Ever wondered what your Mac’s Birthday or Birthplace are? Me either, that is until CoconutIdentityCard offered the info. This free app will tell you what country your Mac computer or iPod was built in and when. It will also search a database of stolen Apple products (by serial number) and tell you if that used mac you bought is a fugitive or not. You can also manually type a serial number for info. Handy if your about to buy a used Mac or iPod.

Check out coconut-flavour.com to download the app.

Some new iPhone and iPod touch wallpapers have been added to the galleries. Along with a new section of POTU favorites, which will be a collection of funny and not so common wallpapers. Bellow is the first in our special edition section. Stop by with your iPhone or Touch and click the menu to enter the iPhone wallpaper section. Or click one of the thumbs bellow to enter a gallery.

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Got a TiVo and a Mac? Well you can pull those shows you recorded straight to your Mac, convert them and even pull out the commercials with just a couple clicks. A google code project called iTiVo has had an update that turns this interesting app into a must have utility. 

Imagine my amazement after installing this app and it finds my TiVo for me. Input my TiVo access key and select a couple shows to download. Click the options to cut out commercials during conversion and put the shows in my iTunes for me and leave it to its business. Come back a few hours later (depends on transfer rates and processor speeds) and you have your shows ready for your iPod. Finally something so technologically advanced, its easy.

Oh yeah, its free too. And works better than the TiVo Transfer I’ve been using From Roxio’s Toast app.

Check out iTivo at its google code page.

I love having podcasts on my iPhone. And some of my favorites are from G4TV and Attack of the Show. I definitely don’t catch every episode, but when I’m in the mood to be entertained I want it to be there. The other day I opened up my podcast section on my iPhone and noticed that non of them where up to date. “I just synced my phone the other day” I thought. When I got back to my computer I noticed that iTunes had stopped updating my podcasts because I wasn’t watching them. But I was watching them on my iPhone. Who gives iTunes the right to stop updating? My TiVo doesn’t stop recording shows just because Im not watching. On top of that, there is no setting in iTunes to turn this feature off.

Well, once I noticed that Apple is being unresponsive to the publics numerous Apple Forum postings on this subject, I began a quest to fix it myself. er, well, find someone who fixed it that is, and solve my problem. Read the rest of this entry »