You can search the iTunes list of radio stations if you add them to a playlist that you created.
If you click the built-in Radio list in your iTunes Library, you can see lots of internet audio streaming radio stations, apparently chosen by Apple, organized by genre; but you can't search the list. The iTunes search field in the top right corner is grayed-out.
If you make a new playlist, and drag radio stations into it, you can search in that playlist.
I wanted to search for any radio stations that might play, for example, 'dubstep' or 'Hindi' or 'reggaeton.'
I made a new playlist and dragged radio stations into it. I tried dragging all of them, but iTunes gave up after 999 stations. I also see that iTunes won't retrieve station names now, but that may be because I tried dragging them all (that would be at least 1500 stations). Maybe my network's sysop shut that off. Anyway, I'll try again tomorrow, but the point of the hint is that you can use the Search feature if the radio stations are in a playlist.
Also, note that you probably should select all stations and uncheck them, because if iTunes is set to Shuffle mode and it chooses a radio station, it'll stop shuffling because an audio stream never comes to a stop.
[crarko adds: I remember putting radio stations into playlists long ago when I use iTunes Radio; never tried to search them though.]
There was a recent article on the Macworld main site about apps you can buy that will strip formatting from text on the clipboard, leaving you with plain text that you can paste into documents without it having the wrong font, etc.
Although some of them do this automatically, I thought it's a bit much to pay for such a simple utility that can be done in one line on the CLI.
So here's a shell script that will convert the contents of the clipboard to plain text.
The encoding option specifies MacRoman (30). I find that the default, UTF-8 doesn't always cope well with things like curly quotes.
If you have the AppleScript script menulet active, you can store the script in /Library/Scripts, and you can select it from the menu. It will run without opening the Terminal, as per this hint.
[crarko adds: This seems to work as described; I had to run the script twice before it did though.]
Apple broke Hewlett-Packard maintenance utility under Snow Leopard for Designjet 130nr and 130 (and maybe for 30 and 100 series too).
Under Snow Leopard there's no way for HP130nr and HP130 user to access the maintenance utility and therefore perform color calibration, print checks and so on. HP says they have no plan to give people the right utility and suggest us to use the front control panel on the printer.
Luckily there's a workaround to gain access to the maintenance web page: download and install System Maintenance Utility for Designjet 111 H.06.00 Utility for OS X 10.6 from the HP suport site.
After installation, launching System Maintenance Utility and choosing your printer will allow you to access it via the web interface all the good things to maintain your Deskjet printer.
[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. It may take a bit of hunting to find the above utility on the HP site. I think this link might work. Snow Leopard broke a number of printer utilities; if someone has this printer along with Lion please let us know if the situation has improved (or not).]
On both my Mac Pro and my iMac, I've run into a problem where the iPhoto library simply doesn't show up in the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel (in Mac OS X 10.6.x). Well, sometimes it shows up, but simply as a line reading iPhoto, but without any actual content.
When this happened the first time, I looked in Console and found the following entry for each time I'd tried to load the Desktop tab of the Desktop & Screen Saver panel:
1/12/12 9:09:36 AM System Preferences[4134] **** DesktopPref error: DSKiPhotoRootSource -loadData TIME OUT!!! There something wrong with iLife Media Browser
Googling on that error led to a number of pages, including iLife: Cannot See iPhoto Files in Other iLife Applications on Apple's support site. But after trying everything in that article, I still couldn't see my iPhoto images when trying to set the Desktop picture.
I even tried deleting all cache files, rebooting, and (a very time consuming process) rebuilding the iPhoto library. Nothing fixed the problem. (This seems to be related to the size of the iPhoto library; I've only ever seen the issue on my main Mac, which has over 25,000 photos and videos, using 235GB of drive space.)
The workaround: While I still haven't solved the problem (as it seems to be a bug in OS X itself), there is a workaround. As posted by mrkgoo in this thread on Apple's Discussion site, here's what to do:
Open the Desktop & Screen Saver panel in System Preferences.
Click on the Screen Saver tab. You probably won't see iPhoto listed here, but just wait -- potentially quite a while, but keep waiting. Eventually, you will see a fully-functional iPhoto entry.
Click on the Desktop tab, and bingo, notice you now have an iPhoto entry there, too.
Choose the album you want to use for the images on each connected monitor.
Click back to the Screen Saver tab -- if you don't, then you'll have to repeat this process the next time you open the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel.
While this is moderately annoying, it definitely works. Why does the workaround work? I'm not sure, but to my non-technical eye, it seems that the Desktop tab has a short timeout for loading the iPhoto library, while the Screen Saver tab has no such limit. Once the data's been read in, though, the Desktop tab is quite willing to display and use it.
I live in a University neighborhood and some of my neighbors had their apartment building catch on fire. I'm giving some of them shelter (and hot tea) and trying to manage the chaos while things get sorted out.
Unfortunately, chaos and hint testing don't mix very well. I'll be back tomorrow unless the fire spreads this way. :)
While viewing my purchased apps in the Mac application of 'App Store' I clicked the (X) next to the iPhoto Installed button. iPhoto immediately disappeared from the list of purchased apps.
There is no Undo for this nor any other obvious or searched solution. Here is how to restore the listing of purchased apps. It is not obvious.
Delete an app if you haven't. Under the App Store menu item Store drag down to View My Account.
Enter your password and a new option is available in the account window listing Hidden Purchases with an option to unhide them.
You do not see this option unless you have deleted at least one list item. This provides a way of filtering out rejected apps you have purchased.
[crarko adds: I tested this (in 10.6.8), and it works as described. At least with the iTunes App Store, there is a warning dialog and some instruction when clicking on the X to hide an app as mentioned in this hint.]
I've been using Airport Express wireless-g for years to stream music to my stereos. And they work great once you get them working, but with the wireless-g models, I have always had problems setting them up on a new network after they have already been setup on another network. I use it as a streaming device, so it is set up as a device on my network, and not as my router. The problem with dropouts when streaming music over an Airport Express g can be resolved by changing the network settings on the wireless router.
First of all, the Airport Utility never seems able to find an Airport Express that does not have factory settings and is not set to communicate with the existing wireless network. Sometimes holding down the reset button on the AE until the light blinks rapidly while it is plugged in works. In other cases, I have had to hold it down before plugging it in and then plug it in to get it to work. I have often had to repeat these steps multiple times before I can get the Airport Utility to recognize it. It takes persistence, but eventually the Airport Utility will recognize it.
Once it is recognized, the setup is straight-forward. However, every time I set one up, I seem to forget about the dropout issues. I've found that dropouts occur when the network router wireless settings allow for both TKIP and AES security protocols (on a WPA security setting). I've found that by changing my router wireless settings to either TKIP or AES, but not allowing the use of both, the dropouts no longer occur.
Hope this works for people, as I love the AE's once they work. Just got a new wireless-n AE, and it seems some of the issues may have been resolved.
[crarko adds: I remember seeing some of these issues with the older AirPort Express as described here. I thought they were fixed with firmware updates, but I'm not absolutely sure. This sounds worth trying if you still have the dropout problem.]
I do have some video podcasts I'd love to be able to listen to in double speed on my iPhone. However, this only works for audio files.
For audio files in your iTunes library, it's possible to quickly convert them to your default audio encoding using the command 'Create AAC Version' in the 'Advanced' menu. With video files, that particular command is greyed out. However, when pressing the Option key, the command turns into 'Convert to AAC…' which lets you select any iTunes-compatible file in the browse dialog and turn into AAC audio. While this approach works, it is clunky and cumbersome.
Recently, I've discovered a much more straightforward solution which takes advantage of functionality that seems to be sort of a bug in iTunes.
Select the desired video in iTunes and then choose the aforementioned 'Convert to AAC…' command using the Option key but let go of the Option key as soon as you selected the menu item. Instead of letting you select a file to convert, iTunes will happily convert the selected video to AAC.
Note however that your video will end up in iTunes' 'Music' section. If you want it to appear in 'Podcasts' or 'iTunes U', you will have to select it, get info and change the media type manually.
[crarko adds: It's also seems possible to get 'Convert to MP3' depending on the format of the original video.]
When run as root this will use the guest account to mount the volume -- it's a work around and only recommended for those whom understand the root account.
