The Big eBook App Roundup

During the last year I went from eBook skeptic to eBook convert. Surprisingly I do most of my eBook reading on my iPhone using iBooks. On the phone I just prefer iBooks to the Kindle app. On the iPad it’s closer but I try and keep one reader. I primarily buy on the Kindle only [...]

Groove

Gabe has a great review of Groove for iOS. Almost makes me want to buy it. Which, since I’m so playlist focused, is high praise indeed for both the review and product.

Fixing Lectures with iTunes Match

My one remaining problem with iTunes Match is how to deal with a slew of lectures on various technical topics (primarily philosophy). iTunes Match doesn’t match most of them (weirdly it does some) and thus won’t sync them to my iPhone. So the question is how to listen to them on my phone. The solution [...]

iTunes Match

I’ve been using iTunes Match for about a month now. I actually like it a great deal. Surprisingly since I was pretty cautious about signing up. However being able to get all my songs when I want them on any of my devices is pretty nice. I’d read about tracks that Apple wouldn’t pick up. [...]

Tech Podcasts

As many know both Build and Analyze and Hypocritical are ending. I have to admit that both were among the top blogs I’ve listened to. Dan at 5by5 has come up with some replacements but none of them have (as yet) been as compelling as those two shows. I have to admit that while I was at [...]

Update iTunes Font

I must be one of the few who really like Helvetica. I definitely prefer it to Lucinda Grande which is the main system font. A lot of people have been complaining about changing the font. Here’s how you do it. (HT: Ars)

iTunes 11

So iTunes 11 is finally out. Honestly I’d have preferred they had taken an other month and finished making it better. It’s pretty disappointing in many ways. The Get Info windows are still modal. Seriously? You do a rewrite and you leave Carbon styled modal windows rather than a Cocoa styled Inspector? Color is back [...]

Siegler on Maps and iTunes

Fascinating post by M. G. Siegler primarily about maps but with an interesting aside about iTunes at the end. There is also some chatter about iTunes 11. It has been a not-so-well-kept secret that Apple has been trying to completely re-write the software for a long time. There have been several false starts and scrapping [...]

The New iTunes

Honestly most of what appeared today was exactly what we expected. And I’m happy. I’ll be ordering an iPhone 5 as soon as I’m able even if I’m a tad annoyed they don’t have a black connection adaptor. Only the new Nano seemed odd with a distinctly bad design (IMO). To me the biggest news [...]

Drang on Podcast Apps

Earlier this week Dr. Drang had a great post on Podcast apps. (Check the comments too) At his suggestion I tried Downcast and have really liked it. It has a very nice iPad version as part of the purchase. Even though I primarily use it on my iPhone it’s nice to have the iPad interface. I [...]

Cleaning iTunes: The Return

A few years back I had decided to finally clean up my iTunes library using Python and Appscript. I posted the scripts I’d used to do this. (1, 2, 3, 4) I also had a quasi-working script to look up missing information like albums and the like from various online libraries but ended up not [...]

Do You Ping?

So. Do you Ping? Ping is Apple’s new music social media service integrated into iTunes. The new version of iTunes, version 10, has been controversial to say the least. It made a number of pointless and arguably counterproductive UI features like making most of the icons grey. Want to fix the appearance? Check out this [...]

On iTunes 10

I had a post half written about my thoughts this week and decided everything was enough of a non-story so as to not say much. I mean most of what happened was expected and the (disappointing) AppleTV was at best a slight upgrade (Netflix streaming) along with a better price. I think Apple dropped the [...]

Managing Multiple Sized Copies of Movies in iTunes

OK, I’ll confess upfront I’ve not tried this one yet although I hope to tomorrow. I got this info from Ars. The basic problem is when you have a movie you’ve ripped but you want to watch it both on your Apple TV and your iPhone. Now ideally you’d want two different sizes. The iPhone [...]

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