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I write this article in response to a question read on a forum, in the hope that it will help someone in addition to the direct question (Stefano, aka "Pisubijoux").

There are several methods to do this, I suggest using a small script (to be created with AppleScript Editor) to be launched when the user login.

We arrive at practical ...

1) Open the AppleScript editor and enter the following code (commented to help you understand ... ah, comments are inserted with "--" ):


-- Open iTunes
tell application "iTunes"

- Show window of iTunes running (remove "-")
- Activate

- Set shuffle mode to the playlist "Music" (Change it if you want)
September shuffle of user playlist "Music" to true
- Remove shuffle mode to the playlist "Music" (Change it if you want)
- Set shuffle of user playlist "Music" to false

- Play music!
play

end tell

2) Click on Compile and then save it as Application.

3) Open System Preferences -> Accounts -> Startup Items -> enter the application you just saved!

For the lazy, you can download the file directly from here:

• iTunesRandomUS.app (Inglese Version of iTunes)
• iTunesRandomIT.app (Italian version of iTunes)

Only ... then proceed to step 3!

VMWare has finally released the long-awaited new version of Fusion , came to 3.0, bringing many new features that finally make it one of the best virtualization software within the Mac

One of the biggest gaps I've always complained in Fusion was a lack in the ability to open files with a virtualized Windows application directly from Finderl (Ex: open an XLS file directly from the Finder and make it opened with Microsoft Excel 2007 virtualized ). This is in fact a file association, or associate extensions with a program of your choice.

Despite the efforts of VMWare, you still can not do this by default with Fusion, but with some little ingenuity you can not work around the problem.

1. Position the Finder on the folder where your Virtual Machine (Windows for instance);
2. Click with the right mouse button on VM (Virtual Machine) and select "Show Package Contents" (Show Package Contents);
3. At this point you open a new window is located inside the folder "Applications" in which there are installed applications in a Windows environment;
4. Open another Finder and navigate to the / Applications folder of Mac and create a new folder called (for example) "Windows Applications";
5. Copy into the applications (the Applications folder in the VM that you want to be indexed by Spotlight as native applications on Mac;
6. Select a file with the extension you want to associate an application to Windows right click and choose "Get Info"
7. Select the "Open With" and then "Other" (Open With - Other)
8. At this point, choose the application you want to associate the file extension. You can find it easily in Windows Applications folder that you created previously in step 4!
9. Give OK and click "Change All" ("Change All" . From now on it will open Fusion and its application when you open a file with the extension.

Now some screenshots to better follow the instructions:

Have fun and good virtualization at all!

Just before Christmas the team FreePOPs has not stopped working and has "given" a new version of FreePOPs come to 0.2.9 of the useful program that lets you download your mail to your mail client (Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook) and email by all the facilities that do not allow you to use your POP3 server unless you use their internet.

Examples are ecclatanti Free, Hotmail, Alice, Inwind, Virgil and many other mail services ... in my opinion, of dubious quality (especially the junk mail that is not filtered properly) especially when compared with services like gMail or AOL .

This version has brought about notable improvements "under the hood" just looking in the direction of Leopard, our beloved system of Apple.

From here you can visit the official website of the project FreeePOPs .

From here , however, you can access the complete guide to email setup on Mac with FreePOPs (and using FMU ).

And after so much development (development), the team of FreePOPs gave birth to the new version, currently 0.2.8 came to the useful program that lets you download your mail to your mail client (Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook) e-mail by all the facilities that do not allow you to use your POP3 server unless you use their internet.

Examples are ecclatanti Free, Hotmail, Alice, Inwind, Virgil and many other mail services ... in my opinion, of dubious quality (especially the junk mail that is not filtered properly) especially when compared with services like gMail or AOL .

From here you can visit the official website of the project FreeePOPs .

From here , however, you can access the complete guide to email setup on Mac with FreePOPs (and using FMU ).

Since the introduction of the iPhone 3G and the long-awaited firmware 2.0, Apple introduced iTunes in the automatic backup in iTunes every time you perform a synchronization of the iPhone (or iTouch.)

The backup is, unfortunately, an operation quite long depending on the applications installed on the iPhone and downloaded from the AppStore.

Tired of always having to cancel the automatic backup, or wait too long for its completion, I have created iPhone Backup Disabler, a program that allows you to turn off automatic backup and leaves the possibility of this being done manually.

The application allows obviously also restore the default settings of mother Apple.

iPhone Backup Disabler - 888 KB

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