Tag: FINGERPRINT

With Apple pulling AirPrint support just before the release of Mac OS 10.6.5, an opportunity has opened up for developers to one-up Apple with third-party tools that can share your printers over Wi-Fi for your iOS 4.2 devices. Our Apple-crazed brothers and sisters over at TUAW have put two offerings, Printopia and FingerPrint, through their paces. They found that both products essentially ...

When I posted my Zen Coding review, some commenters were wondering "what's that cool song in the video?" Audiggle is a program designed to let you answer precisely those kinds of questions. In fact, I put it to the test with that very video, and it worked. It said that it was "Move On" by Seba & Paradox, and upon looking for the track on YouTube, I found out that it was right. Installation ...

About 10 years ago I bought an incredibly expensive Samsung X10 laptop. It was one of the first powerful Centrino 'ultra lights', and along with the Sony Vaio range it cost a stupid amount of money -- but it rocked! It was fast, it could run games, and it only weighed 2 pounds! And it had a fingerprint scanner. 'Ooooh!' Yeah, it was slick, it was silver and fast -- but really, I'd just paid ...

Pollux is a new Mac OS X application by Chetan Surpur and Shashwat Kandadai that will automatically tag your music files in iTunes. It is capable of tagging the name, artist, album, album art, genre, year, and lyrics for each song, and it does so by analyzing the song's audio fingerprint. This means that it can draw on a database of tag information, and do so very accurately, even if the song has ...