What does that mean?

• It means HP wants to be a contender in the smartphone market.
• It means HP doesn’t want to be a slave to Microsoft.
• It means HP isn’t smitten by Windows Mobile 7.
• It means HP doesn’t think that the iPhone and Android phones have that market sewn up.

It means options for the consumer.

~Steve

The question is, how do you do that without ending up with a lot of files with exclamation marks (!) beside them? They are not sorted, so you have to select them individually and delete them.

So it goes in the world of iTunes, the iPod, and the iPhone.

I found this solution worked for my iTunes library, but caused me to lose my playcounts and ratings.

1. Choose File / Library / Export Library. This exports your iTunes library database as an xml file.  Save it onto your desktop.
2. Select all entries in your iTunes music library and press the Delete key. Don’t delete the files themselves if iTunes gives you the option to do so. You simply want to clear the database of all entries.
3. Exit iTunes.
4. Navigate to the iTunes folder inside your user folder and move the iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library files to the Desktop. You may want them later, but I didn’t.
5. Launch iTunes. The iTunes library will be empty.
6. Choose Edit / Preferances / Advanced / Change / and navigate to your music library location. This will keep iTunes from moving your songs to the folder it wants them in.
7. Choose File  / Add Folder to Library / navigate to the location of your music files (as in step 6), selecting the folder that holds all your music folders /click Choose. This will take a while — a long while if your songs are sitting on a server like mine are — so relax.
8. When that’s done, to restore your playlists, choose File /Import. Navigate to the Library.xml file you exported before and click Choose. Again, this will probably take some time.

There’s probably an easier way to do this. I found dozens of suggestions online. This is the one that worked for me. If you’ve suggestions, please comment.

As with everything, this information is provided without warranty, express or implied. Any loss that comes about as a result of this action is the responsibility of the end user and not ShieldsGroup.

I was surprised at some of the choices Apple made:

• No camera so no video chat.
• No flash, it is suppose to be an easy way to access the internet and it doesn’t support flash?
• No USB port, it has no camera and then no way to get photos from a camera, oh wait a minute there is an adapter to give it a USB port. That is almost as bad, it takes an adapter to connect USB devices?
• Only 64GB, and no way to add memory cards, even basic netbooks come with 160GB
• No user swapable battery.
• All applications have to come from the Apple App store.
• It doesn’t multitask, it has a big powerfull CPU and it can’t multitask?
• No HDMI out, you get a cool video on it (that doesn’t require flash) and you can’t show it on your TV?
• The version which supports cellular access will be unlocked, but it will only have a GSM radio which in this country is used by AT&T and T-Mobile. The only thing is that their 3G data networks are on different frequencies.  The iPad only supports AT&T’s 3G frequency. If you use it on T-Mobile you will be stuck at 2G speeds.

The market has been telling everyone that smaller is better, you don’t need a desktop, a laptop is better. You don’t need a laptop, a netbook is better. You don’t need a netbook, a smart phone like the iPhone is better.  Now Apple says we were wrong, you don’t want a iPhone, the iPad is better?

~alacy

After a considerable time of searching, I found instructions on the Ubuntu Forums, but none of them worked for this Mac. Finally, adjusting the steps along the way, I found a procedure that works for me:

Insert the Mac version of the Ubuntu boot CD into the iBook CD drive and as you power on, hold down the “C” key until you hear it booting from the CD.

At the “boot” prompt, type:

live-nosplash-powerpc video=ofonly break=top

When the busybox comes up, type each of these lines, waiting for the {initramfs} prompt to return:

modprobe ide_core
modprobe ide_disk
modprobe ide_cd
exit

The CD will start to load and then go silent. During this time there will be lengthy periods (minutes) without any sign that the boot is working. Be patient, it takes this iBook exactly 15 minutes to complete the boot to the live CD.

As always — this information is provided as-is and without warranty, express or implied. Any damage that comes to your computer, your data, your job or even your life as a result of using this information is your responsibility. This worked on the computer I was using, but it may or may not work on yours.