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Copy music off your iPod
There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
Stream music from iTunes
Using an Airport Express or an Apple TV, you can easily stream music from iTunes to the speakers of your choice.
Bugs & Fixes: iPhone 3.0's mystery Mail bug
Ted Landua has noticed an iPhone 3.0 bug where Spotlight searches turn up long-deleted e-mails. Here are the details.
Hands on with iPhone 3.0's Spotlight
The new iPhone software adds enhanced search tools. Dan Frakes shows you how iPhone 3.0 makes it easier to find information and content on your mobile device.
Bugs & Fixes: Blurry photos after updating to iPhone 2.2
Ted Landau looks at a reported bug with the iPhone 2.2 software update in which some images received e-mail attachments appear blurry or fuzzy.
Bugs & Fixes: iPhone connect errors and audiobook crashes
Ted Landau looks at two iPhone-related bugs—a connection error in which the iPhone fails to show up in the iTunes Devices list and a crash that can occur when you attempt to play an audiobook.
Bugs & Fixes: Messy App Store update tracking
Ted Landau tries to work his way around the oft-frustrating process of downloading updates from the App Store.
Troubleshooting iPhone and iPod touch issues
Learn a few things you can try when experiencing issues with your iPhone or iPod touch running the 2.0.x software.
Bugs & Fixes: Dealing with iPhone app bugs and crashes
If crashing iPhone apps are bringing you—and your phone—down, Ted Landau has a primer on navigating your way out of app trouble.
Bugs & Fixes: Apple TV network and authorization hassles
Is your Apple TV not showing up in iTunes? Are you getting error messages when you attempt to sync your Apple TV? Ted Landau covers these troubles in the latest installment of Bugs & Fixes.
Dealing with digital rights
In April 2007, Apple and England’s EMI record label held a joint press conference to announce that individual tracks from EMI would be available at the iTunes Store in two forms—the current 99-cent copy-protected form and a new $1.29 unprotected form, to be known as iTunes Plus.
Mac OS X Hints - Dec. 2007
Rob Griffiths offers his monthly commentary on ways to liven up Numbers spreadsheets, try Dictionary widget tricks, see everything in iTunes, view photo books on screen, automatically update podcasts and more.
Understand more tags
Our November 2007 Playlist column offered insight into some of iTunes’ more confusing tags. Here are two other tags that you may want some help with.
Mac OS X Hints - July 2007
In this month’s edition, Rob Griffiths shows how to check for unsaved changes, shortcuts for saving, uncover Safari’s Activity window, bookmark all tabs, export multiple contacts and change playlists’ default columns.
Mac 911 - May 2007
Christopher Breen answers your questions about how to transfer from VHS to DVD, shift audio pitch and speed, create the endless DVD and TiVo transfers.
Mac OS X Hints - Feb. 2007
Rob Griffiths offers tips on ways to cancel the shut down command, change which application opens a file, zip through podcast lists, edit smart playlists and more.
Mac OS X Hints - September 2006
Harness the powers of drag-and-drop disk-image creation. Change the visible hours in an iCal calendar within nothing more than a mouse's scroll wheel. Or turn your Mac into a musical alarm clock. Kirk McElhearn joins Rob Griffiths to dole out this month's OS X how-tos.
Mac 911 - June 2006
Mac OS X Hints
Senior Editor Rob Griffiths offers tips on how to select columns in Preview PDFs, scroll through Stickies, create extrasmart iTunes playlists and unlimited lists. All this plus the Unix tip of the month.
Multiple iPods and computers
Apple has made it pretty easy to sync an iPod with a computer, but what happens when things get a bit more complicated? If you have more music players or more computers than you know how to deal with, the following tips and tools can help.