Dear Lifehacker, I want to connect more of my iDevices to the one Apple account. I added it up the other day and I have way too many devices! There are two Mac Minis, three iPhones, four iPads and six iPad Nanos. 2 x Mac mini’s Apple has my money . We are a family of six and they are everywhere. I’m sure the kids are hiding more from me. Maybe the devices are breeding under the beds. But what to do? Is there any effective way I can share content from a single account with all those devices? Thanks, Apple Addict
From today until next Tuesday, Woolworths has 20 per cent off all iTunes cards. Not quite as good as the often-seen pair of $20 cards for $30, but a decent saving nonetheless. [Woolworths]
Scammers will use any means they can think of to try and persuade people to give up personal information, so it’s unsurprising that iTunes gift cards have become a target. A phishing message doing the rounds claims to offer a $100 gift card for $9, but it’s nothing more than another attempt to steal your credit card details and other personal information.
There’s so many “new” media options out there — YouTube, blogs, podcasting, torrents — that it would be a brave soul who tried to calculate what the “new media” industry is worth. But the Boston Consulting Group has had a bash, calculating that Australians get $24 billion of “value” from new media, over and above what they actually pay for it.
Bugger. Last year, we noted that Best Buy was a useful source of top-ups if you had set up a US iTunes account, because it would accept payments via an Australian credit card. Unfortunately, it seems that loophole has now been closed.
Apple has started loading the iTunes Store with higher-quality, 1080p versions of movies, and despite the fact that they’re nearly 1/10th the size of their Blu-Ray counterparts, Ars Technica found that the quality is almost as good. Sharpness and colour reproduction were just about on par, though iTunes lost a bit of detail in grainy shots and had lots of issues with dark gradients (at least in the one movie they tested).
Mac: Pausing and restarting music isn’t exactly the hardest thing to do, but if you find yourself away from your chair, you have to move to the keyboard or mouse to stop playback. Flutter is a Mac app that allows you to pause and restart your music in iTunes with a hand gesture.
iTunes has always let you convert high bitrate songs to 128kbps when syncing them to your iPod, but a new setting in iTunes 10.6 lets you choose between 128kbps, 192kbps and 256kbps.
Add this to the existing Target and Big W deals this week: JB Hi-Fi also has a pair of $20 iTunes cards for $30 until Monday, matching the 25 per cent off seen at the other retailers. [JB Hi-Fi via OzBargain]
From tomorrow until March 14, Big W has a pair of $100 iTunes cards for $150 (25 per cent off) or a pair of $50 cards for $80 (20 per cent off). At the same time, Target has a “buy one, get one for 50 per cent off” deal for $20, $30 and $50 cards, which works out at 25 per cent off. Given the lower entry price and Big W’s bad reputation for activation, Target looks the better bet. [Big W and Target via OzBargain]
