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Wanna do a quick Youtube search? How about a quick Google translation for “Good morning” in Spanish? Wanna quickly shrink your subway-long url’s with TinyURL? These are just a few of 600+ search engine functions that can be done with Quicksilver.

All you need to do is go Quicksilver => Catalog => Modules

Make sure “Web Searches (from docs.blacktree.com)” is ticked.

Enjoy the power of the web in your hands. As you can see you can even quickly track your UPS package with Quicksilver. What? That’s amazing.

What’s your favourite Quicksilver trick?

If you would like to know what Quicksilver is all about, check out my Quicksilver introduction here.

Adobe has just released a media player that allows you to watch all kinds of programs and even tv shows such as CSI: New York. Sure, Hulu has a wider variety but I was surprised that Adobe Media Player’s shows are watchable from Australia. Hulu is currently restricted to the US.

Let’s hope Adobe puts on more great content on its media player.

Adobe Media Player can be downloaded here

According to one of the Administrators of MacTalk forums, resellers have been provided with info regarding the iPhone by Apple Australia. And… The good news is, it’s not gonna be locked to one carrier! The iPhone is also going to be released in Australia last week of June.

So what does all this mean? If the 3G iPhone is going to be announced in WWDC 2008, which is going to be in the first week of June, it means Australia is getting 3G iPhone for sure. Also, with no carrier lock, it could mean that 3G plans will get more competitive pricing.

Personally, I can’t wait for iPhone in Australia. Porn Web and Email on the go can prove to be useful at times.

Does this also mean that other countries will have factory unlocked iPhones when 3G version rolls out? What do you think?

Source: MacTalk forums

Looking for a working version of Adblock Plus for your Firefox 3 Beta 5? Then head on to the Development Builds page and download the latest dev build (The dates may differ from the one you see on this screenshot). Enjoy!

iTunes has been my #1 music player on both Windows and Mac platforms for years. Don’t get me wrong, I love iTunes. However, your music collection is often stored in a way that you can’t easily retrieve your music and share it with your friends. So, I am here to introduce several apps that can help you put your music in control.

First off, let me introduce iTunesFS. This app requires MacFUSE installed to be functional. iTunesFS lets you browse your iTunes and iPod music collection as if the playlists were folders with music as files in them. This way, you can copy out some music quick and easy and then share them with your friends. Simple to use. Nice and clean.

Installation directions:
1) Install MacFUSE
2) Install iTunesFS
3) Launch iTunesFS whenever you want to access your music files

Download iTunesFS here

Download MacFUSE (required for iTunesFS to work) here

MacFUSE (Tiger) direct download

MacFUSE (Leopard) direct download

Ok, so what if you’ve got another friend with a relatively large, filled (no, not that) iPod and both of you would like to sync both music collections together? Misu to the rescue. Misu is a relatively new app and its concept is brilliant. I haven’t got another iPod here to test it but from reading comments about it most people seem to be happy about it. What Misu does is, you plug both your iPods to your computer, and it will do its magic. It will detect which music on one iPod is missing on the other and merge them both.

At time of writing, you can get Misu for $9.95 at MUPromo (original price is $19.00). Offer ends in 10 hours.

You can visit Misu’s website here

Lastly, what if your friend doesn’t have an iPod or he’s somewhere far far away. Mojo is the answer to powerful music sharing over the internet. Mojo is dead simple to use. All you need is to get an account with Mojo’s service, then you can just add your friend’s account and browse his/her music collection just like that! You can even play or download music that you like. However, Mojo doesn’t support accessing music on connected iPods. Hopefully, this feature will be added on future releases.

Mojo is available for both Windows and Mac platforms, free

P/S: Both you and your friend need to have Mojo in order to browse each other’s music collection.

I hope you liked this tech tip. Any questions or comments are welcome.