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What’s a party without music?  A boring one is the answer. And if you are the host, what will that kind of party make you? An interesting filler for your friend’s gossip session. If you don’t mind becoming the source of constant giggles behind your back, that’s fine. But you can easily turn the embarrassment [...]
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Modern Mac keyboards are outfitted with a number of extra function keys. Using those, you can instantly adjust your volume, screen brightness, or command media playback. There’s only one problem. Although they are essentially compatible with all applications, as a ‘feature’, these media keys automatically launch and start playing songs from iTunes. Even when you’re [...]
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Long distance traveling is all about spending a large amount of time on the road. Once I had to sit for more than 24 hours on the bus on my land trip across the island of Java. The obvious question is: what should you do during those long sitting hours? You could sleep, read books, [...]
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Today, I’m going to cover how to remove duplicate tracks from iTunes. During my recent Windows 7 rebuild, I made a number of strategic errors. Nothing devastating, unless you include the mess I seem to have got my once pristine iTunes library in. I’ve ended up with everything I need”¦ and more. I’m going to [...]
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I have a confession to make.  I thought it would be totally simple to select the best 5 free Apple products – and then I realized I was in way over my head! Truth be told, I love my Mac, and all the free applications that go with it (well OK, I am not all [...]
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I was helping my friend install iTunes on his Windows machine when I noticed a folder called “Automatically Add To iTunes” inside the “iTunes Music” folder. I never knew that such a folder existed and after a meticulous search, found out that there’s a similar folder in my Mac buried among hundreds of other artists folders. [...]
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Sometimes I miss the good old days when I spent my spare time in the traditional music store, browsing through piles of CD cases adorned with beautiful images on their covers. Not many people do that anymore though, because the music industry has gradually shifted from the physical to the digital form. Even though browsing [...]
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When I got my Android device last Christmas, I received it with the knowledge that it would be replacing several other devices. Truth be told, most Android phones being released now have the capability to adequately replace not only the old phone, but also things like dedicated GPS devices, cameras, and MP3 players. This article [...]
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While I keep my 5th generation iPod filled to capacity and use it solely as a music player in my car, I can’t stuff 20 gigs of audio files on my iPhone 3G. And having the same set of selected songs on my iPhone can get a little stale, especially when I don’t sync the [...]
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iTunes is a widely used music library program, mainly because you need it when you’re using an iPod or iPhone. I use it myself, but mainly because I have to in order to get some music on my iPod Touch. We have written about alternative ways to sync your iPod with your music collection, but [...]
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About a year ago, I wrote an article in my blog about how people are getting old on the road. It discussed commuting, but from a different perspective: the amount of time commuters lost on the road. I also discussed several ways to fill in the lost hours with useful activities, and one of them [...]
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Nobody’s perfect. We try our best and still there are imperfections in everything that we do. Human learn from their mistakes, but the opportunity to apply what we have learned is not always present. So what would you do if there was a second chance in life? Would you start over from scratch and try [...]
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I recently had the unpleasant task of transferring my music from my iPod to my computer’s hard drive.  If you’ve ever been faced with the same task, you know that for some reason, unbeknownst to the end-user, Apple seems to think it’s hilarious to rename all of your iTunes music files on the iPod’s hard [...]
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Doesn’t it sound like something that has gone over to the other side? But fear not, EvilLyrics is still on our side, happily displaying lyrics for the songs we play on our music players. But in the months that I have used it, I have never been able to fathom why they named a nice [...]
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I don’t think I need to give a long introduction to iTunes as many consider it to be the best digital music manager and player available today. MakeUseOf has even dedicated an entire PDF Manual for it: The BIG Book of iTunes. But even the best will still have room for improvement. I was looking [...]
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