Pierce

Member since: Feb 19th, 2006

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Get five free songs on iTunes with your American Express card (TUAW.com)

Feb 12th 2011 6:36PM I entered my Canadian AMEX card number and the form gave me no problems. We'll see if they credit me back.

PhoneView gives you an inside look at your iPhone data (TUAW.com)

Oct 15th 2009 11:56AM This sounded great until the $20 price tag. Any free alternatives with even a smattering of these same features?

Mac 101: How to set a default printer (TUAW.com)

Apr 16th 2009 8:45PM I have an older HP 2210 all-in-one, and I'm pretty sure the scaning functionality doesn't work with MAC OS X due to even the newest drivers for the device not supporting the function.

iTunes 8.1 DJ gives another excuse to party (TUAW.com)

Mar 13th 2009 1:11PM Perhaps you can have iTunes output the audio to your AppleTV with the Speaker function.

Ask TUAW: Safari certificates, OCR, PC to Mac mini, and more (TUAW.com)

Mar 13th 2009 1:12AM Actually, drag and drop was my first approach, but the transfer would always encounter an error during progress and force the transfer to stop; I'd never be able to find where it stopped because I'm transferring so many files and folders.

So then I decided maybe the command line would help. I used a good ol cp command in a Terminal window to get the contents of my external HD to a folder on my iMac desktop, but I found somehow it wasn't transferring complete files. I did a comparison and found some single files would be perhaps 4GB on the external HDD, but only 376MB as a copy on my desktop - I'm not terribly sure why. I thought about cloning the drive, but I believe that will bring the file system along with it, which I don't want. I'm a bit stumped at this point.

iTunes 8.1 DJ gives another excuse to party (TUAW.com)

Mar 12th 2009 10:18PM Another idea, if many of your friends don't have iPhones, is to have a centrally accessible iPhone connected to the network so your friends can enter their requests via the one device. Just a thought.

Ask TUAW: Safari certificates, OCR, PC to Mac mini, and more (TUAW.com)

Mar 12th 2009 9:38PM I have an external HDD formatted with NTFS connected to my iMac 24" running Leopard. My entire iTunes and iPhoto libraries reside on the external HDD. I'm using the Paragon NTFS solution to read/write to my external HDD, but I get the feeling it could be faster if the external HD was formatted with Mac OS Extended: is this true? If so, what is the best way to get the contents of my external HDD off the drive - and on to my iMac's HDD - so I can then reformat the external HDD? Also, I've put a lot of work into organizing my iTunes library with proper song titles and artist names - I'm hoping my solution ultimately retains this information too.

Thanks in advance for any help.