I have a similar question: I loaded my songs from my Mac at home to my 1GHz shuffle. When I plugged into my work PC (with iTunes 4.7.1 for Windows installed), iTunes comes up wit…

Sorry veryniceguy2002 and DPUser, you can't play songs from an ipod shuffle if it's plugged in. Not through iTunes, not even through the headphones. It HAS to be unplugged from the…

Quote: Originally Posted by bedoughty Sorry veryniceguy2002 and DPUser, you can't play songs from an ipod shuffle if it's plugged in. Not through iTunes, not even through the he…

Quote: Originally Posted by veryniceguy2002 Well I don't understand... why would iTunes happily play my song list from my iTunes shuffle where my iPod shuffle have set-up? Are …

I just found an workaround... I can access the shuffle's hidden directory on Windows 2000, and I can copy the AAC files from my shuffle into iTunes in Windows... now I can play my…

my gf's shuffle shows up on my mac until iTunes pops up and tells me to reformat the shuffle to Mac (from windows) I can't see the hidden file for some reason so I just want to kno…

Get yourself a cheap set of speakers just for your shuffle at work or use the PCs speakers for it. You don't ever need to hook up the shuffle to the PC at work to listen to it. Y…

I'm considering getting an iPod Photo, but I have a question about iSync. Will iSync allow me to keep a synchronized update of all my document folders between my iMac and the iP…

Quote: Originally posted by Helmling: I'm considering getting an iPod Photo, but I have a question about iSync. Will iSync allow me to keep a synchronized update of a…

You can use many apps with the iPod for what you what. I've used Apple's Backup to keep some things, I've made a bootable disk image with Disk Utility and Disk Warrior via Carbon C…

Can't iSync keep two different Macs synchronized? Or is that another program from a 3rd party?

Yes, iSync can keep multiple Macs synced (or just 1 with syncs to .Mac) but that doesn't include every folder and file on a computer. iSync is more for address book, mail, safari b…

I would like to create my own RSS reader application for OS X using Cocoa and Xcode, but I do not have much experience in programing on the Mac. I was wondering of anyone could po…

This site has links to many open source RSS reader projects in multiple languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Java) --> http://www.rssfeeds.com/readers.php . Got this from a simple Google…

I haven't played with it, but I have seen an xml parser header file while poking around in one of apple's frameworks... you'll probably need that... easier than compiling an xml pa…

Thanks for the replies guys Poulh - I'll be giving what you suggested a try today, it made quite a bit of sense to me so hopefully I'll able to get something working. Thanks very…

Glad to help... When designing the app you may want to consider making a separate object that goes out and gets the xml... then has methods like getHeading getLink getSummary th…

The programmer behind NetNewsWire has some sample code for an RSS reader at http://ranchero.com/cocoa/rss/.

Thanks for that link, that is a great little app he has done. I now thinking that I might use the Parser contained within that app for my own reader (as it is Open Source) saving …

just found a function that will help you out.. in NSString + (id)stringWithContentsOfURLNSURL *)url; will put the whole xml file into a string

Quote: Originally Posted by Baldrick I would like to create my own RSS reader application for OS X using Cocoa and Xcode, but I do not have much experience in programing on the …

you might want to check out the new Syndication private framework in Tiger... looks interesting to me.

Quote: Originally Posted by ambush you might want to check out the new Syndication private framework in Tiger... looks interesting to me. ambush... you have any more detai…

Why bother using an unsupported private framework when existing sample code is widely available, and doesn't limit your userbase?

Daughter wants an Ipod. Went to Circuit City salesman suggested a non Ipod brand of mp3 player would be better as accessories would be cheaper. I think I'd rather stick with the …