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You’re probably getting used to the very easy to use interface of iTunes, it’s undoubtedly the most tempting metthod of selling entertainment that I’ve come across in a long time, and with an installed base of millions of iPod users, 15 million iPhone users and more people getting Apple TV, iTunes is now making purchases more tempting.

Tuesday 11/11/08 marks the introduction of Movies of the Week, and Music of the Week in the iTunes store, you can visit the iTunes page here

For this week, Apple are offering Terminator 2, Total Recall, The Last Action Hero, Red Heat, Air America, Basic Instinct, The Karate Kid, Air Force One, A Guy Thing and St Elmo’s Fire

With Bittorrent notoriously difficult to use, particularly for older classics like these, this is a very good deal, you’re buying a digital file that you’ll own for many years, and, indeed is more portable than Blu-Ray, DVD, or any of their predeccessors.

Apple provides incredibly easy access to the iTunes store through the Apple TV, but doesn’t always highlight the special offers, this may be because Apple TV users are a captive audience and don’t need to be sold so hard, or it may be for aesthetic reasons, regardless, I hope Apple comes up with a way to show these specials to those who’ve got Apple TV’s already!

To print to the QMS magicolor 2300 DL via Ethernet:

Download and install the Magicolor 2430DL drivers from Minolta’s website.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are running Mac OSX 10.2 then you will first need to download and install Ghostscript from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/macosx.php3 (espgs-7.07.1.ppc.dmg is a precompiled version, so you just run it and install from the ESP Ghostscript.mpkg file).

1. Make sure that the printer is powered on and connected to the network via Ethernet and is in the same IP range as your network. My network is using DHCP on 192.168.1.xxx, so I have assigned 192.168.1.248 to the Minolta as a static IP address using the menu on the printer.
2. Reboot the Mac system if the printer was connected after the last reboot.
3. Open Print Center.
4. Click the “Add” button while holding the ALT key.
5. From the pop-up menu choose Advanced.
6. From the second pop-up menu that appears, choose “AppSocket//HP JetDirect”. You will then need to provide a meaningful name (eg Minolta Magicolor 2300DL) in the Device Name field below the menu. After that insert the IP address of the printer after the text “socket://” in the “Device URl” field below that. (Mine reads socket://192.168.1.248)
7. From the “Printer Model” pop-up menu choose “KONICA MINOLTA”
8. From the list of models that appears below the Printer Model selection choose the “KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2430DL” driver, then click the “Add” button at the bottom of the dialog.

You should then be able to print OK.
I have tested this myself on a Mac G4 450DP and a Powerbook G3 300 (both running OSX 10.2.8) with the Minolta Magicolor 2300DL through my home network connection. The print quality is as good as it is on a PC with the genuine Minolta 2300DL drivers, although the images are printed slightly darker on the MAC (only noticeable when the prints are side-by-side).
I have also tested this on a Macbook 2.2Ghz running OSX 10.5.2. I have been using this setup on various Macs on my home network for over 3 years now.

Key points:

Apple sold more phones than Rimm (makers of the Blackberry)

Apple now has $25 BILLION in CASH sitting in the Bank!!! and NO debt

Mac Sales are up 21% over the same quarter last year, that sort of growth is unheard of!

More at Marketwatch

The great and wonderful password manager 1Password by Apple Design Award winning Canadian developers Agile solutions (switcher Developers) is Free from the app store for a limited time, go get it!

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Updating to the latest nightly builds of Omnifocus is neccesary for us who want to sync our iPhone’s and iPod Touch’s with our task management lists.

Everytime the new omnifocus is dragged into applications under Leopard, the error message omnimailmessageserviceenabler is in use, pops up, here’s how to solve it.

Quit Mail

and try again! That’s it!

See here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/medium2.html

These UFO’s are zapping away some of the webs finest sites, see here

If you’d like a few tips regards San Francisco, here goes:

You can reserve a Super Shuttle from either of the big airports to wherever you want to go from these guys: http://www.supershuttle.com/ , it’s a really good service and a pretty good way to do the 20/30 min journey.

There are a bunch of interesting and beautiful neighbourhoods in San Francisco, the most famous district is Fishermans Wharf where you can take ferries to Alcatraz or Sausalito (the little bayside village on the north side of the gg bridge).

Haight Ashbury is really close to where I live and is the legendary home of the 60’s hippie revolution, it’s full of vintage and funky stores and is quite fun.

Coit Tower, Yerba Buena Island, The Presidio, Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach and Twin Peaks are all nice spots to see and will be super memories, a great way to catch a lot of these in one day is to bike from Fishermans Wharf along the north shore, past the famous Fort Mason and Marina District through Crissy fields and by the Palace of Fine arts as far as Fort Point (a great viewpoint thats just below the Golden Gate Bridge), that would be a one or two hour ride, with plenty of nice places to get Ice Cream along the way, if your legs can take some more, it’s totally worth biking up the trail to the golden gate bridge entrance where you can bike across to the Marin Headlands, there’s a good vista point just beyond the end of the bridge, but for a REALLY awesome view, continue past the vista point and take the first right, go left under the freeway and continue up the hill, it’s absolutely worth it.

Also, remember to see the Cable Cars, Transamerica Building, Vesuvio, The Mission, The Castro, Pacific Heights, the Museum of Modern Art, The De Young, the Conservatory of flowers, phew! I’m out of breath, so better run on, I hope this mail is helpful and wish you good travels!

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