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iTunes is a great music player. One of  it’s most powerful and useful features is Smart Playlists.  Thanks to then I can keep my library tidy and clean. But there always must be a disadvantage. Officially you can’t permanently delete from your library  a song from playlist. Fortunately, there is an shortcut for this. Simply select file(s) you want to delete and use keys: SHIFT+CTR+DELETE.

Since I got another laptop (netbook actually) I spend less time with my mac, but I still need it up and running 24/7.And when I am far away from it I have to close the lid (my cat has some stupid ideas from time to time). Of course when I close the lid MBP goes to sleep, and you can’t change that. It is pretty anoying that Apple didn’t build into the system any tool to disable that feature. Even Windows has it!

But , as always, there is a way to fix the problem. There is a speciall app to prevent your MacBook from sleeping. It is called InsomniaX.

I have my MacBook up and running 24/7. Usually, when I am away from it I turn off the display, but I am not closing the lid. I also enabled automatic display dimming when computer is not used for 2 minutes. I know it is a short time, but those settings work great for me. Unfortunatelly sometimes when I read for example a long artice auto-dimming display is a bit inconvinient. So I tried to solve my problem in other way than constantly changing settings.

And then I found a small app called Caffeine. It prevents your Mac from dimming display. It is really useful, when you watch youtube or megavideo. It sits in menubar. You can accitwate it by clicking on the icon.

I bought my Kindle DX International on February. It was shipped to me with firmware no. 2.3.  It was little slow at the time, especially when I uploaded more than 200 books to the device. A couple days ago Amazon released new firmware 2.3.3.  The main change is the speed of my Kindle. Now it opens a large pdf much, much more faster. Moreover deleting and indexing book also speed up.

Unfortunatelly, I had to apply update manually. My Kindle didn’t want to update on its own. But it is a really easy process.

Applying Kindle Software Updates Manually

Continue reading Kindle firmware update 2.3.3 available…

I love HTC interface. It is very elegant and efficient. And I decided to make something similar to it on my desk .

And here it is: