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| On the accompanying CD-ROM disc, you will find programs for the Mac and PC that enhance your iPod and iTunes experience. Some programs are free for you to use and enjoy, whereas you have to pay for other programs should you choose to keep them. The disc contains three different categories of software, which are discussed in the following sections. FreewareThis is software made by either a company or an individual who has decided not to charge for their work. Freeware is, as the name implies, free! If you do decide to keep and use any freeware program, it is customary to at least send an email to the creator thanking them for their generosity. This shows your appreciation, and a nice email is a sure way to keep them either updating the program, or creating other worthwhile programs. SharewareThis is software that is usually free to use for a set amount of time, after which you agree to pay the price should you choose to continue using it. Shareware is not quite commercial software, but neither is it freeware. It falls somewhere in the middle. A shareware author is usually creating software in his spare time, and allows users to download and freely use it to get a taste of how it works before committing their money. Commercial SoftwareThese are the big boys of the software industry. More often than not, you have to pay for these programs before using them. However, some companies freely give away their programs for one reason or another. A prime example is the Apple Computers, Inc. program iTunes. iTunes is free to download and use. Apple does not charge a dime for iTunes, for either Mac or PC users. However, iTunes is still not freeware in the pure definition of the word, but rather commercial software that is given away. In this case, Apple gives away iTunes to boost iPod sales, as well as an incentive to use the program to purchase downloadable music from the iTunes Music Store. XPlay for Windows is another commercial program found on the CD-ROM. This program, unlike iTunes, is not free, though they do allow you to use it in Demo mode, free of charge. In this case, XPlay uses a shareware form of distribution. If you find software you enjoy on the CD-ROM, please take a moment to follow the licensing agreement of the program in question. Tip
Macintosh iPod SoftwareThese are the programs for Macintosh computers found on the accompanying CD-ROM. PodWorksOne of the antitheft options Apple uses to prevent iPod users from simply plugging their iPod into another Mac and copying all his music files over, is its one-way transfer. In other words, you can only copy songs to the iPod, not from it. But what happens when your Mac dies, and you lose all your music files? You might still have them on the iPod, but that does you no good. The answer is a third-party utility titled "PodWorks" from developer Sci-Fi Hi-Fi. It copies all the file metadata from the ID3 (Identification Tag Studio3) stored on every song on the iPod. It then copies that data back to the "clean" version of iTunes on another Macintosh. Price: $8.00 www.scifihifi.com/podworks/ BiblePodWant to read chapters from the King James Version of the bible on your iPod? BiblePod for Mac and Windows lets you do just that. BiblePod is a free program that uses the English KJV XML Bible markup language project. biblepod.kainjow.com/ Price: Free! Pod2GoPod2Go is a great application that "Takes an ordinary iPod and makes it extraordinary." Using Pod2Go, you can sync news, weather information, movie listings, horoscopes, stock quotes, driving directions, and more. What's more, the software autoupdates itself, helps you publish a listing of your music to a web page, and gives you the ability to quickly and easily manage your iPod's notes. Pod2Go is a really great program, full of features you did not even know you wanted until now! Price: Free, but donations are welcome. www.kainjow.com/pod2go/ PodMailWant to transfer your email to your iPod for later viewing? PodMail is an open-source program that does just that, though you cannot use it to reply to your emails. But if you have a lot of email you would rather read later, this is a great way to take it with you. Price: Free! www.podmail.org/ EjectorThe Ejector is a great utility that adds an iPod icon to your Mac OS X menu bar, through which you can eject any removable disk, including an iPod, CD, DVD, or any other hardware device that shows up on your desktop. Price: Free! www.jeb.com.fr iPod LauncherThe power of AppleScript is used in iPod Launcher. When you plug your iPod into your Mac via the FireWire cable, iPod Launcher launches applications for you. For instance, if you manually fire up your iSync application after connecting the iPod, iPod Launcher can automate that for you. Price: $4.95 www.zapptek.com/ iPod ItIf you use Entourage, Mail, Stickies, Address Book, or iCal, you can use iPod It to transfer your PIM (Personal Information Manager) data over to the iPod. This is a great way to carry all your contact information from those applications without having to purchase a separate Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). You can also transfer all your mail messages and events from iCal, download weather and news headlines, and much more. The iPod It is also from ZappTek software. Price: $14.95 www.zapptek.com/ipod-it/ iSpeak ItA very underutilized feature in Mac OS X is the computer's ability to speak any text onscreen. With iSpeak It, you can take any document, be it a web page, email message, or PDF (Adobe's Portable Document File format) file, and save the spoken words to iTunes. From there, it is a simple matter of loading it onto your iPod, and you now have a vocal recording of said work anywhere you go. This is yet another great application from ZappTek Software. Price: $12.95 www.zapptek.com/ iPodRipThe ability to move your music from your iPod to your computer is smart. Apple does not let you do it. IPodRip does, and supports iTunes song information, including ratings and play count. It can also recover songs and playlists. It provides print, HTML, and XML support, as well as an iTunes style browser. This is a nice piece of software from The Little Appfactory. Price: $10.00 www.thelittleappfactory.com Ollie's iPod ExtractorA simple and direct way of moving your music files from your iPod to your Macintosh, Ollie's iPod Extractor supports an easy-to-use interface, and the cost is just right! Price: Free! www.isophonic.net/applications/ iPod OrganizerYou can use this program to store phone numbers, email addresses, flight numbers, and appointment times. The program, from proVUE Development, does not install any special or third-party software on your iPod. Instead, iPod Organizer exports the information that you input into the Mac-based software as MP3 files, allowing you to quickly find and use the information on your iPod. This is a great utility, and has received favorable comments from everyone who has reviewed it on the Mac web. Price: $19.99 www.provue.com/ipodorganizer.html iPod.iTunesUsing a tabbed interface for the software, iPod.iTunes does a good job of syncing the music files from your iPod to iTunes. Intelligent enough not to copy duplicates, iPod.iTunes copies the music files back from the iPod to iTunes that are missing. If, for instance, you accidentally deleted your music files from iTunes, iPod.iTunes saves your bacon! iPod.iTunes also works with not just MP3 files, but also with your protected (iTunes store purchased) .ACC files, audible tracks, and even playlists! This is a great software title to add to your iPod software collection. Price: 29.90 Euros (use PayPal for currency conversion) www.crispsofties.com iPod Decloak iPod Decloak is another program that allows you to view the hidden files (MP3, ACC, and so on) on your iPod. Very similar to many other programs, it works well. Price: $2.00 www.ipoddecloak.com/ iPod AccessThe iPod Access is a tool for moving songs from your Mac to your iPod by artist/album or composer/album. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, iPod Access does a minimum task, which iTunes (free from Apple) does much more easily. Still, the program is worth taking a look at if you are having program problems with iTunes. Price: $10.00 www.ipodaccess.com/index.html iPod Play List CloneriPod Play List Cloner copies playlists from your iPod to your Mac, in a folder of your choice. Using scripts, it can then add an identical playlist to iTunes (version 3 or later), saving you the time to rebuild your playlists by hand in case you lose your iTunes playlists. This is a handy utility that could potentially save you a lot of time! Price: Free! homepage.mac.com/beweis/ Toggle iPod Battery StatusA nifty utility that allows you to change the battery life icon on your iPod from the battery icon to a number between 1 and 500, which represents how much voltage is remaining in your battery. This is a great little application, well worth the small fee. Price: $2.00 homepage.mac.com/rulerk/ Rip to iPodThis nifty AppleScript only does one thing, but it does it well. It rips (copies) files seemingly directly from a CD to your iPod. In reality, it copies the files to iTunes first, then copies said files to your iPod, and finally deletes the songs from your iTunes. Price: Free! www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/index.php FileMaker to iPodIf you need your vCard information in a FileMaker database, this utility allows you to transfer your contacts to your iPod. Imagine using FileMaker's powerful searching capabilities or sorting options to only copy the needed contacts to your iPod. Price: Free! www.bossbizapps.com/ OmniOutliner Export to iPodFor OmniOutliner users, these two AppleScipts let you export your outlines to either iPods Notes or Contacts menu. Price: Free! www.omnigroup.com/ SlurpSlurp is a nice working iPod management tool that maintains a database of all the music files on your iPod. From there, you can perform search and sorts, export the data as text files, copy your music from your iPod to your hard drive, or even burn a CD directly from your iPod to your CD-RW/SuperDrive. The only drawback to Slurp is that the developer, Ambroise Confetti, has halted development on it, releasing only this working beta version. Price: Free! www.cellulo.info/slurp/ PodQuestIt is not always feasible to take your computer with you on a trip, but with an iPod and PodQuest, you can take both MapQuest and MapBlast driving instructions on the road. PodQuest adds a menu bar that allows you to download said directions to your iPod. The utility works well, and adds more usefulness to iPod users who are on the road often. Price: $9.95 www.mibasoft.dk/ LyripodWhat are you missing from your iPod while listening to your music? The lyrics to your music, of course! Lyripod is a simple utility that searches the Internet (lyrics.astraweb.com) for the song you choose, and downloads it to your iPod in the Lyrics folder under Extras. This is still early in the software development stage, and does not work 100% of the time. But, it can't harm your iPod, and is worth giving a try. Price: Free! Windows PC iPod SoftwareThese are the programs for Windows-based computers found on the accompanying CD-ROM. XPlayXPlay is a commercial software program that gives you much more flexibility with your iPod than ever before. With XPlay, you can drag and drop MP3, M4A, Audible (.aa) the popular WAVE (.wav) or AIFF (.aif, the digital format CDs use) to your iPod without the need to use Apple's iTunes software. Created long before Apple made iTunes for Windows, XPlay is also the only way for those with an older Windows OS, such as Windows 98 or Me, to be compatible with the iPod. Included on the CD-ROM is a 15-day trial demo of the software, courtesy of the Mediafour Corporation. Price: $29.95 www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/ GoogleGet GoogleGet is a handy utility for downloading the latest news from Google News to your iPod. This is a handy feature, and shows the power of the iPod. As of this writing, GoogleGet is a free application. Price: Free! www.mesmerized.org/teki/extra/googleget/index.html Weather For MeWindows users should not feel left out, as Weather For Me downloads a 10-day forecast onto your iPod. This is a great utility if you are planning to take your iPod on vacation, and want a weather forecast for your destination. It includes foreign zip code support, auto updater, and more. Price: Free! www.staylazy.net/software/ Feed My PodFeed My Pod is a very neat software title that takes content from the iPodLounge website (a great website for all iPod owners) and puts it on your iPod. Simply put, Feed My Pod takes all the news and downloads it to your iPod, allowing you to read it at your own leisure offline. Price: Free! www.staylazy.net/feedmypod/ Apple iPod Plug-in for MusicMatch JukeboxThis allows you to transfer music from the MusicMatch Jukebox software to the iPod, much like Apple's own iTunes. If you are a MusicMatch user, this is the software you will want as an iPod user. Price: Free from Apple Computer, Inc. docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120313 PocketMac iPod EditionIf you are a Microsoft Outlook user, and store your contact information in that application, you can now use PocketMac iPod Edition to transfer Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, and even email to your iPod. Price: $23.41 Please visit www.pocketmac.net/products/pmipodwin/demo.html to download a demo today! Anapod ExplorerAnapod Explorer is the first and only iPod software that allows full Windows Explorer integration with the iPod as a device in My Computer. It allows a web page interface to your iPod through its built-in web server. This gives you a powerful search and reporting capability using a Structured Query Language (SQL) database. It does not yet work with the iPod Mini. Price: $25.00 www.redchairsoftware.com k-podThis allows you to download all your email from your inbox to your iPod, making a new folder titled "Mail" in your "Notes" screen on the iPod. It is very simple to use! Price: Free! k-deep.com/k-pod.htm euPOD VolumeBoostWhen Apple shipped the iPod to Europe, for some reason they put a restriction on how loud the volume will go. The developer of euPOD VolumeBoost wanted to crank up his music, so he wrote this small program to solve the problem. It works with all iPods, but does not work to the same extent with U.S. iPods as it does with European iPods. Price: Free! www.espen.se WinniePod UpdaterIf you have a first or second generation Macintosh-compatible iPod, and want to use it with your PC without losing all the music files, this is the application for you. Price: Free! www.the-midfield.com/ipod.aspx CopyPodThis is a small program that allows you to save your iPod music to your computer. This is a nice tool if you have to send your iPod in for repair. Price: $8.00 copypod.ouvaton.org iPodLibraryEver want to read your e-Books on your iPod? iPodLibrary lets you do just that. You can import all major e-Book formats, including .LIT, .PDF, .HTML, and .TXT. It also allows you to save your last position in each book. Unfortunately, it only works with the third generation iPods. Price: Free! www25.brinkster.com/carmagt/ipodlibrary MyPodPlayerWith MyPodPlayer, you can play all the music on your iPod on your computer. Simply connect the iPod, and MyPodPlayer reads all your music, allowing you to listen on your computer. You can view the music very similar to iTunes, by artist, genre, album, playlist, and so on. MyPodPlayer also allows you to copy songs from your iPod to your PC. Price: Free! www.ipodsoft.com/mypodplayer.aspx iStoryCreatorWant to create your own Text Adventure games for your iPod? That is what iStoryCreator does. Do you remember the "Choose your own ending" books in which you had to turn to a certain page in the book, depending on what you wanted the character to do? This is the same premise that iStoryCreator uses to create Text Adventure games. It can be hours of fun creating and sharing your adventures with people online! To install the iStoryCreator to your computer, you must first have the ".NET Framework" installed. You can get this here: download.microsoft.com/download/a/a/c/aac39226-8825-44ce-90e3-bf8203e74006/dotnetfx.exe Price: Free! www.ipodsoft.com/iCreator.aspx In addition to iStoryCreator, 28 iStories are included for your enjoyment. Please note: The iStories found on the CD-ROM are to be viewed at your own discretion, and have not been edited by this book's publisher. Macintosh iTunes SoftwareThe following is software that works with the iTunes software for Macintosh computers. NiceCastImagine being able to use your Macintosh as a broadcasting radio station over the Internet. Imagine no more, as NiceCast does exactly that. NiceCast broadcasts music either across the world or across you house, directly from iTunes. With iTunes and NiceCast, you can set up a playlist for DJ-like broadcasts. All anyone else needs to listen to your music is a streaming MP3 player, the address you are broadcasting from, and you are now your own radio station. NiceCast is a very simple-to-use application, with a level of control not found in other, similar applications. You can set the compression level so that those with slower Internet connections are also able to listen. You will find a fully functional demo of NiceCast on the included CD-ROM. If you enjoy it, please be certain to visit NiceCast online and purchase a copy! Price: $40.00 www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast RockStarRockStar is a single- or multiperson music game that uses your very own iTunes library in a very new and innovative way. Do you remember the old game show "Name That Tune"? The concept is similar here. RockStar plays clips of your own iTunes music library, and gives you five multiple-choice answers. The game gives you the choice of game play. You can either guess song title, artist, album, or a mixed bag of all three. During game play, you are presented with five choices, and the goal is to correctly answer in the shortest amount of time possible. During game play, a counter quickly counts down, so that when you make a correct selection, you are awarded the time left on the counter. Multiplayer games, or "Party Games" as they are called, are a great deal of fun as well. Here, you can have up to five teams, and you rotate teams every five songs. The highest-scoring team wins. As the title suggests, this is a fun party game. Price: $9.00 freshsqueeze.com/products/rockstar Name That iTune!Very similar to RockStar, it is a game that starts playing random music from your iTunes software. Your skill at answering the questions correctly, in a given time frame, reflects a good score. The questions range from naming the artists or song title. You are presented with four choices, and the longer it takes you to answer correctly, the lower your points. Not quite as much fun or polished as RockStar, but the price is better. Price: Free! homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/ RadioLoverWith RadioLover, you can record Internet-streaming audio as separate tracks, including iTunes Radio Tuner stations, and then save them as MP3 files for later listening. It can also record multiple streams at once, and even has a scheduling feature to record when you are away. This is great software, and a free demo is included on the CD-ROM! Price: $15.00 www.bitcartel.com iTunes PublisherDo you have a desire to publish your iTunes song list on a website? Or, do you want a printout of all your music file names? Perhaps you have a database, which you use to store all your song information. If so, iTunes Publisher is the software you have been looking for. With it, you can export in the following formats: HTML, Tabbed Text, QuickTime Streaming Server, M3U, and the general playlist formats in other audio applications, such as WinAMP. Price: $5.00 www.trancesoftware.com iTunes TimerThis is a fun little AppleScript studio application that calculates the total time iTunes has been playing. It can calculate on playlist, or even your entire iTunes library. Price: Free! webpages.charter.net/remsoftware/index.html iTunes Library ManagerWith iTunes Library Manager, you are able to make backup copies of your iTunes library and preferences. Why do you need this? If you have given your music ratings, and you lose all the preferences to iTunes (a bad crash, new version of iTunes, and so on), you have to manually go back in and change them again. Also, if you imported music in which you had to manually name the songs, album, artist, and so on, you must reenter all that information again if you changed computers. With iTunes Library Manager, this is no longer a problem. Price: $5.00 www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/index.php iTunes AlarmDo you want to use your iTunes as an alarm clock? iTunes Alarm does just that by specifying a time for iTunes to play, at what volume, and even what song. This makes a great alarm clock. Simply put your Mac next to your bed, and you can wake up to the sweet sound of music or any other audio file in your iTunes library. Price: Free! www.johnnarun.com iTunesCoolAs you know from reading this book, you can import album artwork into iTunes. This is a tool for doing just that, without the need to copy and paste yourself. You can select multiple songs to update the artwork, as well. iTunesCool also can export artwork, delete artwork, and export iTunes library to HTML. This is a handy time-saver. Price: $6.00 www.sandme.info iEatBrainziEatBrainz is a handy, though not foolproof, method of correcting missing information tags from your MP3s. If, for some reason, a song is listed correctly, but the artist is not, this program attempts to repair it for you by using the MusicBrainz.org database. Price: Free homepage.mac.com/jbtule/software.html SynergyThis is a very small application that puts three button controls on your menu bar, Previous Track, Next Track, and Play/Pause, that control iTunes. This way, whenever you need or want to either replay a song, skip to the next one, or just stop the music for a moment, you no longer have to either visit the Dock or bring iTunes to the forefront. What's more, it also displays in various ways what is playing in iTunes. It can display floating transparent windows that show the song, album, artist, ratings, and even album artwhich are all customizable! You can even set Hot Keys for systemwide control of iTunes. Even better, Synergy actually downloads album art for you. The price is cheap for everything this program does. Price: 5 Euros wincent.com Track ManagerTrack Manager exposes the ability to rate the playing track or copy it to other playlists without having to bring iTunes to the front and dig through the full-sized window. For convenience, most of the fundamental features of the mini iTunes window (track name, play, and volume controls) are reproduced. Price: $10.00 www.sentientfood.com iTunesRatingiTunesRating is a simple utility that displays the rating of the song currently playing on iTunes. It also lets you change or edit the rating with a simple click. Price: Free! homepage.mac.com/mhandley/ iTunesBrushKillerSome people really dislike the brushed metal look of iTunes. Enter iTunesBrushKiller. This application keeps the metallic look, but does away with the brushed metal look. Price: Free! sveinbjorn.vefsyn.is/software iTunes Screensaver Add-onsAs you know, iTunes sports a great visualizer. Sort of a screensaver, people love to watch the visualizer in action. But you don't have to be limited to the cool effects that ship free with iTunes! Many other third-party visualization animations are available for iTunes. Here are a few we have included on the CD-ROM. Fountain MusicThis animation has particles exploding to the beat of the music. You can control gravity, particle size, edges, and morevery neat! Price: Free! www.binaryminded.com WhiteCapOne of the oldest, and coolest visualization plug-ins for iTunes (and other MP3 players), WhiteCap produces more than 190 effects. Truly stunning to watch, you get hours of enjoyment watching the engaging displays. It can also respond to line-in audio sources. Price: Free! soundspectrum.com G-ForceG-Force features fast, antialiased effects, millions of possible effect combinations, savable and scriptable effects, video file export capabilities, and unparalleled expandability. G-Force is designed to entertain you on its own, but it can be customized and extended in many ways. Price: $10.00 soundspectrum.com vTunesvTunes is a simple OpenGL iTunes visual plug-in. Price: Free! lorenb.com/ LED Spectrum AnalyserThis visualizer displays a hi-fi style electronic display. Price: Free! www.maczoop.com |
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