Analyst: iPhone Tech May Propel Apple Growth

UBS analyst Ben Reitzes feels the multi-touch display technology in Apple's iPhone will be integrated into the Mac and iPod, amounting to a "Mega-Platform" that can propel Apple growth for years to come. Apple may start introducing multi-touch technology in other products as early as 2008.

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macnewsworld

Huge iPhone ad dawns on Apple's 32-foot glass cube

Apple Inc. on Monday transformed its 32-foot glass cube in Midtown Manhattan into a enormous teaser advertisement for its upcoming iPhone handset. Workers on scaffolds could be seen draping the semi-translucent billboard ad down the entire right s...

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, appleinsider

Embed multiple PDFs in one TextEdit document

I discovered a handy feature of TextEdit. Open a new TextEdit document, and try dragging a PDF file into it. You might expect that the document would accept a one-page PDF and display it just as Mail does in an email message. Sure enough, it does. But what if you drag in a multi-page PDF? It works just fine, and the multi-page PDF is embedded as a window with its own scroll bar for scrolling through the pages of the PDF. So you can assemble any number of PDFs into a single TextEdit document, and each one will have its own scrolling window. It's a great way to keep a bunch of related PDFs together in one place. [robg adds: Your TextEdit document must be in rich text mode (Format » Make Rich Text) for this to work.]

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macosxhints

An AppleScript to empty one user's trash on one drive

I have several external hard drives connected to my iBook. One of them I use as scratch space, so I throw away lots of files on there. Since Mac OS X doesn't automatically empty the trash, the disk can get full quite fast. The problem is, I don't want to empty the trash on all of my disks - just that one. I've been cding into the trashes folder on the drive to empty it, but that's too time-consuming for general use. The command I've been using is this one: rm -r /Volumes/Vingilot/.Trashes/510​/* Where Vingilot is the drive name, and 510 is your user number. (Every user account has a number associated with it - root is 0, and the account you make when you first start Mac OS X is 501. You can see all the numbers for your accounts in Terminal by typing ls -ln /Users.) To automate this task, I wrote an AppleScript droplet. Drop a single drive on the file, and it will empty the trash on that drive. Here's the code: ...

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macosxhints

Fix for MacFreePOPs not downloading Yahoo mail

I realised that MacFreePOPs wasn't downloading unread emails. After logging into Yahoo with Safari and checking it out, MacFreePOPs stopped checking mail altogether; it would just keep asking for my password. So, I logged into Yahoo mail with Firefox (not Safari!) and clicked on 'Use old Yahoo mail.' Now MacFreePOPs again works perfectly.

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macosxhints

A 'type to select' enhancement in iTunes 7.1

A short note about feature that has been added (or fixed) in the last update of iTunes (7.1). iTunes 7 added a hidden option when you clicked the Albums column : you could toggle between just "Albums" and "Albums by year". Albums by year sorts your library by artist, but your albums by year (and not by alphabetical order) -- which is really nice. Alas, when you typed a few letters to jump to an artist, it would instead search albums. For instance, if you typed M - I, hoping to jump to Miles Davis, you ended up with Missa Criolla. But not anymore. With the latest update, when you type, iTunes now looks for artists even if the Library is sorted by "Album by year."

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macosxhints

A possible fix for an XP installation problem with Parallels

I bought my wife a new iMac last week, in part to use Windows and a specific Windows application that she works with occasionally, and to get rid of the aging PCs we have for that purpose. I wanted to install Parallels, and tried doing so with a version of XP Home that I had on one of our PCs. I tried on her iMac, but the Windows installer kept rebooting shortly after it started. It would start the installation, then restart to the black screen, the restart the installation, and so on. I then tried the same thing on my Mac Pro, to no success. Nothing on the Parallels web site provided any solution, nor did a post to the forum. But today, a colleague told me that he had a similar problem installing Vista in Parallels on a Mac that only had 512 MB of RAM. Both the iMac and my Mac Pro have 2 GB RAM, so that didn't seem to be the problem. So, I saw that there was an update to Parallels today. I downloaded it and tried again, but to no avail. Then I wondered if the RAM could be prevent...

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macosxhints

Another way to Force Quit the Finder

Here's another way to Force Quit an application: Click the Apple Menu Hold Shift, and notice that the 'Force Quit...' menu item has changed to 'Force Quit [frontmost app name].' Select 'Force Quit [frontmost app name]' to force quit the Application. This method allows you to Force Quit (Relaunch) the Finder without opening the Force Quit application window or using the Finder's Dock menu. [robg adds: Beyond relaunching the Finder, I can't think of many situations where this would be useful: typically if an application is stuck so badly that you wish to force quit it, it's not going to respond to menu clicks when it's the frontmost application.]

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, macosxhints

Apple's multi-touch technology seen spawning "mega-platform"

Financial experts at UBS Investment Research say they believe Apple Inc. is developing a "mega-platform" based around its recently introduced multi-touch display technology that will facilitate broad growth opportunities through an assortment of futu...

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, appleinsider

In short: Apple TV, Mac OS X 10.4.9, AirPort Extreme update

With the Apple TV production lines now in full force, Apple Store customers are reporting that their credit cards are being charged for the $299 devices. Meanwhile, yet another build of Mac OS X 10.4.9 has surfaced. And a recommended update for AirPo...

published on Tuesday, the 13. March 2007, appleinsider