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 »

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!

How did this come to pass? Seriously. I was there… not from the very start but from very close to the beginning. The very first release was Ubuntu 4.10, nicknamed Warty Warthog. I started with the next release, Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog). My first experience with Ubuntu was not the best. But I came back to Ubuntu. Why?

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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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Read this article about Evernote

http://techupdate.blogvis.com/2008/04/14/evernote-beta-invites/

Then post a comment either on the other post, or this one if you would like an Evernote invite.

Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP’s shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck.

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Could there be a bigger threat than Linux to Microsoft’s OS dominance? If an open-source version of Windows can be developed that is totally compatible with the abundance of Windows drivers
—the idea behind ReactOS—then Microsoft will have to go back to work.

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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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You’ve decided to go see a movie and grab a bite to eat afterward. You’re in the mood for a comedy and some incredibly spicy Mexican food. Booting up your PC, you open a Web browser and head to Google to search for theater, movie and restaurant information.

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