iTunes

If you keep up with latest tech-news you must have heard about the Palm Pre and Apple tussle regarding support for non-apple devices in iTunes, If you are also looking for an iTunes replacement for syncing your music collection with non-apple devices or simply don't like using iTunes we had shared free iTunes alternatives which got the job done easily like WinAmp iPod Plugin and iTunes Agent; but all new utility DoubleTwist takes this to a whole new level by providing syncing support for wider range of devices and comes equipped with music purchasing facility via Amazon® MP3 Store (coming soon) posing a direct competition to Apple iTunes music store.

DoubleTwist supports both Windows and MAC platforms letting users choose and sync pictures, videos, music or iTunes playlists with hundreds of devices like Apple iPhone, iPod, Palm Pre, Android phones, BlackBerry, Sony PSP, Archos 605, Sony Ericsson Walkman & Cybershot phones, Nokia N & E Series phones, Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 platform devices, LG's Viewty and Shine, Motorola (V9 and V3xx)/most Razr phones, Amazon Kindle, Nintendo DSi, most digital cameras and flash-memory-based camcorders.

Finally, links to download iPod Touch and iPhone OS 3.1 are live and users can download them right now either automatically via iTunes or direct links provided at end of the post, the update is free for all iPhone users and iPod Touch users having firmware version 3.0 - it seems iPod touch users having older firmware version needs to pay $4.95 for getting iPod Touch OS 3.1.

The software upgrade fixes quite some issues and bugs and introduces new features as follows.

Apple's 'It's only rock and roll' event is live right-now and as expected there are some major announcements coming our way, first as expected iPhone OS 3.1 is announced as a free upgrade for existing iPhone/iPod Touch 3.0 users available from today - as already warned if you own a unlocked iPhone don't rush and push that tempting upgrade button in iTunes.

In some other exciting news iTunes 9 is soon going to be available for download with lots of new exciting features being unveiled right now.

Apart from a visually revamped iTunes store their is quite a lot offered into this major update as follows.

Apple iTunes is an versatile software and like any other complex software is prone to errors and compatibility issues, one of the most common iTunes store error would be -3259 download error.

The error occurs when iTunes is unable to communicate with server because of network or permission error, you are shown one of the following error :

Kevin Rose - founder of Digg is claiming to have knowledge of upcoming revamped iPod models and iTunes 8.0 software with lots of new features, in a blog post Kevin also posted pictures of rumored new version of iPod Nano.

Kevin is claiming to have knowledge of following rumors:

The new iPhone 3G comes pre-installed with the latest version 2.0 of the iPhone firmware, allowing support for a larger range of applications and enhanced functionality, Now first generation iPhone users can also enjoy the benefits offered by the latest iPhone 2.0 software update as Apple released the new firmware update for the original first generation iPhone and iPod Touch users.

The most notable new feature in the latest version of the OS is its ability to access Apple App Store to directly download and install more then 500 native applications and games, other notable features and improvements include support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, GPS tracking, Geotagging, parental controls, real-time mapping, MobileMe support, new scientific calculator, power-point file format support, support for additional languages and introduction of new features in Mail, Contacts, and other applications.

To upgrade your iPhone or iPod Touch to OS version 2.0 firmware, you need to download and install iTunes 7.7 or later from Apple

ourTunes is a java based open-source cross-platform application to share MP3 & AAC music files over a shared network, ourTunes allows users to connect to other iTunes on the network and share files, the software is quite popular now with more then 3,000,000 downloads.

iTunes does allow music sharing to a maximum of five users every 24 hours to connect and listen to the music of another user who has enabled sharing on a given subnetwork, However, ourTunes allows users to download music files to their own computer and provides the functionality to search through the songs from all connected hosts. ourTunes cannot download music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. unlike other P2P clients you cannot share your files over internet.