Control how iTunes 8 handles playback in Grid view
There is a new feature in iTunes 8 grid view that allows you to determine whether music in a given playlist or library will continue to play after the selected artist (or album, genre, composer, or selection) is finished. In grid view, you can play an Album (assuming Grid view is set to Albums) by clicking the Play Album button that appears when you mouse over an album cover. Now, by default, when the chosen album is finished playing, iTunes will stop. But what if you want iTunes to continue playing the other albums in your playlist/library? Then instead of clicking Play Album, hold down the Option key first. When you do, the Play Album button changes to read just Play. Option-click on Play, and once your album is finished, iTunes will go to the next album in your playlist/library. This is also handy if you want to shuffle between albums in Grid view. If you have shuffle enabled and click Play Album, iTunes will just shuffle and play songs from that album. If you O...
published today, 4 hours 2 minutes ago, macosxhints
Piper shaves Apple estimates, sees slower Mac growth
Investment bank Piper Jaffray said Thursday that weakness in consumer spending will bite into PC sales next year, including Apple's, leading the firm to cut its 2009 sales estimates for the Mac maker along with the broader market.
published today, 4 hours 32 minutes ago, appleinsider
City of Heroes Mac beta client coming next week
City of Heroes, NCSoft's superhero MMORPG, is getting a Mac beta client this week with the latest patch, making it one of the few high-profile, cross-platform MMOs around. Read More...
published yesterday, 22 hours 5 minutes ago, ars-technica
Cyber Monday Mac deals starting at $544
Apple retailers across the net have reduced the prices on Mac models from the new unibody MacBook to the Mac Pro. Starting at $544 (after mail in rebate) is the 1.83GHz Mac mini, which is $55 less than the MSRP of $599 at Amazon.com. Next up is the 2.1GHz MacBook with 1GB of memory and a 120GB hard drive priced at $918.97 after a $50 mail in rebate making this $80 less than the MSRP of $999 at M...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Vista SP2 due in April?
Microsoft's next and potentially last major update to Windows Vista is arriving by mid-spring, a reported source for TechARP claims. The historically accurate site is told that Vista Service Pack 2 should be sufficiently complete to reach release candidate status by February and to be finished by April, when it would be sent to manufacturing for DVD versions and prepared as a download for existin...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Happy Thanksgiving!
Macosxhints will be closed today and tomorrow for the Thanksgiving holiday (and Black Friday shopping extravaganza). For those in the US, I hope you have a safe and enjoyable holiday. The hints will return as usual on MondayIn the interim, I invite you to ponder OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard's actual "for sale" date. Apple stated last June that it was going to ship within "about a year," but exactly when will that be? Take your best guess in our latest poll. Personally, I voted for March, due mainly to it being the release month for the original OS X 10.0, but I've heard rumors of everything from January to July. What do you think? Will it Snow early next year, or will it be a summer Snow?
published on Thursday, the 27. November 2008, macosxhints
Black Friday GPS deals starting at $99
A variety of GPS models from different manufacturers are being drastically reduced for Black Friday. Starting at $99.95 is the TomTom ONE clamshell portable navigation system, regularly priced at $179.95 at 6ave.com. Next up for $189.99 is the Garmin nuvi 260w GPS, regularly priced at $299.99 at BestBuy.com. The TomTom ONE 130S GPS is available at RadioShack.com for $199.99 after $50 in instant...
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Start iChat without auto-login
I have auto-login enabled for my iChat accounts, and yet sometimes I start iChat wanting only some of the accounts to go online. Instead of quickly logging off those accounts I don't want logged in, I hold down the Shift key while iChat is starting. This disables auto-login for that session only -- the general preference is still intact, and the next time you start iChat (without using the Shift key), your accounts will auto-login as normal.
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macosxhints
Analyst: Apple netbook likely in next two years
Apple will likely produce a netbook within the next two years, says analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray. Although the research firm has been predicting the release of a more compact Apple portable for some time, and at one point proposed a release towards the end of 2008, it now suggests that the earliest an Apple netbook could come is sometime in 2009, in the form of a scaled-down MacBook Air....
published on Tuesday, the 25. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
RED promises "big change" on Dec. 3rd
RED already has a second major announcement due early next month, company head Jim Jannard says in a community teaser. Having just launched the EPIC and Scarlet revisions and the DSMC system earlier this month, the greater-than-HD camera maker now promises a "big change" on December 3rd and calls the earlier announcements "insignificant" by comparison. Details of the new announcement itself rema...
published on Tuesday, the 25. November 2008, macintosh-news-network