How To Back Up Your iTunes Library - Video

After all the hard work you’ve done to build up your iTunes music library, you certainly won’t want to see it all disappear just because of an accident or hardware failure. Here’s a video on how to backup your iTunes library.

iTunes Now Cheaper in UK

Apple is finally equalizing its pricing across Europe.The good news is This means lower costs in the UK to match the already standardized pricing found in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain. The bad news is that it will take 6 months to go [...]

Fat Little iPod Nano

Here is the 3rd-gen Nano. Short and squat with a 2-inch display which boasts the same 320 by 240 resolution as the full-size fifth-gen iPod. This baby can play video as well as music. Pre-loaded games include iQuiz, Vortex and Klondike with more available later this month through iTunes — like Pac Man.

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NAS Server Options Continue to Grow with Lanner NS04-3100

Four SATA bays is better than two, I’d say, and so the Lanner NS04-3100 already has something over the QNAP TS-209 reviewed earlier (and, they even share the same hokey naming schemes). And, it looks like it will compete fairly well on features, as well, with Wi-Fi, iTunes server, UPnP AV media server, DLNA, and [...]

TS-209 NAS Server Made by QNAP Just for Me

Okay, maybe not just for me, but since I’m a SOHO kind of guy, the QNAP TS-209 NAS server sure fits the bill. Sporting two hot-swappable bays, a 500MHz processor, 128MB of DDR2 RAM cache,  gigabit Ethernet, and up to 2TB of storage. And that’s just the hardware. Check out the server capabilities:

File server
FTP server
Backup [...]

Tape 2PC

Ion Audio is giving us a way to save and update our old audio tapes with its TAPE2PC USB tape deck. Just plug this into a USB port and it will import your music into iTunes. It works on both Macs and PCs and the UK retailer Firebox will be pricing this at "just under [...]

iTunes 7.3.1

Apple has released a minor update to its iTunes and Quicktime software. According to Apple, "iTunes 7.3.1 addresses a minor problem with iTunes 7.3 accessing the iTunes Library." Apple also released Quicktime 7.2, which includes numerous security updates, and also packs support for full-screen viewing from Quicktime player.

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Lower Album Prices

Apple’s Next Big Thing is lower prices. $5.99 and $6.99 will now buy full albums on iTunes

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64-Bit Windows Does Not Support The iPhone

Some users are having difficulty using their new iPhone coincide their Windows computers. An error message appears stating: "The software required for iPhone is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes, then install iTunes again."
The problem is simple: iPhone will not work when used on a 64-bit Windows Vista or XP system. [...]

iPhone Cons…For the Most Part

So here’s what’s been confirmed about the Apple iPhone and the tid bits it doesn’t have. I have to admit, some things on the list suprised me. Why take a step backward on these features?
Stuff in Bold = Are you kidding me?
Doesn’t do this:
• Songs as Ringtones
• Games
• Any flash support
• Instant Messaging
• Picture messages (MMS)
• [...]