Showing posts with label ipod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipod. Show all posts
Sunday, March 06, 2022

What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

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I'll provide some back story below, but it's tedious and a bit ranty so I'll put the most useful stuff up front. For *reasons* (...
Saturday, October 06, 2018

Only Apple can provide family mobile device management for iOS

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Update 10/24/2018 : After writing this, and only by experimentation, I’ve discovered that Apple actually provides extensive remote control o...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Apple Manage Devices / Associated Devices is still kind of broken

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If multiple devices share a Store Apple ID they will show up in Apple ID Devices . They will also show in iTunes (for that Store Apple ID),...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

What can you redownload from Apple's iTunes store?

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You only get one download of songs, videos (includes movies), iPod games and albums ... iTunes Store: Purchased songs, videos, iPod Games...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Some podcasts in smart playlist won't sync to iPhone after 4.1 update

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I am pretty sure this new 4.1 bug is related to an age old bug: Apple breaks Smart Playlists on iPhone and iTunes alike (yet again) . Some ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

The hidden ever growing iTunes photo cache bug

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There's a design flaw/bug in iTunes. When it syncs photos to an iPod or iOS device it creates a photo cache folder. That folder never sh...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Why you should buy your iPhones and other iOS devices in September

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OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released on August 28, 2009. Version 10.6.4 came out last in June of 2010; it’s now a good upgrade for a 10.5 ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Apple breaks Smart Playlists on iPhone and iTunes alike (yet again)

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Over the past several months Apple has broken iTunes smart playlists in multiple ways … Apple - Support - Discussions - Smart Playlists brok...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Old firewire iPod still working with iTunes 9.01

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Since Apple's been tweaking iTunes to block the (USB) Palm Pre, I wondered if my old firewire iPod would be collateral damage. I wasn...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

In Our Time - how to subscribe to the podcasts

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With a bit of effort, I was able to dredge up my my first blog reference to the BBC Radio 4 History of Ideas program In Our Time . It was e...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

iPhone 3.0: Apple fixes tune scrolling

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I was briefly tempted to install iPhone 3.0, but I checked Macintouch. Lots of issue reports, so I'll wait at least a few more days. I&#...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Apple makes the Shuffle even lousier

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The 1st generation Shuffle was brilliant. The second, not so much ... Gordon's Tech: USB adapters for the evil 2 Gen Apple iPod Shuffle ...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Controlling what iTunes video goes to an iPod or iPhone

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This is a bit weird. I think there's an iTunes OS X bug involved. I wanted to control what TV shows went to my iPhone. My son wants to g...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The curious story of AAC support - why not?

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My SONY car stereo plays non-DRMd AAC tunes, as does my wife's BlackBerry and, I think, my old Nokia. Why not? AAC is a non-Apple music ...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Which iPod was best?

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I've bought six iPods . Four are still in use in our home, including my first - the third generation firewire sync iPod. From left to ri...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Newest Sansa SanDisk STILL doesn't support AAC - weird

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File under weird. My SONY car radio plays AAC. My Nintendo Wii supports AAC. My wife's BlackBerry plays AAC. But the newest Sansa SanDis...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

How to charge an iPhone at multiple computers

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iPhone 2.0 can't charge via Firewire. It's one of the most annoying "features" of the new phone. That means I've lost ...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

The iPhone is a mediocre iPod

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I have to add this one to iPhone notes you won't read elsewhere . The iPhone/iTouch are surprisingly mediocre iPods. They share the ...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

My iPhone notes post - it's worth a reread

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I've been adding to my iPhone notes you won't read elsewhere as I stress test the phone as only an aging information/knowledge geek...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Mount your HFS formatted iPod on a Windows machine

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In case you want your Mac-formatted iPod to move files back and forth from your work machine: Featured Windows Download: HFSExplorer Reads M...