Digital Lifestyle

Thanks, Bill!
The two things are that

1) the laptop will always only have a subset of the music.
2) the laptop needs to be able to play that music away from home.

So sync issues are still there, I guess.

FWIW, Baha, you have company--I'm in the same boat. I have a subset of my iTunes library on my work laptop, and I sometimes buy music on that machine. I've been syncing manually.

Well, in that case, I'd look at any number of file/folder sync utilities.
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=file+sync&srchArea=macosx&submit=Go

Most of the sync utilities I've looked at for iTunes libraries use some sort of library XML file parsing to suss what doesn't exist in which iTunes library, and then some sort of Applescript to do the additions.

SuperSync seemed like a weird Java port the last time I tried it.
Syncopation seemed pretty solid when I used it.
Some I've never tried include: TuneRanger, MyTuneSync, Martian SlingShot, and Mojo with Subscriptions.

I've no idea what should be done for iPhoto synching, but Chronosync claims to be able to do it bi-directionally.

All of these are separate from the various file/folder sync utilities, because they fiddle with the library index files to make the local application's view correct without having to run an import.

ty TOM!

My Mac Pro is downstairs. That's where all of my music is. I keep a small subset on my MacBook Pro and could stream from the shared library on the Mac Pro so I usually listen to that at night in my room. Sometimes I pipe it through the stereo via my AirPort Express base station. It was a clumsy solution, though... keeping a laptop next to the bed.

I can't believe it took me this long to put the pieces together...

The Remote app on the iPhone means I can stream music to the AirPort Express directly from the Mac Pro... skipping the MacBook Pro in the middle.

The Remote app is cool! It replicates functionality that used to be available in only very high end stuff. Even my mother is able to use it.

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The Remote app on the iPhone means I can stream music to the AirPort Express directly from the Mac Pro... skipping the MacBook Pro in the middle.

Thank You! I don't know why I didn't think about that before! I've used the remote app, but only in the same room. Damn.

Didn't I explain this some months ago? I did so for guy at work. He went an bought a Mini and uses his phone now to do stuff. It's really nice man. I just use an airtunes with some of those cambridge soundworks self powered speakers for other parts of the house. they can fill a room.

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Dr Phred
Thank You! I don't know why I didn't think about that before! I've used the remote app, but only in the same room. Damn.

I know! I felt like an idiot for not thinking of this months ago.

Now I'm thinking about trying to find a cheap iPod Touch now for this type of thing, too. I'd like to be able to listen to music on the Mac mini in the theater without having to turn on the projector to navigate iTunes or Front Row. This would be perfect for that, too.

sounds like a great how-to article... .

ddt

for one of you guys to do, i mean.

ddt



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El Reg has some videos up on the Pré, I suppose they don't belong in the iPhone thread. It looks really, really cool though. They've taken a hard and good look at the iPhone and improved (massively?) on the paradigms the iPhone has established. Some stuff is easy to replicate for Apple (why is insisted in different mailboxes for different e-mail accounts?), some stuff is harder (multi tasking...), the way windows and applications are handled is very slick.

I went to Micro Center at lunch and picked up the Aspire One with 1GB RAM, 160GB HD and 6-Cell battery. I'm going to install Windows 7 and OSX on it.

I love, and I mean love, the new Palm phone. I have Sprint right now. I got them because they were cheaper than anyone else, with tons of free minutes, and their flip-phone, the Samsung Glint, was sexy in a way flip-phones aren't supposed to be.

Let me say this now: Sprint sucks. You couldn't get coverage on top of a hill in a top-40 American city... I know this because I'm on top of a hill in a top-40 American city (well ahead of Memphis, Buffalo, New Orleans and Milwaukee in both population and wealth. We need our own baseball team. Go Greys!)

God forbid you try to use your bluetooth headset while driving... Sprint drops signal like Alton drops science.

So! Now! I have until Jan 31 to be rid of Sprint, with no penalties, because they upped their administrative fees from 70¢ to 99¢. I was thinking Verizon, because they can get signal in a fucking bank-vault anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard. Their phones, however, suck, and their service is expensive.

As a true-blue Apple fanboi, I =should= say that I want AT&T (and I didn't have any trouble with my Go-Phone service while I had it, before the Cingular takeover.)

As a contrarian, suspender-wearing, Obama-voting Unix wonk, I like Android, but I don't like the G1, and have heard neither yay nor nay on T-Mobile's service 'round here.

I'm tempted just to go with the incredibly unfortunate Samsung Juke on Verizon, $190 without contract, and then snarfle up a contractless CDMA Palm Pre when the time comes.



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I'm really liking this netbook. I have Windows 7 installed on it right now and it runs surprisingly well. Most of my big complaints about Vista seem to have been addressed with Windows 7.

I have a DW390 wireless card on its way... once it arrives, I'll install OSX on this thing and see how that goes.

New version of iMovie shipped? Time to knife another baby. Save that DMG, guys, it's not going to be around for long.

Thanks for that, JW. I just grabbed the .dmg, just to be sure (I'm pretty sure I have it around somewhere, but better safe than sorry).

Good. I'm at work and I'm worried that it may vanish before I'm home.

Well, if it is, you have a source.