With the release of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, it has become easier than ever to download content directly onto your iPod or iPhone. In fact, it is so easy to download content from the iTunes App Store - and there is so much content to choose from - that you may find yourself [...]

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As some of you may know, iTunes began offering a special 99¢ movie once a week, starting about a month ago. As you can tell from the widget above, some of the movies can be quite excellent!
The way I keep up with these specials is through the 99Rental.com Dashboard widget. It’s worked very well and [...]

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A couple weeks ago, my iPhone firmware somehow got corrupted and iTunes instructed me to restore it in order for it to work again. I took iTunes’ advice and restored the iPhone, but my iPhone still didn’t seem to work. It entered a strange mode where all I could see was a black screen with [...]

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Deleting songs from your iTunes library is usually very easy. You can either select a song, Control-Click on it and then select “Delete”, or you can simply press Delete from the keyboard, and iTunes will bring up a little window asking if you are sure that you “want to remove the selected song from your [...]

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AudioCodex is one of the coolest applications I’ve stumbled upon in recent history. What it is, is a whole new way to experience your music. It incorporates all your iTunes files and whatever other multimedia files it can find on your hard drive, and consolidates it into a fairly easy to use interface which in [...]

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New with the current iTunes (7.6.1, or could have been earlier) apparently you are able to search by star rating. All you have to do is simply go to the search box and type in a “*”, the more you type in the higher the rating.
So for example lets say you have the song “Like [...]

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Most of you know this already, but every song you buy from iTunes is designed so that it only plays on your iTunes and your iPod, no one else’s. This is to prevent piracy, it’s called digital rights management, or DRM for short. It’s annoying because say you dislike the iPod but received an iTunes [...]

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If you have an iPod Video with a broken hard drive or just want to upgrade to more energy efficient and more durable Flash memory, then Tarkan has just what you need. It’s a straightforward operation that shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes. Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Compact Flash card of any size (No [...]

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With certain songs the amplitudes can be off. One song may be a little quieter, so you turn your speakers up and the very next song in your playlist is super loud and you damage your ears. Thankfully iTunes comes with setting to fix this: in the iTunes –> Preferences, click on the Playback [...]

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I hate waking up to the harsh sound of an alarm clock and I’m sure many of you feel the same. Aurora is an application that solves this problem by turning your computer into an alarm clock that uses your iTunes music to wake you up.
To set up an alarm, click the green “Create” button [...]

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