Google Says Apple Owns the Letter "i", and Craigslist the "s"
louisgray.com — ... of September 21, 2008: a = Links in HTML documents from www.w3.org. b = Physical Review B from aps.org. c = C (programming language from wikipedia.org. d = Physical Review D from aps.org. e = E! Entertainment Online f = Ford Motor Company Stock from Yahoo! Finance. g = Gmail from Google. h = Hydrogen from wikipedia.org. i = Apple: iPod + iTunes from apple.com. j = The Letter J from wikipedia.org. ...

Is There a Long Tail to My iTunes Library? The Stats Tell All.
louisgray.com — Having long ago passed the point where I could realistically listen to all my music on my iTunes library in a matter of days or weeks, I set up a number of smart playlists that help me to rediscover old music, sorted by the most recent time I played the song. (See: ...

TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 06-Oct-08
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... iTunes 8.0.1 from Apple fixes several bugs related to new features introduced in iTunes 8.0. The Genius feature now plays the current song when you create a new Genius playlist (instead of restarting the song at the beginning) and also syncs its results to an iPod. The VoiceOver accessibility feature is also improved, as well as syncing spoken menus to the iPod nano. This release also fixes a problem when checking for updates at the App Store and no longer deletes HD TV episodes when downloading the SD versions. (Free, 58.5 MB) ...

Software Updates and New Releases for Week Ending 2008-10-04 [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... you use it over Photoshop or even some of the newer Flash-based online editors? Let me know your thoughts! [10.4/10.5; Intel/PPC] Free! ReceiptWallet - 2.0.8 - This minor update will make folks in Switzerland happy (fixes an issue with that locale), but also fixes a couple of other annoyances (a “Cancel” button one that was – on occasion – catching me) and a few bugs. [10.4/10.5; Intel/PPC] US$39.95 Apple iTunes - 8.0.1 & Apple TV - 2.2 - As you saw on TAB, iTunes and ...

YouTube Launches Ecommerce Platform
WebProNews Feed — ... content in a new and exciting way and create a deeper distribution channel for their content online," said Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO, YouTube."Our goal is to improve the overall YouTube experience by connecting consumers with relevant information and entertaining content. The addition of retail links will enhance the viewing experience and allow people to engage more deeply with the content they want to consume."The company says non-obtrusive retail links to buy songs from iTunes and ...

BehindTheMedspeak: iPhone heart monitor — 'No, I'm not surfing the net in the OR; I'm monitoring the patient'
bookofjoe — ... As if. Created by John Ballinger. "A real heart monitor that uses the inbuilt microphone to hear and detect your heart rate." Think outside your own heart rate space. $4.99 from iTunes stores everywhere. [via Alistair Why] ...

BehindTheMedspeak: iAnesthesia — it's a gas gas gas
bookofjoe — ... log entry screen to place the most used fields at the top of each screen or hide unused fields, making data entry as simple as possible (and accomplished in the shortest amount of time) i have cc'd dr. trask on this email in case you'd like to speak with him further. i know he would greatly appreciate any feedback you have regarding iAnesthesia. thanks for your time! tyler.................... iAnesthesia is $19.99 at iTunes stores everywhere. If only there were an iPhone app that would do my cases ...

Cooliris for iPhone
SolSie.com — Cooliris for iPhone We’ve got some exciting news to announce from Cooliris ! Now you can experience Cooliris anywhere and anytime by navigating the mobile web with their brand new iPhone App. [image] Searching the Web with the Cooliris iPhone app displays your results in the same intuitive, easy-to-navigate manner you’ve come to expect from the Cooliris web client. The Cooliris iPhone app overcomes the traditional limitations of mobile internet browsing by coupling the breezy, open-ended feel of the 3D Wall with the streamlined hands-on interface of the iPhone touchscreen. Cooliris for the iPhone ...

Guest Post :: Using Windows on a Mac
The Mac Lawyer — ... As far as partitioning, it’s pretty safe to split your drive into two equal parts.  However, I find I am using the Windows side more, and when I downloaded iTunes for Windows, and copied all of my songs over to the Windows side, the partitions got full pretty fast with my music (so I use ...

Lala reformula-se e promete revolucionar a comercialização de músicas online
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — A web não fala de outra coisa hoje senão a reformulação do serviço musical online Lala, reformulado ao ponto de você não ter que sequer abrir qualquer aplicativo adicional para ouvir canções online — um misto de Pandora com iTunes Store, quem sabe… e livre de propagandas! O serviço já existe há algum tempo e oferece a transmissão gratuita de músicas uma única vez que, após pagamento de 10 centavos de dólar, habilita a transmissão ilimitada para o usuário. A companhia convenceu as quatro grandes gravadoras musicais — EMI ...

Guest Post :: Getting the Most Out of Boot Camp
The Mac Lawyer — ... What about when you're on the PC side and want to interact with your Mac files?  As Todd mentioned regarding sharing iTunes, there are ways around it, but they're sloppy and inefficient -- at worst copying all the same files to both volumes, and at best using some online substitute like ...

Clean up your iTunes collection with TuneUp (invites)
The Next Web — ... , and some specific friends on Twitter supply us with inspiration for new songs and albums. There’s only one downside.., my iTunes collection is a mess. ...

First Look: Songbird Finally Gives iTunes Some Competition [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... . One area where Apple seems to have a stranglehold, though, is in the general media players category. Let’s face it, almost every Mac user uses iTunes as the primary way to store, organize and playback media. iTunes is also the de-facto way to get content–music, video or applications–onto your iPod or iPhone. iTunes, to put it bluntly, is its own monopoly with no competition–until now. ...

Microsoft enhances the Zune service with MP3s
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Is it small enough for the masses? I'm guessing no. Zune's main problem is that, like every other subscription music service, it doesn't work with the world's most popular portable music player. I say that even though I really like the latest line of flash-based Zunes. They sound great, work snappily, and have one magical  (to me) feature that iPods can't replicate: they can connect wirelessly to the Net and play tracks from the Zune library (provided, of course, that the owner subscribes to the Zune Pass service). They're not just MP3 players, they're high-tech radios ...

iTunes 8.0.2 Improves VoiceOver, More
iPodObserver — ... Apple released iTunes 8.0.2 along with iPhone Software 2.2 early Friday morning. The update for the multimedia management application improved accessibility with VoiceOver, corrected issues when connecting to the iTunes Store through proxies, improved quality when making MP3s, and fixed several bugs. iTunes 8.0.2 is free and available via the Software Update application, or as a downloadable installer at the Apple Web site. ...

iTunes 8.0.2 out the door
The Apple Core — ... iTunes 8.0.2 out the door iTunes 8.0.2 is out and waiting in your software update. The incremental update to Apple’s venerable jukebox application “improves stability and performance” and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

Guest Post :: Daylite Is Like Origami
The Mac Lawyer — ... I really don't know of anything out there that can tie in everything like Daylite does in a multi-user environment at Daylite's price point on the Mac platform. Trust me, I have looked; I suffer from NGA (next greatest app disease) myself. And of course, Apple's App store in iTunes isn't helping me any with that. But as hard as I've searched, I still haven't found anything that can compete with Daylite. I've even found a way to follow ...

What Happened to Facebook Connect for the iPhone?
louisgray.com — ... , iTunes, and some amazing potential examples on the iPhone.  The iPhone examples included screenshots of what it would be like if games included Facebook profiles within the games.  For instance, you could play Cro-Mag Rally with your Facebook friends online if the game were to integrate the framework.  Imagine the data that applications could post to Facebook in addition to retrieving the already rich platform Facebook provides.  Now, a true location-aware social network could really be possible, because most of the apps you use could potentially share that ...

First Installs on a New PC: What’s Yours?
Technology - Channel Feed — ... XPS M1330 fiasco—so I decided to kit together a budget gaming PC. Those 1680 x 1050 of LCD-driven goodness seemed more suited for entertainment after all. Taking a few cues from extremetech.com, modifying the setup according to parts availability, I now write with this with my new speedy machine. Here’s what I installed after Windows and the hardware drivers (in this particular order): Firefox Flash Player Plugin (for Firefox) AVG Free Edition iTunes (comes with QuickTime) Picasa Yahoo Messenger Skype µTorrent ...

Wakoopa: Most Used Apps of 2008
ReadWriteWeb — ... . iTunes is a surprising miss on the most-used applications list for Windows (in fact, no media player made it); however, on OS X, iTunes is the platform's most popular media player, landing in fourth place on the list. ...

MacWorld 09: No Biggie
dailywireless.org — ... The price for DRM-free tracks — which are available from all four major recording labels, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI — remains at 99 cents each. Schiller also announced a future change in ...

Browse the iTunes Store Without Installing iTunes Software
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... Nikhil’s iTunes App Store doesn’t have search but you can easily do that with without the desktop software, just go to itunes.apple.com and use the search box available near the iTunes showcase box. ...

YTPodcaster makes video podcasts from YouTube videos
Download Squad — ... YouTube lets you subscribe to channels so that you'll never miss a video from your friends, favorite filmmaker, or whoever else is uploading the videos that you crave. But what if you want to subscribe to a channel using iTunes, ...

Apple finally launches HD TV shows for UK iTunes
T3.com All — ... TV on iTunes last September, we ve been crossing of the days off on the T3 calendar in anticipation for it to hit the UK. And now it s here. But with all good news, there s a bit of bad. At the moment, only season 5 of Lost is available which is currently being show on Sky - and it will set you back 2.49 per episode and a not-so-wallet-friendly 41.99 for the series. Great news for Lost fans, but for all of you who just want a sneak peek there s a five minute clip available on iTunes 8 to keep your boat afloat. Link: ...

Lost launches in HD on iTunes UK, first TV show to be available in HD
T3.com All — ... Kate and the gang to the iTunes store - and it's the first HD show to be available here. That's certainly something to cheer John Locke up. If you don't have Sky at home, you'll be pleased to know you can download them from today, for 2.49 per episode, or 41.99 for the series. A little on the pricey side, but it means you won't miss a single episode of the hit TV series. Great news for Lost fans, but for all of you who just want a sneak peek there s a five minute clip available on iTunes 8 to keep your boat afloat. Link: ...

Music on my iPhone: week commencing 26/1
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... (note: all my music is paid-for and comes through iTunes – but you can find these tracks on other paid-for services I’m sure – there seem to be a plethora of them now!) ...

iTunes Store bumps up the HD content
T3.com All — ... a great selection, but if you want to test out that HD-friendly TV or monitor, this is a relatively cheap way of doing it. And with a good selection of BBC content heading to iTunes very soon, things will only get better. Not that you get full HD, the clips are 720p quality, but if you're watching Skins, we suspect that's not going to be a big issue. Shows cost between 1.99 and 2.49 for single episodes, full series retailing for around the same price as buying the Blu-ray. Link: iTunes (via ...

YouTube's New Monetization Strategy: Pay-Per-Download
Contentinople: — ... prices for the videos and choose which licenses they want to attach to the downloaded videos. End users then make payments for the downloads with Google Checkout . The pay-per-download model could offer YouTube and its content partners the possibility of a new revenue stream, which is particularly important in a difficult advertising market. But the service doesn't appear to be much of a threat to established paid download services, like Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)'s iTunes or Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) Video on Demand .  For one thing, ...

Syncing Apps With Dropbox [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... is kept in sync wonderfully! Other Applications Things is simply used as an example here. A few other applications, along with the location of their library/preferences data are: Camino: User/Library/Application Support/Camino LittleSnapper: Simply alter the library location in the app preferences 1Password: Change the library location in the app preferences (more info iTunes: See our walkthrough Bento: User/Library/Application ...

DropPlay: Listen to YouTube Music with Your Facebook Friends
ReadWriteWeb — ... of the cloud-based applications Facebook Connect and the YouTube API, DropPlay weaves together a site that both organizes and lets you share your favorite YouTube music and playlists that you create. Unlike similar service Muziic (previously covered here) the entire experience is web-based, using Facebook Connect to store your profile and sharing data. Sponsor DropPlay describes itself as a combination of iTunes, Facebook, Pandora and YouTube. The interface is fairly ...

CBS Pushes March Madness to iPhone Owners
Contentinople: — ... that will allow owners of the iPhone and iPod Touch devices access to live video from all 63 games of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The network said today that it will also sell all games from the Final Four in Detroit for $1.99 each through Apple's iTunes Store the day after they are completed. CBS developed the mobile March Madness on Demand application with ...

Library Of Congress On YouTube, iTunes
Tech Daily Dose — New channels on video-sharing Web site YouTube and the Apple iTunes service will allow the Library of Congress to begin sharing content from its vast video and audio collections. The channels, which will be rolled out in the coming weeks, will include 100-year-old films from the Thomas Edison studio; book talks with contemporary authors; early industrial films from Westinghouse factories; first-person audio accounts of life in slavery; and inside looks into the library's fascinating holdings. Among them, the rough draft of the Declaration of ...

Birdsong Radio
Boing Boing — ... I was just stumbling around in the ambient section of iTunes' radio listings, and found a radio station that plays nothing but recorded birdsongs. I think its' pretty wonderful. ...

Apple makes buying iTunes music easy as 1-2-3
TG Daily - All News — ... labels charge Apple , songs on iTunes will be available at one of three price points: 69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29, with most albums still priced at $9.99." [Our bolding. -Editor] The songs are in the iTunes Plus format, which is a 256 Kbps format that, according to Apple, provides "audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings." Apple still provides many songs for free download, as well as many live radio broadcasts, which are also free. Launch or download Apple's iTunes 8.1.1 (70.9 MB download) to see the new prices. Opinion Do not be fooled by ...

Apple changes iTunes pricing strategy
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... the disc to reach a new generation of consumers who are able to consume music on any device, it's not just the track any more." In a bid to compete against the might of iTunes this week, Amazon announced it was discounting 100 of its tracks, including Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face' and Lily Allen's 'The Fear'. As iTunes has around 70 per cent of the online music market, Amazon may have to discount more tunes if it is to properly compete.Related Links Apple iTunes ...

Could e-books help Quinn Bradlee?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Could e-books and related tech help Quinn Bradlee, the son of two famous Washington journalists? And how? Speak up. Meanwhile, below, is a review of Quinn’s new hardback, A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures—also available for the Kindle, the Sony Reader and, let’s hope, other formats. iTunes, Audible and eMusic.com offer audio editions. – D.R. What if your father is Ben Bradlee, your ...

Amazon Pitches HD Movies on Demand
Contentinople: — Following a similar move by Apple Corp. s rival iTunes store, Amazon.com began selling high-definition movies and TV shows through its Amazon Video On Demand site. Amazon said late Tuesday that it's distributing high-def movies and TV shows from several major studios and TV networks, including Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc ., Sony Pictures , Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and Showtime Networks. Web surfers can download HD movies and TV shows directly to their computers. They ...

Apple App Store hits one billion landmark
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... The App Store arrived back on July 11 2008 with the second version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G, giving users access to third party applications both free and paid for. ...

Microsoft ahora ataca al iPod con su Zune Pass
Gizmología — ... Os pongo en situación, Microsoft, desesperada en EE.UU. por vender su reproductor Zune ha puesto en circulación esta campaña que intenta comparar el coste de llenar el iPod con menos memoria con iTunes y con Zune Pass. Zune Pass es un servicio de suscripción de Microsoft, con el que puedes descargar absolutamente lo que quieras en su Zune Marketplace por $15 al mes, la comparativa es la siguiente: llenar un iPod por $30.000 o llenar un Zune por $15 al mes… Lo que Microsoft no te dice es que las canciones de Zune Pass incluyen ...

Slingplayer now available on the iPhone
T3.com All — ... control over your synched gadgetry, and access to the Guide on your SKY+ and such. You will need to stay in a wi-fi area to use the app and get content on the phone. There are still some issues to be ironed out regarding the 3G and the amount of bandwidth we'd all use. It looks to work a treat in the review on techradar . So, if you have an iPhone get a Slingbox, and if you have a Slingbox get an iPhone sharpish. Links: Apple | Slingmedia | Buy one here: iTunes | Amazon Related links: [image] ...

Slingplayer now available on the iPhone
T3.com News — ... in a wi-fi area to use the app and get content on the phone. There are still some issues to be ironed out regarding the 3G and the amount of bandwidth we'd all use.   It looks to work a treat in the review on techradar. So, if you have an iPhone get a Slingbox, and if you have a Slingbox get an iPhone sharpish.   Links: Apple | Slingmedia |   Buy one here: iTunes | Amazon

Napster Slashes Unlimited Streaming Pricing
Contentinople: — ... is focused for now on its music offering. Allen said he couldn't comment on future plans when asked if Napster was discussing distribution options with movie studios. "We're very focused on music, and taking it to a mass-market audience. That's our primary task now," he added. Allen said the new $5 subscription package will be available on Napster.com later today. Napster is also launching a new download manager, which will integrate with Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)'s iTunes and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s Windows Media Player. When a user buys a ...

How to Become a More Frugal Web Worker [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... or iTunes. Most of the downloads from iTunes are paid, so you might be wondering what makes it frugal. For me, ...

QuickTime 7.6.2 and iTunes 8.2 software update
MacCentre701 — ... website, it is available in separate versions for Mac OS X Leopard (57MB) , Tiger (48MB) and Windows XP SP2 or Vista (20.92MB) . iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes. For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 iTunes 8.2 can be downloaded from iTunes website. ...

Online Distribution Threatens TV Ad Revenue
Contentinople: — ... basic cable networks on Hulu and other Web video sites, content suppliers are also risking $21.5 billion in revenue generated by cable and satellite affiliates, Credit Suisse warns in the report: The good news is that digital distribution is a more profitable business for Hollywood studios, which typically generate profit margins of 60 percent to 65 percent on DVD sales, compared to margins of 85 percent for digital distribution, Wang said. With Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)'s iTunes store, Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN)'s Video On Demand store , and ...

WWDC Recap :: Safari 4 Released
The Mac Lawyer — ... Cover Flow :: You can review your site history and bookmarked sites by viewing a full-page preview of each website that looks exactly as it did on your last visit.  Simply flip through website previews in Cover Flow the same way you flip through album art in iTunes. Of course, when you find the site you want, simply click to open it. ...

How to Create Custom iPhone Ringtones for Free
The Mac Lawyer — For better or worse, ringtones are here to stay, and everyone seems to want to personalize them.  Fortunately, you can now create simple, free iPhone ringtones from your iTunes library.  I have made several for myself, and you can too by following these easy steps: Open iTunes 8 and find the song you want to turn in to a ringtone Right click on that song and select “Get Info” On the “Options” tab, use the “Start Time” and “End Time” boxes to customize the start and ...

Free DVD to iPod Converter from Aimersoft
Free iPod Touch Apps | Free iPod Touch Games | AppleRepo.com — ... 1,2 and 3. One can open the converter installed on the computer. After the converter has opened then one can drag or import the video files into the software. After the files are imported then one has to select the output option as mp4. Other settings can also be changed such as the frame rate or the bit rate for the audio etc. After the files are converted which would obviously take time one can add it to their iPod. That too can be only done through Apples trademark software iTunes. After opening iTunes one has to add the files and then from the left ...

What the iPhone teaches us about cloud adoption
iPhone Atlas — ... The iPhone isn't a technology--at least, not a new category of technology--but rather a platform that delivers a new operations model for mobile device consumers. iTunes and the ...

Drinkspiration: An iPhone app that picks a drink for you
Newlaunches.com — ... Drinkspiration is the brainchild of Absolut. It will also be available for Google Android G3. Currently, the iPhone version is available for download from iTunes . [ ...

The Best Way to Create Ringtones for iPhones
The Mac Lawyer — ... You simply (1) select the media file (from iTunes or anywhere on your Mac), (2) drag it into RingtoneStudio, (3) use the slider to select the portion you want on your ringtone, and (4) click create.  RingtoneStudio then creates the ringtone and automatically places it in the "Ringtones" section of your iTunes Library. ...

iTunes 8.2.1 released
MacCentre701 — ... iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes. iTunes 8.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices. iTunes 8.2.1 can be downloaded from iTunes website. Join our discussion - “ ...

iPods Headed for the Grave Despite Zany New Features [Proclamations]
Gizmodo — ... to decline over time as we cannibalize ourselves" with iPhone and iPod Touch. They readily admit that iPod Touches sell like hotcakes while demand for clickwheel iPods has slackened. It's just a puzzle that when these devices should be on life-support, Apple seems to be want to push them further. [iPod/iTunes] ...

iPods Headed for the Grave [Proclamations]
Gizmodo — ... to decline over time as we cannibalize ourselves" with iPhone and iPod Touch. They readily admit that iPod Touches sell like hotcakes while demand for clickwheel iPods has slackened. It's just a puzzle that when these devices should be on life-support, Apple seems to be want to push them further. [iPod/iTunes] ...

iPhone Making Your Travel Easy and Fun Filled
Free iPod Touch Apps | Free iPod Touch Games | AppleRepo.com — ... The latest craze of smart phones like iPhone has really helped a lot when it comes to a proper guidance while you are traveling in an unknown destination and assistance to make you aware about the local flavors, and all this within matter of seconds. In fact the Apple iPhone apps store has so many features to offer right from step by step guidance to your travel to the informations you would like to share with your friends, family and even strangers. The variety of options available in the ...

Download iPhone OS 3.0.1 Firmware
Redmond Pie — ... This update is only available through iTunes, and will not appear in your computer’s Software Update application, or in the Apple Downloads site. Make sure you have an internet connection and have installed the latest version of iTunes from www.apple.com/itunes/ will automatically check Apple’s update server on its weekly schedule. When an update is detected, it will download it. When the iPhone is docked, iTunes will present the user with the option to install the update. We recommend applying the update immediately if possible. Selecting ...

Vator.tv – Wake Up to the Closed System, and add your video content to iTunes please!
Josh Chandler — ... The one key element people are beginning to rely on is the convergence of this media from a content provider being readily available on podcast directiores such as iTunes and ...

Gadgetell Guide: Must have travel gear - iPhone edition
Gadgetell — ... iPhone/iPod touch: $99 (plus 2-year contract)/$229 and up (though, with an expected upgrade to the iPod touch next month, hold off just a little bit) ...

Apple Readying Wednesday Announcement: New iPods, Apple TV?
TechWeb — ... Touch. In addition, an upgrade of Apple's iTunes store is also likely, and at least one analyst believes there's a chance Apple could introduce a $700 MacBook and a ...

Apple Slashes Prices of All iPod Devices Before “It’s Only Rock and Roll” Event
GEARFUSE — ... the 32 GB model is now $279, down from the high price of $399. Classics and Nanos also took a moderate price break. The 120 GB Classic is now down to $229, down from $249, and the Nano models being slashed down from $149 and $199 for the 8 GB and 16 GB models respectively, down to $129 and $149. Apple is definitely making room for something new in the iPod department. And is it me, or did the 80 GB Classic get the boot? Or is that old news? Help me out here people. Link

Apple iTunes 9 announced, home sharing, app organization, no social networking
Boy Genius Report — Looks like part of what we reported turned out to be true — but the social networking element isn’t anywhere to found it seems. Apple’s iTunes 9 is now officially official and there’s some great features in here. Application organization for iPhone/iPod touch apps, home sharing which will share your entire iTunes content on up to five machines, support for iTunes LP (referred to as project Cocktail in the past) and much more. Read

Apple to Release iTunes 9 Today
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... bunch of additional, moderate improvements round out the new software, such as an update to Genius music recommendations. Within iTunes, Facebook and Twitter users can add links to the store on those social services. Movie purchases can come with extras that are similar to DVD bonus content, while music "LP" sales will include notes, photos, and other additions. An iTunes Store redesign also updates its navigation. Get the free download within Software Update, or from Apple when it goes live later today.

Apple Nano: $150 with Camera
dailywireless.org — ... The iTunes Store gets a new look, along with improved artists, movies, and TV pages and a “cleaner” layout, Jobs says. ...

iTunes 9 Refines Crowdsourcing and Sharing Features
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... At the special Rock and Roll event today, Apple unveiled a new version of the near-ubiquitous media application iTunes. The latest version introduces a variety of features, including some that respond to user requests and others that are clearly just what Apple (or Steve Jobs, who was back on stage with a much younger liver) wants to see. ...

Apple disses touch, adds video to nano, color to shuffle
Infinite Loop — ... , Apple also unveiled its revamped line of iPod portable media devices today during a special media event. While the classic, touch and even shuffle got slight changes in capacity and new pricing, the nano was the star of the show, getting a new built-in video camera and several new features. The move baffled nearly everyone, including a number of angry folks hoping the iPod touch would get a camera and possibly GPS features to make it more comparable to the iPhone. ...

Apple disses touch, adds video to nano, color to shuffle
Ars Technica — ... , Apple also unveiled its revamped line of iPod portable media devices today during a special media event. While the classic, touch and even shuffle got slight bumps in capacity and new pricing, the nano was the star of the show, getting a new built-in video camera and several new features. The move baffled nearly everyone, including a number of angry folks hoping the iPod touch would get a camera and possibly GPS features to make it more comparable to the iPhone. ...

With the iPhone 3.1 update little things mean a lot
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Sometimes it's the smallest thing in a software update that means the most to some users. This latest iPhone update contains a few little gems that should not be lost in all the excitement over new iPod hardware. ...

iPhone Developers See Sales Slump After App Store Changes
TechWeb — The changes Apple made to its App Store through the release of iTunes 9 are being met with a mixture of gratitude and worry by iPhone developers. There's appreciation for changes that improve app exposure but some developers, particularly smaller ones, are seeing a decline in sales. Beyond the ongoing controversy over Apple's management of the iPhone app approval process -- which culminated in the unusual public posting of Apple's response to an FCC inquiry about the way Apple vets apps -- there's the more mundane difficulty the company faces in managing its success. In ...

Hands-on with the new iPod nano, part 2
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... got delayed by a household medical emergency, as described in one of our nano example videos above. It did give me a bit more time to go a little more hands on with the nano video camera, and the end result is satisfactory. You're not going to buy this nano for the camera, it's just a bonus feature. Will it be the deal breaker over buying a nano versus another iPod, an ...

Apple Improves iTunes 9 With Syncing, Visual Enhancements
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... and improved navigation throughout the site. Along with movies, users will have access to special features they can download in their iTunes libraries, such as interviews , trailers or images. The new iTunes 9 is available as a free download here.

The Secrets Behind Great Design: IDSA Announces Catalyst Case Study Winners
Fast Company - Technology — ... studies in the organization’s Catalyst Awards program--four compelling stories of breakthrough design and how they came to be. This year’s winners include OXO Good Grips, the comfortable, functional kitchen tools that began as one man’s attempt to design comfortable tools for his arthritic wife; Whirlpool’s audacious pledge to be number one in its industry in innovation; Black & Decker’s Dustbuster, which created a whole new mass-market category; and Apple’s iPod-iTunes-iPhone system that completely upended the music industry. The Catalyst ...

The Problem with Apple Software Updates
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... On 09/09/09, Apple released iTunes 9.0. The software had a beautiful UI but it was a little buggy as it would hang every time I tried searching for a podcast show on the iTunes store. ...

Shazam's Newest Fan Is Kleiner Perkins's iFund
NYT > Technology — ... in start-ups that develop applications for the iPhone. It has invested an undisclosed amount in Shazam, which had previously raised $12.3 million from Acacia Capital and DN Capital. Shazam’s app has been downloaded 10 million times on the iPhone and has 50 million users across all platforms, including BlackBerry and Android phones. It already helps people discover new music and results in more purchases from the iTunes Store than any other company, said Matt Murphy, the Kleiner Perkins partner who manages the iFund. Shazam will add other ways to find new music, like ...

Shazam's Newest Fan Is Kleiner Perkins's iFund
Bits — ... in start-ups that develop applications for the iPhone. It has invested an undisclosed amount in Shazam, which had previously raised $12.3 million from Acacia Capital and DN Capital. Shazam’s app has been downloaded 10 million times on the iPhone and has 50 million users across all platforms, including BlackBerry and Android phones. It already helps people discover new music and results in more purchases from the iTunes Store than any other company, said Matt Murphy, the Kleiner Perkins partner who manages the iFund. Shazam will add other ways to find new music, like ...

Fawlty Towers released on iTunes
T3.com All — ... features including commentaries and interviews with John Cleese, which will be downloadable free of charge from the iTunes store. John Cleese commented on the release, It's so pleasing to see that Fawlty Towers continues to make the British public laugh. I think fans will find the commentaries interesting and understand better the process of making the shows. I hope this will lead to a lot of laughing out loud in public places." We're sure it will John, we're sure it will. Link: iTunes Top 10 Blu-ray/upscalers/one-box home movies/media streamers LG HT903 DVD system Home ...

Fawlty Towers released on iTunes
T3.com News — ... with John Cleese, which will be downloadable free of charge from the iTunes store. John Cleese commented on the release saying “it's so pleasing to see that Fawlty Towers continues to make the British public laugh. I think fans will find the commentaries interesting and understand better the process of making the shows. I hope this will lead to a lot of laughing out loud in public places." We're sure it will John, we're sure it will. Link: iTunes Top 10 Blu-ray/upscalers/one-box home movies/media ...

iPhone Helps Apple Profit Rise 47 Percent; Stock Leaps
Digital Trends — ... As Apple’s iPhone, which has iPod features built in, has grown in popularity, Apple’s regular iPod music player business has suffered. The company sold 10.2 million iPods in the quarter, 8 percent fewer than last year, even though Apple unveiled a new iPod Nano with a video camera in September. ...

EU: Breakthrough on Online Music Rights
Digital Trends — ... top antitrust official on Wednesday described a deal among Apple Inc.’s iTunes, music companies, distributors and online licensing groups as a “great breakthrough” that would roll out more Internet music sales across Europe. ...

Looking for Music You’ve Never Heard Before?
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... The Genius Sidebar feature of iTunes can help you discover new music based on what you like already. Select a song in your iTunes library, and the Genius sidebar will show you recommendations live from the iTunes Store. You can preview a 30 second segment of the song and purchase it from the iTunes store directly from the Genius sidebar. ...

Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2 and Apple TV 3.0 updates
MacFixIt — Apple has released a couple of updates: one for iTunes, bringing the latest software version to 9.0.2, and the other for Apple TV, which updates the software to version 3.0. These updates were released together because the update to iTunes adds support for the new Apple TV software. In addition to support and stability, a few new and requested features have been added to both of these updates. iTunes 9.0.2 -- This update adds support for Apple TV version 3.0, and also adds an option to have a dark background when viewing songs and albums in "Grid" view, a feature of previous ...

iTunes updated to 9.0.2, kills Pre Sync again
Tech Ticker — ...   Apple’s cat and mouse game with Palm continues. iTunes has been updated, taking it to v9.0.2 and expectedly breaking Pre sync yet again. As for other improvements related to Apple products, you get support for Apple TV’s latest firmware, improved look, improved iTunes store looks, support to organize iPhone and iPod Touch home screens, HE-AAC encoding and playback and more. iTunes is now available for download from here. Share on: ...

De-glitched, the C64's Up and Running Again
NYT > Personal Tech — The on-again, off-again Commodore 64 app for Apple is on again in the iTunes app store , now improved over the original version that appeared—but only briefly—in September. The colorful app that mimics one of the world’s favorite personal computers had become the subject of a drawn-out approval process that pitted Apple against ...

Apple and Live Nation Unveil iTunes Live Music
Apple Forums & iPhone Forums, Mods, Hacks, News, Themes, Downloads, and more! | ModMyi.com - 4,711,751,911 — ... In this regard, Apple's partnership with Live Nation is pure genius. As the Wired coverage explains, Apple and Live Nation own both the recording rights to the concerts as well as the venues in which they were recorded. Live Nation, for example, recorded the material at eighty of its venues. And given the scope and reach of Live Nation, music fans can count on a steady stream of new and old recordings to continue pouring in. From the official announcement by Apple: ...

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Tweetie 2.1 for iPhone Adds New Retweet, Lists Support
iPhone News Updated — ... Tweetie 2.1 is priced at US$2.99 and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store. The update is free for version 2 users. ...