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These are my links for Dezember 6th through Dezember 8th:

• Synology Inc. • View topic – IPKG DS410J –
  (tags: ipkg shell script bootstrap synology DS410j )
• Save a Bookmark – YouTube RSS feed items come as embedded Flash players. This is usefull if you want to view them on the Internet with some online feed reader, but it is not ok for offline viewers, where you fetch feed items and view them later without connection to Internet. For example this can be usefull for podcast programs in mobile phones or PSP. So with such phone, you can subscribe to YouTube feed here, simply download items while you are at home through Wi-Fi and watch them on the go later.
  (tags: rss youtube podcast itunes video tools iphone macosx )
• ezRSS – Life made easy – What is this?
  EZRSS is a rss feed for eztv.
  You can use it to have your bittorrent client download your favourite shows from eztv as they get
  released, rather than having to stay up all night waiting for them – completely automatically.
  (tags: tv rss torrent bittorrent video series download )
• NSLU2-Linux – DS101/DS101BootStrap browse – This document describes the necessary steps to prepare the DS-101(g+) for later ipk-package installation, so that you can install packages from the feed by doing ipkg install ‹packagename›
  (tags: synology linux hack networking howto install reference ipkg nas )
• Das deutsche Synology Support Forum – Einzelnen Beitrag anzeigen – spk – Paketmanagement und 3rd-party-apps – Um die vielen hier im Forum beschriebenen 3rd-party-applications auch per spk-Paketmanagement nutzen zu können, müssen Vorarbeiten erledigt werden. Diese Vorarbeiten bereiten den sys-Apache-Web-Server darauf vor, die (administrativen) Zugriffe auf Dateien und Programme zu ermöglichen, die von einzelnen 3rd-party-applications verwendet werden.
  (tags: synology 3rdparty package management )

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What if:

Pandora technology is integrated into iTunes and iTMS. For 15 €/month you can subscribe to three pandora stations (which are defined and modified via iTunes playlists and ratings), whose songs you get like a subscription based service. Protected AAC files that expire once your subscription is over. BUT the selling point will be: you can select 10 songs each month that you can keep like any other song purchased at iTMS.

Subscribing to these pandora stations is as easy as using a podcast, in fact the streams are podcasts with, say, 10 new songs a day.

Just dreaming.

Uncategorized AAC, apple, iTMS, itunes, pandora.com

Andy Budd has a very awesome tutorial on advanced smart playlists. Definitely worth checking out. And if this is way too complicated for you: check out Smart Playlists.com

btw: my personal hint for all of you using smart playlists and iTunes ratings. Use Applescripts to transfer your ratings to the MP3 file’s ID3tag’s comments section. This way you will never lose those ratings even if you are moving your tunes from mac to mac…

Ⅰ just realized a very useful feature for filling my iPod: you can have multiple playlists inside a folder, but cannot select the folder to be automatically synched with the iPod. However what you can do is create a smart playlist that contains the folder’s contents! So now it is very easy to drag stuff to the iPod without actually changing its „synch settings“. Just drag a new playlist into the synched folder and it will appear on the iPod as soon as the next synch will be done.

Uncategorized ipod, itunes, optimization, playlist

Apple has done it again. This is the new look, possibly for all other iLife apps, Safari and all other brushed metal apps? What may look cool might become stale pretty soon. Inconsistencies in Apple’s GUI design have been appearing for years now – long gone are the days where all apps were equal; where is the updated Human Interface Guideline? Does Apple still adhere to its own standards?

Somehow Ⅰ am always stunned by Apple’s fresh design whenever they change things. It still looks a lot better than anything else – and actually there is no alternative. But Ⅰ am getting annoyed at the inconsistency as well as the diversity within Apple’s own product portfolio. Change is good, but a lack of focus and direction is not.

Uncategorized apple, GUI, itunes, rant

Wikipedia may help with getting your music collection organized. Although Ⅰ still think the „Genre“ Tag in MP3s is useless in its current incarnation. What use makes it when you can browse music by genre but then try to classify not in broad genres but in much detail? So my solution is to use the general broad genre and then fine tune by using the“ grouping“ tag.

Uncategorized grouping, itunes, mp3, music, tagging