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"The iTunes rating system is an often ignored albeit very useful tool for organizing your iTunes music library. How many times have you played your music on shuffle, only to find that you are repeatedly hearing songs that you really don't like? Or maybe you're running out of space on your iPod and are now facing the tough decision of having to remove songs. Both of these problems can be easily solved by rating your songs. "

"When you click the Add to Cart button for this product, you'll be able to choose a Music Card with the new denominations of 1500 or 3000 yen of credit on it. You can also choose to have the card sent to you normally through the mail from Japan, have the J-List staff send you a scan of your card number through email. "

"However, I recently found out that if you buy an iTS prepaid card from Japan, you can use it to create a Japanese iTS account without any credit card at all, allowing you to download Japanese songs. There are even places on the net (such as J-List) that sell Japanese cards for this express purpose. "

"Scenario 3: Your iTunes Library Needs to Be Manually Rebuilt"

"So, in a crusade to purify our reader's iTunes libraries, we take you through 10 simple steps that will get things back on track."

"My iTunes XML database recently got corrupted and it seemed I had lost all my many hours worth of song ratings. Luckily I was able to re-construct the database through an few month old backup and my iPod. In doing so, my entire iTunes library was duplicated with broken links. Since iTunes does not currently allow you to sort by the broken (’!’ icon), it’s a laborious, manual process to remove all these track listings."

"Spotlight can be frustrating at times, but you can use it—as well as Smart Folders—to find a wide range of files on your Mac. Earlier this week, we ran a hint discussing Smart Folders, and some of the comments asked how to do more with them. So this Friday hint gives you a weekend project—a chance to dig deep into Spotlight’s query language and roll your own, customized Smart Folders. "

"I found that most of my startup items were things that I didn't need right away (Google Quick Search Box, LaunchBar, etc.). A simple AppleScript can be used to avoid the pileup of programs all trying to open at once at login. The result: a much faster login time.
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"Since Google announced their new free public DNS service, there has been a lot of talk about the speed of various DNS.

If you'd like to find the fastest DNS for your location, use the free Namebench, which tests well-known DNS as well as your regional DNS. "

"But you can change these mini works of art to ones of your own choosing or creation."