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I’m a big fan of StumbleUpon (my profile) and their toolbar doesn’t work with my favourite browser, Safari. StumbleUpon toolbar was the only thing I missed which was irked me when I switched to Safari.

Recently I came to know about Stumbi, the StumbleUpon ‘toolbar’ for Safari. Don’t except pretty icons. After installation, it adds to your Menu bar.

The Good:
We can give thumbs up, etc. with keyboard shortcut which I find efficient than the traditional way of enjoying StumbleUpon. Good as it’s lighter than the StumbleUpon Toolbar. (Safari starts in less than a second and Firefox takes 5 seconds.)

The Bad:
Issues are the lack of various small ‘features’ in the toolbar and the absence of the standard window that comes when you give thumbs up/down for the first time. The developer has promised more features (and a toolbar) in the next updates.

It just works regardless of the features which you might never use.

Note that you need to donate $2 before you can download it.

Stumbi

iTunes is not just for managing iPods & your Digital Music and be a yet another music player. With iTunes Store, make iTunes the capital of your entertainment world.

iTunes Store is Apple’s Digital store wherein we can buy/rent movies, songs, TV Shows, albums, etc. Creating an account is free and not many people where we can put the iTunes Store to good use. The best part is we needn’t pay a penny.

How to get an iTunes Store account

Goto ‘Store’ section in your iTunes. There’ll be a link to create an account (or it’ll prompt you). You can create an iTunes account with 17 countries (not yet in India) but US store has the best stuffs. UK store comes second.

1. Create an account directly (needs Credit Card information)
If you’re creating an account, you’ll need to provide your Credit Card details (i.e. US CC details for US store). If your country doesn’t has a iTunes Store, ask your friends/relatives to provide this information.

2. iTunes Store Gift Cards
Available in the denomination of $15, 30 and 50. In addition to the freebies; you can buy ringtones, audiobooks and rent movies/TV Shows.

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Hello, I’m Milind Alvares. There is no way in hell I’m going to compete with the abominable Aayush in writing a spiffy intro for myself. Not going to happen. After all I’m a simpleton from Goa (the drunkard kind), who just happens to have gone a little crazy about these Apple products. I also happen to run a non-profit blog, Goobimama’s Soggy Blog, which is my medium for wasting other peoples time just as I am doing right now with this crappy intro. So without further ado, here’s how you enjoy your media on your Mac.

Most of you coming from the Windows world must have gotten used to creating separate partitions for movies, music, and then organising them in folders. In the Mac world we do things differently. It is one that really makes you feel like you are in control of your media.

Now, if you buy movies and TV shows from the iTunes store, all of this is all done for you. But what happens when you get your movies from elsewhere? Managing them again in those folders is just painful. With just a little bit of effort, managing media with iTunes has proven to be a real joy. One that I can’t live without.

See all your TV shows at a glance. The blue dot signifies that you have unwatched episodes in there. Hit the “Previous track” button on the remote and it organises all your individual episodes with the most recent ones at the top.
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Almost all of the Torrent Trackers (Public or Private) don’t have Mac stuffs.

Demonoid and Oink used to track Mac stuffs but both is closed. Where to look for now?

There are a few good trackers for Mac Apps, Games and other things. Click the image logo for the tracker link.

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While watching movies, you might notice that QuickTime Player’s volume is not clear enough even with the volume bar at 100%.

Audio, especially the AC3 codecs ’sound’ low. Holding down shift key while clicking the volume bar or holding down Cmd key also doesn’t work.

Here’s a work around to get the volume boost in our QuickTime player. It works like a charm.

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