Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store. (via feedly) (7)
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Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes? For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store. But it is quietly testing its own music download store which bypasses iTunes and Amazon and sells MP3s directly. For instance, this is the case with some Sub Pop artists, such as Iron and Wine and The Shins. ...
14 Free iTunes Visualizers (14)
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Apple’s iTunes application is perhaps the most popular app ever installed on the Mac. It’s also one of the least flexible, in terms of customization. There’s little you can do to “make it your own,” so to speak. However, all is not lost for habitual tweakers like myself; the iTunes Visualizer can satisfy your need to not leave well-enough alone. If you display your iTunes window on a second monitor, or just like to look ...
Michael Jackson Shatters Digital Sales Records (6)
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Michael Jackson is likely make more money in death than he ever did in life — the Elvis effect. And it’s already started. Jackson sold a record 2.6 million digital downloads in just one week, according to preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan. The sales make Jackson the first artist to sell more than one million digital songs in one week. The week before his death, Jackson sold 48,000 songs, illustrating how big a jump ...
iTunes U Gets Library of Congress Videos [Itunes U] (11)
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The Library of Congress just made a bunch of historical videos available on iTunes U. Now you can watch the original Edison films or Book Festival videos in a "University" setting without the need for booze or girls. Yay. [iTunes]
Batch tagging your iTunes videos the easy way (15)
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Filed under: Cool tools, How-tos, Tips and tricks"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietIf we applied Shakespeare's logic to today's digital age, then it would also mean that watching mis-tagged or untagged videos on your Apple device (be it a Mac, iPhone, iPod or Apple TV) would be just as enjoyable. Okay, you got me, they'd probably be just as good. But this doesn't mean you're ...
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Bevanski said:
This one is for you James... links in the article!
Here’s How iPhone App Store Ratings Work. Hint: They Don’t. (23)
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We’ve been a bit baffled by the system Apple has in place when it comes to ratings for applications in the App Store. Is it allowing apps with nudity? Not allowing them? Allowing them with a 17+ rating? We’ve talked to some developers willing to break their NDAs because they think the App Store approval process in general is messed up, and would like to see Apple do a better job handling it. So here’s ...
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Dan said:
Maybe they should just let iPhone users install applications without the App Store, like Android does. That way, they can preserve the purity of the App Store, while still allowing perverts who want porn on their iPhones to have it.
Become a Mac Power User: iTunes (5)
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We’ve posted Power User tips focusing on OS X as a whole (look for an update post for the not-far-off Snow Leopard) and the System Preferences. Today we’ll cast our gaze on iTunes. Listening to music on your Mac is like peanut butter and bananas — they just go together. iTunes is a fairly straightforward application, but it does offer some simple features, which may not be totally obvious to the casual user. So here ...
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Blake Caldwell said:
This is the best tip:Have you noticed that when you highlight a song in iTunes, little arrows appear next to the song, artist and album name? Clicking on those arrows tends to lead to spending money in the iTunes Store, as they’re links to similar music that you can purchase. Apple puts lots of “help” in there for you to spend more of your money (I’m looking at you, Genius sidebar), and while I don’t know about you, I certainly don’t need any more help giving Apple my money! So here’s a tip that you can use to make those arrows point inward to your own iTunes Library. Once you execute this tip, the arrows next to the song and the album will bring up all songs from that album. Clicking the arrow next to the artist, brings up all songs by that artist. This is much more useful!So go ahead and launch Terminal.app, which is found in Applications → Utilities. Once it’s open, type (or copy & paste) the following line into Terminal:defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
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Don Campbell said:
Some great iTunes tips I didn't know about
1 Million Palm Pre Apps Downloaded (8)
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Well, here’s a nice data point to consider in advance of Palm’s earnings tomorrow. The company’s Pre App Catalog, which has been widely criticized for its paltry selection, just reached one million downloads. Not bad for an app store that launched with just 18 applications and currently boasts only 30. Think of how many more downloads there might have been, if the company wasn’t so maniacally selective in its distribution of the WebOS SDK. “Just ...
Hacking Tips: Download Free Games for Your iPod (10)
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On the move, however nerdy it might sound, it’s always practical to have a gaming device at hand. You never know when you’re going to end up in line, stuck in traffic, or locked in an elevator for three days in a row. However, before I switched Windows Mobile, getting some decent games on my pre-historic cellphone was pretty much impossible, and one doesn’t string a PSP around his neck all day and expect to ...
Apple rejects a Commodore 64 emulating iPhone app that coulda been a contender (34)
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It's happened again. Apple has officially rejected an app that at first blush seems harmless and fun. This time it's a Commodore 64 emulator from Manomio that offered a realistic joystick and keyboard, portrait and landscape gaming, and a fully licensed C64 emulator code. It was all on the up and up. Apple seemed excited. But then Manomio got the dreaded rejection mail: Thank you for submitting C64 1.0 to the App Store. We've reviewed ...
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Taskinen said:
Vaikuttaisi hienolta, mutta Apple <3
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Ankush Narula said:
Boooo!
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Narisa said:
Too bad. Wouldve been so much fun. Maybe Apple will just buy it then realease it.
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Tim said:
Apple and the iPhone sucks :(
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Jason Shellen said:
Weak! I would be way down with this app.
Songbird 1.2 Integrates into iTunes and iPods [Downloads] (30)
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Songbird is a powerful, clever music manager, but iPod/iPhone integration is its Achilles' heel. The latest version aims to halfway heal that weakness by integrating tightly with iTunes playlists, while adding custom library management and Last.fm radio. Full import and export functionality from Songbird to iTunes does, in a way, make it possible to manage your iPod touch or iPhone music (and other iPods you could already could sync) from Songbird—you just have to ...
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Kir said:
Еще пара версий и глядишь и я переползу :)
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Maarek Stele said:
Eh, wake me when it works with a Zune.
What’s Ghetto? Pushing Digital Album Sales On Twitter (Video) (17)
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If Twitter is good for one thing, it is for promoting whatever it is you have to sell. Some of the best self-promoters out there are rappers, and they’ve taken to Twitter just like every other type of celebrity. Just as Twitter can drive traffic to Websites, it can also drive music sales on iTunes. On a panel at the 140 Characters Conference yesterday, Xavier Jernigan (@xjernigan, the director of digital marketing at Universal Motown ...
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Wayne Lewis said:
The Power of twitter just gets bigger and better.
Palm responds to iTunes / Pre statement, defiant and unfazed (6)
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We're still not 100 percent clear what Apple's next move is, but we do know they're a little more than nonplussed about Pre's ad hoc iTunes syncing methods. Despite Cupertino's update to its support site last night, Palm seems unconcerned, as relayed by a spokesperson to Digital Daily. In a statement, the company said disabling the sync "will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience" and ...
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Ian said:
"a little more than nonplussed" is great. so Apple is slightly plussed? (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=453)
Review: The New iPhone 3.0 Software Is a Must-Have Upgrade | Cult of Mac (10)
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It may take Microsoft three tries to get things right, but the same is also sometimes true of Apple. The iPhone 3.0 OS — a free update available on Wednesday for all iPhone owners — is a good example. Finally the iPhone has several must-have features it previously lacked, especially tethering, making the 3.0 software an essential upgrade. But the real pleasure is in the details. The 3.0 software includes a bunch of tweaks and ...
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Greg Brock said:
What you're getting with 3.0 (in case you didn't know or, like me forgot a bunch of this)
Apple Fine Print Warns That Palm Pre iTunes Syncing Could Die [Smartphones] (5)
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Apple took to their support pages, informing Palm that they could disable the Pre's compatibility with iTunes—without actually saying as much. Daring Fireball was first to point out the support article, titled "iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players." In the one paragraph article, Apple writes: Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App ...
Apple says iTunes syncing only for Apple devices, looks sternly at Palm (6)
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Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Apple, webOS Looks like Apple's response to the Pre's support for iTunes syncing is starting to take form -- a snippy little note titled "About unsupported third-party digital media players" was just posted to the company's support site. The money quote: Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple's iTunes software may no longer ...
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Troy said:
Yat! Evil Apple is back now that they're on top
Apple says iTunes syncing only for Apple devices, looks sternly at Palm (17)
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Looks like Apple's response to the Pre's support for iTunes syncing is starting to take form -- a snippy little note titled "About unsupported third-party digital media players" was just posted to the company's support site. The money quote: Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple's iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital ...
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Lindsay said:
Palm Pre syncing and being identified as an ipod is a freaking great sneak-in - Apple operates in their own little anti-competitive world - hopefully it's all about to end.
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C. M. Strecker said:
Couldn't they just do some sort of firmware and software update that would change the way the iPod communicates with iTunes and break it that way?
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Ryo said:
Another reason to get rid of this propriety iTunes crap!
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Ian said:
benevolent dictator or iron-fisted tyrant?
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bfos7215 said:
FU Apple.
Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image (18) permalink
In all of the fuss to rush to Twitter or fawn over some viral videos on YouTube, there's a subtle and ever-growing audio platform that seems to have lost some its lustre in terms of public excitement, but continues to grow in terms of loyal audience. Podcasting continues to be one of the best ways to consume audio and video content. A good portion of this content is available free in places like iTunes, and ...Shared by Joe Dawson (370) Kneale Mann (28) Mike Fruchter (54) Mitch Joel (7) Rizzn (24) Saul (6) Sean (8) siansleep (2)Comment View comments
