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 ...

ITunes has a large library of podcasts grouped in episodes you can download to your iPod Nano. Podcasts generally follow a radio-show format and come in a variety of genres. When you download podcasts ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wanted to clear some space off my iBook at home, so I decided to drap my Music folder to my iPod -- yeah, this was kind of redundant, but I didn't know any other way -- and transported it to my ...

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 ...

Finding iTunes a less lyrical experience than you’d hoped? Cures for these common problems may help tune up the program. Symptom: There’s no music in your iTunes library when there should be. Cure 1: ...