The iTunes store is offering a good selection of podcasts that iTunes users can subscribe to. Apple uses its own format to serve the podcasts which is problematic for two groups of users. Those who do not want to use iTunes and those who cannot use iTunes. The former group likely uses another software program [...]

Tags: apple itunes, feed flipper, itunes, itunes podcast, itunes store, podcasts
Categories: Apple, Online Services

Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]

Tags: DAAP, itunes, mp3 server, multimedia server, music server, songbird
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

In my most recent article (”Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux“) I outlined ways to help end-users transfer from the Mac operating system to the Linux operating system. It was suggested to me that I should cover applications that could serve as replacements for popular Mac apps. Your wish is [...]

Tags: iCal, iPhoto, itunes, iWork, linux equivalent applications, mac, os x
Categories: Advice, Linux, Mac, Open Source, software

Ghacks reader Mitch send me an email today asking for a free solution to record iTunes radio stations. Apple’s iTunes software does not only offer music management features and an online shop for purchasing music and videos but also the means to listen to Internet radio and podcasts. We all know that Internet radio is [...]

Tags: itunes, itunes radio, record itunes radio, record radio, stationripper, streamripper
Categories: Windows, software

Apple has just released iTunes 9 and the web is full of reviews that compare the new version to previous ones and outline the changes and new additions that Apple has packed into the new version of their popular music management software. The new version does not offer that many new features but most users [...]

Tags: apple itunes, bonjour, iPodService, itunes, itunes 9, itunes custom install, ituneshelper, quicktime
Categories: Windows, software

This is shaping up to be one hell of a war between Apple and Palm. For those of you who have the Palm Pre, you are aware that Apple recently sent out an update to the iTunes software (8.2.1) a few days ago that bricked the Palm Pre’s syncing feature.
It was noted for sometime now [...]

Tags: apple, apple itunes, cell-phone, itunes, itunes pre, palm, palm pre
Categories: Apple, Mobiles, Palm

Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system who install the music manager iTunes will notice a large number of background processes that are connected to that program. The processes that all users are going to see are AppleMobileDeviceService.Exe, iTunesHelper.exe and iPodService.exe with some running in the background even if iTunes has not been opened since [...]

Tags: apple, AppleMobileDeviceService, AppleMobileDeviceService.Exe, iPod, iPodService, iPodService.exe, itunes, ituneshelper, iTunesHelper.exe
Categories: Tutorials Basic, iPod, software