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How to quickly upgrade all your local music to 256Kbps iTunes Match versions

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Nov 19, 2011 a 10:27 am

MacWorld's Jason Snell has written up a quick way to force your local Windows or Mac iTunes library to upgrade all your songs to the 256kbps iTunes Match versions. If you're still syncing your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to iTunes via USB or via the new Wi-Fi sync, it's a quick way to get them on your device(s) as well.

Apple releases iTunes 10.5.1, launches iTunes Match in the US [Updated]

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Nov 14, 2011 a 12:36 pm

Apple has released iTunes 10.5.1 and along with it, their paid music locker service in the U.S., iTunes Match. Coming after several extended betas, and past the previously announced October time frame, iTunes Match costs 24.99 a year and allows users to scan their iTunes libraries and either gain access to matching, 256kbps tracks from the iTunes Catalog, or upload their own, off-catalog tracks for access from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or iTunes client on Mac or Windows.

TiPb Picks of the Week for October 29, 2011

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Oct 29, 2011 a 3:12 pm

Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Siri as revolutionary as the mouse and multitouch?

By Anthony#IM, Friday, Oct 14, 2011 a 11:35 am

Harvard Business Review has a great write up likening Siri as being as revolutionary to computing with it's hands free interaction as was the Mac with it's desktop metaphor using a mouse, and as with the iPhone using multitouch gestures. The article states that Mac brought computing accessibility to the masses but over the years, complexity via added functionality introduced issues that broke the "desktop metaphor". Siri, it contends, solves these complexity issues.

Daily Tip: How to Jailbreak iOS 5 GM with RedSn0w 0.9.9b3

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Oct 6, 2011 a 6:53 pm

If you've got the iOS 5 GM seed on your iOS device, you can now jailbreak via RedSn0w 0.9.9b3a. This one is also tethered like the previous beta versions of RedSn0w for iOS 5.

Be advised that not all jailbreak apps and tweaks have been updated to support iOS 5. If you’re alright with running tethered and don’t mind a few bugs here and there, follow along for a quick walkthrough.

TiPb Picks of the Week for for September 10, 2011

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Sep 10, 2011 a 3:06 pm

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Access your virtual machine, Mac from iPhone, iPad with Parallels Mobile

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Sep 1, 2011 a 12:06 pm

Users of the well known Mac virtual machine software Parallels can now purchase an updated Parallels Mobile from the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It will allow you to not only access any of your Parallels virtual machines -- for example, that Windows 7 you're running on your MacBook -- from your device. Simply log in to your Parallels account and you'll have instant access to any of your Parallels VMs.

Parallels Mobile offers the following features:

Iterate 3: Prototypes

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011 a 9:57 pm

Marc and Rene iterate through Firefox's UX presentation, Adobe's Expressive Web Beta, Facebook's recent design acquisitions, Retina Displays for Macs, the HIG, and talk with David Forgash of SourceBits. This is Iterate!

TiPb Picks of the Week

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 a 1:33 pm

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Google+ app now available for iPhone, Lion, Downgrading iOS 5, iPhone 5 - From the Forums

By Jeremy, Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 a 1:37 pm

From the Forums is a great way to see what all of the current hot topics are on the TiPb forums. In order to create any new threads of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a registered member. Becoming a member is a simple process that will only take a few minutes out of your day, so if you have not already already done so, head on over and register now!