iTunes!

For my next topic I will be discussing the emergence of iTunes and its role in our society today. Despite being one of the most popular ways to listen to, organize, and transfer music, when compared to other software of the same genre, iTunes is relatively new. Winamp, the multimedia viewer/player I used all through high school and college, hit the scene about four or five years before iTunes's release in 2001. The grandfather of them all, Microsoft's Windows Media Player (formerly just "Media Player") began being included on each release of Windows in 1991. When iTunes did get released 10 years later, it became an instant hit. As this release pointed out (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/jan/09itunes.html)iTunes now became a one-top-shop for the searching, downloading, burning, playing, and transferring of all music. No longer were users required to have seperate programs for each step, it could all be done in one basic and easy to use program. This review points out that fact and also takes an objective look at if iTunes was indeed an improvement over what was already in existence: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q1/macwldsf/mwsf-7.html#itunes I will go into detail about the benefits iTunes has in the education process as well as my own personal thoughts on the application in subsequent blogs. For now, I would suggest taking some time to check out some of the following links on iTunes, you may find out that there's more to this program than even you every day users were aware of.

Interesting article on how to use iTunes to organize your PDF files: http://lifehacker.com/software/pdf/geek-to-live--organize-your-pdf-library-with-itunes-240447.php
This is referring to moving all of your iTunes music but still maintaining the library data: http://hifiblog.com/past/2006/05/11/howto-move-your-itunes-music-while-preserving-library-data-when-you-dont-let-itunes-manage-your-music-library/
Some other good ones:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks
http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-automatically-sync-itunes-to-any-folders-175161.php
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/11itunes.html