Dabbler » help http://sethjust.com If it ain't broke, fix it! Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:19:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iWork Autosave http://sethjust.com/2009/03/29/iwork-autosave/ http://sethjust.com/2009/03/29/iwork-autosave/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:10:31 +0000 sethjust http://sethjust.wordpress.com/?p=74 So I had the wonderful experience this weekend of losing over 1,200 words of work on a paper because I forgot to save it regularly. I was really, really sad about that and really bummed that Pages, my word processor of choice (I love the formatting tools), doesn’t support either autosaving or document recovery. However, my preference for Pages is strong enough that I didn’t jump ship to an auto-saving editor. Instead I went out and found WorkSaver. WorkSaver
Worksaver simply sits in your menubar and, at a definable interval will save every iWork document you have open, provided that it’s already been saved once. This means that when I’m writing I don’t have to even worry about saving my document after creating it and choosing where to save it. Of course, it’s a shame that you have to manually save the file when you create it, but it’s a lot better than losing all your work. I can highly recommend WorkSaver if you use iWork simply for the peace of mind it provides. Of course, it’s not perfect for everybody, but when I’d rather focus on writing a paper than on making sure my computer doesn’t decide to make it all go away, WorkSaver is just what I need.

]]> http://sethjust.com/2009/03/29/iwork-autosave/feed/ 0 Getting Songs Off of Your iPod http://sethjust.com/2008/08/10/getting-songs-off-of-your-ipod/ http://sethjust.com/2008/08/10/getting-songs-off-of-your-ipod/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:10:50 +0000 sethjust http://sethjust.wordpress.com/?p=16

In the last couple weeks, at least four people have asked me how to get music off of their iPods. The answer I gave all of them was Senuti (iTunes spelled backwards). It’s great! It does exactly what you need: takes songs from your iPod and puts them into iTunes, and it’s super easy to do. Once you have disk use enabled:

To copy songs back to your computer, all you have to do is select the songs and click the transfer button in the upper left hand corner of the application.

The songs will be copied to the your computer. They will be added to iTunes if you enabled the preference to automatically add them to iTunes.

It’s just that easy.

Of course, Senuti isn’t just a one trick pony, it can do other useful things as well, such as copying songs to a folder, or showing you what songs you already have in your iTunes library, and allowing you to hide them, so that you only transfer new songs.

So next time you feel like IM’ing me about how to get songs off of your iPod, remember Senuti, and save my sanity just a little bit.

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