Apple released iTunes 9 yesterday and along with a bevy of new features, it also put the Genre column back into browser view — and the old trick for hiding it doesn’t work.
Fortunately, Apple has evidently listened to our cries of despair and there is now an easier way to disable Genres. Just go to [...]
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How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 9
Why does Disk Utility crash under Snow Leopard?
I’ve just (thanks Royal Mail!) installed Snow Leopard on my iMac and immediately ran into problems with applications not behaving properly. In some cases, they wouldn’t run at all and crashed upon launch.
For example, Activity Monitor reported some apps as using 16,777,216TB of hard disk space (I have no idea which SI unit that works [...]
Use a three-finger trackpad swipe to scroll to the top & bottom of a page in Firefox
Here’s another Firefox I discovered the other day. On a MacBook with a multi-touch trackpad, you can use a three finger up/down swipe to move instantly to the top/bottom of a web page. It doesn’t work in Safari, sadly.
Two useful keyboard shortcuts for Firefox
These are very old news (I’m sure), but I’ve just stumbled upon two useful keyboard shortcuts for Firefox.
⌘ + L — jump to and select (ready for overtyping) the contents of the location box.
⌘ + K — jump to and select (ready for overtyping) the contents of the search box.
In other words, you don’t need [...]
How to change the ‘Today’ highlight colour in iCal
I love Mac OS X iCal, but there’s one thing that bugs me — the pale blue highlight that denotes ‘Today’ in the month view is all but invisible.
There’s no way to tweak this colour in iCal and the best the internet could suggest was to tilt the monitor back a bit… In fact, looking [...]
How to swap left and right speaker output in Mac OS X
My MacBook is set up as a desktop computer — it’s plugged into a Dell 22in LCD monitor (E228WFP) and sits on a fabulous Rain Design mStand so that I can use its screen as a second monitor. I have a pair of Logitech speakers plugged into the MacBook’s headphone socket, but since the MacBook [...]
How to make an external monitor the main display on a MacBook
Running a dual-monitor set-upon a MacBook is easy enough — just plug in the monitor and go to System Preferences > Displays to configure it. The first thing you’l need to do is click the Arrangment button and drag the external monitor so that it’s position is Displays matches that on your desk — so [...]
Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes
If you want to use Google Mobile Sync to keep your iPhone synchronised with your Google Calendar and Contacts, you’ll have to backup any existing contacts on your iPhone first, otherwise Google Sync will delete them.
Fortunately, there is an easy way to do this and you can use iTunes to upload your contacts to your [...]
How to display a Mac OS character map
Typing a character that doesn’t have its own key on the keyboard is easy in Windows – you can just use the Windows Character Map tool. Mac OS doesn’t have a similar tool – or rather, it doesn’t have one that’s so easily accessible. There are a few options for quickly inserting symbols like ®, [...]
How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 8 for Windows and Mac OS
iTunes 7 has a Preferences option to turn of the Genre column in the main window, iTunes 8 does not. This is very frustrating. I’m not in the least bit interested in seeing what genres are in my music library, and the Genre pane takes space away from the far more useful Artists and [...]