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How to Take An iPod & iPhone Screenshot

Step-by-step instructions on how to take a screenshot on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

How to Set Up iTunes Match

Step-by-step instructions on how to add your music to your iCloud account for multi-device sharing using iTunes Match.

How To Customize iPod Menus in iPhone

The iPod feature of the iPhone lets you customize the icons at the bottom of the screen to reflect the things you’ll use most often. The iPod is the only part of the iPhone where you can make these kinds of changes.

How to Save YouTube Videos to iPhone or iPod touch

Want to save your favorite YouTube videos to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for watching even when you're not online? Learn how here.

How To Buy Songs from eMusic

A quick how-to guide on signing up for eMusic, downloading songs from the service, and adding them to iTunes.

How To Download Over the Air from the iPhone App Store

To download programs from the iPhone App Store, you can browse through a traditional iTunes Store-like experience on your computer. But, like the iTunes WiFi Music Store, you can also browse the App Store on your iPhone and iPod touch and download and install programs directly to your device over the air.

How to Delete an iMix

You thought you’d created a terrific iMix, but your opinion has changed and now you don’t want anyone to know that once created such a bad grouping of songs. You want to delete your iMix.

How to Enable iPhone Push Notifications

Push notifications are a tool available through certain iPhone apps that allow users to be notified when new information or actions that they’re interested in occur within certain apps. Here's how to use them.

How to Change iPhone Wallpaper

One of the fun things about the iPhone (and iPod touch) is that we can customize the look of parts of it to make the device our own. One area you can customize is your iPhone wallpaper.

How to Change iPhone SMS Ringtones

We've always been able to assign different ringtones to the people on our iPhone address book. With the introduction of iOS 4.2, we can now add unique tones to text messages from our contacts, too.

How To Update Apple TV Software

Just like with an iPod and or iPhone, when Apple releases updates to the software that runs the Apple TV, the update usually brings valuable new features with it. If you want to update your Apple TV software, here's how.

Using the iOS 4 Screen Orientation Lock on iPad and iPhone

With the introduction of iOS 4.2, the screen orientation lock feature on the iPad changed, though it stayed as it had been since iOS 4 for the iPhone.

How Do I Connect My iPod To My PC?

If you're the proud owner of a new iPod, the first question you may ask when you get it home is how do I connect my iPod to my PC? Luckily, as long as you've got an Internet connection, you've got everything you need--and the process is pretty easy.

How To Get the Best Sound Out of Your iPod Cassette Adapter

No matter what kind of iPod cassette adapter you use – one made specifically for iPod or a generic one — you’ll find that it’s not always easy to get the best sound from the combination of iPod and car stereo.

Reorganize Stocks in iPhone Stocks App

The iPhone’s Stocks widget allows you to track the price of your favorite stocks. If you’ve got more than just a very few stocks listed, however, you’ll want to organize them for easier reading.

How To Removing Tracks from Shuffle in iTunes

A technique for making sure that some tracks from your iTunes library never appear in random play or iTunes DJ.

How To Buy from the iTunes WiFi Music Store

Buying music from the iTunes WifFi Music Store is a joy. It’s simple, fast, and fun. Here’s how you do it.

Can I Give Away an iPod and Let the Recipient Have the Music On It?

Apple makes it hard to give iPods with music still on them. By design, iPods sync to only one computer and when they’re synced with another one, the music on them is deleted and replaced by music from the second computer. Despite that, there are ways to give the gift of a fully stocked iPod.

How To Use Cover Flow to Browse iPod on iPhone

The CoverFlow feature of iTunes has been added to the iPhone to really cool effect. Now, instead of just browsing songs or albums by name, you can also browse then by flicking through a collection of album art on your iPhone.

Using iPhone Content Restrictions

For parents concerned about what their kids might see or do while using iPhones, there are content restrictions built into iOS that allow them to control content, apps, and more.

How To Editing iPhone Videos with the iPhone's Built-In Editor

The iPhone 3GS is far from the first smartphone or PDA that could record video. The twist that Apple gave to the 3GS is that not only can you record video on the phone, but you can also edit videos and share them via email, text message, or YouTube.

How to Cancel an iTunes Allowance

Whether due to behavior, age, or financial circumstance, sometimes you have to cancel an iTunes Allowance. Here's how.

How To Set Gapless Playback in iTunes

Most albums have short sections of silence between songs. But not all of them do — some albums are designed to have one track flow directly into the next and that silence actually disrupts the way the music is supposed to sound. To address this need for what is called “gapless playback,” Apple added this feature to iTunes 7.

How To Burn a Gapless CD in iTunes

Some CDs are designed to listened to without the short gaps of silence between songs. These are called “gapless” tracks or CDs. When you’re burning a CD in iTunes, you may need to ensure that the CD you’re burning is gapless so that it plays back the way it was meant to sound.

How to Reset iTunes Password

Forgetting your iTunes password can pose a number of problems, especially not being able to log into your iTunes account and download/purchase songs, apps, video, and other content from the iTunes Store. If you've tried all the passwords you think might be correct and you still can't login, you need to reset your iTunes password.

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