Trained by years of NetNewsWire usage, I find myself continually ⌘-tabbing into iTunes and hitting ⇧-⌘-R to manually refresh the Podcasts listing. Of course, this does nothing as ⇧-⌘-R is a meaningless key combination in iTunes.
Frustrated with this state of affairs, I went searching for the actual ‘Refresh Podcasts’ keyboard shortcut. I found it listed in the iTunes for Windows 7.1 Help: Keyboard shortcuts document on Apple’s site. If you hit F5 while the Podcasts listing is visible, iTunes for Windows will happily refresh it.
Having found what I was looking for, I ⌘-tabbed back into iTunes and made use of my F5 key. Or, at least, I tried to. In my Mac OS version of iTunes, F5 is just as meaningless as ⇧-⌘-R. A brief bit of searching provided me with the iTunes Mac 7.1 Help: Keyboard shortcuts, which clearly lists the Mac keyboard shortcut for refreshing podcasts as non-existent. (Actually, it doesn’t list it at all since that page doesnt list non-existent shortcuts.)
In short, while Windows users can refresh their podcasts with the F5 key, Mac users have to use the mouse.
Posted on 29 March 2007 in Uncategorized
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/**
Check if a given index is present in an array, has a value,
and is not false.
@param $array the array
@param $index the index
@return boolean
*/
function isat ($array, $index)
{
return is_array($array) && array_key_exists($index, $array) &&
isset($array[$index]) && $array[$index];
}
Posted on 10 March 2007 in Uncategorized
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John Gruber and Greg Maletic have taken Gundeep Hora to task for daring to suggest Apple might be moving away from the Mac OS. They both make good points, but Gruber fails to mention the elephant in the room: Apple is distancing itself from the Mac right now. Steve Jobs’s Macworld Expo keynote was all about the iPhone,and there haven’t been any special events to make up for that.
It’s to be expected that Apple is ignoring the Mac. Consider the age of Tiger, the current version of Mac OS X: two years (it was released on 29 April 2005). There is nothing new or spectacular in the current version of Mac OS X. All the good demos are in Leopard, the as yet unreleased next version of Mac OS X. Steve Jobs did a Leopard dog and pony show last August at the Worldwide Developer Conference, and he closed it with a promise not to say anything else until Leopard shipped.
If Leopard is quietly released with no fanfare beyond a banner on apple.com and an update to the Apple Store, that will be significant. But the fact that Apple isn’t saying anything right now is merely a reflection of the fact that there is nothing new it can talk about yet.
Posted on 1 March 2007 in Uncategorized
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