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Tag Archive | "iTunes"
Web 2.0: Content Delivery Monopolies for All! (Google, Amazon, Apple)
It was announced yesterday that YouTube (Google) is partnering with both Amazon and Apple to begin selling video games and music respectively. The idea is that content on YouTube identified as belonging to a certain video game or song would be associated with what amounts to a “Buy it Now” button that would take you over [...]
Continue reading...Syncing iPhone Contacts with Google Contacts using iTunes 8
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Apparently this popped up in iTunes 7.7 but I didn’t notice it until 8.0 and I haven’t seen anyone write anything up about it online. It looks like iTunes added the ability to sync to Google Contacts (thank the gods) from iTunes when syncing your iPhone (or iPod) with your computer. Unfortunately in 7.7 when the feature [...]
Continue reading...Amazon MP3 Download Service Review
Friday, September 5, 2008
After growing increasingly unimpressed with the Apple iTunes/iPod “lock-in” model I started hunting around for alternative low-cost music services online. Fortunately one of the first and favorite services I ran into is the relatively new Amazon MP3 Downloads service. Some of the big highlights of the Amazon MP3 service for me were: Non-DRM’ed music Low-cost music (about $0.99 [...]
Continue reading...Removing iTunes DRM
Friday, September 7, 2007
You curious how to rip Apple’s iTunes DRM out of the music you’ve bought and have limited rights to? Click on over and get some ideas. Summary: Got a Mac? FairGame Got a PC? QTFairUse6
Continue reading...iTunes DRM-Free Music Embeds Account Information
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Very interesting post over on TUAW. It looks like the DRM-free music you can download from iTunes now (and hopefully growing in the future) is not something you would likely want to throw up on a torrent site anytime soon, mostly due to the fact that the mp4 file contains your personal information in it. Erica [...]
Continue reading...Apple Gets the Anti-Monopoly Microsoft Treatment
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Looks like Apple is getting the Microsoft-treatment from Germany, France and likely more. I’m actually happy to see this for two reasons: It is incredibly frustrating that using an iPod requires iTunes. On Linux? Tough luck. I think it’s fair that a company that completely dominates a market needs to play by some different rules than if it’s [...]
Continue reading...Apple iTunes 7 Ruining Lives and Taking Names
Friday, September 15, 2006
Looks like quite a few folks are not happy about iTunes 7, probably one of the most buggy releases of iTunes to ever lay it’s hands on us. The reports trickling in are that besides being generally buggy there are issues like skipping during playback, failed synchronization, library errors, and poor sound quality (how’d that happen?). Nice [...]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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