A few weeks ago, we took Taiko in to get his hips x-rayed to ensure there aren’t any problems to look forward to, and for a small adjustment—a necessary nip-and-tuck.
The big guy pulled through just fine. When I went to pick him up, our Dr. Davis and I looked over his rather excellent x-rays.
“Hey these are really great hips, Dave. Taiko’s a great Berner. You should breed him!”
Bob took a perfectly timed beat.
“Oops!”
What a joker.
You know, it’s pretty rare that I post up here about netTunes, mostly because… well… it just works, and there’s not much to say other than “Whoa! Cool!"… which gets a bit boring.
But, every so often I’ll get a question about how it’s possible to access commands that aren’t available in the main window—for example, Store > Check for Purchases...
So, from the department of obscure features, let’s get this done!
Normally, you’d access things like this with an onscreen control or keyboard shortcut. For example, to access iTunes’ Preferences, you can press Cmd+y (an alternate for Cmd+,) and it’ll come right up. And you can add a playlist with the + button in the main window. But Check for Purchases doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut or button, and so it’s not available in netTunes.
But there’s hope! In Tiger, you can add your own keyboard shortcuts using the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane. Open that up, switch to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab and click the + button. Set the Application pop-up to iTunes, then enter the full, properly capitalized text of the menu item (in this case, Check for Purchases..., including the ...). Choose a shortcut key (like Cmd+Opt+C).
Save, then quit and restart iTunes and poof! You can now Check for Purchases in netTunes on the client!
Fog Creek software finally released an Intel-compatible version of FogBUGZ so—as of about 1pm today—we’ve had another Moving Day: this time from our “old” 2GHz G5 to a 1.83GHz Mac mini.
And it’s kicking the G5’s ass.
It’s really weird when a not-very-old computer is outperformed by one that can fit in its CD-ROM bay, but there you have it.
Hopefully, no one will notice any differences—except, perhaps, that everything’s a little bit faster. Enjoy!
