Archive for December, 2005

Just For You

Monday, December 19th, 2005

This is pretty funny. Makes you wonder if there’s actually some kind of semi-decent algorithm behind the iTunes Just For You feature currently in beta on the iTMS.

I bought the old NWA track “A Bitch Iz A Bitch” the other day and based on that sale iTunes decided I might like “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer.

From “bitch” to “bad girls” is pretty cool since there’s definately no correlation between artists, track or genre that I can think of.

iMac Bedtime

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Just noticed this little bit of iCandy - if you hold down the play button on your Rev C iMac G5’s remote for a few seconds it puts your Mac to sleep.

This is old news I know, but I swear I didn’t notice the remote control graphic that pops up before, complete with animated ‘z’s.

Nice touch? Well, I like it! :)

It was a real pain to grab the pic you see here… you can’t just take a screen grab because it pops up just as your iMac is about to hit the hay.

I had to find the graphics file (shown here at 100%) deep within the System folder and Photoshop it onto a desktop background shot to make this mock up screen grab.

I wonder what the “remote-linked1.png” icon in this folder is for?

It shows the remote with a linked-chain motif above it. Could it be a sign that the remote is ready to be ‘linked’ to any old Mac with an IR port in the near future?

And before you remind yourself that the only Mac with an IR port at the moment is the new iMac, you can add one to any USB equipped Mac today by plugging in a new iPod dock and bingo, your Mac’s FrontRow ready.