This Much I Know

Apple is the world leader in digital music sales, and is making big inroads into digital video and TV.  The iPad completes the deal, bringing Apple’s magic to the world of eBook sales.

Apple’s Ad Hoc distribution process is a godsend for iPhone beta-testing, but a right pain to use in practice.  I’ve tried several different approaches for creating and managing Ad Hoc testing; this article describes the one I now use for my National Rail Enquiries for iPhone application.

I’ve just launched a new web site, called devkits.net.  The site is all about a couple of iPhone development kits I’ve been working on. Each kit is a self-contained, fully documented set of classes to kick-start an iPhone development project. The kits have been fully tested in my own commercial software projects, and each kit comes with [...]

iTunes 8 is here, with a new “Genius” feature. Its recommendations aren’t bad – but I’m not sure it qualifies as a Genius just yet. Here’s why.

Three things have happened recently which make me think that the BBC’s iPlayer-for-Mac might actually be called iTunes. Here’s why.

At the moment, there aren’t any [tag]Intel[/tag]-native [tag]Real[/tag] [tag]Media[/tag] encoders for Mac. This means that Universal Binary applications running on an Intel Mac can’t [tag]encode[/tag] to .[tag]rm[/tag] files. The main “batch encode” application for Mac – [tag]Sorenson[/tag] [tag]Squeeze[/tag] Compression Suite 4.5 – has this problem. But as ever, there is a solution.

My 15″ MacBook Pro gets very very hot. So hot that it’s actually uncomfortable to have it sat on your lap. So I was very happy to find out about smcFanControl, which allows you to manually set the fan speed of your MacBook or MacBook Pro.

Having just been and bought a copy of Windows XP Pro with SP2 – which I must say was a very strange experience – I am now in the process of installing it on my Mac.

Backup 3 has a useful option to back up just your iTMS purchased files. But, it’ll only work for files in your user’s iTunes directory. And I store my files on an external drive.
But, I found a way to back up my iTMS files from a different disk…