Tag: ITunes
by Tim Yu
Joining the family of iTunes plug-ins, The Filter is a free program that works like your own personal DJ by automatically creating playlists from your library and syncing them to your iPod with just a few clicks.
Selecting a few songs directs the program to analyze your picks, scan your library and generate a mood-matching mix. The time-saver will even compile data on your musical tastes to recommend new music it thinks you might like.
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Jon Lech Johansen, now 22 and widely known as "DVD Jon" for his exploits, has also figured out how Apple's iPod-iTunes system works. And he's using that knowledge to start a business that is going to drive Steve Jobs crazy.
If you want to be specific - and for legal reasons, he does - Johansen has reverse-engineered FairPlay, the encryption technology Apple (Charts) uses to make the iPod a closed system. Right now, thanks to FairPlay, the songs Apple sells at its iTunes store cannot easily be played on other devices, and copy-protected...
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DRM-buster DVD Jon has a new target in his sights, and it’s a big piece of fruit. He has reverse-engineered Apple’s Fairplay and is starting to license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple’s devices. Instead of breaking the DRM (something he’s already done), Jon has replicated it, and wants to license the technology to companies that want their content (music, movies, whatever) to play on Apple devices. This may not be good news for iTunes the store, but it could make the iPod even more popular.
Cingular has finally released Motorola's iTunes-enabled RAZR V3i. The "i" distinction adds not only iTunes synchronization and a dedicated music button, but also a microSD slot for storing all your tracks. The phone also now includes an airplane mode, which lets you crank tunes without the phone's GSM quad-band radio emitting interference. All well and good, but we can't help but be disappointed by the lack of EDGE connectivity; as it stands, only GPRS data access is available. Available in dark gray, the V3i is the exact same size and weight...
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Imagine. As of today you are able to burn a movie on your PC without worrying about it turning into a federal case.
The movie-download site CinemaNow has unveiled a new service that allows customers who buy films online to make a copy on disc that can be watched on TV sets via a standard-issue DVD player.
Studios and online distributors see the ability to watch movies on television--as opposed to a PC screen--as a key to making legal downloads a viable business model. Until now, however, studios were wary about permitting DVD-burning of...
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Sometimes, if you want a job done right, you have to do it yourself. That appears to be the case with Microsoft, which, rumor has it, is preparing its own competitor to the iPod. Tired of seeing PlaysForSure devices failing to make significant inroads against the so-far unbeatable iPod-iTunes Music Store combo, Microsoft is apparently readying its own device to take Apple on directly.
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