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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Not many people use the equalizer built into iTunes; this is a shame because it’s really a great feature. As you can see in the above picture, I’ve made a preset to make my laptop speakers sound less tinny and annoying. What I’ve done is increased the volume in the midrange and reduced the volume [...]

At some point in the last year or two, Apple added basic lyrics functionality to iTunes and iPods. The main thing that makes this useful is that when listening to music on an iPod, it adds a little pane that you can scroll through with the lyrics to the song.
There are various applications that find [...]

One of the main focuses of iTunes is album covers. From cover flow to little pop-ups, album covers have become nearly ubiquitous in iTunes and most iPods. Traditionally, only one cover is assigned to each song. However, it is possible to assign more than one cover to a single song. To do this, simply select [...]

Open Automator.app (/Applications/Automator.app)
Choose File –> New
In the Starting Points menu, click Music and Audio. Choose “my iTunes Library” in the “Get content from” pop-up menu. Then in 2nd pop-up menu, choose “Ask for songs and playlists when my workflow runs”.
In Library list, click Mail.
In Actions list, drag the action called New Mail Mail Message into [...]

Apple has managed to offer three great views in iTunes. There is list view, which is just the standard multi-column view. Then, there is album view, which is similar to list view, but separates the lists into groups based on their albums, as well as showing the cover art for each album on the left [...]

Sizzling Keys is an iTunes controlling application which I use everyday without even realizing it; It is that well integrated. It is not until I use a friend’s computer which does not have it that I realize how brilliant it is. In fact, it feels so natural, I wonder why Apple hasn’t incorporated it directly [...]

The reason you can’t buy it is because it, like iSqunt, is free! Handbrake has the ability to rip a DVD to a plethora of formats including the near universal mp4. It is also extremely simple to use; just insert the DVD, open the program, and rip away.
In most cases, the default settings [...]