Shuffle won’t play Audiobooks and podcasts

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When iPod shuffle is set to shuffle songs it will play all the audio files on iPod shuffle that are not audiobooks. Podcasts of type .m4b or AAC will not play on iPod shuffle when it is in shuffle mode, which is the intended behavior, although a podcast of type .mp3 or .wav may play while in shuffle mode.

 To play an audiobook or podcast that is on iPod shuffle, set the switch on iPod shuffle to play in any order

Option key on a mac

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I had to empty a locked item in the trash and needed to hold the option key, nobody seemed to know it was the alt key on a mac, except one designer and wikipedia.

Issue With SuperDrive Update 2.1

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Since I downloaded SuperDrive Update 2.1, whenever I restart my Mac, it still launches, telling me there are no devices requiring the firmware update. I know this, because I already updated it!

What the SuperDrive update doesn’t let me know is how to stop it from opening each time I restart my Mac.

Removing SuperDrive Update 2.1 from a Mac’s startup sequence is easy:

  1. Go to Apple > System Preferences…
  2. Under the System header, click the “Accounts” option
  3. Select the “Login Items” tab
  4. Select the SuperDrive Update 2.1 Application (so it is highlighted-not the textbox-just click on the name of the application so it is highlighted)
  5. Click the ” - ” button to delete the application from your startup sequence
  6. Close the Accounts window

original post can be found here Super Drive Not So Super

Vista’s Long Goodbye

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I am looking to purchase a new machine for home and have been investigating Vista vs OS X. I already have a MacBook at work running XP in parallels. It did not take long to find the following article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/vistas_long_goodbye_continues/ which tells of a major issue with Vista hanging the users machine when attempting to delete. So i think an IMac with parallels and XP may be the best option.

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