iTunes 8.01 released, addresses App Store updates, HD TV downloads, Genius
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How Lawyers Practice Law and Serve Clients with Macs -- Really!
The Mac Lawyer — ... music player revolutionized the digital music market, and even many years after the iPod was introduced, Apple’s iPod still enjoys around 75% market share of all MP3 players. Apple’s iTunes software easily manages all of your digital music. Of course, you don’t need to own a Mac to use an iPod and iTunes, both of which have been available for PCs for many years now. However, with iTunes built-in with every Mac, every other program on the Mac that deals with music will always work with iTunes giving you a seamless environment. ...

Liking the Dislike: Social Networks Don't Force the Love
louisgray.com — Newton's third law of motion says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Many technologies have ratings features built in with equal and opposite choices these days, from the thumbs up and thumbs down on your TiVo remote control, to rating songs from zero to five stars in iTunes, and of course, deciding whether to Digg or Bury. But as social networking tools don't necessarily need to subscribe to Newton's laws, not all services offer diametrically opposed activity. You can't offer a negative share on Google ...

Hot Topic launches DRM-free music service
Webware.com — Hot Topic, a clothing and accessories retailer catering to those interested in alternative music, announced today that it has launched ShockHound, the company's first online music site offering millions of MP3s, band merchandise, music videos, and editorial content. According to Hot ...

Netflix Edges Closer to Making the Perfect Web Video Site
louisgray.com — It seems when it comes to the world of Web video, there is as much discussion of the limits saying what you can't do as there are the discussion of the features themselves. If you get your movies via iTunes, you hear about how it can play on one device at a time, for a limited time. If you opt for ...

It's Not About the Technology, Stupid
louisgray.com — ... While the conversation got technical at times, I felt the places where I connected best with the audience was when I talked to them in terms of e-mail, iTunes and spoke their language in terms of understanding how they had to answer to multiple clients, who each wanted to broadest visibility, in a time when media outlets are disappearing. ...

Mobile & Social Traffic Drive Online Video Popularity
Contentinople: — The number of people checking out videos online has jumped 27 percent in the last year, with mobile video usage and traffic on social-networking Websites driving increased adoption, according to a survey released Monday by IBM. Although sales at paid download services such as Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)'s iTunes store and Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN)'s Video On Demand store continue to increase, 70 percent of respondents in the global study said they prefer advertising-supported content over paying for their favorite TV programs and movies. ...

Mufin launches public beta with Facebook and iTunes support; licenses patented audio ID technology
Download Squad — ... in iTunes 8, mufin analyzes the actual musical structure of a song. This is great for music lovers because it can really open up more opportunities to discover new bands. ...

Ten Tech Things I'm Thankful For
louisgray.com — ... on the network side from 10 megabit to 100 megabit, through 10 gigabit on the corporate side, and to high-speed broadband for consumers, not to mention 3G for iPhones and other wireless gadgets. Hard disks have grown from megabytes to gigabytes and now terabytes, enabling higher quality images, video, music and other data exchanges to take place quickly and be stored longer. The growth of bandwidth and data storage has essentially paved the way for the online software repositories, iTunes, ...

So you just got an iPod nano -- now what?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Holidays, iPod nano All day on December 25, TUAW presents "Now What?" We've got first steps and recommendations for all the Apple gifts you (hopefully!) found under the tree today. Happy holidays! If you're a iPod veteran, send a link to this post to the ...

Apple expected to drop DRM in iTunes store
Web User | News — ... that aren't big hits), and current hits. Although iTunes currently offers DRM-free music from EMI, the label only accounts for a fraction of its sales. The new deal will expand iTunes' DRM-free library to include songs from the three other major labels: Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner Music. iTunes customers have long been calling for Apple to drop restrictions on the songs it sells through iTunes, especially in light of Amazon's entry to the UK market late last year. www.apple.com/itunes http://mp3.amazon.co.uk www.7digital.com www.play.com ...

Apple Releases DRM-Free iTunes Music!
Planet iPhones — ...      iTunes is a wonderful tool to suit your musical needs. With millions of songs and videos, and the new Genius feature, it becomes easier to download anything your heart, and ears, desire. If an awesome song is released, you have the option to purchase only that song instead of its entire album (as opposed to CD’s). Most aspects of iTunes have been convenient and enjoyable, but there are exceptions. Apple had armed their iTunes content with DRM (Digital Rights Management) in order to protect music from illegal mass-distribution. That sounds ...

Apple frees iTunes Store music of DRM
Download Squad — ... If you're already sunk a fair amount of money in the iTunes store, Apple will allow you to upgrade your entire library to the DRM-free format - for 30¢ per song or 25% of the album price. ...

Liveblog: Apple's Q1-2009 conference call
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Other Events, Apple Financial, Liveblog Welcome one and all for TUAW's coverage of Apple's First Quarter 2009 Results Conference Call. If you haven't already, you can go start the audio stream available on Apple's website. You'll need QuickTime 6 or 7 installed (Mac users should already have it, and Windows users get it with the iTunes install). Click on through to join us! Continue reading Liveblog: Apple's Q1-2009 conference call TUAWLiveblog: Apple's Q1-2009 conference call ...

Apple offers à la carte upgrades to iTunes Plus
Download Squad — Filed under: Audio, Windows, Macintosh, AppleApple announced earlier this month that iTunes music sales were dropping the DRM, and now almost entirely in AAC format. It was a significant announcement and made the DRM-loathing camp (myself included very happy). One of the few bones we had left to pick was that to upgrade existing DRMed purchases to the new higher-bitrate DRM-free files you basically were held to ransom: upgrade your entire library ("show us the money") or go away. In my case, that would mean forking out another $100 which, given a big Christmas (and ...

Bewkes: Warner to Push Day & Date Releases
Contentinople: — ... (Nasdaq: AAPL)’s iTunes store are allowed to begin selling new titles. Although some content producers worry that day-and-date releases will hurt DVD sales, Bewkes says trials Warner Bros. has conducted since 2007 have proved otherwise. "So far the results of moving to day-and-date have not cannibalized sell-through of physical DVDs," Bewkes said Wednesday. Warner Bros. began testing day-and-date releases for movies in 2007, and in the first quarter of last year, it released six movies for DVD and VoD distribution on the same day, including The Brave One and Michael ...

PlayStation Lands NBCU Movies & TV Series
Contentinople: — ... PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable devices to download TV series and movies. The deal expands the programming library that Sony is using to battle Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s Xbox Live platform, which streams movies and TV series to Netflix Inc. subscribers, as well as purchase and rental options from Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN). Sony is also competing with online services from Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)'s iTunes , cable and satellite VoD platforms, and new broadband set-top based services like ...

New iPod Shuffle speaks names of songs, artists to you
TechBlog — ... . Update 3.0 : iTunes 8.1 is now available. You'll see if it you run Software Update on either your Windows PC or Mac. Or, you can visit the iTunes Web site . Here's what Software Update says is new in this version: • Supports syncing with iPod shuffle (3rd generation). • Allows friends to request songs for iTunes DJ. • Adds Genius sidebar for your Movies and TV Shows. • Improves performance when downloading iTunes Plus songs. • Provides AutoFill for manually managed iPods. • Allows CDs to be imported at the same sound quality as iTunes Plus. • Includes many ...

Netflix Streams Old MTVN Content to TV
Contentinople: — ... and iTunes allow consumers to download current episodes of South Park and other MTV Networks programs to their computers, Netflix customers will only be able to stream previous seasons of the MTVN programs to their TVs. By limiting selections to previous seasons, MTVN appears to be protecting the value of the monthly subscription it charges cable and satellite TV customers for access to MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, and other pay TV channels that it owns. Its concern may be that if it made too many episodes available for sale, there wouldn't enough incentive to subscribe to ...

Yahoo Releases Messenger iPhone App
ReadWriteWeb — As of this moment, Yahoo! has no less than 4 iPhone-native applications in the iTunes app store. The latest is Yahoo! Messenger, which already was spotted on the original Yahoo iPhone application (our review here) as well as their mobile-optimized web site. This latest offering is much more of a fully featured IM client for the Yahoo service, though. Sponsor Supported features include: IM and SMS sending and receiving, concurrent IM sessions (although not chat rooms as far as we can ...

Create and Print Custom Album Covers in iTunes [ITunes Tip]
Lifehacker — [image] [image] You can do a lot of neat things with iTunes beyond organizing and playing music. Brian Tong at CNET demonstrates how to create and print custom, mosaic-style covers for My Awesome Mix CD. It doesn't involve any add-ons or graphical trickery just a standard copy of iTunes and making sure you've got album art for your music tracks . Once that's done, you can pretty easily make a mix and create a custom cover for it: We dig getting to re-discover the little features that get overlooked in otherwise well-covered software like iTunes . This one has been around since at ...

Random House brings its biggest novels to the iPhone
T3.com All — ... Lee Child app, you can even download and watch an exclusive animated graphic novel too. Nice. The first set of titles is available now, selling from what seems like a rather pricey 7.49 from Apple s App Store. Indeed, we've just checked and the Stuart Maconie app is upwards of 10. Ouch! More titles from the Jacqueline Wilson, Ben Elton, Alastair Campbell, Chris Ryan and Richard Branson will be released in the next few months, hopefully a little cheaper than this first batch. Link: iTunes Related links: [image]

Random House brings its biggest novels to the iPhone
T3.com News — ... animated graphic novel too. Nice. The first set of titles is available now, selling from what seems like a rather pricey £7.49 from Apple’s App Store. Indeed, we've just checked and the Stuart Maconie app is upwards of £10. Ouch! More titles from the Jacqueline Wilson, Ben Elton, Alastair Campbell, Chris Ryan and Richard Branson will be released in the next few months, hopefully a little cheaper than this first batch. Link: iTunes

iManila Directory for iPhone
Cellphone9 — One of the top paid apps this week in the iTunes store is iManila, your functioning guide to the different restaurants and tourist attractions both for locals and expatriates. The app costs 0.99 USD and is right now limited to Metro Manila. The application still isn’t complete but hopefully we will be able to see free upgrades with more information in the near future. [photo c/o iTunes Store] Post from: Cellphone9

In preparation of iPhone 3.0, Apple posts iTunes 8.2
Macworld — ... Apple on Monday released iTunes 8.2 , an update to its music jukebox software and online store interface for the Mac and Windows. It's available for download through the Software Update system preference. Apple notes that iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhones and iPod touches equipped with the iPhone 3.0 software update. Other accessibility improvements and bug fixes have also been made. What makes this remarkable it that iPhone 3.0 software update is not yet available; in fact, Apple has not stated a hard release date for the software, though it's expected to take center stage at ...

The Library of Congress debuts on Apple’s iTunes U; Historic film clips, podcasts, courses and more
MacDailyNews — ... and educational materials, including 14 courses from the Catalogers' Learning Workshop. Additional materials will be added, such as resources and professional-development modules for teachers. All Library of Congress content is free and downloadable. iTunes U is an area of the iTunes Store offering free education audio and video content from many of the world's top universities and other institutions. The iTunes application is needed to access iTunes U, and is a free download from www.apple.com/itunes . The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural ...

iTunes 101: How to prevent podcasts from spoiling
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... The rationale, as Apple states in the documentation for podcast providers, is to "minimize unnecessary bandwidth costs for both the user and the podcaster," as well as making it more likely that episode downloads align with the actual plays of the episode. ...

Latest iPhone Device Offers Best Travel Management and Better Business Management
Free iPod Touch Apps | Free iPod Touch Games | AppleRepo.com — ... from the Apple store to suit your requirements, and use it to manage your day-to-day business routine. Moreover, one of its features, which attract business houses, is the connectivity. The high-speed connectivity, which enable launch of any application much faster than other phones, helps in better customer care services, as you can be in touch with the clients easily. ...

iTunes 9 to get social networking app
T3.com All — ... wealth of your iTunes library with other people on your network. Also rumoured to be part of the iTunes 9 package is the application organization feature that will let you to sort your apps alphabetically, by genre, date added and also custom arrangement. With speculation over Blu-ray support also to be included in iTunes 9, we suggest that if all does come to pass, this time you are not so hasty to hit cancel when you are met with the message A new iTunes update is available . Link: Apple (Via : ...

iTunes 9 to get social networking app
T3.com News — ... 9 package is the application organization feature that will let you to sort your apps alphabetically, by genre, date added and also custom arrangement.   With speculation over Blu-ray support also to be included in iTunes 9, we suggest that if all does come to pass, this time you are not so hasty to hit cancel when you are met with the message ‘A new iTunes update is available’.     Link:  Apple (Via: Boy Genius Report)     ...

How to Control iTunes with your Voice
Binary Head — ... Ever thought of controlling your iTunes using your voice? Yes ! you can. Voodoo Voice (free apps) allows you to control iTunes using some voice commands. You can give commands like “begin play”, “next song”, or “switch to <name of song in play list>” using your computer’s microphone.   ...

The affordable Mac
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... processors and 2-6 gigabytes of RAM. I don't know about you, but I impressed. I also use that same mini to manage my approximately one terabyte video and half-terabyte music libraries. These, of course, aren't on my mini. Instead they're on my gigabit Ethernet network. With NAS (network attached storage) and USB external drives, I don't find that it matters much anymore how much storage comes with a PC; you can always and easily add more. For video and audio management, I'm using iTunes 8.2 . Yes, it's proprietary. Yes, it can be a pain at time. But, again, like the mini in ...

How to Put DVD Movies on Your iPod
Free iPod Touch Apps | Free iPod Touch Games | AppleRepo.com — ... . The final step is to add the video into the iTunes library. You can directly load the movie to the iPod and start enjoying it. ...

iTunes 9 introduces Genius Mixes
Macworld — Making his return to the stage of a live event for Apple for the first time in a year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes 9 , available for download for Mac OS X and Windows today. Genius Mixes Genius Mixes were the first major feature Jobs announced. With more than 27 million libraries built from more than 54 billion songs submitted and analyzed, the software is now ready to create Genius Mixes, which Jobs likened to having a personal DJ at a radio station catering just to your taste. Genius Mixes goes beyond music, however. Movies can also be categorized using the new ...

iTunes 9: App Management
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iPhone, App Store One of the great new features in iTunes 9 is app management; I've been begging for this one (among other things). We can now organize our pages (and pages) of apps right in iTunes, no more dragging jiggly icons across 9 or 10 screens. I'm ecstatic (and wondering what took so long). From Apple's website: [...] it's easier to organize all the apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, because now you can do it right in iTunes, right from your computer. Shop the App ...

iTunes 9: no social networking, plenty of new features, breaks Palm Pre sync
Download Squad — Filed under: Audio, AppleI guess those leaked iTunes 9 screenshots were fake after all. Apple has just released the latest version and, while it doesn't include the Facebook integration we were speculating about, there are some major improvements to syncing, the iTunes Music Store, and Genius. For iPod Touch and iPhone users, the biggest new feature is the ability to organize your apps and create custom home screens from within iTunes. We'll have a detailed look at these features soon, but here are the basics: ...

Hands-on with iTunes 9.0: Bright and roomy
CrunchGear — ... Otherwise, we’re looking at a facelift and an a bit more media content in albums. It’s free, it’s available now, and it’s just like Snow Leopard: a few pieces of steak but not much sizzle. ...

Apple's Biggest Product Announcement Today: Steve Jobs
louisgray.com — ... OS, and the version release was for iTunes. The company also got to beat the drum and demonstrate once again that they have significant market momentum. But really, truly, the only thing that mattered about today was the person delivering the message: Apple CEO Steve Jobs. ...

iTunes 9: The Download Squad Review
Download Squad — ... Continue reading iTunes 9: The Download Squad Review iTunes 9: The Download Squad Review originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Sponsored Topics: Apple - IPhone - Download Squad - ITunes ...

iTunes 9 Focus: Tips for editing your iPhone apps screens
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iTunes, iPhone, iPod touch While of my colleagues are tremendously excited about Norah Jones and iTunes LP, I've got to say I was far happier to discover the new iTunes 9 iPhone application management screens that Brett touched on yesterday (Sorry, Dave!). Located in the Applications tab for each iPhone and iPod touch device, the manager lets you organize your applications on a screen-by-screen basis from the comfort of your desktop. Unfortunately, the organizer remains fairly primitive.You can... ...check or uncheck apps that you want to ...

Top 5 Frustratingly region-locked web services
The Next Web — ... opportunities for us, you’d have to say, ‘Jeez, isn’t there a big opportunity in China, Brazil, India, Europe?’ “We don’t have any specific plans, but over the next several years, it’s definitely something we want to look at.” In the meantime, your best hope is that a similar company already active in your country sets up the same service sooner. While you’re waiting you could try: Apple’s iTunes store offers movie rentals in some territories. 4. Foursquare ...

Using FireWire to help speed up the iTunes Home Sharing process
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... is Home Sharing. The feature allows you to manually browse, import, and automatically add iTunes content from up to five authorized computers in your house. While Home Sharing is certainly a welcome feature, it's so slow that you may not live long enough to see all of your content transferred. ...

iTunes 9.0.1 now in Software Update
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iTunes, Software Update Fire up your Software Updates, gang: the new version of iTunes is here -- with bug fixes and tweaks to help those who were suffering from iTunes 9 issues. The update's fixes include: Resolves issues browsing the iTunes ...

Apple iTunes 9.0.1 update goes live
Obsessable News Feed — ... , but you can look at the list below. Mac users can either visit the iTunes website and download the new version, or upgrade using the Software Update feature in ...

50 Common Mac Problems Solved
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... You may have also removed the iTunesHelper application from your Login Items in your Account System Preferences, which is required to automatically launch iTunes. You can get this back by reinstalling iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes) or by manually dragging iTunesHelper into the Login Items. iTunesHelper can be found by right-clicking on iTunes in the Finder and choosing Show Package Contents, then going to Contents > Resources. ...