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17 Jul 2009Filed under: Software , Features , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Internet Tools , AppleScript Recently, the question came up of how to automatically “tweet” a birthday message to a friend or loved one on their special day. After thinking on this question for some time I finally came to a solution. As it turns out, intrepid TUAW blogger Dave Caolo wrote a Mac 101 article all about attaching AppleScripts to iCal events.
Filed under: How-tos , iTunes , AppleScript One neat little thing about the iPod and iPhone family of devices is their ability to display lyrics — supported by all iPod nanos as well as the iPhone / iPod touch , and iPod Classic 5th generation and higher. On the iPhone and iPod touch, lyrics show up when a song is loaded (and can be re-displayed by tapping on the screen while a song is playing); while on the iPod nano, pressing the center button several times while a song is playing will cycle you through to display lyrics. But the real issue isn’t so much about displaying lyrics as much as it is obtaining them.
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.