Recently I bought an iPod touch. It originally came with OS 1.1.4 and as soon as Apple made the 2.0 software available (and downloadable), I upgraded.
While the new iTunes App Store is a welcome addition, I found most of the applications not very useful to me. While some like Remote, Facebook, Last.fm or eReader are [...]

Today, while I was looking through my e-mails, I realized that one from the Apple iTunes Store had been sitting unread for a couple of days in my inbox. I usually don’t pay much attention to this kind of e-mails but I was bored enough to go and give it a try.
The e-mail was the [...]

NetBSD ports collection includes audio/mt-daapd, a nice and straightforward implementation of Apple’s DAAP protocol for streaming music to iTunes. The only problem is that audio/mt-daapd is not compiled with Zeroconf support by default. In NetBSD, net/howl provides an implementation of Apple’s Zeroconf (also known as Rendevous or Bonjour).
In order to compile audio/mt-daapd under NetBSD with [...]

After upgrading to iTunes 4.7.1 from iTunes 4.7, DRM-protected files that were unprotected with Hymn, refuse to play. However, using JHymn seems a partial solution, as some files still refuse to get copied back to my iPod.
I have found the following page from the Hymn Project:
http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/
In this page, the reader is instructed to remove the [...]

Files purchased through the iTunes Music Store are digitally protected so they can only be played on the computer where they were purchased from, or any legal iPod attached to the system.
FairPlay is Apple’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology used to protect music files bought from the iTunes Music Store. Files purchased through the iTunes [...]