Apple Kicks Off 12 Days of Christmas, Offering Free Songs, Videos, Apps and Books

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Apple's free 12 Days of Christmas app, available each year, allows you to download free songs, videos apps and books for the next 12 days. New offers go live each day within the app and those offers begin today, December 26th and run through January 6th. … [Read more...]

Apple Now Offering Complete My Season Pass

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Apple is now offering "Complete My Season Pass", which is the TV show version of "Complete My Album". The latter has been around for quite some time and allows customers to pay to download the remaining songs from an album that have not yet been purchased. You don't pay the full album price, but … [Read more...]

How To Restore iPhone To Factory Settings Without iTunes

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There are a number of reasons why you might want to restore your iPhone factory settings. If for some reason your iPhone isn't working properly or maybe you are selling it. If you are away from your computer, it's very easy to restore your iPhone to factory settings. Simply follow these steps. As a … [Read more...]

Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.2

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Apple today released an update to iTunes. Version 10.5.2 of iTunes is available through software update along with Apple's iTunes download page. According to the changelog, iTunes 10.5.2 includes several improvements for iTunes Match and fixes and audio distortion problem when playing or importing … [Read more...]

Preparing Your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch for the iOS 5 Update

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Tomorrow, Apple will release iOS 5 and it will be available as a free update and it is compatible with the following devices: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch 3rd generation, iPod touch 4th generation. To get you ready for the big day, we’ve outlined a quick guide on what … [Read more...]

iTunes 10.5 Released

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iTunes 10.5 is now live through Software Update, though it doesn't seem to have been seeded through the official website or iTunes' "Check For Updates...". Unleashed in anticipation for the upcoming iOS 5 release, this is the version that brings all those wonderful little features that we've been … [Read more...]

Tim Cook Talks Numbers At The iPhone Event

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Tim Cook took the stage at today's iPhone announcement, but before getting to all the juicy stuff, he hit some other interesting points. Tim Cook's started today's Apple event by taking a brief look at Apple's new Chinese stores, including one in Shangai which saw 100,000 visitors in the opening … [Read more...]

New Beta Brings iTunes Match To Devs [updated]

One of the big features of the iOS 5 announcement was iTunes Match, a service where your iTunes library could be mirrored in the cloud for an annual fee of $24.99. Late yesterday iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 was released to developers, and with it went the beta of iTunes Match. For a bit of a runthrough … [Read more...]

iTunes Connect Is Down Today, Lion Tomorrow?

According to MacRumors,  Apple has taken down iTunes Connect for most of today, in what we assume is preparation for the assumed launch of Mac OS 10.7 Lion tomorrow. iTunes Connect is down for most of the day, Pacific Time, while Apple does some maintenance type stuff. An email was sent out to … [Read more...]

Why Does Apple Censor The App Store?

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Apple will censor the bejeezus out of everything in the app store. Sometimes, this is seen as okay (racism, hate speech, etc), and sometimes it really isn't (classic literature, modern literature, political discontent), but what it boils down to is that this is Apple's ecosystem, and as much as you … [Read more...]