Whilst talking to the very nice young lady at RIM about reinstalling drivers on RedBook, Blackberry Desktop came up. She reported that the Mac version should work very much like the PC version, and should be out in a couple of weeks or so. PYBT <http://blackberry.com/mac> for further details and to sign up to notified when the day comes.
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Now playing: Ray Repp - Of My Hands
via FoxyTunes
Thursday, September 24, 2009
iTunes 8.2.1 *Is* Available from Apple
The hard drive on RedBook died a couple of weeks back (in the midst of finally upgrading to Leopard). When he came back from the Apple Store, his new hard drive had a brand-spanking-new copy of Apple-installed Leopard on it.
After running System Update and Migration Assistant, getting everything up-to-date and modern, I copied an alias of the iTunes folder from the external where all the iTunes stuff lives to my Music folder. iTunes immediately gripe about the library file’s having been created with a newer version of iTunes.
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Lessee, Codex, under Tiger, has iTunes 8.2.1 (6); RoadBook, under Leopard, has iTunes 8.2.1 (6); and RedBook, under Leopard, had iTunes 8.0.2 (20). Riiiiiiight…
Software Update only talks about iTunes 9.0.1 these days, so on the phone to Apple.
The nice AppleCare lady who answered the phone referred me straight away to the Customer Service area at <http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/>. The nice young lady who called me, after I clicked buttons and filled fields, was adamant that iTunes 8.2.1 could not be had from Apple. This answer’s being totally unworkable and unacceptable, I said whatever it was that she needed to hear to pass me along.
The next very nice young lady did a bit of poking around and came up with iTunes 8.2.1 for G3, released 9 September 2009, <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/ipod_itunes/itunes821forg3.html>. According to the ReadMe, it’s compatible with G3, G4, G5, and Intel Macs.
Installed it, put the alias to the external back in Music, and voila!!! Life is good once again.
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Now playing: Mary Chapin Carpenter - John Doe No. 24
via FoxyTunes
After running System Update and Migration Assistant, getting everything up-to-date and modern, I copied an alias of the iTunes folder from the external where all the iTunes stuff lives to my Music folder. iTunes immediately gripe about the library file’s having been created with a newer version of iTunes.
?????
Lessee, Codex, under Tiger, has iTunes 8.2.1 (6); RoadBook, under Leopard, has iTunes 8.2.1 (6); and RedBook, under Leopard, had iTunes 8.0.2 (20). Riiiiiiight…
Software Update only talks about iTunes 9.0.1 these days, so on the phone to Apple.
The nice AppleCare lady who answered the phone referred me straight away to the Customer Service area at <http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/>. The nice young lady who called me, after I clicked buttons and filled fields, was adamant that iTunes 8.2.1 could not be had from Apple. This answer’s being totally unworkable and unacceptable, I said whatever it was that she needed to hear to pass me along.
The next very nice young lady did a bit of poking around and came up with iTunes 8.2.1 for G3, released 9 September 2009, <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/ipod_itunes/itunes821forg3.html>. According to the ReadMe, it’s compatible with G3, G4, G5, and Intel Macs.
Installed it, put the alias to the external back in Music, and voila!!! Life is good once again.
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Now playing: Mary Chapin Carpenter - John Doe No. 24
via FoxyTunes
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