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Sep 10

iTunes Ping – Finding people, adding friends

There’s a lot to write about Ping, but before I get to that I need to play with it for a while. iTunes 10 was only available for download late late last night, so I haven’t done a lot. I have created an account (yet another network to maintain – ), and like many other people I have been unsuccessful in adding a picture. People have hinted that Apple may review pictures. If that is the case, new Apps in the store will probably be delayed even longer ;)

Anyway, after I created the account I started looking for friends I knew had also created accounts, but I couldn’t find any. Again, somebody said that you probably only appear in the directory after your image has been approved (not that this is available as a status message somewhere).

But I have found a way to add people nonetheless: go to your profile and right-cllick on your name:

Click on “Copy Link” and send it to your friends, tweet it or post it on Facebook. Friends can then find you and connect to you easily.

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Jul 10

Can’t Stand Sultans Of Swing

Just stumbled upon another fine mashup (thanks Caschy!):

Whenever I see something like that I quickly fire up EVOM and download a copy – these videos disappear as quickly as they appear.

EVOM makes it really easy to download a copy to iTunes. You can even chose to get ‘just’ the audio of the track (which I did here).

Now all I need is a Chrome extension “Send to EVOM” ;)

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Sep 09

DON’T PANIC – it’s just THHGTTG on the iPhone!

How great is that – finally The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is available as an iPhone app!

(Well, that in the 4 other books in the trilogy)

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That and the C64 Emulator, and all in one week – fantastic! Get it NOW!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

One more thing:

““Enhanced” version of the apps (which will be free upgrades) will be released in October, to celebrate the actual 30th anniversary, with even more archive material including audio clips, historic book covers and radio script excerpts.”

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Sep 09

Welcome to 09-09-09

The day the Beatles (rightfully) return to the charts.

This is going to be a big day. Even though today will also mark the arrival of new iPods and (possibly) one more thing, the most important matter is the arrival of the new Beatles remastered box set.

This is even bigger in a time where my daughter asks me to buy her Lady Gaga ‘songs’ off iTunes (ohh the pain…) – you have to really love your kids to do that.

This is the one set of CDs that needs to be in every household, even if it’s just for educational purposes.

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Ok Apple, now bring on the Beatles iPod tonight, and make this a REALLY big day.

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Jun 09

iPhone / iPod Touch OS 3.0 is finally here!

So this is the big day – get it now!

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Apple OS 3.0 iTunes Store link

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Jun 09

iTunes needs to move to the cloud. Seriously.

This weekend I went through another major re-install on my iPhone. I’ve been trying for weeks to somehow make my iPhone work with my PC setup.

Here’s the problem: I am using 3 computers – my desktop at home, my work laptop, and my Samsung NC10 netbook on personal trips. I’d like to be able to use any one of them to work with my iPod. i.e. change playlists, tag MP3s, install apps and update or backup my iPhone.

Not working. I tried managing my iTunes library from the desktop, storing the files on my NAS. When I want to access those files from my work laptop, I need to re-do all my playlists. Plus, it’s slow as molasses.

Then I had to re-install my desktop and decided to spend some time tagging my MP3s. When I connected my iPhone to the PC, it said “backing up iPhone”, and then proceeded to DELETE ALL MY APPS ON THE PHONE!

Even though I could copy the apps over from my work laptop, iTunes wouldn’t use them to install. I had to re-download all the apps (ok, good opportunity to update some of them) and re-install. That of course meant that all data was lost – my banking transactions from iOutBank, my Fieldrunners scores – EVERYTHING. Hate it.

Why can’t iTunes just keep all that in the cloud, so that I can access it from any computer with iTunes? You might even crowdsource MP3 tagging, and/or recommend songs to your social graph. Twitter could be used to broadcast your activities.

Wouldn’t that be neat? Maybe Apple’s even working on something like this already – what else would they use all those servers for?

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Mar 09

FixTunes – Fix your iTunes MP3 tags automatically

If you have a huge collection of MP3s on your hard drive, chances are not all MP3 tags are accurate, and you will not have album covers for most of the songs. When you’re using an iPod, this is a PITA and does not exactly add to the experience.

I recently found a small program called FixTunes that might help remedy those issues. I had already tried and bought TuneUp last year, but it was incredibly slow and introduced many wrong covers into my songs.

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I first tried FixTunes in manual mode to make sure that didn’t happen again. I was really surprised how accurate the program works. The thing that won me over was that FixTunes allows you to set a percentage of accuracy, so that it will make sure you only change songs where it can accurately determine the data.

There’s only one thing I would like to do: give me an option that makes sure that covers and album titles are only picked from the original albums, not from collections or “best of” albums.

Loving it so far – it’s just going over my full library ;)

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Feb 09

AppStore for MacOS

Well, I think Apple has established the iTMS AppStore as a well working vehicle for commercial and free software distribution.

Wouldn’t it be a logical step to enhance that platform to allow distribution for MacOS apps (and maybe even Windows Apps), too?

Lots of iPhone developers are also MacOS developers – I’m sure they’d approve of that idea.

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