iTunes/iPod

Another reason Apple’s Ping is just plain Stupid

by Chris Foley on October 8, 2010

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I’m really trying to give this Apple Ping thing a chance.  I really am. No, really. I normally have iTunes open and playing on shuffle while I work throughout the day.  It helps keep me focused, and moving.  I should also mention here, that I have an unusually large music collection.  It’s a collection born [...]

iTunes Ping does NOT have that Zing

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by Chris Foley on September 3, 2010

Steve Jobs announced Ping this week at the special music event in San Francisco.  I’m going to assume that you’re aware of what this new Music-based Social Network is. If you’re not, head over to this article at Macworld, and get yourself up to speed, and then come on back. Okay, back? I try not [...]

Club Monaco In-Store Music for June 2010

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by Chris Foley on June 29, 2010

Some friends and colleagues who know that I work with Denzyl Feigelson and Club Monaco to provide their monthly in-store music programming have been asking me where they can find a list of music, and also where the songs can be purchased.  I’ve decided to post the playlist at the end of each month. In fact, here’s [...]

Here’s a horror story from the field, made un-horrible with a just few steps: You buy a new computer – and your iPhone is synched to the old one. Bummer. It can only belong to one iTunes library and iTunes now wants to erase your iPhone. Now what?  These simple steps will move your iPhone [...]

Club Monaco In-Store Music for February

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by Chris Foley on February 14, 2010

Some friends and colleagues who know that I work with Denzyl Feigelson and Club Monaco to provide their monthly in-store music programming have been asking me where they can find a list of music, and also where the songs can be purchased.  I’ve decided to post the playlist at the end of each month. In fact, here’s [...]

Sync iTunes music to your iPhone with confidence

by Chris Foley on December 26, 2009

As incredibly functional as the iPhone is, from time to time we find ourselves needing to restore the iPhone to its factory defaults. By default, iTunes backs up your iPhone prior to syncing.  After restoring your iPhone to factory defaults, iTunes will allow you to restore your data from this backup, which is really great, [...]