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ShareTools, from Yazsoft, delivers iTunes 10 home sharing.
There is a short post about the new ShareTools update over at MacNews. ShareTool lets you connect to most Bonjour services running on your home/office networks from anywhere in the world.
Pricing starts at $25 for a new user license.
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Analyst say that iOS app downloads are set to beat music downloads by March.
In a post on the Macworld blog, from their colleagues in the UK, the race is on to the 10 Billionth download from the App Store. Here’s how it breaks down, “If we measure downloads as a function of the number of months since store launch, we can see that apps reached 10 billion downloads in less than half the time it took songs,” said Asymco’s Horace Dediu. (Quoted from the Macworld post)
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The App Store has a new #1 free app. Welcome the new king BubbleBall.
9 to 5 Mac has the story. The app was created by a 14 year old boy and he has dethroned AngryBirds from the top of the list. The app, BubbleBall, has been downloaded more than 2 million times.
You can catch a short interview with the young man on Yahoo! News.
Kids will never cease to amaze me.
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Over here at MacSupportCasts we support Mac users. And I can never seem to pass up a great tutorial to expand the knowledge of Mac users. So if you’re new to the Mac, or maybe you’ve never ripped a CD with iTunes we’ve got you covered.
Over at Macworld they’ve put together this great little tutorial that walks you through the steps to converting all those CDs into digital files.
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“It used to be that being asked to bring some tunes to your buddy’s New Years Eve party meant sticking a few CDs and cassettes into a bag before heading out the door”…
Well not anymore.
The folks over at Mac|Life have posted up a great tutorial, that is simple to follow, that shows you how you can sync your iTunes library, to multiple computers using Dropbox.
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So you’ve got iTunes, you’ve got music and you’ve got some rocking playlists built. Did you know that you can share those playlists with others? Did you know that you can even give that playlist as gift?
Over at Macworld they’ve posted a nice short tutorial with the steps to take to share your favorite iTunes playlists.
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Apple releases Remote 2.1 app update for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Mac Daily News has a list of all the features and what the new update includes.
While over at iPodNN they are referring to the update as “critical”. Why? Because this update includes support for AirPlay video.
Check out both stories to see what all the news is about. And if you didn’t know, Remote is a free app from Apple.
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iTunes Ping social network has expanded to Twitter. Apple has started using their own “iTun.es” domain to do it, as reported over at Mac|Life and Mac Rumors.
Its also being reported that third-party Twitter applications may, however, continue to display Twitter’s default ’t.co’ shortened version.
You can also read about the new changes to Ping and social networking over at iPodNN.
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So iTunes has added playlist creation and publishing to its Ping social service.
MacNN reports that you can import an existing playlist from the iTunes or create a new one on the spot, and share it with friends and strangers.
The report further shares that since Apple wasn’t able to come to an agreement with Facebook they have opted for taking a low-key, more subtle additions to Ping.
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