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iTunes 9 Spotted in iTunes 8

ghostshadow — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:12:12 +0000

iTunes 9 download just spotted in iTunes 8 right before the big Apple iPod keynote. Here are some screenshots.

$14,100.00 iPod Nano

ghostshadow — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:51:11 +0000

I was searching Ebay for some items and I ran across this auction for a new in box 8GB iPod Nano (chromatic). The price is currently at a whopping $14,100.00 dollars. This is just insane, the auction has to be rigged. I don’t see any other explanation. Check out the screen shot below.

Auction Link

Get Rid of Marker Felt in Notes

ghostshadow — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:52:48 +0000

Let me be quite frank here. The Marker Felt font is an eyesore, just like its cousin Comic Sans. Apple has chosen to use Marker Felt for the Notes application, both in OS X and on the iPhone / Touch. While I understand the initial intent of using the font for the Notes application, they would like to make it appear more hand written like an actual note. Whilst this is a nice gesture, I often times find it rather annoying. I would like to be able to change the fonts to fit my liking. I am sure there are other people out there that feel the same way. I don’t feel like jailbreaking my device either. So what’s a guy to do?

Simple, turn on the international keyboard. I found this little feature that could possibly be a little bug in the Notes application. What does this all mean? Let me walk you through it.

This is what Marker Felt looks like in the Notes application.

While it’s not terrible, it can be an eyesore at times. Now I’ll demonstrate how to change the Marker Felt.

Go into your settings.

Go into the general tab.

Now go down to the keyboards tab.

Keyboard panel view. From here select the international keyboard tab, then scroll all the way down to the Chinese (Simplified) tab. Then you’ll want to select the Pinyin option and turn the slider to “ON”.

Once you have selected the keyboard option, you can now hit the home button to return to your home screen. Now you can open the Notes application. If you begin to type, you’ll notice nothing has changed, except there is a new icon on your keyboard. What you need to do now is, start typing. Hit the “globe” icon on the keyboard, choose any character and press it. Now delete that character you just made. Voila! Your text has suddenly become readable. See pictures below

New international icon on the keyboard.

Globe icon has been selected. As you can see the bottom keys have changed. Once you press any letter the other language will pop up.

Once any letter is pressed it will change the Marker Felt font. You can delete the letter you just created and then go back to using your native keyboard by pressing on the globe icon again.

There you go. This isn’t permanent, any time you create a new note you’ll have to do the last steps in order to get the font from being Marker Felt. This isn’t a big hassle really. I don’t know why they chose not to allow you to change the type for the application. I hope this helps anyone out there that doesn’t want to jailbreak their device.

Maybe we’ll get the ability to change the font in a future update. Let’s hope.

-ghostshadow

Hard Drive Belt Buckle

ghostshadow — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:51:30 +0000

Today (Sep 29th 2005) I took an old, busted 15 gig ipod hard drive and thought, “what am i going to do with this useless hunk of junk?” I didn’t want to throw it away because I am a pack rat, I keep all kinds of things, even if they’re broken. I got to thinking, “I could make this bad boy a belt buckle”, so that is what I did.

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