Today’s question comes from a friend of mine who asks one of the most common questions iPod users face… “How can I copy music off an iPod without syncing it to iTunes?” A well known limitation of the iPod is that it is designed to sync with only one iTunes Library at a time. The [...]
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How-to: Copy music from an iPod to your computer
Posted in How To, tagged Apple, Digital Life, ipod, itunes, mac, pc, senuti, yamipod on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Printing Photos from Flickr
Posted in How To, tagged Digital Life, flickr, Photos & Video on October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Flickr is my favorite photo sharing site and community to be sure, but it always amazes me how much confusion there is over what should be really simple tasks like ordering prints. The Printing FAQ on Flickr isn’t much help either so I’ve decided to roll my own. If you’re looking for a step by [...]
WEP vs. WAP – Something I should have known…
Posted in Commentary, How To, tagged Digital Life, security, wap, wep on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
People… time to secure your wireless network. What’s that? “I’ve already done that!”, you say? Think again sucka. I’m usually on top of the digital aspects of my life and I take particular care to ensure my data is both secure and backed up but somehow I’ve slipped and have been using WEP way too [...]
Backpack for Travel Plans
Posted in Analysis, How To, tagged 37signals, backpack, Digital Life, organization on September 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve now been a happy paying customer for 37signals’ Backpack for well over 2 years. Over that time the app has become far more convenient and polished to use and I’ve personally found better and better ways to get value out of it. Case in point, planning a trip. Now I’m certainly not the only [...]
Time Machine + Grand Perspective = Far better utilization of your backup drive
Posted in How To, tagged Apple, Digital Life, grand perspective, mozy, time machine on May 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m a big fan of Time Machine. It’s not perfect, some like myself want to ensure they have an offsite backup as well, it doesn’t play perfectly with FileVault, and you can’t boot off the backup if you’re in a mission critical situation. Despite those few issues, with Time Machine, there’s no longer an excuse [...]
Multiple Apple Remotes? Problem Solved.
Posted in How To, Photography, tagged Apple, Digital Life, moo on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have a Mac mini, Hi-Fi, and iMac. The Apple remotes for the first two are a critical part of our home entertainment setup and they’re intentionally paired so each remote only controls 1 thing or the other. How’s a guy to keep these things in order in a clean and classy way? Moo Stickers [...]
Inexpensive International Calling with Skype
Posted in How To, tagged Digital Life, skype on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of our biggest goals when moving Across the Pond was to maintain connections with friends and family despite the distance. Fortunately, thousands of miles and a 5 hour time difference is a cake walk in the digital age. For phone, our tool of choice has been Skype. Empirically, I’d estimate that average folks are [...]
How-to: Share a single iTunes library between you and your wife
Posted in How To, tagged Apple, Digital Life, itunes on April 16, 2008 | 54 Comments »
Update 11May2009: I’ve posted a screencast demonstrating some basic aspects of how iTunes manages your music library and how to then share the library with another user. Consider this iTunes Library 101 for those looking for a visual way to follow along! Well it doesn’t have to be the Mrs. really. Just any other person [...]
Ultimate Home Entertainment Setup (for me) – Part 1
Posted in How To, tagged Apple, Digital Life on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For the few months leading up to our move to the UK I’d been fine tuning our home entertainment setup. Finally, only a month or so before packing it all up to move I had it perfected (almost). Here’s the basics of the setup. Stay tuned for Part 2 where we’ll see how it’s all [...]
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How-to: Consolidate an iTunes Library
Posted in How To, tagged Apple, Commentary, How To, itunes, library, screencast, sharing on May 11, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Following some discussion over on my How-to: Share a single iTunes Library between you and your wife post, I’ve decided to pull together a screencast (my first!) to walk through how iTunes organizes your music library and how you can consolidate and move your library to share it with additional users. Hopefully the video serves [...]
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