Murphy Mac

As of June 2019 Murphy Mac has just been resuscitated. Big changes coming soon. Murphy Mac is about to get overhauled after years of neglect. Excuse the mess - and thanks for stopping by. Sequence created with iPhone app Action Shot. camera these days. Take a look at Action Shot . This free app creates an effect that would take me hours to bang out... on my Mac. Heres how it works: You shoot a brief video of some action. The app presents you with a handful of frames. You drag to shade over your action-inducing subject in each frame and the app combines them into a still. A still with your subject displayed multiple times as it progresses across the frame. Great sample here from AppleNApps. Even better, you dont need a tripod. It would help, but the app can do its job if your hand is somewhat steady. For best results hold the phone as steady as possible and let the subject move across the frame rather than tracking the subject. A track deleted from iCloud but still present in the local library. Murphys obsessions come and go. Recently it was the wrong album art showing up on my iPhone. Fixing my Pretenders album art only to see it revert to the wrong image a few minutes later got frustrating quickly. Until I realized the cloud-based Match versions of my album art were coming down and overwriting my locally stored tracks. If you dont know how iTunes Match behaves you could run into some problems. Heres what worked for me: Sign into a Mac or PC with a local user account that does not have your music collection stored locally in iTunes. You could create an additional user on your Mac (or PC) or do what I did: sign into a dummy Windows account running on a virtual machine. Open iTunes. Ideally there wont be any local music stored there. Sign into iTunes using the AppleID used for iTunes Match. You should see all your music that resides in the cloud. Delete the song that needs the artwork updated. This will delete the version stored on Apples servers. Once youre done with the previous step you can sign off the dummy ...Read More