Between coming up with a curriculum, teaching, assigning homework and getting important info to students, teachers have it rough. The iTunes U app is going to let them do all of that from an iPad. Which means students can basically take entire courses from their tablets. More »
Apple wants uni students to buy Macs as they head back to classes this year. To try and incentivise them to opt for an OS X machine, Apple is offering a free $100 iTunes voucher with the purchase of any Mac for education purposes. Naturally, as students, you’re expected to blow the voucher on Angry Birds clones within a matter of days… [Apple]
It took longer than I thought it would (because physical music sales still makes the monies) but digital music sales has finally topped physical music sales. According to Nielsen and Billboard, digital music sales accounted for 50.3 per cent of total music sales, more than half the pie. What took so long? More »
In the lead-up to CES my inbox is flooded with literally hundreds of pitches every day. I swear, one out of five has been for an iSomething. None of them were from Apple. iNeed you to friggin’ stop it. More »
The Magic 8-Ball helped me decide to go to college. It helped me decide what to eat as a child and it’s the reason I bought a Jazz drive. It’s not infallible. The Onion Answer app is the logical next step in deciding my fate with inanimate objects. More »
The special features you get with iTunes’ movies aren’t really that special. Well, if anyone is going to do something about it, it’s James Cameron. Say what you want about the guy, he’s always pushing the technological envelope. More »
It seems that yesterday’s appearance of the iTunes Match service in iTunes was a little premature. Not long after posting, the option seemed to disappear from iTunes account information, while those charged had their money refunded. Luckily, the option is now back, and appears to be in full working order. More »
Apple’s online music streaming service iTunes Match has been US-exclusive since its launch in November. But it seems that Australia is about to get on that bandwagon, with the iTunes Match option appearing in Aussie iTunes users Account Information page. More »
It’s about that time of the year that the Best of the Year lists start rolling in, and you realise what a horrible, uncurated existence you’ve led over the past 12 months. Here’s Apple’s year in review of the best music, books, apps and everything else in iTunes — and we have no earthly idea where some of these come from. More »
FetchTV may have launched its own iOS app yesterday for remotely controlling the FetchTV box, but that wasn’t good enough for Optus. The telco has launched its own version of the app for its MeTV service, conveniently dubbed MeTV with Fetch. More »
