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CopyTrans4 – Make Your iPod Manageable
If you’ve got an iPod, iPhone or iPod Touch then you need to listen up and take a look at this CopyTrans4 software. With CopyTrans4 you can manage the music on your iPod and the movement and synchronization between your device and iTunes. If you’ve ever lost the music on your device, then you know the pain of wondering why in the world you weren’t able to back this stuff up a little better. It takes… More »
Stop the QuickTime Prompts on Firefox
For quite some time I’ve had a personal software rule that I would no longer install Apple software on my laptop PC. No iTunes or QuickTime for me. The reason I made that decision is because of the problem I’m having now.
There are a couple of websites I use regularly that continually wanted me to install the QuickTime application so I could enjoy the website in all its glory. I finally caved in and decided to give QuickTime another try.
Then… More »
Are you still using Winamp?
Ok, I am still and oldie when it comes to music players. While I have downloaded and tried out various music players, I still come back to Winamp and surprise, surprise, I am still using the old theme (see image below): My colleagues laughed at me when they saw the Winamp which was expected, I use this application because it is simple, requires low memory and at the same time works just fine. While I have… More »
Apple lowers iPod prices, unveils iTunes 9
In the “no” column: the iPad tablet. The Beatles catalog. iPod Touch w/ built-in camera.
In the “yes” column: iTunes 9.0. Full-length album download format. Facebook & Twitter integration in iTunes. Lower iPod prices. Whole new iPod Nano with built-in video camera, FM radio tuner, microphone, speaker, pedometer, available today.
And all this under the long-awaited return of Steve Jobs.
Let’s break it down.
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iTunes got a major upgrade today in the form of iTunes 9.0, which sports a clean, fully redesigned interface and… More »
Playing Around with iTunes
This evening, at the request of my wife, I’ve been playing around with iTunes on her computer. I’ve got to say I haven’t missed anything. I’m simply trying to get her library to update itself and remove references to songs that are no longer available to her on our home network.
The songs aren’t available because the computer they were stored on is now offline and I’m not sure when it will be getting fixed again. You’d think there would be… More »
September Apple Event A Go
Veering away from tradition of having the events on Tuesdays, Apple’s September music event is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept 9, 2009. The venue is yet to be announced but according to the Digital Daily it’s sure to push through.
Apple’s September event is usually a music centered event. Last year saw the launch of iTunes 8 with the Genius feature, the 4th Gen iPod Nano a.k.a Nanochromatic, the 2nd gen iPod Touch. What will Apple pull out of it’s proverbial magic… More »
Steps To Creating Your First iPhone App
One of the web sites I currently read with regularity is Smashing Magazine. I must say that I enjoy this site a lot and have been learning a lot of things. They recently published an article by Jen Gordon of Clever Twist. The article is entitled “How To Create Your First iPhone Application”. It lists the steps that you need in order to create your first iPhone application.
With the iPhone’s rising popularity, applications for this device are rapidly gaining market… More »
CMX album download format takes on Apple
Sony, Warner, Universal, and EMI are banding together to take on Apple’s dominance of digital music downloads with the launch of a new file format that will bundle together an entire album, its liner notes, artwork, videos, and maybe even ringtones.
It’s called “CMX,” and it’s due around November of this year. According to the Times Online, online shoppers haven’t shown much interest in downloading entire albums — only singles. CMX hopes to change that, by enticing customers with loads of… More »
Apple and Labels To Launch “Digital Albums”
In a move to bolster sales of albums, Apple, according to the Financial Times is joining forces with record labels to come up with new “Digital Albums”. This is reminiscent to the days wherein people would buy albums/cds not just for the music but for the covers and booklets that come with it.
With today’s online distribution, record companies are losing album sales due to the fact that people can now just purchase songs they like instead of an entire album…. More »
30 Rock Gives Back Through iTunes
C30 Rock’s season finale included a song at the end which is reminiscent of a “We Are The World” type of song. While it was a great show and a nice ending to a good season, 30 Rock upped the ante by releasing the “He Needs A Kidney: Music Video” video through iTunes. NBC, Universal Media Studios and Apple are donating 100% of the proceeds to the National Kidney Foundation.
The video features big name stars such as Sheryl Crowe, Elvis… More »
Is iTunes Variable Pricing Right?
April 7, 2009 marked the change of Apple’s pricing scheme for it’s iTunes music downloads. From one price fits all, it shifted to a variable pricing scheme. With songs as high as $1.29 to as low as $0.69. The $0.99 price point will remain for other songs. Basically what this means is that the new/popular songs will be priced higher, the older and less popular will be priced at the lowest price point and the rest will remain at the… More »
Transferring Your iTunes Library From Windows To Mac
Someone asked me how to transfer your iTunes library from Windows to Mac. I haven’t touched a Windows machine for any significant time in recent years save for the times I needed to check something on IE for the web sites that I do, that I didn’t know how to transfer music libraries.
A quick research got me to this article on LifeHacker that explained how to transfer your library. Sure it would be easy to just save all your music… More »
iLife 09 to Ship On Jan 27th
Apple has announced that the eagerly awaited iLife 09 will begin shipping on January 27th. A quick excerpt from their press release states
CUPERTINO, California—January 26, 2009—Apple® today announced that iLife® ’09 will be available tomorrow, January 27, and features major upgrades to iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand®, with breakthrough new ways to organize and manage photos, create movies and learn to play music. iLife ’09 is included with every new Mac® and is available as a $79 upgrade for existing users… More »
Tip: Multiple iTunes Libraries
As much as hard drives keep getting bigger, so does the media that we keep on it. In the era of High Definition and music libraries that include songs in the thousands, sometimes keeping separate libraries is the key.
Fortunately iTunes does that. I still only have a 160GB drive on my laptop and I don’t have a lot of space left. I do have some media that I bought off the iTunes store that I don’t necessarily want to keep… More »
Let’s Rock.. Sorta
My previous post asked the question “Will Apple’s Lets Rock, Rock?”. Now that the event has passed, in my personal opinion, it slightly did. Barely.
Maybe I was not really feeling it anymore or maybe I was just expecting too much but the event really didn’t excite me as much as previous Apple events. However it wasn’t bad. It was ok, just not kickass.
Steve talked about several things during the event. First was iTunes 8. The next major version of iTunes…. More »