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How to erase an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch

How to erase an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch

For those times when you need to start from scratch, here's how to erase an iPad and restore it to factory settings.

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How to make your own iPhone ringtones

How to make your own iPhone ringtones

Just because Apple charges for iPhone ringtones doesn't mean we should have to pay for them. Follow our step-by-step guide to creating your own ringtones using your favourite MP3 files.

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Sync iTunes on multiple computers

Sync iTunes on multiple computers

The Home Sharing feature in iTunes 9 makes the process a fairly simple one, so you can distribute the music and movies you've purchased from the iTunes store to up to five computers.

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Erase useless files on your Mac

Erase useless files on your Mac

CleanMyMac does a good job of cleaning out files you don't need and freeing up space on your hard drive.

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How to make video playlists for iTunes, iPod and iPhone

How to make video playlists for iTunes, iPod and iPhone

Video playlists are less common than their music counterparts. This guide will help you through the few hurdles worth knowing about.

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Create Smart Playlists in iTunes

Create Smart Playlists in iTunes

Smart Playlists can be used to quickly create genre playlists, sort out your least favourite tracks or keep your kid's insipid music from infecting your iPhone.

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Convert your videos for the iPhone or iPod for free

Convert your videos for the iPhone or iPod for free

Brian Tong shows you some free programs that can be used to take all your videos and move them to your iPhone or iPod.

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Format a drive for Mac OS X and Windows

Format a drive for Mac OS X and Windows

If you move a hard drive between the two operating systems, here's what you need to know.

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Safely clean a glossy display

Safely clean a glossy display

Find out how to remove smudges and dust from your glossy laptop display — safely.

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Advanced iTunes: Get more from the software

Advanced iTunes: Get more from the software

Here's a collection of four tips for getting more out of the software — using multiple libraries on a single machine, the best uses for Smart Playlists, getting true CD-quality rips from your CD, and tips for getting perfect album art.

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Move your iTunes library to an external hard drive

Move your iTunes library to an external hard drive

If you're an iTunes user whose appetite for music, movies and podcasts is outstripping the capacity of your computer, it might be a good time to think about offloading that library to an external hard drive.

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Print your own CD cover in iTunes

Print your own CD cover in iTunes

Brian Tong shows you how to take your album art and make a custom CD cover in iTunes.

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iPhone starter kit

iPhone starter kit

Check out our picks for the most useful, informative, social and media-friendly of the bunch to get you started with your new iPhone or iPod Touch.

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Learn how to play guitar in your browser (in 3D)

Learn how to play guitar in your browser (in 3D)

iPerform3D is a browser-based music learning system that shows users how to play guitar in 3D, and it works on both Macs and PCs.

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Turn your iPod Touch into a phone

Turn your iPod Touch into a phone

Apple may have a new mobile phone to compete with — one that runs on its iPod Touch.

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