Projects of Apple

iTunes: Why do the maqueros like?

2010-03-14T06:58:00.001-07:00

The idea of writing this post me arose another night, immediately after a tweet in which he was saying that it was leaving the iPod because it was not possible with the iTunes, that there was no the one who understood it, with the simple thing that is "copy&paste". And here it is when me the doubt arose: why iTunes does it please so little between the users of Windows? And why does the opposite usually happen to the maqueros? In this post I will try to answer to these questions and transmit a little the iTunes philosophy, for the switchers, and for not so switchers, as well as for the Windows users Of course, quite from my point of view.

The first thing is to start with the entrails of iTunes, the bookstore. I believe that all the Win's users ask about it, why I have to have a bookstore, if I already have my music folder. I believe that to explain this we have to go away some level more for below, to the operating system. You all know that MacOS is a set of many black boxes, bundles and the others. Together they do the system, but also they are independent. And I believe that it is the idea that they want to move to the music. So that to have her scattered in folders, renowned each one of a way when we her can have everything grouped in a place, as it happens with the bookstore of photos of iPhoto. I believe that this is the first step to be able to understand iTunes, see your music like a block, to forget you of the files navigator and to use iTunes to organize it.

I do not remember that it was doing in windows exactly when he wanted to listen to music, believe that it usually opened the Average Player, it was selecting the songs and was reproducing them, then I was always starting labeling and putting masks … but then someone were recorded in the song of shift and others not. Of course I had that organized the folders, to put name and the others. Then iTunes it entered my life, and I discovered the serviceability of “to throw it to iTunes“. I believe that the best way of extracting party to this program is selecting the options that you see in the image.

This way we will forget completely the management of the files. Namely we bend a folder with music, "throw" it to iTunes and once I stopped importing it can erase the folder. This is like that because these files are copied in the iTunes bookstore. Then the only thing that we will have to do is to edit the information of the songs, individually or in block, if it is incomplete and I list. In this edition also the masks are included, other of the bones of contention, we have two routes, the automation, that is to say, being logueados in the iTunes Store, activating an option in the eyelash “Store“ of the preferences, whenever we import new music iTunes he will look in online for the appropriate mask. But it could not be quite perfect, sometimes, well be because the disc is not in the Store or because the music is not labeled as Apple likes, does not find the masks, becoming necessary the manual update, we select in block, we look in Google Images and I list.

On the other hand we have the portable complement of iTunes, the iPod and iPhones. For these devices we have two options to spend the music, or manually, dragging our songs to the device inside iTunes, or automatically, that from my point of view is as all this platform was thought. Like the idea of this method is always the automation and the serviceability. For this method the lists of reproduction enter scene, we might say that there are internal "folders" of iTunes where we throw our songs, something like album in any photo program. Also we have the intelligent lists, which are to me to understand one of the big virtues of iTunes and MacOS X in general. In this type of lists a series of rules can be created and automatically he will add to us the songs that should fulfill them.

This way we can group less listened songs, with a certain genre, do that A lot of possibilities are updated randomly …. Thus with the lists, you have in your computer the organized songs, and when you plug in the iPod the only thing that you have to do is to synchronize it, without complicaste the life moving discs here or there. In my iPhone it is the option that I use, I have a list where I put my essential ones, to which in any moment you will want to listen. And rest of sound you list inteleigentes, a list with the songs less often listened, other one with the not listened ones, other one with the added songs last month … There Are infinite possibilities. Another nut return more consigie marking the songs and marking the option to synchronize the pronounced songs. This method is useful for example if you have a list with the sound-tracks, but you have instrumental topics to that you do not like listening out of house, since desmarcamos these songs and I list, in the next synchronization there will only be included the songs that let's want in the device, but in the computer we will be able to keep on enjoying them when we select the list in question.

With this post I hope to have helped you to understand a little the philosophy of iTunes, based on my personal experience and the visionado of all the existing keynotes and for having, that after all it is where tito Steve transmits his vision of the things to us … Also recommend to you to throw a glance to the tutors' page of iTunes of the proper Apple.

The format NTFS in Mac: MacFUSE

2010-03-13T20:12:00.001-08:00

For that you do not know it, that you can be enough, the hard disks to be able to contain information in them, they need a format, a files system on which being ruled to be able to store the information on the disc.

In Mac, which is our case, the system of files that we use is called HFS +. But how since Apple did the transition to Intel, was what they were trying to be more compatible with the rest of formats of existing hard disks, also there are compatible the formats FAT32 and NTFS used in the PCs with Windows. But not everything is so easy as it seems, position that we have a small limitation on having used the formats that Windows uses, position that the hard disks formatted in NTFS in YOU X tansolo we can read his content, but not write on them.

So that ésto it changes, tansolo we have to discharge and install an application called MacFUSE, who will be in charge of enabling to ours YOU X the writing on formats NTFS. And not tansolo ésto, if not that also gives the possibility of which, across the Utility of Discs of formatting a hard disk in NTFS. This one programmes this one lodged in Google Code, the platform of Google for codes opened in development.

Link | MacFUSE

MultiClutch, personalizes the gestures MultiTouch

2010-03-13T10:54:00.001-08:00

The true thing is that this small application takes more than one available year, but I have not known it up to today. With this utility, which settles in the preferences of the system, we can fulfill the personalización lack for the gestures MultiTouch of the new available touchpads in the scale MacBook Pro and Air from his first appearance. You have never wondered like being able to move us for the Safari eyelashes, or our favorite navigator, likewise we do it with the photos.

With MultiClutch from the panel of preferences of the system we can control the programs in which the personalized gestures will work, as well as that type of gestures and associates to what keyboard short cut. Since you see in the apprehension I have the program formed for Webkit, my favorite navigator, in such a way that with the gestures of 3 fingers (swipe) towards left or right I sail along the eyelashes, up and below I open and close eyelashes and also I use the zoom to open a new window, basically the functions that more I use. The configurción might not be simpler, to choose the program we pulsate + of the left, what opens a window to us where to choose the program in question. And then we choose the gestures that we want to form in another panel, with + of the right, once we realize well the gesture to be personalized only have to introduce the key combination that let's want, and I list, the changes are instantaneous You can unload the utility from the proper blog of the developer here.

Only it has a small disadvantage now with the arrival of Snow Leopard, does not work in the way of 64 bits of the applications, we have to force the way of 32 bits, as at the moment it happens with most of the plugins until they update them. What do we lose of the version of 64 bits? That I know, for example for Safari (and Webkit for extension) we lose the modularity, that is to say, that in 64 bits every plugin is an independent process, that is to say, if the flash hangs you you do not have to begin entire Safari again, only the plugin of the flash, which contributes many stability and also speed to the navigator. But the true thing is that I prefer my plugins, so at the moment I will force his functioning to 32 bits, to do this we have to open the window of “to Obtain Information” (cmd+I) of the application in question from the Finder and to mark the pigeonhole that I indicate you in the apprehension.

I hope that it should have turned out to be useful to you and that the developer should put the batteries and should update it soon, although as he mentions in the last post of his blog I do not realize it very well, meanwhile to enjoy the gestures in any program

MultiCllutch | Will Henderson's Blog

An account believe in the iTunesStore USA

2010-03-13T00:59:00.001-08:00

In this post I am going to teach to open an account to you in the iTunes Store USA of free form. What sense can that have? Since it is more useful than at first it seems. On the one hand we have access to more apps that in the European stores, since except exceptional cases, for things of licenses (Spotify be read) all the apps are in the American. Also in this Store we arrange of much free content to unload, from singles weekly, videos músicales up to series chapters, I have already discovered several thanks to this account that I have long ago. The question is that for little creates an account it is simpler than never.

The first thing, it is necessary to realize well that we need to do it from a computer, be already a Mac or PC, with iTunes installed. From an iPhone we will be able to create also an account, with the proviso of which it does not allow us the option not to mark form of payment. In iTunes, if we are already not in the Store USA, we go away to the lower part of the screen and select it in the despeglable.

Once done that we select any free app, and "buy" it, in this moment he will ask us to put an account with that to unload it, or we can create a piece of news, which will be what we will do.

As soon as the conditions and other renellamos were accepted what will be our user's info, password and a secret, very useful question when the password forgets us we mark if we want to receive something from SPAM and continue.

In this window we have to select the form of payment, and surprise, can put that “there is not”. We select this one and it is already almost, now we have to put the direction, I what I recommend to you is to put the direction of an Apple Store, I for example alive in the third one that they opened in NY here you have a list, I recommend you in California, which evidently has the lowest valuations.

Then we finish the record, verify our account with the mail that comes to us to the direction that we have specified at first and I list, we already have our account. With her for example we can buy a card iTunes for eBay and buy movies, series o apps in the above mentioned Store. I put an apprehension of my account to you with the remnant in dollars. Now to enjoy!

TDT in the Mac: EyeTV

2010-03-12T15:44:00.001-08:00

For a pair of days, I have a TDT sintonizadora for the Mac. Specifically it is the Pinnacle DVB-T Stick that although there are no typical ones of Elgato, the sintonizadoras of TDT for excellent Mac. But nevertheless, this one Pinnacle is compatible with Mac, although here at what really it is necessary to look, is the compatibility with EyeTV.

Although also we have to say, that an alternative exists to EyeTV for Mac, and is The Tube. Application that undoubtedly also is very good, but that esthetically, I like more EyeTV and is here my election.

EyeTV

The truth, the fact is that the use of the EyeTV has no mystery great, since the initial configurador, already prepares us so that everything works correctly.

In this one configuration, what the application asks us there are the following things: area of use, hardware that we are using, TDT or analogical and tuning way. As soon as it finishes the tuning that does this one initial configuration, we will be able to begin watching TV in our Mac.

Manageability

The application is completely intuitive. It consists of three windows: the window of visionado, the control of control and the window of administration of channels.

Click to extend

Everything has it to hand, with tansolo to drag a channel towards another position we modify his position in the list, in the part of the left we have access to the programming (he needs subscription with an additional service), to the recordings and to the list of programmings.

That is quite, the program does not have any more.

Problems of sign

As for the quality of the reproduction of the TV it is basically the one that we receive across the mini - antenita (which problems I will comment now) or the antenna of house.

The mini-antenna provided with the sintonizadora, it is thought to be used in exterior or on contrary, in interior, but quite near of an open window and that has free route. It is a big fiasco, but it is like that, unfortunately these antennas do not give for any more. They are too small.

I cannot allow to pass for high that this the same proved in a PC, it would not give the same results. It is much costlier to watch TV across these antennas.

Conclusion

Perfect to watch TV while we realize what more we like in the computer.

To watch TV in the computer has never been so easy.

Free courier service clients for iPhone, with push

2010-03-11T20:40:00.001-08:00

It is for a long time that I have begun extracting party to the notifications push for the iPhone with the mail and Twitter, there came the moment to do it with our courier service clients. The programs on that I am going to comment are all free ones, in general these programs use the push to relieve the inability to have apps in the background. I already move forward to you that it is something really useful

eBuddy

This is my favorite app, especially for the speed and for the good management of the connection. Since in all that I have proved the first thing that we have to do it is to create a proper account of the client, always simple thing and that can be done straight from the application. As soon as the account was created we can already begin adding our different accounts. In this program the push works like a substitute of the background, does not remain permanently connected, we have to choose the time that we want that it leaves the program to us in connected.

In use the functioning of the program is very fluid, it is possible to take the conversation quite well. Also the step to “way push” is completely transparent, that is to say, our speaker will not notice it. Another detail that I like is that it is the only one that it indicates when we are writing or when they are doing it. The only snag that I can put is that, on having returned to the conversation by means of the notification push, we have lost the conversation that we were already taking, what sometimes can do that you lose the thread. Very well, and that you cannot send photos straight from the application. In any case a very good application and free. Here you can see the screen apprehensions that I have been connecting you and someone more.

Nimbuzz

We can define Nimbuzz as as an app by half. I like the interface, it is comfortable, the detail of the avatars is brilliant, also he allows to send photos. But it does not work bienusándola with push. Since the first thing that it is necessary to do is always to create a proper nimbuzz account to be able to form our habitual accounts, as it happened with eBuddy we must specify the time that we want to remain connected once go out of the app, up to a half an hour maximum. His functioning is also quite fluid, slowing down is not evident and it is possible to support a conversation quite well. The problem comes with the push.

At first the notifications work well, the numerito puts you in the icon, it has his sound, the message appears. But when we want to enter the app from the message they begin the mistakes, it does not re-tune in to enough frequency, having even that to force the exit of the application. And a mistake that I have verified that it is permanent is that for the codification, the character "@" does not recognize it well, in such a way that, on having returned with a notification, our messages will not come to our intelocutor, unless we go out of this conversation and inciemos a piece of news, or have the previous one yet available. Finally, it looks of turning into a very good option, but it has been still to stop developing. You can see here the apprehensions.

Palringo

This is an outstanding figure of the appstore, one of the first ones in appearing, at first free and that as it happens frequently, they end up by extracting a more finished payment version. Fortunately they have left the push for two versions, what differentiates them is the possibility of showing avatars, of writing in oblong way, topics, for this way saying progress visual progress. On the page of the app he says that also it allows connection times more lengths. The true thing is that with the free version I have gone so far as to be enough hours out of the app and to keep on receiving notifications.

In spite of his antiquity and his, theoretically, experience, I do not like this application. It works very slow, the keyboard gets stuck, and when they are speaking to you scarcely you can write. It is a motive sufficient for me as not to use it in a habitual way, only when we want to be a lot of time online. Of course, a point in favor that it has is the possibility of ordering photos and voice notes during the conversation. Throw a glance to the apprehensions.

Fuze

Finally I comment to you on an application without push, but that I particularly like enough, it is a very agile and fluid application and is very comfortable to speak with her. It supports you also online, although what it does is to put the state in occupied and the messages that you receive in this state get lost. Neither he allows to send photos in his conversations. Nevertheless it is a good option for those that not queráis to activate the push. It was my excellent application until I began investigating that here I comment to you.

And now you can only decide already only. I believe that the push is worth it, although it is true that in spite of what officially was said there eats up the drummer that is a pleasure. But it is very comfortable to be able to consult more things while you are in a conversation, I certainly recommend it to you earnestly. I leave here the linkage to you to unload the applications in the AppStore.

- eBuddy
- Nimbuzz
- Palringo
- Fuze

The Flat rate of the hosting in Spain with RedCoruna

2010-03-11T09:14:00.001-08:00

Today it does justly three months, that the first hosting Flat rate went out to the market in Spain, of the hand of the company RedCoruna. And it is for it, that we want to give you some information about this one company.

For a pair of months, this one blog is lodged in a new hosting. This one is not different that RedCoruna. A Spanish hosting from which right now we are working.

This one hosting is of an unbeatable quality. Since we proposed to the company to have a commercial relation with them, everything has been brilliant.

This one big human group does that every e-mail is agreeable to write it.

The Technical Service is unbeatable: always attentive to that your desires with the hosting are fulfilled, that you do not have any problem, that you know completely how his service works …

To be able to gain access to the hiring of the Flat rate, you will have to insert one
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Without much ado, we hope that you should decide to prove the service, since it is unbeatable and to us, we have been solved by a heap of problems that we had with the previous hosting.

Linkage | Flat rate in RedCoruna

The USAShop.NET, a few swindlers.

2010-03-10T20:10:00.001-08:00

This post is more a warning than another thing. It turns out that it does not greatly I met in the tessitura to repair an iPhone with the broken screen, something that impresses very much but that does not have so difficult solution. Of course, it is necessary to realize well that is what we have to do. In waiting of which it manages to finish a decent tutoríal he wanted to give a pair of advices.

The first thing, if the screen is broken and your iPhone keeps on working, what you need is to ask for the pack screen with digitizer, for example in this shop: Impextron.com, also straight ask also for the stickers to fix the crystal, these, there are the best option. In this shop they are serious and rapid, at approximately 48 hours you have your order at home, well packed and in the perfect state.

My second advice is that you do not ask for anything in “The USA Shop.net”. His prices at first seem cheaper, but only at first. On the one hand they have the somewhat confused information, and offer you the crystal of the iPhone without digitizer like piece, when with that you do not do anything, since the digitizer is given to the crystal and is almost impossible to remove it. On the other hand the pernicious attention to the client that they offer, or good, we might say void. Let's go on parts.

The order is late in one month comes. The packaging is of laugh. Namely they put a crystal to you in one on, and this way he travels across the balloon for one month … The crystal as it is of waiting comes done smithereens. When you ask for responsibilities you do not obtain answer. And not only that, if not that also block the record to you on his page. Is this a serious company? The payment was realized across Paypal, but do not worry, they are not going to protect you, if the goods come defective there you remain. I put an image to you of as the "new" crystal came, also in the set you can see other one.

I hope that you should not fall down in the same error as I, who do not defraud you in this so unpresentable shop.

Review: Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch

2010-03-10T07:55:00.001-08:00

As I hope that you should know already, Wacom has presented a new scale of tablets digitalizadoras. The Bamboo is the lucky ones of this one presentation and I prepare to show you what this one tablet can go so far as to help us.

They are completely revolutionary, since in addition to as it has being habitual to use this one type of tablets, with a special pencil, now also we can use our fingers. Although that we have a crystal trackpad (of the last ones that Apple has extracted) we are used to using 3 and 4 fingers in gestures, the Wacom tablet is capable of recognizing for the time being tansolo 2 fingers.

Design

Bamboo Pen and Touch is exquisite. Finished in hard plastic it gives him a sensation of hardiness and of hardness to the tablet. This one shaped, finished in black, it gives him a very outstanding elegance on the table.

For that we have one of the new portable unibody, it brings together perfectly with the silver and black color of the computer, reason for which Apple placed the keyboard in black color. Elegant and distinguished.

Pencil

Since it is habitual in the tablets Wacom, the pencil is an element that works without any type of battery, therefore we will not have to worry about the state of the batteries of the same one. Thanks to this, we have in the hand a very light pencil and that in weight, he resembles very much a normal pencil.

Tactile function

The tactile functions of the tablet, do that we could use a trackpad in any computer, be already portable or a dessert. In my case, a portable one with the lid closed and connected to an external screen. To realize a scroll of a page, tansolo it is necessary to use the habitual gesture of two fingers on the tablet.

The tactile functions are configurables to a certain extent, we have the limit in the software given by the mark, which for me is perfect

Conclusions

Although to be able to use a tablet of these, we have to happen for an adaptation period, his use every day does that you finish yourself being accustomed to all his virtues.

Also I have to say, that it does not look like to me a stand-in of the mouse, to use it so that olvidemo the mouse, since for me, it is quite tired to move the hand above and below non-stop. Much better a mouse.

It is clear, that for all kinds of photographic finishing touches, a tablet is the ideal thing. It gives the precision that a mouse does not give you and also you win in productivity.

Without hard, Wacom has very been right in his work with this one new scale of tablets digitalizadoras

I leave many things to myself in the inkwell, but I hope to be able to go outlining them little by little, in next posts and also in Geeksfera, where I will give him a completely photographic approach.

Link | Wacom
Photos | Set de Flickr

iPhoneProject: it develops your apps for iPhone

2010-03-09T21:26:00.001-08:00

After a lot of time without movement in the blog, we return with a press release that Francisco Roales sends to us and that we proceed to announce to you.

He is born iPhoneProject.net, the only initiative to make your ideas real in the iPhone and iPod Touch, for the first time a company pays 600 € in cash for your idea if finally it is chosen to be developed by the team of iPhoneProject.
Behind this initiative they are Francisco Roales who already created Index Internet Marketing in the year 1996 with notable success and Bruno Amador a professional of the graphic design that has developed his career in several agencies of the first level, a group of programmers has joined them with wide knowledge about the functioning of the SDK of Apple. Also they develop applications to measurement for the iPhone, both for individuals and for companies.
More information in: http://www.iphoneproject.net/

This one company devotes itself to the applications creation for iPhone and iPod Touch of different forms: you give them your idea and if they believe it good, can gain 600€ with her. You have a company and want to have an application in the AppStore, previous budget they develop it to you. Or also you desarollan the application that you want, if you do not have who does it to you and the benefits of the same one will be only yours.