New App sync feature in iTunes 7.7.1

02 August 2008; 07:54

Although I still seem to be having trouble with duplicate app files with the newly available iTunes 7.7.1, there is one fix that might please a few people. Whereas before, when removing an app on your iPhone/Touch, you would find iTunes automatically putting that app back on again when you next synced. Now in version 7.7.1, even if you have opted to sync all applications, iTunes changes this to 'Selected Applications' and unticks the app you removed on your device, there-by not automatically installing that app back on the device again.

This is a welcome addition. However, going back to the duplicate apps, there were another two app updates available for me yesterday, and this again produced a list of over a dozen of my apps on the update page. As before, the only way to remove these from the list is to download them again. And once again I ended up having duplicates in my Mobile Applications folder. Grrrrrr!

Tags: App Store, iTunes

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iTunes UK offers more free vintage television shows

19 June 2008; 23:28

Could Apple be offering FREE regular videos on iTunes like they do with their "Single of the Week"? as just over one week after they offered the pilot episodes of Charlie's Angles and Starsky and Hutch, comes a FREE episode of the 70's/80's hit comedy show "Diff'rent Strokes"

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iTunes UK offers free vintage television shows

10 June 2008; 20:10

Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels pilot episodes available now for free download on iTunes UK.

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iTunes UK now selling & renting movies

04 June 2008; 22:20

At long last Apple has made films from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK available to buy or rent via the iTunes UK store. The iTunes movies are available at £6.99 for library title purchases and £10.99 for new releases. iTunes Movie Rentals are £2.49 for library title rentals and £3.49 for new releases, and high definition versions are priced at just one pound more.

If like me you have bought a HD TV, but have yet to upgrade to a HD DVD player, then as the available films and TV programs increase, then the Apple TV may be a viable option, and one I am now seriously considering.

Tags: iTunes Movies, Apple TV

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