iTunes Catalog

iTunes Catalog is an application that will let you manage your iTunes library.  You can get album art for tracks, and have them added to iTunes.  You can also search for lyrics, or purchase tracks from various stores.

The main feature that is really interesting is the ability to publish your library to the web.  iTunes Catalog generates some php that will generate a representation of your library.  iTunes Catalog supports publishing though Mac OS X's built-in web server, or an external host.  Here is my published catalog.

I didn't try it myself, but I think that if you host the published site on your mac, you might be able to play your whole library from anywhere you have network access to your computer.

[via The Apple Blog]

Keeping gmail and Apple Mail sent folders in sync

This page has an neat tip on how to keep the sent mailbox in sync in Gmail and in Apple mail.

With this tip, if you send a mail through the Gmail web interface, it will appear in your sent folder in Apple Mail, when you next check mail.  Built into the POP/SMTP interface, it already works the other way around.  When you send a message through Gmail's SMTP server, the message is automatically added to your sent folder.

The only addition to the script was to add the condition:

• Account <gmail account name>

[via atmaspheric bookmarks]

Top Ten Reasons To Be Thankful For Your Spouse!

This post has 10 reasons to be thank for your spouse.  I am so grateful for my wife.  Thank you sweetheart, for everything that you do.  I love you.

Democracy 0.9.2

Version 0.9.2 of the Democracy has been released.  I have been using iTunes to download my video podcasts, but I decided try Democracy.

This application makes if very easy to subscribed to video podcasts.  There is an integrated guide of video podcasts, in a easy to navigate way . (Very similar to the iTunes podcast directory.)  Downloads can happen at a higher speed, as th video player has built-in bottorrent support.

Goombah

I saw this post that mentioned Goombah.  This is application is a "social networking" application for your music.  This app will you let you network with people with similar tates in music.

Goombah looks at the contents of your iTunes library, and generates a list of similar music, and a list of other people who use Goombah with similar tastes.  From these lists, you have the ability do purchase the tracks from iTunes.

Goobah also displays "Goobah's Free Music".  This this is a collection of free music.  Goombah uses bittorrent for the downloads, so they should be pretty fast.

Updated Google Reader

Google has released some updates to Google Reader.  The main thing that this update includes is some new options when subscribing to new feeds.  Also you can now create folders directly from "Feed actions..." menu.

Unfortunately, the two problems, that I have had aren't fixed:

1. There are still problems unsubscribing to feeds generated by Google Reader.


2. Emailing posts from within Google Reader loose all formatting.

[via Download Squad]

Technorati Link Count Widget

Technorati has released a widget to show the number of incoming links to a post, on the blog post.  This is essentially  just just a link to the Technorati search page, for the post, but it also has some javascript which will dynamically update the number of incoming links.

The instructions that Technorati has to install this involve manually modifying blog templates.  To make this easier for LifeType, I created a plugin.

[via Sifry's Alerts]