Few things are more devastating to a media fan than having something happen to their iTunes library. After all, iTunes is the home to all of your music, your TV shows and your movies. Losing all of that data in (an admittedly rare) system crash, or when your external hard drive is inadvertently melted by the heater can be a traumatic, not to mention an expensive experience. The thought of having to replace the entirety of an iTunes library is enough to turn many users to thoughts of violence. So, rather than having that aneurism, let’s try to recover as much of your missing iTunes library as is possible, without having to pay for extra software costs.
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How to Restore Your iTunes Library with Your iPod, Flash Drives and CD’s
By | June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Alternate Uses For Home/Lock Button On The iPhone
By | June 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
When you have something as small as an iPhone that does so much, buttons often have multiple uses. One of the most utilitarian buttons is the Home Button. All iPhone users know that the button is used to go back to your home screen and to unlock your phone, but it can also be used in a few more handy ways.
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Music on the iPhone: iPod, Pandora, and More
By | May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
While many cell phones come with the ability to play music, the iPhone does it like no other. Instead of being a phone that also plays music, it’s an electronic device that is both an MP3 player and a phone. Apple took its very successful iPod and added a phone to it. There may be other phones that emulate that now, but the iPhone does it so well, it’s easy to forget that it’s a phone too sometimes.
Because of this unique ability, there are several ways to listen to music. You’re not just tied into listening on the iPod app. There are other apps that do the same, but slightly different, as well as apps that play radio stations and Internet stations. There’s really no limit to what you can do musically with an iPhone.
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How to Connect Your iDevice to Your Mac’s Internet Connection Without a Wifi Router
By | August 23, 2010 |
When I were in college just a few short years ago, we had two options for getting online: the building-wide wifi, and our in-room ethernet. The building-wide wifi was slow and laggy, since the majority of residents defaulted to using this network. Adding to that, we weren’t allowed to have routers in our rooms. While this was inconvenient, there is, of course, a way around everything. And in finding this solution, we found a pretty cool way to do some other things too. That said, here’s how you, too, can share your Mac’s Internet connection with your handheld devices quickly, easily, and most importantly, wirelessly.
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How to Juice Up Your Podcasts on Windows or Mac
By | August 3, 2010 |
We wrote recently on gPodder, an excellent podcast receiver for Linux. Not to leave Windows and Mac out of the equation, we’ll be covering Juice, an extremely useful and versatile program for managing multiple podcast downloads. Juice will make it simple to find, monitor, download, sync, and manage all the audio files for your favorite podcasts.
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How to Automate Your Podcast Downloads with gPodder
By | July 1, 2010 |
If you’re a fan of podcasts, you’ve probably at some point become fed up with manually finding and downloading your favorites. This can be a real pain for people who count on fresh daily podcasts to make it through the work day, so multiple solutions have been attempted to make this process simpler. One such project is gPodder, a Python/Linux application that can help you find, download, and transfer new podcasts automatically. Today we’ll show you how to use gPodder to automate downloads for multiple unique podcasts.
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Untether your iPod from iTunes With Rockbox
By | June 13, 2010 |
When you buy electronics, many times you fall prey to the marketing hype. Other times you have a real need and desire for the features of a particular device. Even then, those needs may shift over time.
I am a big fan of Apple products. I over time have accumulated a couple of iPods, laptops and other Apple accessories. These days I don’t use iTunes all that much though. The only reason I was using it was to rotate music on my old 20GB iPod.
Since I didn’t really need iTunes for much, I thought I would experiment a little. I chose a program called Rockbox to replace the software on my iPod. Let me tell you, it is super easy to install and works really well.
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How To Tag Movies For Your Portable Multimedia Player Easily With MetaX
By | June 12, 2010 |
Are you a commuter? How much time do you spend everyday on the road between your home and your workplace? I know many commuters who allocate 3-4 hours of daily traveling time, and I think it’s safe to say that most people use up at least 1 hour of their daily precious time commuting.
The question is, how would you utilize the time? One of the possibilities is filling the boring commuting hours by watching movies or catching up with your favorite TV series on your portable multimedia player. Thanks to the gigantic capacity of storage available today, we can practically bring tons of movies inside our pocket. The classic white iPod is my wife’s best companion on the road, while I can go along just fine with my small screen smart phone.
The Cows That Tidies Up The Messy Movie Tags
Problem is, not all movie files are created the same way. Because there are many resources that you can use to get your movies; such as buying them from online store, downloading them using torrent, or ripping them from CDs/DVDs; you will also get many different tagging systems.
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