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Archive for January, 2010


IPhone – Zagat 3.0

Earlier this month, we provides up a sneak peek of Zagat to Go 3.0 for iPhone. On Wednesday, the premium application for browsing restaurant and nightlife ratings ($9.99) became available in the Application Store on iTunes and on your iPod Touch or iPhone.

Zagat 3.0 for iPhone is a significant launch that wraps in augmented reality, just like Yelp’s competing application does for iPhone 3GS phones (augmented reality won’t work on 3G phones for either application).

Zagat trying to out-Yelp Yelp? Probably, and the application certainly provides new, competitive services while trying to reach its aim.

Zagat also arguably one-ups Yelp by providing an offline mode, and by the phone itself addingcomplete reviews. But be forewarned, offline mode takes up a memory chunk and is slowww to download, and any one other than die-hard Zagat fans may be loathe to shell out $10 for quippy reviews.

Revamp iTunes – Apple Needs

We’re still awaiting the Apple’s tablet announcement(Apple is on Pacific Time, keeping the rest of the US eagerly awaiting this morning) which, according to McGraw-Hill, will run off of an iPhone-based operating system. This probably means that the tablet will integrate with iTunes.

Which brings us to an important point: Apple needs to rebuild iTunes. Yes, it’s a good app, but it could be better. It uses many processing power and takes forever to download on Windows (and sometimes even on the Mac, or at least my Mac). It is time for a full revamp of iTunes. It is slow and bloated and apparently without even making any money, Apple is breaking even on the iTunes store.

Apple needs to introduce a service for streaming music. It has the ability, due to its acquisition of Lala, a service streaming music purchased from Apple in late 2009. An Apple streaming music service could help fight against illegal music downloads. Now, no less than 95 % of all music downloads are illegal, according to the head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

Today Apple event should focus on over just introducing the tablet. Hopefully an iTunes revamp will be mentioned as well.

A tool to help find the duplicates in iTunes

ITunes There is a simple suggestion that may come in very useful for those of you who may have duplicate song issues in iTunes. As you are probably aware, iTunes includes a tool to help find the duplicates; simply choose File -> Show Duplicates, and iTunes will create a list of all the songs it believes are duplicates.

The only problem with this feature is that it is quite liberal in deciding what is and is not a duplicate. Accordingly, the list of potential duplicates can be very big – especially if you have a number of different versions of the same song by the same artist.

So here is the trick – the Option key. Hold it down, then select File, and notice that Show Duplicates has changed to Show Exact Duplicates.

The resulting list will be much shorter, since only select exact duplicates. This functionality is covered in the Help of iTunes, where it states:

Press the Option key and select File> Show Duplicates are exact multiple copies of the same song (if, for example, without wishing to import the song twice).

However, according to comments I heard this suggestion before, it seems that this feature is not well known.

Whether you need more help removing duplicates than this method offers,for example, clearing out hundreds of duplicates is not necessarily an easy task, even if you have identified them,then you might want to check out Dupin, which offers a number of features to help solve your duplicate woes, including automating the duplicates deletion. Christopher Breen discussed Dupin in more detail in his article on handel iTunes dupes.