Posts Tagged ‘iTunes’

Apple should start rolling out iOS 5 updates for supported iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices very soon. Apple pushed out iTunes 10.5 last night in preparation of these device upgrades. Here’s what’s new in iTunes 10.5.

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Social Times’ Bilal Hameed picked up on iPhone apps being added to Starbucks’ Pick of the Week last week. Previously, the program provided a free song from iTunes every week. However, it seems Starbucks wasn’t quite done with making changes to the Pick of the Week program. This week Starbucks announced that in addition to [...]

Furthermore, the survey proved out that if you pay to watch video, you are using Netflix more so than YouTube or Facebook. Unlike Netflix, both YouTube and Facebook are without premium subscriptions for videos primed for streaming or rental.

If you bought and downloaded an app directly on your iPhone or iPad a week ago, the app would not show up on your PC or Mac until the device was synced with iTunes. Until then losing your iPhone or iPad also meant losing your purchase or free download. However, a week after Apple announced [...]

The Pulitzer Prize winner list of movies is the best of the best, starting at 1915 to the present with more being added as he completes his reviews. You might even discover a movie you’ve never heard of before or rediscover a movie that you’d love to see again.

It looks like part of Apple’s iCloud is up and running now. I didn’t expect the ability to redownload music, apps and books to go live until iOS 5 is released sometime this fall. However, if you take a look at iTunes (I’m using it on a Mac), you’ll see a new “Purchased” link in [...]

Apple’s iBookstore is now integrated into the iTunes Store. You can find its link at the top of the iTunes window between “App Store” and “Podcasts.” iBookstore in iTunes The book categories includes the enhanced books which includes some children’s books with human narration in a read-along mode. The bookstore includes a selection of $2.99-or-less [...]

And, finally (for today), we come to Apple’s much anticipated iCloud. Apple’s less than stellar MobileMe service, which Steve Jobs described as “not our finest hour” during the keynote, is MobileGone. And, so is its $99 per year fee (for the most part). In its place, we have iCloud. Apple describes it like this: iCloud [...]

iPads are great for so many things. You can play games, watch movies or your favorite television show. Now, you can watch “The Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” on you iPad. That’s right. All you need to do is download the app for each show from iTunes.

Fraudulent emails have started surfacing that announce the imminent availability of the new iPhone 5GS from coming Friday. These emails are part of a new wave of phishing scams and are likely to be an attempt to hack Apple IDs and passwords. The Apple ID of a user is his/her core identity in the eyes [...]