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Sometimes iTunes tracks shows the song like “Track 1″ which is not good. Those songs cannot be recognized automatically. TuneUp Media for Windows is a tool which runs alongside with iTunes, and helps to clean up the metadata. It will automatically find out those tracks with names like “Track 1″, and lets you to clean it by one click. TuneUp Media can also identify the album art and more. Free version can clean up to 500 songs, and Mac version will be there very soon.
[via Geek]

The first problem for people to start a website is to think a good domain name. A good domain name should be easy to remember and reflects your products that wish to sell. Here are some simple tips from the source web site,
1. Determine what your brand is
2. Keep your domain name short and simple.
3. Go for a Top Level Domain Name (.COM, .NET, .ORG)
4. Create a shortlist of 20-30 domain names before searching
5. Be decisive and get in fast.
6. Buy from a reputable Domain registrar.
7. Ensure that your domain name doesn’t enfringe on any trademarks.
8. Get feedback from web savvy friends
It will be good to read the tips in detail in the following source site.
[via Arnold Aranez]

I have wrote the exclusive and complete coverage of iPhone 3G right here, please take a look. iPhone 3G’s quick download speed makes me feels happy. Old iPhone 2G cannot bring the true internet experience at all. I summarized 8 new features of iPhone 3G that I like or dislike.Take a look of it after the break.

Sometimes screen shots cannot be trusted. Using a simple javascript code, you can change any web content you want, and then capture it later on. You can now try it by paste the following code in the address bar, press Enter to see what will happen. It works for IE, Firefox, Safari and any other web browsers.
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0
Now, everything on the page can be edited. Even you cannot save it, you can edit the web page and capture a screen shot. (For instance, pretend that your site have news coverage on TechCrunch) Then, you can send it to others to become a big liar.
[via WebResourcesDepot]

Okay. No one wants kernel panic. But, iPanic can help to cause the Mac OS X to kernel panic immediately. (what?) Well, it does not really cause it to kernel panic, it is fake and simulation only. For added realism, during the simulation application switching, force quit and exposĂ© are disabled. Don’t worry. You can quit it by pressing Command+Q. It won’t harm your system but it is fun.

Because there are so many blogs available on the web, bloggers found that it is really hard to draw traffic. Spring of Life collected a few ways which may help. It seems to be very common, but worth to take a look if you are having an headache to draw viewers.
[via Spring Of Life]
(for Mac only)

To search Google quickly, drag the text on Safari dock. In Mac OS X, select the text you want to search in any program, when the mouse cursor turned into arrow, drag it. Drag the text on the Safari icon like above, the Safari will launch and perform Google search.
[via Mac OS X Hints]

Firefox 3 is fast. Even thought it is not as fast as Safari 4, Firefox 3 is good enough. For Mac users, Neil Bruce Lee built a Firefox 3 optimized build for Intel/G5 Mac. Since it is optimized, the software runs faster. It also loads the site quickly.
Download the build right here. Choose which build you want. Be ware that add-ons and themes may break, so do a backup. Note the optimized build will not overwrite the existing Firefox 3 installed, since it is called as “Minefield”. The reason why the icon and the name is not the same as official Firefox 3 is to prevent the legal problems.

Firefox 3 has been released. Have you participated the World Record Campaign? One of the new features is the awesome URL bar. For instance, if you typed “w” in the address bar, it will display all the related page you visited or bookmarked. It helps to select the site you want to visit quickly.
But, not everyone loves the new and huge awesome URL bar. To disable it, type “about:config” to enter to the Firefox 3 configuration page. Click the button and accept the warning. Then, type “browser.urlbar.maxRichResults”.
Then, edit the value to 0. Restart the Firefox. The URL bar won’t display the related sites.
[via Webware]

Sometimes photos just don’t fit the screen resolution, when we set it as wallpaper, it will be distorted. It makes the photo look fat. Ducklet is a Windows software which can crop and resize photos, and then set it as wallpaper quickly.
Ducklet will not modify original file. It will create a new copy of photo. It supports common image format including png, jpg, wmf, tif and more.
It is not a free software. It costs US$19.95. Would that be too much?


