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iTunes
Friday, 05 March 2010
iTunes 'crappy, bloated mess': Nine years ago, Apple launched iTunes. It's probably now Apple’s most successful piece of software ever in terms of users – Mac and PC. On the NZ Herald, Pat Pilcher panned iTunes as being bloated and buggy a couple of months ago, but Mac users assumed it was because he was using the PC version. But now the British site Cult of Mac has chimed in, saying iTunes is also bad for Mac users.
Apple may be taking notice – it has reportedly begun surveying iTunes customers to gather feedback regarding their experiences with the store, according to iLounge. Except questions in the email, titled "Tell us how you like iTunes," are said to be geared specifically toward movie rentals and purchases. Still, it might be an opportunity to say what you think. (I have no problems with it, myself. I love Home Sharing!)
Meanwhile, Christopher Breen on Macworld has published "The paranoid person’s guide to backing up your iTunes library". Data you’ve paid for in the form of iTunes Store content or the sweat for all of the CDs and DVDs you’ve ripped over the years needs to be secured.
Macworld Mac OS X Hints Superguide, Snow Leopard Edition: The most useful pieces of advice about using your Mac are often short, focused tips that solve a particular problem or make a specific program work just the way you want. That's what you'll find in the "Macworld Mac OS X Hints Superguide, Snow Leopard Edition," the latest ebook from Macworld magazine.
Compiled by the undisputed king of tips, Rob Griffiths, the ebook presents a cornucopia of over 200 tips to help you get the most out of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. You'll find basic tips for any Mac user as well as power-user tweaks that use Terminal and AppleScript to go way beyond the basics. The 152-page ebook is now available for US$12.95 from the Take Control
Books Web site, and a print version is also available for US$19.95.
Hey hey, it's Five Tip Friday! GarageBand ...
Apple is Fortune's 'most admired' company: Apple won the top spot in Fortune’s most admired company list for the third year in a row. Business people from around the globe are asked to vote for the outfits they admire the most in the annual popularity contest. Apple earned a total score of 7.95.
Why is Apple so prized? According to Fortune: Product, product, product. “The whole world held its breath before the iPad was announced,” observes BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer. “That’s brand management at its very best.”
Aperture 3.1 reviewed: Apple has finally updated its pro photo management app, Aperture, to version 3, and there’s something in this new release for every level of photographer – over 200 new features. There are features that have been long awaited and mysteriously absent from previous versions, like a curves adjustment tool. Macworld has posted a review.
