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- The App Store's buggy update process
- The application update procedure for iPhone is a complete and unadulterated nightmare. The App Store tells you you need updates with a nice little red bubble in the upper right of the App Store icon, simple enough, right. Unfortunately that's where the fun ends. The update process...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, App Store, Apple iTunes, Computer, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology, Productivity, Update Process
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Apple's iPhone 3G activation/sync fiasco (updated 5x)
- Atlantic City -- I'm not sure if it's just a server load issue because of all the east coast Apple and AT&T stores opening, but here at the Apple Store at The Pier customers are being told that their phones can't be activated and to take them home to activate....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- iPhone 2.0 software available now
- MacRumors has decoded Apple's XML files and found a way to get the iPhone 2.0 software right now.Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work for the iPod touch. Perform a full sync of your iPhone Check Software Update and install iTunes 7.7. Download the new firmware image...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, Backups, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, jason D. O'Grady, MacRumors, Management, Personal Technology, Tools & Techniques, Software
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- DJ your Independence Day party with your Mac
- If you're having people over to your house this weekend to celebrate Independence day (04 July, here in the U.S.) – a few tunes are probably in order. Luckily the Mac is one of the best platforms for creating a great party environment thanks to its vast music playback options,...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, jason D. O'Grady, Music, Pandora, Radio, Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates
- Yesterday, Mac cloner announced a series of Software Updates for their Open Computer: Safe updates, as well as bug fixes and workarounds, are now available in our Support section. We have released a couple of fixes for things like Time Machine as well as a fix for DHCP issues...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Update, DHCP, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Security, Keyboards, Digital Media, Networking, Apple Mac OS, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Leopard, Operating Systems, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Psystar, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Napster gunning for iTunes with DRM-free music
- Does Apple have a Kick Me sign on their back or something? First Netflix fires a major shot over the bow of the Apple TV with their new Netflix Player set-top box, now Napster is going after iTunes with a new DRM-free music service. "We're...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Napster Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital-rights Management, Digital Media, MP3, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- HBO programming comes to iTunes
- Well, that didn't take long. After some rumors of an Apple/HBO tie up yesterday, Apple today announced that HBO content will be available for download today. This is great news because two of my favorite shows are Flight of the Conchords and The Wire. (I've been resisting...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Programming, Pricing, TVs, Digital Music, Marketing Research, Development Tools, Digital Media, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVD
- In a press release today, Apple announced the ability to purchase new movies from iTunes on the same day as DVD release. New movie releases from both major and independent film studios are now available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, DVD, Movie, Consumer Electronics, Digital Music, Digital Media, Release, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Exclusive: First look at Starbucks iTunes service
- Apple is starting to roll out their iTunes WiFi service in Starbucks cafes in the United States that's a result of a partnership between the two and AT&T. Starbucks announced in February a plan to deliver AT&T Wi-Fi service at more than 7,000 company-operated locations across the United States. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Starbucks Corp., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Wireless LANs, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology, Weinkrantz
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- iTunes leaps to the top of the charts (updated)
- In an amazing coup, Apple has become the number one retailer of music in the United States according the latest NPD MusicWatch survey. The results, posted on Ars Technica, show the NPD survey data for January 2008: iTunes Store – 19 percent Wal-Mart – 15 percent...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Music Retailer, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Retail Company, Retail, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Circumventing iPod's FairPlay DRM
- One of the first complaints you'll hear from new iPod owners is that they can't (edit: automatically) sync their new toy with more than one computer or that they can't sync more than one iPod with one computer. Stop by any Genius Bar and you'll hear this common refrain. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Software, Consumer Electronics, FairPlay DRM, Personal Technology, TUAW
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Wal-Mart opens video rental door for Apple
- Wal-Mart canceled their not-even-a-year-old movie download service on 21 December leaving open a giant door for Apple to enter at Macworld Expo just 13 days aways. In a statement to Reuters the retail giant attributed the decision to a technology problem: Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Movie, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Video
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals
- A report in the Financial Times says that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to provide movie rentals on the iTunes Store: Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Studio, Apple Inc., Movie, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video On Demand (VoD), Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentals
- In case you've been living under a rock lately, nearly every mobile phone sold today includes some sort of a music/media player. There's no escaping the incessant ads as we approach Christmas. In light of Adam L. Penenberg 's recent article for Fast Company I can't help...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., Video Rental, Movie, Apple iPod, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Apple dropping iTunes Plus tracks to 99 cents
- ArsTechnica's Jacqui Cheng reports that Apple is set to announce that indie music labels are joining iTunes Plus, and that the company is planning a price cut from US$1.29 to US$.99 for all iTunes Plus singles. EMI began selling 256kbps, DRM-free AAC tracks on the iTunes Store...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Apple Inc., Digital Media, ArsTechnica, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- iPhone firmware 1.1.1 released; breaks everything (Updated)
- Today Apple released iPhone firmware version 1.1.1 via iTunes and it appears to be pretty nasty toward unlocked and otherwise hacked iPhones. According to Gizmodo and Engadget the update re-locks unlocked phones and renders the brilliant AppTapp installer and other third-party applications useless. Features of the 1.1.1...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Firmware, Apple iTunes, Phone, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Ringtones now available from iTunes
- Apple just turned on the new ringtone feature in iTunes. If you click on the "Purchased" icon in iTunes' left navigation, under Store (you do have purchased music, don't you?), you'll see a message that looks like this: Drat. None of my purchased music is...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Apple releases iTunes 7.4.1
- Shortly after releasing iTunes 7.4 a short two days ago, Apple released iTunes 7.4.1 (2) today. The release notes for 7.4.1 look exactly like those for version 7.4: With iTunes 7.4, sync your favorite music and more with the new iPod nano third generation, iPod classic, and iPod touch,...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iLounge, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Apple updates iPod lineup; touch, nano and shuffle (Updated 10x)
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs used today's "The beat goes on" media event in San Francisco to announce the iPod touch. It's basically an iPhone without the phone and email. It's a full screen iPod that's 8mm thick with almost all of the features of the iPhone–except the annual...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes WiFi Music Store, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Apple releases iTunes 7.4
- Keeping true to their word barely Apple released iTunes 4.7 late last night. The 38.5MB download is available in Software Update and on the iTunes download page. New features include Ringtones, iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and access to tracks being played in selected Starbucks locations, but I'm...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
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