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To keep your iPod and its contents safe and sound, it is important to keep the firmware and software up-to-date, use a surge protector when charging, back up your files and music, defrag your iPod hard drive, buy a protective case, avoid extreme conditions, maintain battery life, clean the iPod, install anti-virus software, and reformat the iPod.
What's your computer and beer of choice? What if you were to combine them and pretend that your beer was a computer operating system. Here's your Beer OS.
The BSOD error happened during Bill Gates' high-profile 2005 keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show.
“Rumors are circulating that during Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld on January 11, Apple will announce that it has signed a deal with one of the satellite radio companies, Sirius, to market iPods that can receive and record that company’s satellite broadcasts.” [Via orbitcast.com] iPod with Satellite Radio! Although a combination of technologies would be …
The new findings boasted that brand maturity is something of non-relevance. Simply because over 79% age 12 and older knew of Napster or have even used the legal downloading music service. More than half knew of or used Apple’s iTunes Music Store, another brand strong identifier in the still youthful digital music market. This goes …
Oh no! Looks like the sh*t has hit Kazaa. According to Tony Bannon, an attorney for the music industry at the Kazaa trial currently taking place in Australia, “Kazaa is an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of a magnitude never before seen.” Bannon made this statement during Monday’s start of the Australian trial …
Apple's iPod and iTunes have been a huge hit with consumers, and Microsoft is struggling to catch up, as Apple's proprietary strategy has allowed it to dominate the space.
Do you remember Audion? Way back in 1999 and before the days of iTunes, Audion was (I dare say) the best Macintosh MP3 player/encoder on the market. Napster and Audion were the Mac MP3 power-houses of their day. Ahh, the late-nineties. Back when the record companies were ready to crap their pants because of digital …
Have you ever downloaded a song online, and thought that it sounds off to you? You’re not alone. You might have run into what’s called a “codec killer.” When music is compressed into a digital file, like a MP3 or AAC, the full range of sounds, mostly highs and lows, get reduced. As a result, you’ll never …
What features and technology will we see in the cars of the future? There's no doubt we will see electric and self-driving cars. But what will the in-car entertainment system be like? Will the cars be able to talk to each other? Here are our car predictions of the future...
Telecom company AT&T isn't happy with the endless Microsoft Windows security issues. Will they switch to Mac or Linux?
Are you a digital DJ but miss the old school vinyl feel when mixing music on your computer? iZotope Vinyl is an app that creates realistic vinyl sounds that you can add to your mixes. iZotope Vinyl uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to create authentic “vinyl” simulation. The latest version of iZotope Vinyl provides support for Mac OS …
If you are a Windows user and get disappointed about much more iPod software there is for Mac users, then iPod Agent will give you a smile. iPod Agent enables you to accomplish various common tasks that previously would have required 3rd party software. And it’s FREE! Our favorite feature is it does not make …
If you’re like me, you want to put as music music on your iPod as possible. I’ve ripped most of my CDs at 128 or 160 kbps. It sounds good and doesn’t take up too much memory per song like a FLAC or Lossless audio file. But have you ever thought about ripping your music in …
TunesTracker is a free tool for iTunes Music Store addicts. It will search the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists, composers, and songs, and send you an e-mail when iTMS adds songs that match.
Apple just released a security update called "Security Update 2004-09-07". The update provides a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all users.
Matrix nerds rejoice! The infamous “Matrix Reloaded OpenGL ScreenSaver” made by Alex Zolotov has been ported to OS X from Linux. After installing it, I sometimes find myself being sucked into the Matrix. I can just stare at it for hours. The original source code is also available in case you want to port it …
