From the monthly archives:
February 2008
NetNewsWire and Blogging
NetNewsWire and Blogging
Mac Tip #327, 27 February 2008
The last few Tips have been about using NetNewsWire to read newsfeeds. It’s very common to then want to post items you read about to your own blog.
First go to the NetNewsWire preferences > Posting and choose a blogging client to work with. I use Mars Edit from Red Sweater Software.
Then things are very easy. With an item selected in NetNewsWire that you’d like to blog about, do one of the following:
- Control click and choose Post to Weblog
- Choose Post to Weblog from the News menu
- Press Command Shift P
- Click the Post to Weblog button on the Toolbar.
Your selected blogging software opens up and a new post is created with information from the NetNewsWire item.
Note: if you want to quote only a portion of a news item in your blog rather than the whole thing, then select that portion first.
Popularity: 22% [?]
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NetNewsWire and Delicious
NetNewsWire and Delicious
Mac Tip #326, 20 February 2008
NetNewsWire is all about reading newsfeeds. The articles in those feeds are sometimes things you’d like to bookmark, for yourself or others, or that you’d like to post about in your own blog.
NetNewsWire includes tools to make both activities easier. It also works in together with other software such as Pukka for posting links to Delicious and Mars Edit for posting articles to blogs.
First, of course, you need to set up a (free) Delicious account, and / or a blog. I suggest the free WordPress.com if you don’t already have a blog.
Bookmark a post on Delicious
If you’re reading an item you’d like to bookmark on Delicious go to News — Post to del.icio.us. The screenshot shows me clicking a Toolbar button to send a bookmark to Delicious.
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What happens next depends on several settings. In this case, my settings are to use NetNewsWire to post items to Delicious, and I’m not currently logged in, so a window appears where I can log in.
After logging I fill in details for this bookmark and save it. Finally I close the bookmarking window.
I actually normally use software called Pukka for sending bookmarks to Delicious. It costs US$15.
To use Pukka or another bookmarking method instead of the built-in NetNewsWire method open the NetNewsWire Preferences and click on Posting. Choose your preferred bookmarking technique from the ‘Post to del.icio.us using’ dropdown.
Next time you bookmark a post, your preferred technique will come into play. For me, that means Pukka opens up, providing a window where I can edit details before sending the bookmark to Delicious.
Coming soon: NetNewsWire and posting to a blog.
Popularity: 29% [?]
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Old gold: Edit iTunes track info
As one of the organisers of Webstock 08 I don’t have time at the moment to write a brand new MacTip. So I thought that rather than skip a couple of weeks, I’d like to re-acquaint you with a couple of older Tips from the archive: Old gold.
This week’s visit is with Edit iTunes track info, Mac Tip #225/21-December-2005. I’ve edited it slightly.
Old gold: Edit iTunes track info
Mac Tip #325, 13 February 2008
I download a lot of podcasts and often want to make small changes to the name of the track or the genre or other fields.
One way to do this is to select one or more tracks and choose Get Info from the File menu. Then click on the Info tab and make changes.
Another way is to stay in the main iTunes Browser window and click once on the text you want to edit. Then click on the actual word you want to change. If you do this correctly the words in that field should be highlighted and outlined with a dark line. Now type or paste in the new text.
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If a field is empty you may think you can’t select it to edit the contents. The trick is that the target area is very narrow and at the extreme left side of the field. Click where the first letter will appear.
If you aim to change many tracks, use an AppleScript (see Mac Tip #222/30-November-2005, Add iTunes Comments.)
Popularity: 28% [?]
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is jointly authored by Miraz Jordan and Maria Langer.