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Video and Smart Playlists on iPhone & iPod Touch

Okay, now that I've had the magical iPhone for a few weeks and the love affair with the device is over, I have two major complaints:

  1. Videos do not play in playlists
  2. Smart playlists do not sync properlly

More on Smart Playlists: Change Sort Order

Sort Order

Quick tip: If you enjoy smart playlists, and use them for things like TV Shows or Podcasts, but have the dilemma where you want your most recently added, but sorted by oldest, check this out:

For this example, we'll do a 'Newest Podcasts' smart playlist listed oldest first.

  1. Choose File>Smart Playlist
  2. Select Genre and next to Contains, type: Podcast
  3. Next, add another set of rules, and select Play Count and set it to 0

Change Your OS X System Sounds

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Another quick tip for you Appletosh users: Change Your Default OS X Sounds

It's easy:

  1. Go to your Home folder (usually your name)
  2. Go to the Library folder, then find the folder labeled Sounds.
  3. Drop in .AIF files.
  4. Next time you're asked by a program like Mail or iCal to select a sound for something, the list should be longer with your new sounds included in it.

Enjoy

Make Your Email Sort Itself

I love Mom's forwarded jokes, but sometimes they can wait :-)

If you're like me at all, you probably get a lot of email. And getting a lot of email requires a lot of sorting through the important stuff and getting to the other stuff when you have time. And if your Mom is anything like mine, you might end up getting a lot of forwarded jokes... usually which don't require immediate attention :-)

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