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  • 30 January 2012

  • How-Tos: Retrieve Your Entire Music Library from Your Google Music Account

    For a while now I've been using Google Music as a kind of cloud-based backup for my music library. Except that it wasn't really a backup, because I couldn't easily retrieve all the songs I'd uploaded. In the event of a system failure, I'd have to download tunes in batches of 100. Bleh.

  • 26 December 2011

  • How-Tos: Ten things to do with your new Mac

    Perhaps you lucked out this holiday season, and instead of unwrapping an itchy sweater or a Dunkin' Donuts gift card, you tore the wrapping paper off a brand new Mac. And perhaps this is the very first Mac that you've owned. Don't be afraid of your new computer; you're leaving behind a world of headaches, and this new Mac is your Excedrin.

  • 17 December 2011

  • How-Tos: Create a perfect holiday playlist

  • 16 December 2011

  • How-Tos: How to create a perfect Christmas playlist

    Christmas music and eggnog have this in common: they should only appear during the proper season. Break them out during a mid-summer celebration only if you want to immediately poop the party. Fortunately, you can ensure that your festive music is played at the right time - and in the right way - at Christmas. The avenue for doing so is iTunes's smart playlists.

  • 14 December 2011

  • How-Tos: How to change the sound effects in Windows 7

    Microsoft's Window operating system offers plenty of ways to customise your PC.

  • 01 December 2011

  • How-Tos: How to install and use Spotify apps

    Music-streaming service Spotify has launched an app platform that offers access editorial content, concert and gig information and even recommendations of other tracks without leaving the software.

  • 30 November 2011

  • How-Tos: Converting protected iTunes tracks through iTunes Match

    Reader Curt Forsyth is yet another person flummoxed by iTunes Match. He writes:

  • How-Tos: Creating the perfect Pandora holiday station

    It's been demonstrated that the average listener can tolerate exactly 27 days of holiday-themed music per year. At the same time, very few of us are willing to pungle up the dough necessary to obtain 648 hours of eggnog- and reindeer-themed tunes. Thanks to Pandora--the ad-supported streaming music service--there's no need to. Construct your Pandora stations correctly and you can fill your home with holiday music for nothing more than the occasional Geico commercial.

  • How-Tos: How to set Parental Controls in iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

  • 29 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to listen to radio in iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

  • 28 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to get album artwork in iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

  • 24 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to use the Genius sidebar in iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

  • 22 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to create Genius playlists in iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

  • 21 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to create playlists in iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection.

  • 18 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to import music into iTunes

    Apple's iTunes is great software for organising your digital music collection

  • 17 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to burn digital music files to a CD in Windows Media Centre

    Windows Media Centre, which was first introduced in Vista and given a new user-interface and improved functions in Windows 7, is a media player designed to bring music, pictures and even digital TV and movies to one location on a Windows PC

  • 16 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to fix iTunes Match Error tracks

    Among the icons you might see in your iTunes library after enabling iTunes Match is this unfriendly guy to the left: a cloud with an exclamation point in it. No, it's not hinting at a chance of inclement weather; it means that iTunes Match has encountered a problem while scanning the track in question.

  • 15 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to enable Home Sharing on an iPhone

    Home Sharing is a feature in Apple's iTunes that allows PC users to share their digital music and video libraries with up to five other computers located in the same household.

  • 14 November 2011

  • How-Tos: Check your music's iCloud Status

    iTunes Match is new (it arrived Monday) and exciting (all your music everywhere! your old CD rips upgraded to iTunes Plus quality!), but it's also confusing. What songs went where? Did iTunes Match find a track or did your copy of iTunes have to upload it to Apple's servers?

  • 09 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to enable Home Sharing on an iPad

    Home Sharing is a feature in Apple's iTunes that allows PC users to share their digital music and video libraries with up to five other computers located in the same household.

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