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How-To: Set up iTunes Match

iTunes Match setupSubscribing to iTunes Match is about as easy as making an iTunes purchase. All you need to do is plop down $25/year, set up the software, and get to streaming. Yay!

When it’s all said and done you’ll have access (in the U.S. only for now) to all of your music (up to 25,000 songs not counting iTunes purchases) streamed (downloaded) to all of your devices (5 computers with a max of 10 devices) at 256 kbps (unless your songs don’t match up with any in the iTunes catalog) for the most part. Yep, it’s that easy!

When you’re ready and you’ve decided not to dupe your libraries or use a free streaming app alternative, let’s get started with setting up all your devices to work with iTunes Match.

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Where is iTunes Match?

iTunes Match Coming Soon thumbApple just released iOS 5.0.1 beta 2 along with an updated version of iTunes 10.5.1 that continues to tease their upcoming iTunes Match service. If you’re unaware, iTunes Match lets you upload up to 25,000 non-iTunes songs to the cloud and access them from up to 10 devices, including 5 computers, 2 different Apple TVs, and iOS devices.

Well, we’re officially past the October “launch” date and all Apple has to show for it is false hope.

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How-To: iTunes in the Cloud

iTunes in the CloudOver the years I’ve bought a few songs from iTunes. If I got a new computer or updated my iDevice and I neglected to back up my purchases they were lost unless I could remember exactly what song and which version it was that I bought.

When I’d ask Apple for help they’d tell me to log into my iTunes account and decipher the nonsensical list of music, movie, book, and app purchases. And on the off chance I remembered what song I downloaded, I would have to buy it again. Wait, what? Yeah, the whole iTunes deal was maddening.

iTunes in the Cloud changes all that. It’s not revolutionary. It just makes sense. Now, when I buy music from iTunes, iCloud stores my purchase history so I can see what I’ve bought—from my PC, Mac, or iDevice. Even better, I can configure all my devices to automatically download my new purchases to all my devices via WiFi or 3G. Wait, what? Yeah, the whole iTunes deal just got surprisingly simple.

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Five things about the Nook

nook colorA while back I wrote a post about how much I love to read. Seriously, I love the smell of a new book. Some people like the smell of grass, rain, or dirt after it rains (which I think smells like worms, even though worms don’t exactly have a scent). I like the smell of bound paper.

For Christmas I got a bookshelf, and recently I finally got around to putting it together. It didn’t take long for my nine, yes nine boxes of books to fill the five shelves. When I ran out of room I had to resort to using my cube organizer to store the overflow. And when that filled up I’ve just started laying books wherever I can.

You see, I don’t always read books straight through. I start and stop all the time. So, at any given time I have at least three books on the nightstand or next to the recliner or sofa or some place that can hold a book. At the rate I was going, my whole cat room/reading room was going to be just book shelves. I needed a solution that didn’t include not reading. I remembered a post y2kemo wrote on e-readers. That’s when I got the idea to splurge.

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Blogging with Blogsy is a snap

Blogsy app iconI’m a WordPress blogger who likes to write whenever I have a chance. I blog in the waiting room from my iPhone using BlogPress ($2.99). I blog at 30,000 feet using WordPress for iOS (free). But when it comes to blogging on the iPad I gotta tell ya, the guys over at Fomola nailed it with Blogsy ($2.99).

The iPad-only app is clean, intuitive, and packs some pretty unique tools that will make a mobile blogger salivate.

 

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