Just to keep everyone up to date, Brent Simmons posted parts 3 and 4 of his series on helping you master the great RSS Feed Reader, NetNewsWire.

So to round up:

Part 1 - Browser

Part 2 - Reading

Part 3 - Subscriptions

Part 4 - Misc

For some other resources you can check out some scripts made for NetNewsWire . [...]

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Most of you know this already, but every song you buy from iTunes is designed so that it only plays on your iTunes and your iPod, no one else’s. This is to prevent piracy, it’s called digital rights management, or DRM for short. It’s annoying because say you dislike the iPod but received an iTunes [...]

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Agile Web Solutions released an update to their great 1Password application (see here), the update does a few things but the coolest feature is adding support for easy autofilling of passwords on iPhones and iTouches.

Get 1Password here.
Go to the Preferences –> Updates
Check “Automatically check for updates” and “Include BETA versions when looking for updates”
Click on [...]

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All Growl and/or iPhone users will like this new Growl style named iPhonesque. Obviously by the name you can tell that it tries to emulate some of the looks of the iPhone. Here’s a screenshot (it also comes in Black, and lighter colors as well):

[Source:http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783761]

For people who haven’t heard of Growl (how it been under [...]

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The good folks over at Lifehacker have compiled a list of 10 ways you can improve your BitTorrent experience. They endorse a few of our favorite products, such as Transmission, and also bring new ones to the table such as Bitlet, a webapp torrent client for torrenting at work/school (may not work with Safari). They [...]

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If you for one reason or another can’t send texts from your phone, here is an easy workaround solution. If you know the person’s phone number, then send an email to their number@teleflip.com (e.g 5551234567@teleflip.com).
Alternatively, if the number is on AT&T, you can send it to “number@txt.att.net”. Every carrier has their own unique domain name, [...]

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Right around the time OS X 10.5, Leopard, was released, I discussed how to enable Application Binding in Spaces, a part of Spaces which forces OS X to switch to assigned spaces when new windows or applications are opened. The way enabling this feature was described was straightforward and easy, but slow. It turns out [...]

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If you have an iPod Video with a broken hard drive or just want to upgrade to more energy efficient and more durable Flash memory, then Tarkan has just what you need. It’s a straightforward operation that shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes. Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Compact Flash card of any size (No [...]

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Special characters, symbols or glyphs are especially good to save typing, and they look a lot nicer than plain text.
To use them, simply go to Edit –> Special Characters. Another way is to go to your System Preferences, then International –> Input Menu, and click on Character Palette. Make sure that you have the “Show [...]

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Brent Simmons, the developer of NNW; the great RSS/Newsreader application has released so far a 2 part series on some handy tips that may want to get acquanted with, to know how to use NetNewsWire a little better. Part one is here, and the second is here.

Some examples are being able to flag news items [...]

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