We announced yesterday that the 50 billionth app had been downloaded and Apple would be contacting the individual who downloaded the 50 billionth app shortly. Sure enough today NewsChannel5 is reporting that the winner of Apple’s $10,000 App Store gift card has been chosen. Meet Brandon Ashmore, a 21 year old resident of Mentor, Ohio, who [...]

iTunes has been updated today to version 11.0.3 to include quite a few new features that are worth talking about. The first feature is a brand new MiniPlayer that beautifully shows off your album artwork, along with music controls and other functions you would expect to see in MiniPlayer. I have briefly had a chance [...]

If you are a Windows 8 fan and were expecting Apple to make a metro version of Windows 8, then you need to think again. CNN heard from Tami Reller, chief financial officer at Microsoft who said yesterday “you shouldn’t expect an iTunes app on Windows 8 any time soon. iTunes is in high demand. The [...]

The iTunes Store is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month and to celebrate Apple has created an interactive timeline where you can browse various milestones from historic iPod releases to artists and albums that have topped the charts year after year. There is 10 tabs in total representing each year starting with 2003. Obviously the [...]

Good news for those of you with a lot of spare change! The popular coin counting service Coinstar, that has machines placed at various locations like malls and grocery stores, has started offering to hand out iTunes gift certificates rather than cash, in the form of redemption codes. The funds will be added to your [...]

There is nothing worse than having your iTunes music library full of missing song titles, cover art or being full of duplicate tracks. If you are tired of scrolling through 200 songs titled Track 1 for that song someone gave you on a burned CD three years ago or are sad to see the cover flow [...]

Apple has been putting out plenty of press releases this year, and, to add to this list, the company has announced on its website that users have just made 1 billion downloads of content available through iTunes U, a service it calls “the world’s largest online catalogue of free educational content.” iTunes U was introduced [...]

Finally, the wait might be over for some European countries that have desperately been waiting for Apple’s full cloud experience. iTunes in the Cloud launched in 2011 in the United States after Steve Jobs introduced it. Today, iTunes in the Cloud has over 200 million users. The first batch of countries to obtain access to the [...]

The iTunes Store has grown tremendously over the years. Just last year in September, Apple announced that they had sold about 20 billion songs on iTunes. Just months later, yesterday, Apple announced that number has reached 25 billion. Wow, that was fast! Of course, this is the number of songs purchased on iTunes since the [...]

Despite there being a lot of criticism about iTunes, I have never found another music management software that is quite like it. I probably haven’t looked hard enough, but iTunes, to me at least, is one of the best music management software available. One of the only problems with iTunes is that when you have [...]