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iTunes Match and Podcast Playlists: A Fix!

December 24, 2011 Posted in gadgets, Geekery, OSX, Podcasts, tips by

In my last post, I described the problems I was having syncing manual podcast playlists between iTunes and my iPhone after I upgraded to iTunes Match/iCloud. Well, it looks like I got an early Christmas present from YouOverRotated, who commented: I was in the same exact situation, except mine’s a BMW, not a Mini =). […]


Travelling Matt

August 24, 2010 Posted in tips, travel by

No, not that Travelling Matt. Me. For sometime before the year’s out, I have to do some international travel. Bleh. I’ve never enjoyed flying. Well, actually, no, I have no problem with flying per se. I enjoy gliders and light aircraft  —  I was even in the Air Training Corps for a brief period when I was […]


Installing Markdown as an OS X Services Menu Item Using Automator

August 4, 2010 Posted in Geekery, Mac, tips, tutorial by

I just had a quick look around the web for ways to install Markdown translation as a Service (i.e. available from the Services menu) on my Mac. Most of the hits I got seemed to be quite old, and involved hacking about with an existing service for another text converter. So, I experimented. And the […]


Getting the Apple iPhone Remote App Working With a ZyXEL Router

May 16, 2010 Posted in Geekery, tips by

Yesterday I replaced my old Belkin router, which had been randomly blocking Safari from looking at websites where lots of small images loaded at once. I bought a shiny new ZyXEL P-660HN. It’s a lovely little ADSL wireless router, it got a string of 5-star reviews on eBuyer, and everything worked well out of the box. […]


The Finder, the mini-Finder, and Cool Interactions

May 31, 2009 Posted in Geekery, Mac, tips by

Lukas Mathis recently gave a lovely detailed analysis on his blog about how the Finder  —  and various other OS’s file managers  —  interact with applications when it comes to opening, saving and creating new files. This made me want to mention a couple of very nice interactions that the Finder has with applications at the kind of “should this […]


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