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<title>Split text files for iPod Notes usage via Perl</title>
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<dc:subject>UNIX</dc:subject>
<description>I've created a simple Perl script that splits a text file into 4KB parts to use within iPod Notes. Usage is pretty simple:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Copy and paste &lt;a href="http://pastebin.com/f4d6a2c70"&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/dlfiles/makenotes_pl.txt"&gt;macosxhints mirror&lt;/a&gt;) into a plain text file named &lt;tt&gt;makenotes.pl&lt;/tt&gt; on your system. Remember to make the script executable (&lt;tt&gt;chmod 755 makenotes.pl&lt;/tt&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Put the script and the text you want to split into a directory. For this example, assume the directory is named &lt;tt&gt;book&lt;/tt&gt; and located in your user's home folder.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open up a Terminal and go to that directory: &lt;tt&gt;cd ~/book&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Run the script with the filename (or filenames) as arguments: &lt;tt&gt;./makenotes.pl colourofmagic.txt&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;When run, the script will ask you to create a title for this book -- this title is used as a directory name and as a prefix for the parts. For instance, if I use the title &lt;tt&gt;colour_of_magic&lt;/tt&gt;, the ...
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<title>Share a FireWire drive via FireWire networking</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Network</dc:subject>
<description>To make this hint work, you need to have a FireWire drive with two ports on it, two FireWire cables, and two Macs with built-in FireWire. To make things easier, I turned off AirPort and disconnected the Ethernet -- I wanted to make sure that I was getting the full speed of the FireWire, as my second Mac only has 100base Ethernet capabilities.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Connect the FireWire drive to a Mac with file sharing set up on it, and then connect that drive's other FireWire port to any other Mac. Next enable networking over FireWire in the Networking System Preferences panel. In the setup panel, give the computers manual IP addresses -- I used 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3, and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Finally, simply connect to the Mac with the drive showing up in the Finder, and it will show up in sharing!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This allows you to network over FireWire and share a hard drive, which for me is useful for today's task of backing up all of my DVDs onto the drive. It could be useful for a multitude ...
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<title>One cause of Exchange failure on iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>My company uses Exchange, and hearing Apple chime on about Exchange support started to get under my skin after my first few unsuccessful attempts at getting it to work.

What I didn't realize is that Apple has SSL enabled by default. And since my company does not use SSL for Exchange, the verification process will always fail despite the Domain, Mail Server, and other settings from the configure new account screen being correct. The solution is to just save the broken settings, and then manually edit the account and disable SSL.

I hope that, in a future revision, Apple fixes the auto-detect settings that Entourage supports, or at least gives access to all settings from the Configure Account screen.
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<title>Update location information on original iPhone</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>You might think you are out of luck when using Location services on your old iPhone, but you aren't! You have to perform an extra step, and you are relying on the original iPhone's tower triangulation method instead of GPS, but it's better than nothing. It, of course, requires the iPhone 2.0 software.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To use location services with your current local location, before you access any program that needs to know your location, go to the Maps program, and use the Find Location icon to get your current location by triangulation. Then, access the program that plans on using location services, and it will use your current location. (If you've used the "OK to use my location" button to access a program from one location, then move to another location and launch a location-aware program, your stored location will reflect your first position until you force it to update using this technique.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I've had to do this manually every time I wanted to get local information, but it works w...
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<title>Make a Pandora (or any web page) into a program</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Web Browsers</dc:subject>
<description>I love using &lt;a href="http://www.pandora.com/"&gt;Pandora Radio&lt;/a&gt;, but always hated having a separate browser window open all the time. As a solution, I discovered the excellent (and free) &lt;a href="http://fluidapp.com/"&gt;Fluid.app&lt;/a&gt;, which will make a free-standing application out of a web-app -- and even better, can convert your app to a menu-bar extra!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I just opened Pandora, clicked on the 'mini-browser,' and then copied that address into Fluid.app. After creating the program, simply click on the Fluid menu choose Convert to MenuExtra SSB. You can even go to Preferences in your program  (prior to converting) and select window styles and transparency.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So I now have a small menu extra with a pop-up semi-transparent window that I can instantly open and play/pause Pandora without keeping a separate browser-window open. Of course, Fluid can be used to make apps out of any other webpage as well. I hope others enjoy this as much as I am.
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<title>Create a permanent sidebar entry for networked folders</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Desktop</dc:subject>
<description>If you're anything like me, then you probably access files within folders within folders on removable media (i.e. external hard drives, Flash drives). It can become quite a hassle (with a trackpad, anyway) to open the the media device, select the folder, navigate, select another folder, navigate, and then select the desired file or folder.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I tried adding my commonly-accessed (but time consuming to reach) external hard drive folder to the Finder's sidebar, but whenever I took my MacBook somewhere and the folder wasn't present, the sidebar alias disappeared.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So my solution was to make a local alias of the removable folder, put it in my Documents (or any other local) folder, then drag the alias to the sidebar. Now I can eject removable media without losing my sidebar shortcut. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; I thought we had run something similar in the past, but I can't find it now -- so if this is a duplicate, please let me know. Also, if you use this hint, you should be awa...
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<title>Send SMS on iPhone for free</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>With &lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=281704574&amp;amp;mt=8"&gt;AIM&lt;/a&gt; available in the iPhone's App Store, you can now send and receive SMS messages without paying for a plan or individual messages. Also, this will be even better when the notification service works on applications sometimes this fall.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First, download AIM onto your iPhone, then start it up.  If you want to send a text message to (617) 555-1212, just send a new IM to &lt;em&gt;+16175551212&lt;/em&gt;. You should receive a confirmation message from AOL saying your message has been sent, and the user can reply and you'll receive it on your phone as an IM. Hope this hint saves some people a few bucks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; We &lt;a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030625235057445"&gt;covered this technique&lt;/a&gt; for SMS via iChat a few years back, but I felt it worth mentioning again in the context of the iPhone.]
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<title>Final Cut Express 4 - iMovie HD's heir apparent</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Pick of the Week</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src="http://www.macosxhints.com/images/w_fce4.png" align="right"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The macosxhints Rating:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.macosxhints.com/images/w_9.png"&gt;&lt;br&gt;[Score: &lt;b&gt;9&lt;/b&gt; out of 10]&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Developer: &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com"&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt;/ &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/"&gt;Product page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Price: &amp;#36;199 (&amp;#36;99 upgrade from older versions)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I just finished another video project for Macworld (an &lt;a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/134584/2008/07/mwvodcast59.html"&gt;overview of Sun's VirtualBox virtualization app&lt;/a&gt; for Macs), and as I finished the project, I realized just how pleasant it is to work with Final Cut Express -- and that I'd never given it the Pick of the Week nod here on macosxhints.com. Yes, it's relatively expensive, but if you have more than a passing interest in video editing on the Mac, it's well worth the cost of admission.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'll be the first to admit that I've got no aspirations (nor skills to succeed) as a...
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<title>Work around Photoshop's 3GB RAM limit</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:30:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Apps</dc:subject>
<description>With RAM prices dropping so fast, it seems a shame that I can't really use more than 3GB of memory for Photoshop. As a 32 bit application, Photoshop CS3 can only "use" 4GB of real memory -- a 1GB chunk for the application, leaving a potential 3GB of real RAM available for Photoshop to use for my images. For anyone with 8GB or more of memory, here's an old concept that tricks Photoshop into using as much memory as you want.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Remember RAM disks from OS9? The feature is available in the command line in OS X. By creating a RAM disk, and having Photoshop use that as the first scratch disk, you'll speed up Photoshop &lt;em&gt;as long as you have enough real memory&lt;/em&gt; to do it. For my test, I allocated 3GB to Photoshop in its prefernces (real memory usage), and then created a 2GB RAM disk.
The Terminal command to create a 2GB drive is:

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hdid -nomount ram://4194304&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

The number is the number of 512 byte blocks in your RAM disk. The example above creates a 2GB disk...
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<title>Subscribe to RSS feeds for programs in the App Store</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:30:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>I've seen a few requests around the internets for an app store RSS feed. Until Apple releases their own, I have stumbled upon a useful one:
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&lt;a href="//webobjects.mdimension.com/iPhoneApps.rss"&gt;feed://webobjects.mdimension.com/iPhoneApps.rss&lt;/a&gt;
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Enjoy!
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[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; I discovered (&lt;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/16/rss-feeds-for-the-app-store/"&gt;thanks to TUAW&lt;/a&gt;) a number of App Store feeds provided by Pinch Media:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyAddedIphoneApplications-PinchMedia"&gt;Recently added apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyAddedFreeIphoneApplications-PinchMedia"&gt;Recently added free apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyUpdatedIphoneApplications-PinchMedia"&gt;Updated apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Top100FreeIphoneApplications-PinchMedia"&gt;Top 100 free apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Top100PaidIphoneApplications-PinchMedia"&gt;...
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<title>Search iPhone (2.0) contacts by first and last name</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:30:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>On the new iPhone software, you can search for a contact using the first and last name. For instance, if you want to search for &lt;em&gt;Pedro Fernandes&lt;/em&gt;, you would write &lt;em&gt;P F&lt;/em&gt; (that's P, then a space, then an F). The iPhone will filter out all the contacts with first and last name starting with P and F, and vice-versa. You can further refine the search by typing more letters. This is a great time-saving feature; thanks, Apple!
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Bonus hint... on a standard phone (none-Apple) I always stored the names in such a way that you can do this search. So for instance I would have: Pedro Fernandes stored as PFernandes Pedro, Tania Silva stored as TSilva Tania, Daniel Fidalgo stored as DFidalgo Daniel, etc. This enables a quick search through first and last names. So if you are stuck (or by choice) have an old (classic) phone, maybe you find this usefull as well.
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<title>Set the Cisco VPN group password on iPhone 2.0</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:30:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>If you're trying to configure the iPhone 2.0's built-in Cisco VPN client, you may be stymied by the lack of a place to type your group password.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
It's there, but labeled "Secret." Put your group password there, and you should be good to go.
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<title>Sync subscribed calendars to the iPhone via MobileMe</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>Calendar syncing via MobileMe to an iPhone works great, except it doesn't include subscribed calendars yet. (An &lt;a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1213"&gt;Apple knowledge base article&lt;/a&gt; makes it sound like they are working on it.) Here's a workaround that's good for static calendars, like US Holidays or Jewish Holidays:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Select the subscribed calendar in iCal.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Choose File » Export... and save it someplace.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Choose File » Import... and select the file you just saved.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Uncheck the subscribed calendar so you don't see duplicates on the local Mac.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
Now your holidays or birthdays will be shown on the iPhone.
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<title>10.5: View exactly which files Time Machine backed up</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:30:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.5</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src="http://www.macosxhints.com/images/105only.png" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px"&gt;You may occasionally notice Time Machine is backing up an unexpectedly large amount of data, or maybe you're just curious as to what actually changed between backups. Perhaps you'd like to tailor your exclusion list to keep the backup size down. Unfortunately, the Time Machine interface provide no means to find out what it is actually being backed up. Luckily, we can use the fact that Time Machine creates hard links of unchanged files to explore what it &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; back up, after the fact.

&lt;tt&gt;timedog&lt;/tt&gt; is a Perl script (&lt;a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/dlfiles/timedog.zip"&gt;4KB download&lt;/a&gt;) which does just that. Use it like so:

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;#36; cd /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb/myhost
&amp;#36; timedog -d 5 -l&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

By default, &lt;tt&gt;timedog&lt;/tt&gt; will examine the most recent backup, compare it to the one prior, and report all changed files. The &lt;tt&gt;-d&lt;/tt&gt; flag controls the direc...
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<title>Reduce battery consumption on iPhone 2.0 phones</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:30:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>I don't have the latest firmware (quietly released only when a restore is performed), but a lot of people have been complaining about abysmal battery life for the 3G iPhone (four to six hours). After a lot of trial and error, disabling push mail and only checking mail hourly has greatly improved battery life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With wifi, Bluetooth, 3G, and GPS enabled, battery life is is more consistent with the first generation iPhone.  A quick check of the Apple support discussion board reveals that others are coming to similar conclusions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; Disabling push email on first generation iPhones running iPhone software 2.0 should have similar benefits.]
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<title>Improve range on antenna-equipped Base Stations</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:30:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Other Hardware</dc:subject>
<description>If you have an external antenna on your AirPort Base Station, you may be able to extend the range somewhat, depending on how you originally connected the antenna. Here's how to make sure you're getting the maximum range possible:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Power down the Base Station.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unlug your external antenna.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Power up the Base Station.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Plug in the external antenna.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
The improved signal can easily be measured in AP Grapher or MacStumbler. It's not a huge difference, but it made a marginal connection reliable again. Be aware that if you ever reboot the Base Station, you'll need to be sure that the external antenna is unplugged while it reboots, otherwise the signal will drop back down to the "normal" level. This works on my white AirPort Extreme Base Station.
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<title>10.5: More control of fan speeds on iMacs and laptops</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:30:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Apps</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src="http://www.macosxhints.com/images/105only.png" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px"&gt;We take great care to ensure that our systems run with reasonable temperatures as that helps extend their lifetimes. We've used various applications to control the fan speeds on different systems but, with the upgrade to 10.5, our Intel-based iMac was left without a fan-control solution that worked adequately. To that end, I decided to modify the open source (GPL) &lt;a href="http://www.lobotomo.com/products/FanControl/"&gt;FanControl&lt;/a&gt; to work with our iMac. The result is that I've generated two new versions of Fan Control, &lt;a href="http://www.derman.com/Download/Special/iMacFanControl.html"&gt;one for the Intel-based iMacs&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.derman.com/Download/Special/MBpFanControl.html"&gt;one for the MacBook/MacBook Pro&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
These versions also have some extended control capabilities over the original FanControl&lt;/a&gt;. The iMac version uses separate sensors to drive the contro...
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<title>Easily add lyrics to iTunes songs via AppleScript</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Apps</dc:subject>
<description>Often programs like PearLyrics or &lt;a href="http://blog.livedoor.jp/widget236/"&gt;SingThatiTune&lt;/a&gt; just don't find the song I am looking for, and I have to find the lyrics manually. I found it tedious to find the lyrics in Safari, switch back to iTunes, highlight the song I want to add the lyrics to, open the song's info panel, paste in the lyrics, and finally, close the window. So I wrote this simple AppleScript instead:

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tell application "System Events"
    set sel to (the clipboard as text)
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
    set lyrics of current track to sel
end tell&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

I then bound this AppleScript to a keyboard shortcut using &lt;a href="http://www.scriptsoftware.com/ikey/"&gt;iKeys&lt;/a&gt; (any macro-capable program should work just as well). It will copy any text currently in the clipboard to the currently playing song's lyrics.
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<title>Work around an iChat 'login details rejected' issue</title>
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<dc:subject>Apps</dc:subject>
<description>I was helping a friend set up a MacBook. When we entered his username xxxx.yyyy@mac.com and password into iChat, the credentials were rejected by the server ("Incorrect password"). Though I was sure the password was correct, I reset it via the web, but to no avail.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Finally, having run out of other things to try, I entered the account as an AIM account, with "@mac.com" appended to the username. It worked straight away.
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<title>Jump to search field in Contacts on iPhone</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:30:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>iPhone</dc:subject>
<description>One of the new features in the iPhone 2.0 software is the ability to search your contacts (as well as an actual Contacts icon, instead of being forced to reach them from the phone section of the iPhone). The search field, however, is located at the top of the contact list, and is (strangely) not fixed in place. So if you scroll down, it scrolls off the top of the screen.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
To get it back, you can scroll up, of course, but that's time consuming. Instead, just tap the status bar (carrier, wireless strength, etc.), as you can do in Safari to jump to the top of a web page. This will take you to the top of your Contacts, bringing the search field back into view.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I can't remember where I heard this one, though I think it was from a fellow Macworld writer during an iPhone 2.0 software conference call. Best as I can tell, though, it's not documented in the latest version of the &lt;a href="http://support.apple.com/manuals/#iphone"&gt;iPhone user's manual&lt;/a&gt; (which is some 22 page...
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