When you boot up a new Mac for the first time, Apple gives you the opportunity to copy existing settings, applications, and entire user accounts—including all data—from an existing Mac to the new one.

iPhone/iPod touch: Freeware application Simplify Media streams music from any shared iTunes library over the internet, effectively giving your limited-space iPhone or iPod touch access to your entire ...

Our fellow editor at the naughty Fleshbot suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash that killed every file in sight, and needs our help piecing things together. Dashiell writes: So I lost my entire ...

Though this is another entry perhaps more appropriate for Playlistmag.com, I’ve seen enough hand-wringing over this one in Macworld’s forums that it’s also worth examining here. The issue is what one ...

Behind every great band is a great arranger. The same might be said of Apple’s new iPod portable music player. Yes, its sleek design is marvelous, but what really sets the iPod apart from the pack is ...

Simply remove that song from your synced playlist and sync again. If you do not want to completely delete the song from your iTunes Library, but would like your iPod to sync properly, try unchecking ...

Digital files are portable, they sound and look pretty good, and they don’t take up the physical storage space that CDs and DVDs do. But there’s a big downside—one system crash or failed hard drive, ...

MacFixIt reader Scott Rose reports some odd behavior (that may be by design) from the iPod Shuffle, where the device will not mount on the desktop, nor appear in iTunes if it is changed from its ...

Whether the size of your iTunes library outpaces your iPhone or iPod touch by a song or a mile, you've had to develop some kind of system for picking exactly which media you bring on the go. Sure, ...