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How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 9

Jules — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:20:09 +0000

Apple released iTunes 9 yesterday and along with a bevy of new features, it also put the Genre column back into browser view — and the old trick for hiding it doesn’t work. Fortunately, Apple has evidently listened to our cries of despair and there is now an easier way to disable Genres. Just go [...]

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How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 9

Keyboard shortcuts for rating iTunes songs

Jules — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:09:04 +0000

I’m on the hunt for a good Mac to-do list/GTD manager and while I’ve yet to settle on one of the multitude that are available, the search did lead me to a handy utility I’ve been looking for for ages. It’s called I Love Stars and it puts an iTunes star rating tool in the [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts for rating iTunes songs

How to sync an iPhone with two computers

Jules — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:11:45 +0000

Unless you’re using over-the-air Microsoft Exchange syncing with your iPhone (via Google Mobile Sync, NuevaSync or a corporate Exchange server), you’re probably keeping its contact and calendar information in sync with Outlook or iCal using iTunes. This works well enough, but what if your calendar and contact data is stored one computer (at the office, [...]

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How to sync an iPhone with two computers

Where does iTunes keep its iPhone backups?

Jules — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:51 +0000

Whenever an iPhone is synchronised with iTunes, iTunes makes a backup of (most of) the iPhone’s data. You can view the iTunes’ backup history by going to Preferences > Devices. iTunes maintains some kind of history for successive backups, but I have no idea of the underlying logic. You would imagine that three or four [...]

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Where does iTunes keep its iPhone backups?

Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes

Jules — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:34:10 +0000

If you want to use Google Mobile Sync to keep your iPhone synchronised with your Google Calendar and Contacts, you’ll have to backup any existing contacts on your iPhone first, otherwise Google Sync will delete them. Fortunately, there is an easy way to do this and you can use iTunes to upload your contacts to [...]

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Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes

How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 8 for Windows and Mac OS

Jules — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:55:13 +0000

iTunes 7 has a Preferences option to turn of the Genre column in the main window, iTunes 8 does not. This is very frustrating. I’m not in the least bit interested in seeing what genres are in my music library, and the Genre pane takes space away from the far more useful Artists and Albums [...]

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How to hide the Genre column in iTunes 8 for Windows and Mac OS