Tag Archives: iPod

Nov 22 2011

Re-Downloading Media in iTunes

Through various recent changes, both in iOS for iPhones and the such but also in the iTunes Music Store, you are now able to re-download your past purchases in iTunes!

You can also download straight from your iOS device but today I’ll be concentrating on using iTunes.

Purchased

You’ll notice some new items on your iTunes home page. iTunes Match isn’t available in the UK just yet, so that’ll be covered at a later date.

For now, just select ‘Purchased’ and this will take you to a new section of iTunes where you can re-download everything you’ve ever purchased.

Music History

You can select to look at all your previous purchases, or just what isn’t currently on your computer. This is great if you’ve had to delete media or lost music over the years, I’ve lost plenty of tracks here and there and iTunes will filter out what you’ve already got and show you what isn’t there!

Download

Once you’ve gone through your Music, you can also re-download any apps you may have purchased. Or indeed Books from the iBook Store. If you’re lucky enough to have a US iTunes Store, you can also download TV shows!

TV Shows

Jun 13 2010

How to get iOS 4.0 NOW

So I’ve been sharing a link around for e past few days and thought I’d just crack on and do an article myself.

Anybody running Mac OSX is able to get iOS 4.0 on their iDevices NOW! No need to wait for the 21st June, no need to register as an iPhone developer and no need to install X Code on your machine.

Apple may change things, so please make sure you backup and please don’t blame me if anything goes wrong. All you need to do is update iTunes to 9.2, download the iOS 4.0 ipsw package and the GM is the same version that’ll be pushed as a software update in two weeks.

How do I do it?:

1. First things, first – Download and install iTunes 9.2 (Mac only, download links here, here, or here).

2. Now download the iOS 4.0 Golden Master, making sure you get the right pakage for your device:

  • If you have an iPhone 3GS, download this.
  • If you have an iPhone 3G, then you need this one.
  • iPod Touch 3G, get yours here.
  • And finally if you have the iPod Touch 2G, download this.

3. How to install iOS 4.0:

  • Plug in your iOS device, and open up iTunes. Let it sync one last time and make sure you backup.
  • In iTunes, alt+click on the ‘restore’ button (for those that asked, ALT is the key to the left of COMMAND/APPLE), and then when asked to locate the file, select the IPSW file we just moved to your desktop.
  • iTunes will now install iOS 4.0 to your iPhone or iPod Touch! You can start fresh or restore that backup you just did.

That’s it. iBooks is slowly being pushed to 4.0 users, so be patient and you’ll have that soon.

Also, Apple are now allowing 4.0-compatible updates to be submitted to the App Store. So shortly, we’ll start seeing apps taking full use of the new API’s including multitasking!

Once the update is pushed to users on the 21st June, you probably won’t have to update. This is the same copy. Finally, please remember that I’m just sharing this information. Don’t blame me if something goes wrong. The best option if you brick your device is just go to an Apple Store, tell a Genius you don’t know what went wrong, and they’re likely to swap it for you. (This happened to me last year with 3.0 and they kindly swapped iPhones).

Enjoy, have fun and share your findings with me here, twitter or facebook!

Jun 7 2010

WWDC 2010

There’s only hours to go until Steve Jobs takes to the stage at this year’s WWDC in San Francisco.

As usual, there are a lot of rumours and a lot of mystery about what is going to be announced. I’m only certain on a few things, and a lot I’m pretty sure about. The rest, well, the rest are things that ‘would be nice’.

iPhone

First up is what everyone’s been waiting for… A new iPhone. A lot of people have been calling this ‘iPhone 4G’ – Well that certainly isn’t going to happen. Firstly, all networks internationally are yet to agree on what ’4G’ actually is! Sprint (USA) currently have a partial 4G network, but AT&T don’t and the iPhone is still exclusive to AT&T in the US. There currently isn’t a 4G network provider in the UK!

You could call it the G4 as it’s the fourth generation of the iPhone, but I’m pretty certain it’s going to be named iPhone HD - It’s a hunch, but the spec of the screen and camera (for 720p HD recording) indicates this is the way Apple are going.

We’ve all seen the leaks from Gizmodo (who subsequently are actually banned from this year’s WWDC) so I’m not going to bore with repeating the spec but I’m excited about this! I’m certain they’re not gonna release the iPhone tomorrow. So certain that I haven’t started getting my iPhone ready to sell! I expect the iPhone HD to be released on June 22nd but any delays in manufacturing the thing could push it back to late July.

iPhone OS 4.0

Don’t expect to be getting a software update any time tomorrow. The Golden Master version of the beta hasn’t been released to developers (me) yet and this is what will be announced tomorrow. The fourth beta has come in leaps and bounds in stability, and I never have a crash on my iPhone. This final beta will be released to developers tomorrow (so everyone can get their apps ready) and then the 4.0 update will be released when the iPhone HD is out.

Safari 5

Safari 5 is going to be showing it’s face too. With fast loading times, pre-DNS fetching, smarter address bar, ‘private mode’ icon and a new ‘Reader’ mode which is kinda like Readability. I was hoping for the official release of ‘extensions’ as well, but apparantly that’s not gonna happen.

Apple TV

There’s also a fair bit of murmour surrounding Apple’s ‘hobby’ Apple TV. Now I’ve been an Apple TV user for a few years now and I still regularly use it. It’s a shame it can’t do more as I don’t buy that many Movies or TV Episodes from iTunes any more. It’s great as a remote speaker to my iTunes library on my MacBook and watching podcasts is great, but that’s about it.

There’s rumours that it’ll be a new device, running a similar getup as the iPhone OS. Or just an app on the iPhone HD and iPad. Who knows? I hope it’s not a new device, as I like the look of mine and don’t wanna see it go to waste.

MobileMe

Finally, there’s MobileMe. Apple’s premium service which gives you email, calendar, contacts, ‘Find My iPhone’ and a few other features that you can find elsewhere totally free. I let my membership expire a long time ago and the rumour is, it’s gonna be free. There could also be a tier-based membership system which gives more features or access if you pay a small fee.

Will Steve have ‘one more thing’ for us at this morning’s keynote? Or will we just get sales updates and iPhone talk? I’d be happy with just that, it seems that Apple are focusing on their biggest selling devices right now. Mac’s sales aren’t slumping, they just ain’t as high as iPhone OS devices.