Going from iPod/iPhone to iTunes

After accidentally writing over my hard drive yesterday (read about it in my “Ubuntu” blog), I lost all of my music. Luckly I have all of my music, applications, movies, ect. on my iPod Video and iPhone.

If your media is purchased: You can plug in your iPod/iPhone and wait, once it is reconized you can right click where your iPod comes up on the sidebar. Right click the name and click “transfer purchases” and there you go.

If you have media that isn’t purchased such as imported cd’s: You’re going to need a program. After googling around for a bit I came across a completely free, easy to use program, it’s called iDump. You can find it at download.com. Download it, plug your iPod in, set your iPod to manual, select the songs you want, select the output folder, and your good to go. I’m bringing in my music as I type this, it’s working nicely and the songs already imported are where they should be/how they should be.

-Joe Cerra-

Ubuntu

I am a normal Windows Vista user so just by saying that you can probably guess this review isn’t going to be good about Ubuntu. For being free, it’s a really good OS but I’m use to all the software I can get with Vista. The only thing on my computer right now is Ubuntu and that bring me to a story…

So last night I was bored and I had Ubuntu sitting on my Vista desktop for awhile because I wanted to try it. So I burned it to a CD and partitioned my HD at the same time. After doing both of these I figured I would be set to go and I would be if I didn’t let Ubuntu automatically install itself, but I’m ahead of myself. I put in the disk and it booted, this is where I should have tried the live version of Ubuntu as a test, but I already split my hard drive. So it was a series of clicking “foward, foward, forward” with all the default settings. Then I let it automatically do something with my hard drive that I don’t even know at this point. All I know is that I wrote over Vista, like completely wrote over. So now for the past day I’ve been running Ubuntu and from what I’ve played around with it has some good features and some bad features. (Remember all these are just observations over the past one day with Ubuntu).

Good: It’s a different software that’s fun to play with. I do like the toolbars, one on top and one on bottom. The desktop is completey clear when you install it too. It comes with firefox installed instead of Internet Explorer in Vista. (Thankyou Ubuntu). It looks like it has alot of programs that could come in handy and could be nice to use.

Bad: You don’t have the commercial applications like office and things that I’ve gotten use to. It does have alternatives that are close but would take alittle while to get use to. It seems like it would take awhile to get use to the navigation through all my files. That is expected when you change OS though.

I personally like Vista and have no problem with it except the fact that you have to put up with microsoft. Once I get rid of Ubuntu and have Vista back on my hard drive I think I will boot the live cd every now and then to play with Ubuntu. I asked the question of what’s better Ubuntu or Vista on Yahoo Answers and a lot of people like Ubuntu. That’s fine with me but I’m going to stick with Vista right now…

-Joe Cerra-