If there is a worse desktop application for a better mobile device, I cannot imagine what it is.
The first oddity today was that suddenly my PC came up as "unauthorized". Then an entire album could not be found. I re-authorized the PC and was told that now 2 of a possible 5 computers were authorized for my account. What!?! I went to look at iTunes Preferences and decided to update address and phone number. But country was a separate entry ( we are now living in Canada.) Bad idea. All record of purchases went poof!
In an effort to wake up the iTunes "store", I went ahead and purchased yet another tune for 0.99$ - a nice guitar rendition of an old blues number by the late John Fahey. And there it stands: my one music purchase.
O Apple! Must I be driven to Amazon? Must I use an Android? What does the "i" in "iTunes" really mean? Indifferent? Inexplicable? Let me see ... a word starting with "i" meaning "doomed" ... "idiotic" ?
Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sunday, November 7, 2010
iTunes - Cincom VisualWorks Smalltalk COM interface
I had thought that the Dolphin Smalltalk demo of interfacing Smalltalk to iTunes was cool: but check out this short demo with its video demo on YouTube.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Must-see iTunes programming video
Andy Bower of Object-Arts has a video that simply must be seen: creating an interface to iTunes.
I've been very impressed by many Smalltalk podcasts, but this tops them all. Of course to misquote Oscar Peterson, the best improvisations are the best prepared; Andy makes this look so easy. But having seen this done once, it's hard to imagine not being able to make a very few notes and then be able to do much the same for any ActiveX COM object of interest with this AX Interface Wizard.
It has been a pleasure to build software in Dolphin Smalltalk, so I was glad to learn that there will be a Next Generation version of the Object Arts Smalltalk for Windows.
There is a non-commercial, public version of Dolphin available, so if Windows is your target OS and you want a high-productivity programming environment, you could not go too far wrong trying Dolphin 6.0
I've been very impressed by many Smalltalk podcasts, but this tops them all. Of course to misquote Oscar Peterson, the best improvisations are the best prepared; Andy makes this look so easy. But having seen this done once, it's hard to imagine not being able to make a very few notes and then be able to do much the same for any ActiveX COM object of interest with this AX Interface Wizard.
It has been a pleasure to build software in Dolphin Smalltalk, so I was glad to learn that there will be a Next Generation version of the Object Arts Smalltalk for Windows.
There is a non-commercial, public version of Dolphin available, so if Windows is your target OS and you want a high-productivity programming environment, you could not go too far wrong trying Dolphin 6.0
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