Review: FlickTunes for iPhone This app, which makes use of your handheld's full screen for control music playback, is the ideal music manager for for drivers, joggers and multi-taskers.
Mac News Briefs: Logic Pro update enhances features, addresses stability The minor update to Apple's professional music recording, editing, and mixing software allows Flex Markers to align and snap to MIDI notes, makes performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode behave correctly, adds an option for latency measurement to he I/O plug-in, and causes TDM plug-ins to behave as expected.
Cleaning an iTunes library Is your iTunes library full of duplicates, tracks from misnamed artists and albums, and albums lacking artwork? These tools can help.
Mac News Briefs: Western Digital revamps Mac drives Western Digital unveiled redesigns for its My Passport and My Book hard drives for the Mac. Also, a number of companies rolled out software updates that added compatibility with Snow Leopard on Thursday. iWebTemplate has seven new templates for use with iWeb. And EditShare's product line is now compatible with the recently updated Final Cut Studio suite.
Apple introduces iTunes 9 iTunes 9 is introduced today for Mac OS X and Windows. Here are the breaking details.
Rhapsody music service headed for iPhone RealNetworks wants to put Rhapsody, its music subscription service, on the iPhone. The application has been submitted to Apple and, if approved, will offer subscribers of Rhapsody's service unlimited music streaming.
The end of free lyrics? Lyrics are freely available on the Internet. If the music publishers have their way, they may not be for long.
Mac News Briefs: Default Folder X ready for Snow Leopard Default Folder X adds support for Snow Leopard's 64-bit architecture and fixes a problem that could cause the utility’s hierarchical menus to crash under OS X 10.6. Also on Monday, Alien Skin Software released its Photo Bundle suite, Ion Audio released the Tape 2 PC peripheral, and version 9.0 of Akvis Sketch came out.
Mac News Briefs: Real Software releases Visual Basic migration tool VB Migration Assistant lets programmers move applications from Visual Basic to Real's RealBasic cross-platform development application. Also, the Mac version of Cram is out; Vemedio released an iPhone companion to its Snowtape utility for controlling Internet radio playback; and Kodak announced five new point-and-shoot cameras.
Mac News Briefs: SyncMate 2.0 released SyncMate 2.0, gives Mac users the ability sync their computers with Nokia series 40 mobile phones, Google accounts, and other Macs in addition to Windows Mobile devices. Also, BravoTunes got an update while MacProVideo.com launched a new online tutorial library.
Tangerine creates iTunes playlists based on tempo When you want to create iTunes playlists based on tempo or need to find the BPM of your songs, Tangerine makes the process incredibly fast and easy.
Capturing Internet audio You have an audio editor and Internet audio you'd like to capture. How? Like so.
Mac News Briefs: OWC intros 500GB, 7,200-rpm portable drives Other World Computing unveiled a faster, higher-capacity line Mercury On-The-Go Pro bus-powered portable hard drives Wednesday. Also, SendStation Systems released a trio of adapters for connecting external displays to Mini DisplayPort-enabled Macs, and a new version of the Cover Stream iTunes controller debuted.
Great low-cost Mac software Roman Loyola and Dan Frakes join Christopher Breen in this week's podcast to talk about GemFest, our annual look at the best in low-cost (and no-cost) Mac software.
BIAS unveils SoundSoap Pro 2 BIAS introduced the new version of SoundSoap Pro, a utility that helps users clean up unwanted noise from audio files.
Review: I Love Stars 3.0 I Love Stars make it easy to rate your iTunes tracks; it even reminds you if you haven't done so.
CoverScout 3.1 CoverScout is a great utility that helps you find and edit album art for tracks in your iTunes library or in any folder on your hard drive.
SongGenie 1.1 If you have a lot of music without tag information, or with incorrect tags, SongGenie can save you the trouble of finding the correct information, as well as the time it takes to enter that information by hand. Just don’t expect miracles.
iClip Lyrics 1.3.3 iClip Lyrics automates the process of getting song lyrics into iTunes.
Syncopation syncs multiple iTunes libraries Have multiple Macs on which you'd like to have the same iTunes Library? (And you'd like to easily keep them in sync?) Here's a $25 solution.
Save time when converting iTunes tracks If you’ve got a large iTunes library with lots of self-updating Smart Playlists, converting tracks from one format to another can be a very slow process. Learn a couple of workarounds to speed the process