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 »

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!

Apple is expected to announce today an across-the-board deal to sell new release films at its iTunes Store. The deal is said to allow Apple to offer a “broad slate of top-shelf films” day-and-date with home video releases — a long time sticking point with brick-and-mortar interests who want to keep their early edge on digital downloads.

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AT&T has flip-flopped yet again on the issue of iPhone customers getting free access to AT&T hotspots. While yesterday the iPhone plans page clearly stated that access to the hotspots was included with all plans, that statement is now gone again. Hey, AT&T: why don’t you make up your minds and be clear about this? This is ridiculous

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Earlier today we posted a screenshot on our iPhone section that claimed to depict an new On/Off option to enable 3G speeds. This new preference was found in the latest iPhone 2.0 Beta 5 distributed to developers. Be default, the preference is hidden, but one developer claims to have activated i…

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Microsoft is still toiling away at the Zune, but there isn’t a whole terrible much to show for it so far in regards to market impact. They just broke the 2 million mark, almost a year after they hit 1 million in May 2007. That means growth has hardly accelerated since the second-gen players hit the scene.

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