), you might question why it needs to be done - since there are ...

Transmission 0.7 beta reviewed by Torrentfreak

by David Chartier (Nov 1st, 2006)

The market for Mac torrent clients has been expanding quite a bit recently, and Torrentfreak has a nice review of a new beta version of Transmission, a long-standing favorite of many a Mac torrenter. While the review rounds up many of the nice new features, I'll give you the cliff notes for the ...

Weird Al: "Don't Download This Song"

by David Chartier (Aug 24th, 2006)

Love or hate him, Weird Al has unquestionably cranked out some of the most notable humor and satire of the late 20th - and now 21st - centuries. The Digital Music Weblog (a sister site) has discovered Mr. Weird is at it again with "Don't Download This Song," a tongue-in-cheek anthem about the dark ...

Download BitTorrent podcasts in iTunes with iTorrent

by David Chartier (Apr 17th, 2006)

A lot of people are clamoring for Apple to build support for BitTorrent into iTunes. Setting aside the greater implications and the major industry bridges Apple would burn if they were to do this, a man by the name of Michael Hobbs has developed a solution that might suffice for some of you who just ...

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