iTunes Freebies - Meerkats, Middlemen, Factory, Much More
Another round of freebies is up for grabs on iTunes for your iPod / iPhone. Check it out before this offer expires and you can’t get your hands on it anymore. Beyond these free songs there are also quite a few free downloads floating around, so get with it. Who doesn’t like free stuff?
TubiTunes 1.0 Reviewed
There’s been a lot of buzz over the new TubiTunes 1.0 release. In case you’re unaware this is a program that allows you to download from places such as Youtube and then convert the media to iTunes / iPod / iPhone format. I gave it a test run and must say if there’s a Youtube vid you can’t live without this is a pretty cool new tool. Check it out if that’s your thing.
O2 Service Provider Signs Deal With Napster
iTunes is no longer your only option for media on your iPhone (not counting torrents), at least if you are in the UK or Ireland and being handled by O2. They recently signed a deal with Napster to allow their customers access to file sharing with another company on top of Apple’s iTunes.
iTunes Excluding Items When Searching
Since its been a pain trying to find music that’s NOT in iTunes and excluding iPhoto Library I looked it up for y’all. One of the nicest things about this is you don’t automatically add this media to your iTunes library when you find it.
“It’s not completely beyond OS X. Just open the Spotlight system preference, click the Privacy tab, navigate to your user folder in the Finder, and drag the folders or items you’d like to exclude into the Privacy window—in your case the iTunes folder and iPhoto Library package. When you next conduct a Spotlight or Finder search, you’ll find all items except those within the iTunes folder and iPhoto Library.”
-From Macworld.com
Beatles Coming To iTunes
Now I know most of you already probably use Torrent Services to get your iPod and iPhone media but McCartney is now saying the Beatles will be bringing their records direct to iTunes. This means yet another fish in the sea that is iTunes.
BBC TV Programs Added To iTunes
Well this one was called way in advance by quite a few Apple news sources. BBC has added their TV shows to iTunes for the price of 1.89 pounds per episode. It seems programs that air on BBC will be available for purchase and download eight days after their television debut. If you’re unfamiliar with iPod and iPhone Torrents, I suggest you look into it, forking over cash each time adds up!
Apple Sued Over Their iPod / iTunes Monopoly
It would appear however that this antitrust lawsuit may be a bit short-lived. Instead of going for the obvious - you have to use iTunes for your iPod (unless you have red hot). No this suit goes a bit more obscure. Wait, I can’t hold this part back anymore, have to stick it in where it doesn’t fit, of all people it is Microsoft filing an antitrust lawsuit! Anyways big M is claiming Apple is abusing its market leader position to intentionally block out WMAs, although I’m pretty sure I use iTunes to put WMA music on my iPod all the time… Perhaps they mean their Zunish DRM?
Old School Sonic The Hedgehog Released For iPod
This is the original. Remember playing it on your Sega, maybe even your game gear? Well its available via iTunes now, for $4.99. This is one of the all time greats. I used to love some later sonic and tails games as well. If you don’t know what it is maybe this picture will jog your memory.
New Music Services Compete With iTunes
iTunes is finally starting to lose its virtual (no pun intended) domination of the music services industry. In 2007, after having little to no competition since its release, iTunes has gone up against some big players. These include MTV’s Urge network, and Rhapsody America. Zune also added some cool new social networking features to their network, allowing people to kind of promote what they like to listen to and draw in potential customers. This was to be expected, the good old Microsoft and Apple battle will rage on forever. And most importantly legitimate Torrent providers, which seem to be completely legal thus far, are becoming the new fad due to their low low prices. Well Apple, maybe a few million less in the next years to come.
Synch Media To iPod Using Windows Media Player
Add Media To Your iPod Via Windows Media Player With This Sofware From:
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Obviously there are a couple clear advantages of this program. When synching your iPod using iTunes your iPod can only be synched to one library (or computer) at a time. With the use of this software you can throw songs on from any computer, without resetting your library! There are other great features about this. Without plugging into iTunes you don’t need to upgrade your firmware on your iPod if you don’t want to. This is perhaps the best software for all you Apple lovers we have stumbled across in a long time. That is why it has earned the highest ranking here, 5-stars.
Apple To Raise The iTunes Movie Sticker Price Up To $15
Apple is slated to bring around another big increase, raising up the price to get your movie via iTunes all the way to $15, almost the same as the average US DVD ($18 new release). Aside from the obvious, money money money, there is a bit of speculation that this move may draw in the big boys to release straight to iTunes, as the price will be almost equal with what they are currently making and they wont have to hassle with the making and shipping of DVDs. Another one to keep your eyes on here. If you aren’t already a Torrent user, I think you’re gonna want to be soon!
Apple Settles With Burst For $10 Million Over iTunes Patent
Burst.com sure got lucky with those patents. Back on 2005 it got $60 million from Microsoft so they could transfer compressed media via the internet. Now Apple settled for another $10 million to keep iTunes up and running. A lot of cash for not much work there. Seems like kind of a bogus and far reaching patent too, but hey, if it was mine I’d sue them!
Get 34 Free Songs Via iTunes
TuneCore, the music delivery service, is running a new promo today. You will be able to download their pack of 34 free songs by various artists for free. All artists are TuneCore customers so it is somewhat limited, but there’s some big names as well, any time you can get free music on your iPod is good in my book.. We recommend you download these via iTunes. Visit TuneCore for more details.
Speculation Of Upcoming Rentals In iTunes 7.5
It seems rentals may be implemented soon. Just as in iTunes 7.0.1 when new strings hinted to the iPhone release, strings in iTunes 7.5 hint to some sort of upcoming rentals. Here they are:
rental-content
rental-bag
rbsync
source-rental-info
dest-rental-info
getvodaccountselectionlist
GET VOD ACCOUNT SELECTION LIST
supportsRentals
All of these strings are new to this release, and never before seen. I smell another money maker for Apple. However it will no doubt be cheaper to use iPod / iPhone Torrents than renting everything you want.