This is what I'm thankful for

Digital Donations

This is a really clever idea! The digital equivalent of adding $2 to your bill to make a donation to charity at the grocery store checkout.

If you’re a Rogers/Fido customer, simply text “help” to 733 and $5 is charged to your Rogers/Fido bill and donated to the Red Cross International Disaster Relief Fund. 100% goes to charity.

With the disaster going on in the Philippines right now, there’s no better time to do this, and they’ve made it ridiculously easy, so why are you still siting here reading this? :)

iTunes 9 Update Week

With the recent release of iTunes 9, I’ve been busily writing up updates to some of our most-requested tutorials to bring them in line with some of the new features in iTunes 9 and to confirm that everything still works the way it did in previous versions.

So far, this includes the following articles, with more on the way:

• Transferring your iTunes Library to a New Hard Drive or Computer
• The Complete Guide to Backing up your iTunes Library
• The Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos
• Instant Expert: Secrets and Features of iTunes 9

Snow Leopard, iTunes DRM and Screenshots

Seems you can’t take screenshots of iTunes-purchased video anymore in Snow Leopard.

This isn’t an iTunes 9 thing either — iTunes 8 shows the same behaviour, but taking shots of video clips isn’t something I regularly try to do, so I guess I haven’t noticed it until now. It’s also worth noting that even Quicktime 7 (on Snow Leopard) provides the same result.

Videos I’ve encoded myself or downloaded from other sources work fine, so it’s definitely a DRM issue.

Victoria Grace Hollington

Born Sept 5, 2009 at 9:29 AM, 6lbs, 8oz at Mt Sinai Hospital in Toronto.