One of the things I adore about Apple products are how intuitive they are. Most of the time. Once in a while I run into a bit of an exception, and this is one of them. This brief tutorial will show you how to customize the icons/buttons that are displayed while listening to music on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
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Earlier today it became official – the Canadian iTunes Store will now sell TV shows. What seemed to get missed in this announcement was another ‘upgrade’ for Canadians – DRM free iTunes Plus tracks are finally available as well.
Totally unrelated note, you might have noticed the decrease in number of posts the last few days. I think a goal for 2008 should be to have a bunch of articles stocked away for those sick-weeks. Update: off to a bad, bad start.
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This tutorial could also be called “how to use your iPhone or iPod Touch to control your Mac” – because the featured (open source) software actually allows you to do both. Continue reading to be taken step by step through installing, setting up and accessing iPhone Remote on your Mac. …
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This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to convert a DVD to a file format that’s playable on your iPod Touch or iPhone.
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This guide will take you every single step of the way through making sure you have the right iPod software installed, “jailbreaking” your iPod Touch, and then installing 3rd party software on it.
Note: The steps in this guide will be nearly identical if you want to jailbreak your iPhone, with the exception of the “Check your iPod Touch Software Version” and “Restore to Software Version 1.1.1”. The screenshots are specific to OS X, but Windows users should be able to follow along with no problem. …
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This tutorial will guide you through converting video files to watch on your iPod Touch, using free (fully functional shareware) software in OS X. The steps are likely identical if you have an iPod Video or iPhone (I don’t, so I can’t be 100% certain). …
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This overview details the features (with screenshots) of 10 different programs other than iTunes to manage your iPod. Tutorials are included for every program, and they’re all either free or Open Source.
If you’ve been wondering why I’ve been writing so many “How to use XYZ to manage your iPod” tutorials lately, now you know why.
| Name | Supported Platforms |
| Amarok |  |
| Banshee | |
| Floola |   |
| gtkpod | |
| MediaMonkey | |
| Rhythmbox | |
| SharePod | |
| Songbird | |
| Winamp | |
| YamiPod | |
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This brief tutorial will show you how to use MediaMonkey to manage your iPod. …
This tutorial will guide you in installing, setting up and using Banshee to manage your iPod in Ubuntu. Though the steps to install Banshee are specific to Ubuntu (or any Linux distribution that uses the Synaptic Package Manager), the steps to actually use Banshee can be applied to any Linux distribution. …
This brief tutorial will show you how to use Winamp to manage your iPod. …
This tutorial will guide you in installing, setting up and using gtkpod to manage your iPod in Ubuntu. Though the steps to install gtkpod are specific to Ubuntu (or any Linux distribution that uses the Synaptic Package Manager), the steps to actually use gtkpod can be applied to any Linux distribution. …
SharePod is a lightweight music management program for your iPod. You can copy music and videos between your iPod and computers – usually without having to install anything on the computer. …
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YamiPod is a freeware application that allows you to efficiently manage your iPod in Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. YamiPod is unique because it runs directly from your iPod and needs no installation. This allows you to update your iPod from any computer without installing any software. You can also use YamiPod to move files from your iPod back to your computer (or another computer). This tutorial will take you through the steps to setup and use YamiPod in OS X and Windows.
Note: if you’re wondering what’s with all the iPod posts, I’m working on a ‘larger’ article that will be something along the lines of “10 iTunes alternatives for iPod users”, and will reference each of these tutorials in it. That and I finally got my hands on an actual iPod (iShuffle, borrowed). …
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I have to say this up front – Songbird is still in “Developer Preview”, which according to the developers means it’s “an incremental release to our proof-of-concept”. I think that’s their way of saying the software is somewhere between Alpha and Beta, which is to say it’s not at all a ‘finished’ product. While using Songbird to sync my iPod I came across all sorts of problems, so I can’t warn you strongly enough to proceed at your own risk. There’s a very good chance that all of your songs will get wiped from your iPod, so if that’s not something you’re willing to risk, don’t proceed.
This tutorial will take you though the steps to use Songbird to sync the music on your computer to your iPod. …
Now that you’ve installed Amarok in Ubuntu, you’ll want to use it manage your iPod. This tutorial will take you through the steps to do just that, and it will also show you how to make Amarok the default program that launches when your iPod is connected. …
