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iTunes Match Playlists Not Syncing in iOS 5.1

iTunes Match BrokenSo I upgraded to iOS 5.1 and iTunes 10.6 the other day, created a list of Irish music, and headed out the door with my son to go for a St. Patty’s Day run. When I fired up the music app the playlist wasn’t there. I chalked the issue up as an AT&T problem and went about my run with a little help from Pandora.

Upon returning, I entered my WiFi kingdom and checked in on my playlist. Still not there. I looked on my PC, Mac, and MacBook Pro. The playlist was correctly syncing across all three devices. Hmm, why wasn’t the playlist syncing on my iPhone?

 

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How-To: Fix Personal Hotspot in iOS 5

personal hotspot screenshotI up and paid for tethering when iOS 4.3 was released. Frankly, I was tired of having to re-jailbreak my iPhone every time there was an update just so I could use MiWi.

The other day I updated to iOS 5 and immediately noticed my Personal Hotspot menu had vanished. Since I was headed out of town soon I needed to figure out what the issue was and fix it. I looked high and low. Then it dawned on me what to do.

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How-To: Fix iPhone Battery Drain

iPhone Battery drain fixI was playing around on my iPhone the other day after noticing the location arrow all up in my business. I checked out Settings and couldn’t find any apps displaying a purple (active) arrow. Puzzled, I closed all open apps. Still, that location arrow was mocking me. Back into the iPhone’s Location Services settings I went one level deeper into System Services and sure enough there was a purple arrow next to Setting Time Zone.

Instead of periodically polling nearby cell towers to determine the iPhone’s location, the new iOS 5 feature constantly talks to cell towers. As a result, and regardless of which iPhone you own, your battery drains and drains and drains. The good news…there’s a fix.

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RiP Steve Jobs

RIP Steve Jobs
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How-To: AirPlay for PCs

AirPlayAirPlay is a great way to stream photos, videos, and music if you have a Mac or an Apple TV. Unfortunately, if you own a PC or some other network connected device AirPlay isn’t natively supported. Thanks to some ambitious software developers you can bring AirPlay to your PC.

There are many non-AirPlay alternatives to streaming your content across your network. I’m going to give you two solutions that utilize Apple’s AirPlay feature: AirMusic, an app for your iDevice, and a Windows Media Center (WMC) add-on. Separately they do not stream all AirPlay supported file types, but when used together they give you everything AirPlay gives to Mac users.

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