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Giveaway: Win 3 SkiniTunes Pro Activation Keys

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Previously reviewed SkiniTunes is an addon for iTunes that adds skins to the mini iTunes player. Besides just skinning the mini player with themes, the SkiniTunes app also adds album artwork to the mini iTunes player. See the nice reviews they’ve got in their blog. There are two versions of the app – free and pro.

While the free version does the obvious stuff like skinning iTunes and adding artwork to the miniplayer, the pro version goes a little ahead and adds fancy Window effects, adjustable transparency, ability to download lyrics, a sleep timer among other things. The pro versioon costs $5.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 12th, 2009 at 9:11 am

Transfer iPod Music to Your PC

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If you want to transfer and copy music, photos and videos from your iPod to iTunes, look no further than Touch Copy for your computer. You can also manage and copy your iPod contacts on your PC or Mac with this neat app.

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May 5th, 2009 at 9:45 pm

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Six iTunes Fixes (for Windows)

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iTunes, with all its niggles and annoyances, has emerged as an indispensable media player for all iPod and iPhone owners. Although iTunes slightly redefined the way we download and listen to podcasts on the internet and changed a few other things, there are still many things iTunes doesn’t do.

Here are six iTunes features iTunes lacks and six programs that can help you fix them: Read the rest of this entry »

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March 30th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

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Create Universal Keyboard Shortcuts for iTunes

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If you’re a power user and use iTunes at least occasionally, you might find the lack of universal keyboard shortcuts in iTunes a big annoyance. You just can’t control iTunes from other applications using keyboard shortcuts.

iTunesKeys comes to the rescue though, and lets you create custom universal keyboard shortcuts to control iTunes playback. The app also displays song info including artwork near the system tray every time a new song is played, just like Winamp does.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

September 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

How to Automatically Update Your iTunes Library?

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iTunes is a good media player, but it misses those little features that you might really need. One niggle is that it doesn’t update the media library automatically – you won’t see the songs that were added recently to your music folders in the iTunes library. You need to manually update the library by adding the folder again.

ADVERTISEMENTAutomatically fill misspelled and incorrect album details and artwork in iTunes using FixTunes

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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am

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