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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...