Is Apple preparing to push its industry-leading jukebox/device management/digital download store software in a new direction? The latest rumor making the rounds is that Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue and their merry band are preparing the way for a monthly subscription service, but you’re run of the mill pay-forever-music deal that everyone else is offering.
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Here’s a quick and neatly annotated compendium of 40 of the best Macintosh graphics, game, utility, productivity, video, browser, iTunes add-ons and Internet applications available. Most of these of products are free or offer free demos, plus there’re tons of links to Blorge’s huge review and best of libraries.
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Even at the time, people realized how important the iMac was for Apple. However, when Apple hit the market with the iPod, many pundits dismissed it out of hand as too expensive and too limited — FireWire and Apple only. Now, as media player that could closes in its first decade, it still claims an over 70 percent market and turned out to be just the first of a whole family of products that changed music, computing and mobile phones.
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One of the latest Apple rumors is that the company is planning to bring FM radio with live pause and iTunes tagging, such as they recently introduced on the iPod Nano, to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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It looks like the Apple vs Palm iTunes synching contest may have finally been resolved by Palm blinking and taking the synch request out of their phone’s operating system.
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Apple’s all-purpose music jukebox also comes with a slickly implemented visualizer that’s super easy to extend and here a 10 great plugins to get you started down the road to hallucinatory bliss. I’ve tested each of these iTunes visualizer plugins listed on an Early 2008 MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.1, a.k.a. Snow Leopard, and iTunes 9.0.1.
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When the one-time smartphone market leader announced its Pre handset could sync seamlessly with iTunes, some pundits speculated that Apple might allow the infraction, giving their dominant digital music marketplace a competitive veneer. So much for that bit o’ wishful thinking.
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The music publisher of rapper Eminem, Eight Mile Style LLC, has sued Apple, saying that Apple sold his music illegally and that the publishing company wants a larger share of the money from sales.
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Apple is using an innovative Javascript framework to deliver album LP and film Extras content within iTunes rather that requiring a heavy middleware layer like Flash or Silverlight.
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Whether you want to find, import and manage lyrics or use Apple’s iTunes Store to find music and then buy it on the cheap from Amazon, there are plug-ins out there just for you. Here’s a mix of 10 must-have free, shareware and commercial iTunes add-ons from the large and very, very active community of developers that has grown up around this iLife application’s various shortcomings.
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