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Winamp’s 15th Anniversary
Winamp is due to celebrate its 15th anniversary this year. Some may be surprised to hear that it’s still around – I for one don’t know anyone who still uses it. But rewind a few years, and it was one...
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App of the Week: Podcasts
When Apple first launched the iPhone, all of your music, videos and podcasts sat somewhat uncomfortably in one big ‘iPod’ app. In iOS 5, videos got their own app and the ‘iPod’ app became ‘Music’, but...
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Using iTunes Match to upgrade your music files
Earlier this year I subscribed to iTunes Match, when it became available here in the UK. For less than £2 per month, I can have all of my music backed up to the cloud (in addition to being backed up...
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Affiliate commission from iTunes
In my quest to try and make a bit of money from this site, I’ve signed up to Apple’s Affiliate Programme. This means that any links to songs, apps and e-books on Apple’s stores will go through an...
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How to find your IMEI number on your iPhone
Last week I needed to find the IMEI number of my iPhone, to give to the insurance company. The IMEI – International mobile equipment identity – number is a unique number that every mobile phone has to...
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iTunes Match – a year in review
Last week Macworld marked the first birthday of iTunes Match with a review of how it is has fared. It’s worth a read because, whilst the service has a number of strengths, there are several areas that...
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iTunes 11 issues
iTunes 11 has been out for a couple of weeks now. It’s been a controversial update; on the one hand it simplifies what was becoming a bloated and over-complicated app, but some features have also been...
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App of the Week: iTunes 12 Days of Christmas
For at least the past five years, Apple has run a promotion in Canada and Europe, running through from Boxing Day (26th December, i.e. today) until the 6th January, called the iTunes 12 Days of...
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iTunes Meme
I have some ideas for blog posts in my head, but the prospect of transferring them from my brain into WordPress is not looking so appealing right now. Because my Mac is, as yet, unable to mind-read,...
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Songbird is an ex-Parrot. It has ceased to be
It was back in 2005 that I first heard about the Songbird music player. It worked in the same way as iTunes, but used XUL, the user interface markup language used by Firefox and other Mozilla products....
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App of the Week: 12 Days of Gifts
If you own an iOS device that runs iOS 7, and like free things, then make sure that you download the 12 Days of Gifts app from the App Store before Boxing Day (the 26th December).Regular readers may...
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Using GeoRiot to maximise affiliate revenue
Firstly, apologies for the horrible entry title. I feel dirty for writing something with so many buzzwords, but couldn’t come up with anything shorter.You may notice that if you click any links to...
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My iTunes pre-ordering experience
Unlike most blog posts that feature the phrase “My * experience”, this isn’t a rant. In fact, it’s mostly praise for iTunes’ pre-ordering system.Yesterday, ‘Hydra‘, the sixth studio album by my...
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The Google Play Affiliate programme (the lack thereof)
The screenshot above is my console for the iTunes affiliate programme, which gives me approximately 7% commission on any clicks from this web site which result in a purchase from the iTunes Store, Mac...
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How Apple can make iTunes great again
iTunes. It’s the software that many of us use begrudgingly for listening to music, purchasing content, syncing with our devices and watching videos. Mac users get it as part of OS X, whether they want...
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