Nevertheless, between trying out iTunes, Songbird, and a few other options, i have always felt like there should be something, you know, simple and memory efficient. Don’t get me wrong, i love the interface on iTunes. And i do love what the guys at songbird are trying to accomplish. But the fact remains: I want a music player for OSX that does not freeze whenever i task-switch back to it. This happens on a 4GB ram macbook pro with both iTunes and Songbird!

So, a lot of google queries later, i came across Cog. It’s a very minimalistic music player that does one thing: it plays music. No multiple playlists, no plugins, no fuzz, it plays music. Period.

Time will tell if i’ll stick to it or miss something, but so far so good.

If anyone knows a better one, please let me know

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1. No camera – Really? In this day and age of videoconferencing?!? What are you guys thinking?
2. No GPS – It does have assisted (wifi/3G) GPS but it’s not quite the same, is it? Especially when you don’t have wifi or 3G available;
3. No magical, shiny, new multi-touch UI paradigm – Maybe i was affected too much by the hype that has been created around it but i like to be surprised. And i have to say i wasn’t. Apart from the changes to the iWork suite to make it usable on a touch screen there is nothing really awesome about it;
4. No multitasking – No comments there. I wonder if it has copy & paste?
5. No phone calls (and SMS’s) – Has 3G but you cannot make phone calls or send messages? Doesn’t make sense to me;
6. 64 GBs is really not enough for what you are going to want to carry around in it.

Now things that i *do* like in the iPad, so that this is not a bashing post:

1. It looks like the mockups that drifted on the internet before. And those looked cool;
2. The iBook application and store. As long as they support free/open PDF files;
3. Seems to be powerful enough to play basic 3D games (quake II – like);
4. Battery life is really nice. 10 hours for normal usage and up to 1 month in stand-by mode;
5. The price was a nice surprise. I always said that they would compete with netbooks’ prices and apparently i was not mistaken;
6. I love the keyboard dock and also the hard cover that changes into stand. Really clever!

That being said, i believe this is nothing more than a big iPod touch (not even an iPhone, since you cannot make phone calls) and will not deserve my $499 this time.

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Choosing another default email application

1. Open the Mail application (/Applications/Mail).
2. From the Mail menu, choose Preferences.
3. Click the General button.
4. Choose your default email client from the pop-up menu.

Choosing another default Web browser

1. Open Safari (/Applications).
2. From the Safari menu, choose Preferences.
3. Click the General button.
4. Choose your default internet browser from the pop-up menu.

As an extremely important side note, NEVER DELETE Safari OR Mail. You may need to change your default applications later and that is the only (easy) way to do it.

Read the full article, here.

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Here are the steps. You can do one of 3 things to restore isync:

1. Restore iSync from your Time Machine backup (or any other backup you’ve made).
2. Copy a fresh, unmodified version of iSync from another Mac running the same version of Mac OS X.
3. Re-install iSync from the original Mac OS X Installation Disks by following the instructions below:
   1. Download Pacifist (a program that allows installing parts of Mac OS X)
   2. Insert your original Mac OS X Installation Disk.
   3. Open Pacifist and click ‘Open Apple Install Discs’.
   4. Wait while it loads the packages.
   5. In the window that appears, type ‘iSync’ into the Find dialog at the top and press return.
   6. Click once on the ‘iSync.app’ it finds, then click ‘Install’ at the top of the window.
   7. Follow the instructions to install it.
   8. Then you must download and install the latest Mac OS X Combo Updater for your Mac from Apple (even if its already installed), to update iSync from the newly installed version to the very latest version.

Happy syncing

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But, no matter how good it is, the only thing that has been going constantly through my mind lately is the thought of jumping again. I have been doing some spare time math, figuring out how much time one can spend in free fall (with and without a winged suit). I think once I do the AFF course (Accelerated Free Fall) I will be addicted for good

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