Tech Update

Ever need to move a couple songs, movies, or podcast episodes, to another computer? Well, here is your answer. First open iTunes and make a playlist, or smart playlist, with all of the items you would like to copy. Simply select them all by pressing cmd-a, then dragging and dropping them onto your desktop, or a folder on your desktop. If both of your computers are Macs, with wifi, then a simple solution is outlined here. If not, then simply use an external hard drive, or flash drive. To transfer your items to your other Mac by wifi, first set up and ad-hoc network between the two computers. Under the airport menu, click “create a new network.” Name the network something meaningful, then check require password. Make up a password to use for this temporary network. Then on the other computer click the airport menu, and find the network ad type in the password to connect. The airport icon should change to a different picture meaning you are connected. Make sure file sharing is enabled in your system preferences, just the public folder, and drop the files in the drop folder. Now on the other Mac, navigate to that folder and import the items into iTunes.