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Let’s get started with the first method to de-dupe your music. In iTunes, choose the File > Display Duplicates menu item, and you’ll see a list of everything in your library that has the same song title and artist name.From my perspective, though, this isn’t as helpful as it could be. As you can see…

If you are still using Panther because you can’t afford to upgrade or get a new (or newer) Mac, that’s one thing. But I don’t want to hear “I can’t give up Panther because my favorite game only works on Panther.” This statement is usually followed by a complaint that no one teaches, writes about,…

Strong iPad demand drives Apple stock target price increaseDemand for the iPad doesn’t seem to be waning, especially with world-wide pre-orders for the new third generation model sold out. Consumers hoping to be get the new iPad on launch day, March 16, will now have to stand in line if they didn’t pre-order early.Early third…

While the definition of “nearly” is certainly open to debate, I hope to show that for videophiles and disinterested wives alike, the answer is “No, iTunes is not a good replacement for Blu-ray among those who care about picture quality.”  First, my testing methodology is different. Ars used a camera to take pictures of their…

The ACCELL UltraAV USB 2.0 to HDMI Adapter allows Mac and Windows users to send audio and video to an HDMI display by connecting it to a USB port. The convenience of this solution versus others is that one doesn’t need to connect to separate audio and video sources to produce an HDMI signal; all…

Third gen iPad pre-orders exceeded analyst expectations“Since we attended the iPad launch last week, our checks have indicated record pre-orders with wait times for shipping iPad models now reaching two to three weeks,” Mr. Walkley said. “Given the new iPad’s leading hardware specs and iOS developer and application ecosystems versus all tablet competitors, we anticipate…

The Vietnamese site has a video of the product unboxing (reproduced below). Non-native speakers will have to settle for a visual demonstration, but the interface on the iPad is set to English and clearly shows the new toggle for LTE in the Cellular Data section of Settings. Dozens of additional photos are available at Tinhte.vn.The…

During Apple’s announcement last Wednesday, movies were added to Apple’s iCloud service, joining TV Shows and Music, allowing users to stream films purchased from iTunes (as well as select digital copies obtained via purchases of physical DVDs and Blu-Rays) to any iOS 5 device, including Apple TV. While the service launched with support from major…

In many ways, comparing either the new iPad or Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Amazon’s Kindle Fire is an apples and oranges kind of thing. Both of the larger devices pack considerably more horsepower, a better screen, and all kinds of other specs, than the 7” Kindle Fire, while neither can touch the price of Amazon’s…

Prologue I just spent a week in Walt Disney World with six apps. This is the fourth in a serious survey of the apps, what they can do for you and deciding on the best ones to load onto your iPhone or iPod touch to make the most out your visit to see the mouse.…

PrologueI just spent a week in Walt Disney World with six apps. This is the second in a serious survey of the apps, what they can do for you and deciding on the best ones to load onto your iPhone or iPod touch to make the most out your visit to see the mouse. ______Our Laughing…

The Samsung 470 Series Solid State Drive is this company’s first entry into the consumer SSD market. As a producer of many of the components used in other SSDs, as well as providing OEM SSD solutions for various computer manufacturers, we were surprised that they haven’t entered this market earlier, having introduced this drive in…

(IDG News noted that Judge Posner is normally an Appeals Court judge, but is handling the trial court case for the Northern District of Illinois). Apple sought the information in two motions. The Wall Street Journal reported that the first was designed to find out what value Google was placing on features in Motorola Mobility…

The HTML5 benchmark, available on github for anyone to try for themselves, measured how many images each mobile platform could display and move at once while maintaining a 30 frames per second frame-rate and looked at all major iOS and Android devices. The report’s results demonstrate an overwhelming performance advantage for iOS devices of all…

The two firms were already in the process of litigating ownership of the patent when that case was halted by Kodak’s bankruptcy proceedings. Apple is asking the bankruptcy judge to allow the case to resume in federal court, while Kodak wants to keep the decision in the hands of the bankruptcy court. Apple says that…

Proview Technology sold the rights to the trademark for “IPAD” to Apple in 2009, but has since claimed the deal didn’t include the rights to mainland China. Apple and Proview have since gone back and forth with a series of court actions and public relations moves in their effort to cast the other as the…

I just came back from a week at Walt Disney World taking a pocket full of iPhone apps for my twenty-something visit. I’ve tested apps in the parks before but not for a few years, so I was excited to see how the app market has grown and progressed. It’s a challenge navigating your way…

Senator Schumer wants FTC to investigate mobile privacyConcerns over mobile privacy flared up again after news that iOS apps can upload user’s contact database to remote servers without any warning. That was followed by a report that developers have access to user’s photo libraries, too.Reports initially targeted Apple’s iOS for the iPhone, iPad and iPod…

Regis McKenna with Steve Jobs in the 1980s Photo Published under Creative Commons Mr. McKenna was a local Silicon Valley public relations consultant tapped by a young Steve Jobs to help Apple in its early years. The two maintained a relationship through Steve Jobs’s career, Mr. McKenna is known to have played a role in…

These two stand now alone among computer operating systems. As for the others…TRS-DOS, Atari OS, CP/M, and all the rest…they are fodder for museum displays. Even the venerable Linux survives with only a tiny blip of market share.  The personal computer OS war is over. It’s so over that I will risk going out on…

While the boy violated copyright, it was Apple that was sued by Jigsaw. Apple reportedly retreived the money paid to the boy, along with the money Apple also earned from sales of the app, and paid it to the firm as part of the settlement. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the terms of the settlement…

Kitabu, from Sixty Four, LLC, is a simple, no frills EPUB reader for OS X. It has some basic but well chosen features, it’s fairly solid and, best of all, free. For serious e-book collectors, it may be desirable to have a full-featured e-book reader like Calibre or BookReader. However, others may simply have a…

The Karotz Smart Rabbit is a PC- and Mac-compatible gadget that brings a variety of fun and useful apps into a small, entertaining form factor. Through a web page interface, you can load up your Karotz with applications from an “Appz Store” that, while small, is growing daily and is open for developers to do…