Tag: itunes
Pretty soon you may be able to re-download your iTunes music
There’s nothing I hate more than losing my purchased iTunes tracks. Like I mentioned in this week’s podcast, I’m pretty hardcore about the my backup...
Why is Home Sharing for iOS different than Home Sharing in iTunes?
I’ve been pretty irked about the new iOS iTunes Home Sharing, so I thought maybe I’d write up a post, and you guys could help...
iOS 4.3 to bring Home Sharing to mobile devices
Today brought news of a great little feature being added to iOS when version 4.3 is released later this month: iTunes Home Sharing: Now you...
Apple and music labels in talks to improve music download audio quality, but how?
According to an article on CNN, Apple and other online music retailers are in talks with record labels to improve the quality of the tracks...
Sony clears things up: ‘We are not abandoning iTunes’
Sony launched their very own music subscription service today, and in the process COO Brandon Layden made sure to clear up some rumors from last...
Sony threatens to yank music from iTunes at some point in the future
A Sony executive has made a thinly veiled threat to remove their catalog from iTunes today. Michael Ephraim, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, told The...
The Daily gets update: still boring!
News Corps’ The Daily has been updated already, only days after its initial release. The nice thing about the update is that it addresses the terrible...
Apple still king of the hill when it comes to video online
When you’re first to market with a major innovation, it takes a really long time before someone can dethrone the king of the hill. Apple’s...
There’s a new man in my Mac’s life, and his name is Alfred
Alfred by Running with Crayons, Ltd., is a productivity application for your Mac. It functions as a super-fast launcher, a search engine, a file finder, and so much more. You can get the app for free or purchase an additional Powerpack for more functions.
Apple’s made some cool new additions to the App Store on the iPad
Apple continues to meld their iOS Store and the new Mac App Store. Not on the desktop end this time, but on the iPad. They...
Review: Lyrica 2 for Mac
I—like many of you—live in iTunes. At home, I have a set of 1TB hard drives setup in a RAID-1 configuration just for my iTunes...
App Store developers are the new rock stars according to sales
A lot of developers have ‘rock star’ status in the community. I’ve always been uneasy with treating some developers like they can do no wrong,...
50,000 stolen iTunes accounts for sale in China
A major Chinese website has listed thousands of iTunes accounts for sale. It is believed that these are all hacked accounts. There are around 50,000...
Turn off automatic updates in iTunes
If you live in a place with limited bandwidth (See: The boonies), you probably don’t want iTunes downloading podcasts all willy nilly. Luckily, there is...
NPR names Ping on ‘Worst Ideas of 2010’ list
When Apple announced Ping earlier this year, I — like a lot of users — was a little confused. The social network isn’t web-based, and...
OpenDNS and Google DNS might be slowing down your Apple TV
If everyone’s trying to connect to the same servers at the same time, a bottleneck will occur, and Joe Maller thinks that using OpenDNS or...
EMI steals iTunes executive from Apple
Apple has lost a key player in their iTunes empire: Alex Luke has been poached by EMI. Luke has played a key role in Apple’s...