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Whether you've moved on from your       a ridiculously long name, is a $20
iDevice to something else, or you       adapter that plugs into your iPod
just want to be able to change the      speakers and makes them wirelessly
tunes from far away, this super         compatible with any bluetooth-
cheap Bluetooth receiver will           enabled audio player.
dramatically incrase the                That means your iPhone, 2nd or 3rd
usefulness of your iPod speakers.       generation iPod touch, Android     

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Confused on what you need to            run on each. You check what you've
jailbreak your iOS device? Whether      got against the chart and it will
you've got a brand new iPad or a        tell you if the device/firmware
first-generation iPod Touch,            combination is jailbreakable, what
Jailbreak Matrix dishes the dirt        tools you need, what version of
on what you need to jailbreak your      iTunes the said jailbreak
device.                                 technique has been tested with,    

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Windows: If you use iTunes to load      files already in iTunes, and
up your iPod and other Apple            more—as seen in the
devices but otherwise aren't a fan      screenshot above. SYNCiTunes will
of it—especially the slow         also update tag changes made
and sometimes quirky                    outside of iTunes which is great
importing—SYNCiTunes imports      for those of us who don't like
and synchronizes music into iTunes,     doing any serious tag editing in   

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Windows/Mac: iTunes 9.2 has rolled      with the future iPhone support,
out, preparing computers for the        iTunes 9.2 also displays album art
coming of the new iOS 4 upgrade         faster while flipping through your
and the iPhone 4. But there's also      library, and allows for the
PDF support rolled into iBooks for      organizing of apps into folders,
iPhones and iPod touch models, and      another iOS 4 feature that's a
faster device syncing.                  welcome upgrade for those with     

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Rather than learn fancy wraps or        the hue the cord came in.
buy specialty holders to manage         The author notes that on some
headphone tangles, why not sheath       cheaper headphones (likely those
your standard earbuds in paracord,      you'd use for this mod, anyways),
that durable, hard-to-twist wonder      performing this hack might result
material? One crafty Instructables      in a little audio quality loss,
writer shows us how.                    and that having the paracord rub   

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Nowadays, most of us seldom use         on those few occasions that you
our optical drives since                need to install some software or
everything is downloaded. If you'd      rip a CD.
like to see your optical drive get      After cutting up the CD to fit the
some love, turn it into an iPod         docker, you just need to tape the
dock with some scissors and an old      docker on and put your new
CD, while still keeping it usable.      contraption into the CD tray. Note 

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Windows only: Despite the many          The features are almost too
great media players out there,          numerous to list—things like
MusicBee earns itself a spot high       built-in Last.fm scrobbling and
on the list with super tagging,         customizable hotkeys are small,
managing, browsing, ripping,            but sure to please unhappy iTunes
syncing, and converting powers,         users. In addition, it sports a UI
all on top of an intuitive              that is very similar to iTunes,    

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Exchange is extremely useful for        65454492YnBsaXN0MDChAdICAwQFW1NTTEh
syncing your data live to your          vc3RuYW1lWlNIQTFEaWdlc3QITxAUuPoLfw
phone, especially since Gmail           6ZSU7jIQlTIfpHJWVFRJIICg8bJicAAAAAA
added Exchange—but iPhones        AABAQAAAAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
still only allow one Exchange           Pg==DisplayNameGmailEnabled
account at a time. If you're            Dataclassescom.apple.Dataclass.
jailbroken, here's how to add as        Calendarscom.apple.Dataclass.      

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When you sync your iPod/iPhone in       you should have. Either way, nifty
iTunes 9 and you've got space left,     feature for quickly filling up
check off the "Automatically fill       your player without having to
free space with songs" box on the       check off playlists manually.
Music tab to use every last free        Note: As Smarterware reader Fran
megabyte. As David Chartier at The      points out, iPhone and iPod touch
Finer Things in Mac site notes,         users may want to skip this if     

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iPhone/iPod touch only: Working         Choose Calm Ocean, then add
with white noise in the background      seagulls, foghorns, and wind
can be great for improving              chimes. Alternatively, select a
concentration. Custom Sounds of         babbling mountain stream that
Nature takes the same approach          includes bullfrogs, birds, and day
with the soothing sounds of             crickets. Add or subtract sounds
crickets and oceans. It's so            until the ambient noise works for  

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