Customizing Firebird even more with CSS…. You can override a pages css with this and also block flash and images and all sorts… If you detest blinking text.. you can now turn it off. It's really neat. I uploaded a whole load of new mp3s to my iRiver so i now have 2030 songs totalling 9 GigaBytes.. Plenty to listen to I'd say eh??. There was also a new firmware upgrade available which gave some new features.. I am still waiting for on the fly playlists like on the iPod. On another note … why does iTunes not have an option to export to m3u playlist format?? (there are applescripts to do it but hey don't seem to work).

Macs use a file system called HFS, hfs uses resource forks which stores details about any file in aother file of the same name save for a "._" prefix. This is really annoying when copying to a non HFS Volume (like my iRiver ). There is a way around this : use the unix cp command in the terminal which ignores the resource fork for the file.(the ditto command does not ignore it). So to copy from hardisk to my iRiver I used the following command :
cp -Rv /Users/philroche/Music/ihp100/* /Volumes/IHP-100/
This saved me a tremendous amount of heartache. HFS(Hierarchical File System) also stores a .DS_Store file in each directory which also show up sometimes in non-HFS  filesystems. I could just have recursively deleted these from the terminal but I found DS_Store Cleaner which is a GUI which does the same job. So with my cp terminal command and DS_Store Cleaner I am fully equiped to have a finely tuned MP3 Player (Albeit minus playlists).