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Quicksilver worries, remote iTunes control, cross-platform sharing keyboard and mouse, and more

This time in Ask Apple we’ll be considering the future of Quicksilver, cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing, controlling iTunes on a remote Mac, fixing messed up Album metadata in iTunes, cross-platform password storage and more.

As always, your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you’re running and which version of Mac OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we’ll assume you’re running Leopard if you don’t specify). And now, on to the questions!
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Ask: DJ software, concatenated RAIDs, Migration Assistant, Remote Desktop Connection and more

This time in Ask Apple we’re looking at DJ software, catenated RAIDs, Spaces, Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Client, tab options in Safari, Spaces, and more.

As always, your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you’re running and which version of Mac OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we’ll assume you’re running Leopard if you don’t specify). And now, on to the questions!
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iTunes: Free Tuesday ( 8 July, 2008 )

Once again, Apple is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won’t be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don’t forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.

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AppleScript: Taking screenshots

Last week, Dave mentioned that you can change the file type used system-wide for screenshots. However, some people are afraid of using Terminal.app to muck around with their Mac. In this week’s AppleScript article, I am going to show you how to take screenshots and change their file type using an AppleScript.

The AppleScript
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & “Picture_” & N & “.png”) as string
do shell script “screencapture ” & quoted form of picPath

Using the AppleScript
Open the ScriptEditor (/Applications/AppleScript/ScriptEditor.app). Copy/paste the AppleScript into the script edtitor and click the run button at the top. You will hear the camera shutter sound and a picture will be taken and saved to your desktop.

This script comes in handy when you want to take a screenshot in a different format. To do this, just change the “.png” file type to whatever you might want (say, .jpg, .tiff, etc.). When you re-run the script, the new file type will be associated with the capture image.

Continue reading to learn how to save this script.
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iTunes: Free Tuesday(1 July, 2008)

Once again, apple is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won’t be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don’t forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.

Follow the jump for all the iTunes freebie goodness.
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Popularity: 11% [?]