I wrote an article back in December last year claiming iPhone from Apple was just hype. It turned out I was wrong. Apple actually has a product with the name iPhone, which is not approved by FCC and still in dispute with Linksys over the product name.
So what’s good about iPhone? It’s a mobile phone and not a VoIP phone that was announced by Linksys last month. It’s a phone that you hardly see a button. In fact, there is only one “home” button. You control the phone by sliding a finger across its 3.5-inch touch screen.
iPhone combines three products - a mobile phone, an iPod, and an Internet communications device into one small and lightweight handheld device. It has the same power of a state of the art Symbian or Windows Mobile powered device. Despite its innovative new user interface (UI), I have to say it is only equally powerful.
Apple has added a new tab on Apple.com promoting iPhone. The QuickTime based web site is very intuitive to use, showing all the main features of iPhone in an incredibly presentable way. That is what I like about Apple - they work hard, they sell hard. You do not need to read any other publications to know exactly about iPhone.
Microsoft Zune is out for the holiday shopping season joining Music Gremlin as a social capable music player. The wireless factor that posts a challenge to iPod is getting intense. This is always good news for consumers. Apple now has more incentive to innovate and continue to improve the iPod.
Purchasing music before iPod was chaotic. You have to go out to music store to buy the album, download a ripper to grab them off the CD and convert to MP3. As more and more people were doing that, the demand on CD and hard drive skyrocketed. Nonetheless, music on the go was impossible with hard drives and CDs.
This video (QuickTime video) will show you how to find lost music using iTunes on Windows. If you seem to have missing songs in your collection, it is possible that they didn’t download properly when you purchased them. Do not panic at that point. iTunes has a way to download any songs that didn’t completely download when you bought them.
If you see an exclamation point icon appear next to your songs, this means your songs were accidentally moved or deleted. For songs that are moved, you can try finding them by searching the disk and drag them back. You can enter search phrase such as *.m4p or *.mp4. If you want to re-link them up, double click and click yes to locate the song.
If your iTunes Library file was deleted or corrupted, try dragging your files back into iTunes to rebuild your library. Of course, you will need to drag from your backup CD/DVD or if you are lucky the deleted songs are still in the Recycle Bin.