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I love using Pandora Radio, but always hated having a separate browser window open all the time. As a solution, I discovered the excellent (and free) Fluid.app, which will make a free-standing application out of a web-app — and even better, can convert your app to a menu-bar extra!

I just opened Pandora, clicked on the ‘mini-browser,’ and then copied that address into Fluid.app. After creating the program, simply click on the Fluid menu choose Convert to MenuExtra SSB. You can even go to Preferences in your program (prior to converting) and select window styles and transparency.

So I now have a small menu extra with a pop-up semi-transparent window that I can instantly open and play/pause Pandora without keeping a separate browser-window open. Of course, Fluid can be used to make apps out of any other webpage as well. I hope others enjoy this as much as I am.

You might think you are out of luck when using Location services on your old iPhone, but you aren’t! You have to perform an extra step, and you are relying on the original iPhone’s tower triangulation method instead of GPS, but it’s better than nothing. It, of course, requires the iPhone 2.0 software.

To use location services with your current local location, before you access any program that needs to know your location, go to the Maps program, and use the Find Location icon to get your current location by triangulation. Then, access the program that plans on using location services, and it will use your current location. (If you’ve used the “OK to use my location” button to access a program from one location, then move to another location and launch a location-aware program, your stored location will reflect your first position until you force it to update using this technique.)

I’ve had to do this manually every time I wanted to get local information, but it works w…

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I just finished another video project for Macworld (an overview of Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization app for Macs), and as I finished the project, I realized just how pleasant it is to work with Final Cut Express — and that I’d never given it the Pick of the Week nod here on macosxhints.com. Yes, it’s relatively expensive, but if you have more than a passing interest in video editing on the Mac, it’s well worth the cost of admission.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve got no aspirations (nor skills to succeed) as a…

It’s time for Apple to show investors its quarterly report card, and while iPhone sales were down ahead of the iPhone 3G launch, the Mac was strong yet again.

(Credit: Apple). The Mac will reclaim its rightful place as the most important story inside the Apple universe when the company reports its third-quarter earnings later on Monday. One could …

Just as it did last quarter, Apple’s Mac business will be the most important revenue and growth driver. iPod growth has slowed to a crawl, and Apple’s Q3 iPhone numbers are already expected to be tiny — the company was sold out of …

Bloomberg reports that Apple’s earnings report later today will focus on Mac and iPod sales which make up for 75% of the company’s revenue. Despite the prominent iPhone 3G launch last week, those sales fall outside the reporting window for today’s e…

I have an apple mac at home. Appreciate it if someone could answer the following questions: 1. If I jailbreak does the phone operate the same way as it did before (assuming I dont install any apps). Are there any known issues? …