This is a bit of a guide I’ve put together for a better use of the dreaded iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s a necessary evil we all have to deal with like grocery shopping or dental hygiene. This guide is suited to me personally, and the way I like to take in my media, so please keep this in mind when reading. Hopefully, you’ll be able to get something out of these and adjust the recommendations to your tastes, enjoy!
If you’re like me, you have a lot of podcasts. I have more than a hundred subscriptions of both audio and video, which makes it too difficult to navigate in my iPod, and it’s too many clicks to sort through the ‘new if its blue’ interface. Fortunately, the Smart Playlists provide some decent solutions to this. Continue reading ‘Living with iTunes: Podcast Management’
If you are still using Internet Explorer, please stop.
Download Firefox or please check out a number of alternative browsers, a second favourite of mine is Opera.
There are pros and cons to any browser. Firefox is infinitely customizable as there are always new developments for its third-party plugins. Unfortunately, this is also its downfall. In order to get the best experience from Firefox, every new install of it needs countless downloads to get to that specific functionality that you are used to. For a work computer, my mom’s computer or any other that is not used (almost) exclusively by me, I would recommend Opera instead, as it has some advanced functionality pre-installed.
However, for Firefox in particular, let’s talk about a little-known, and entirely built-in function called “Quick Search”.
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Continue reading ‘Browsers, and the Firefox ‘Quick Search’’
The more I read and learn about this application the more and more I fall madly in love with it.
If you are a Mac user, and find the built in Spotlight functionality useful, you might want to consider the similar, yet infinitely more powerful application Quicksilver. Not only is it able to find, move and get deep inside items and applications by proxy (without ever having opening that item or application) it also looks a lot prettier!
Quicksilver is not for the light at heart. Your grandmother or mother is not going to be using this in its advanced forms. The concept of this app is that it makes it possible to do away with the ‘folder’ hierarchy of data management. Think of it as Google’ing your entire life (at first).
Continue reading ‘Quicksilver Introduction’
I have discovered RSS feeds. Not like people don’t know what they are, or that I’ve been the first to discover them, but instead that I’ve found a way that I can utilize them for my own productivity/entertainment/procrastination.
I used to have huge issues with bookmarks. I am one of those people who, when stumbling across something interesting whilest surfing the webs of internet, will bookmark the said item of interest with little to no categorizing. I end up with a mess of random bookmarks mixed with my frequently visited sites.
Continue reading ‘Google Reader’
If, like me, you work in an office environment and wear a tie, you probably don’t fit the shirt that goes with it. This is not just that the male form is naturally awkward and unappealing, but instead because form-fitting shirts are typically much more expensive than your typical outing at the Sally Ann.
The most common problem that I have personally with shirts is that they are too tight in the neck in order to fit properly in the chest and midsection. If I get a shirt that fits in the neck, it’s too large in the chest and midsection.
Continue reading ’shirts for work’
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