Tech Update

The iTunes Music Store has just surpassed its first 5 billion song downloads. Every single song, being bought by one of its millions of customers. If all of those customers had access to every single song ever released to the store. Apple would go broke. When iTunes was first released in 2001, its main goal was to provide an easy access to a catalog of music, for users to fill his or her iPod with. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, I posted a tutorial to help you sync your pictures, videos, and sounds with your EnV2 from your Mac using bluetooth. That article is posted here.Many of you asked if I could also post a tutorial to sync contacts, calendar, and music, and here is the first one: contacts. Although this phone is not yet supported by BitPim, the popular cross-platform application to sync information such as your phonebook, calendar, and contacts to your phone, there is a simple process you can execute until that support is provided. Using the built in bluetooth on your Mac and the bluetooth on your EnV2, you can manually send contacts to and from you phone. Read the rest of this entry »

Just got that shiny new Env2 from Verizon and looking to sync it to your Mac without any extra hardware? This article was written to guide you with just that. Here is a tutorial to sync your EnV2 with a Mac running OS X Leopard using bluetooth.
If you have a micro SD card, there is a simpler process to put music, pictures, and video on your phone. Post in the comments, if you would like an article with that process. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a simple guide on how to move iTunes to an external hard drive. First open iTunes and go to preferences. Then go to Advanced and write down where your iTunes folder currently resides. Next, change where your iTunes folder location is to your external hard drive. Then, under the Advanced menu at the top of your toolbar, select Consolidate Library. This copies everything to your external hard drive. Now go back to where your iTunes folder was located (you should have written this down) and delete the iTunes Music folder, (nothing else!). Now you should have all of your ratings, play count, and other metadata still intact when you moved to the external hard drive. Was this guide helpful with all of the information you needed? Post your thoughts in the comments!

It’s a long time coming but there is finally a file sharing application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Over the past two weeks alone, Apple has inked new deals with wireless carriers in Asia, India, Italy, Australia, Singapore and Canada. What’s truly interesting, however, is that some of these agreements are non-exclusive, meaning the iPhone will soon be available through multiple carriers in countries such as Italy and Australia.

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Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac which make it super useful and fun. We’ve covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we’re highlighting ten lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard.

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Apple announced Tuesday that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking

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Episodes of Rome and The Sopranos pop for $2.99 while The Wire and Sex and the City (yes the complete series) go for the iTunes “standard” pricing of $1.99. We just fired-up iTunes and confirmed it just like the rumor predicted. With Apple backing down from its strict, flat-rate pricing…

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Apple and NBC Universal engaged in one of the more spirited feuds of 2007, when the two companies parted ways over pricing at the iTunes Store. While NBC programming remains absent from the US version of Apple’s online store, the two companies could be taking steps to resolve their differences–at least on the other side of the Atlantic

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