GeekBrief.TV broke another news story for me this afternoon, the release of Hulu Desktop.
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Plex Plex Plex!!
June 1st, 2009
Wondering why I haven’t been writing lately? I’ve been using Plex!
I was planning on writing a whole big feature on Plex, then I just watched Don McCallister’s Screencast (from within Plex!) on Plex. It’s great and there’s no point in writing out everything his video demonstrates, check it out:
http://www.screencastsonline.com/index_files/category-mac-mini.php
In addition to Plex, there’s lots of other info on Screencastonline about turning your Mac Mini into the ultimate Media Center.
Once your done watching, check back here to learn more about Plex and how to make it work best for you.
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Safari: Open .torrent Files Automatically After Downloading
April 12th, 2009I’m all about efficiency — especially when it comes to downloading my torrents. I’ve been gradually getting more and more annoyed that every time I download a .torrent file, I have to double click it (in the Downloads window) to have it open in Transmission.
Solution: Download this zip file which contains a revised version of com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist. This is the file that tells Safari what files are safe to open after downloading – it’s been revised to include .torrent files as “safe.”
After unzipping, just move the file to YourUserName/Library/Preferences; replace the file if it already exists.
Happy Downloading!
P.S. Thanks to Manuel Studer for this tip!
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Hawk Wings’ Page o’ Apps!
April 8th, 2009Just wanna give a shout out to Hawk Wings, a website I just discovered today. This page is just filled with tons of free and cheap apps and scripts (or “plug-ins” as they call them) for the most commonly used Mac apps. I highly recommend checking it out to see what cool things your missing… for example, there’s DockStar, which allows you to “assign a separate notification badge to different mailboxes.”
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Trick to Easily Rotate Address Book Photos
March 19th, 2009Since I just bought Cyntact for my iPhone, I’ve been moving my photos from iPhoto’s “Faces” into Address Book. Unfortunately, there is no easy (free) way to do this automatically, but I did stumble upon a neat trick when adding pictures to your Address Book contacts:
Option clicking the picture allow you to rotate it!
Oh, and option+shift will snap to the hash marks along the circle :)
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