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1. Install the latest version of iTunes. Download iTunes
2. Connect your iPod to your computer.
3. To update your iPod on a PC the iPod must be formated for a PC.
4. Open iTunes.
5. Itunes will detect the latest version available and will prompt you to install it.
6. Depending on your iPod’s model you will be prompted to leave your iPod connected to the computer for the update to complete or you may be asked to connect the iPod to the iPod Power Adapter.

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Windows Vista more than doubled its market share in March from the prior month, while the share of computers running Mac OS X fell for the first time in nine months, according to statistics released today by market research firm Net Applications.

By the end of March, Vista was used by 2.04% of computers connected to the Internet, according to the Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company. That’s up from 0.93% of PCs in February.

Now ranked the fifth-most popular operating system by Net Applications, Vista jumped ahead of Windows 98, which had a 1.36% share. Vista still trailed its seven-year-old ancestor, Windows 2000, which had 4.71% share in March.

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Microsoft has started private testing of the next version of Office for the Macintosh, which is due out in the second half of the year. Office 2008 for Mac, as the product is known, helps bring the desktop suite back into compatibility with two key technologies.

First, the product is the first version of Office that runs natively on both Intel- and Power PC-based Macs. The new software also adds support for the XML file formats that Microsoft added to the Windows version of Office–Office 2007, which hit store shelves in January.

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Apple updated its Boot Camp software, which enables Intel-based Macs to reboot into a Windows operating system partition, to support Vista, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows. To use the new Boot Camp, Mac owners will have to buy “a bona fide full version of Microsoft Windows: XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business or Ultimate,” Apple said.

Users of Intel-based Mac computers can now have the best of both the Microsoft Free 30-Day Trial. Seamlessly Integrate UNIX & Linux systems with Active Directory. Latest News about Microsoft world and the Apple Latest News about Apple world. The latest update to Apple’s Boot Camp software, which enables Intel-based Macs to reboot into a Windows operating system Back up your business with HP’s ProLiant ML150 Server - just $1,299. partition, supports Vista, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows.

Boot Camp Version 1.2, available for download from Apple’s Web site as a public beta, includes support for 32-bit version of Microsoft’s new OS. “Boot Camp lets you install Windows without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple does not sell or support Microsoft Windows,” Apple explained on its Web site.

Just Like a PC, Boot Camp will burn a CD with all the necessary Windows drivers “so you don’t have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them,” Apple said, adding that Boot Camp users can choose between running their Mac on Windows or Mac OS X by holding down the option key when starting the computer. “After starting up, your Mac runs Windows natively just like a PC,” the company said. “Simply restart to come back to Mac.”

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Apple /Computer/ is the star company of today. It is one of the companies, which is still able to make money on computers. It is pretty rare now; just have a look at Dell Computers and the troubles the company has to produce any profits from assembling PCs.

Apple has a unique ability – innovations are its driver for profits. It is not development of completely new devices and revolutionary solutions. Apple has the ability to wait till the market finds a possible star product of the future and then… Then Apple has ability to take the device and to implement the truly basic functionalities, which are really needed, putting away all the extras and providing nice box. That is all.

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Here’s a handy tool for more advanced PC users, faced with a troublesome PC that just won’t boot. It’s called Super Grub, and if you’ve had any dealings with Linux you may recognize the name as that of a popular bootloader (GRUB stands for Grand Unified Bootloader). In case you are wondering a bootloader is a program that configures a PC prior to loading an operating system whether it be Linux or Windows (in Windows booting is controlled by a file called the Master Boot Record or MBR). Super Grub can fix booting problems with both OS’s, and is a dab hand at sorting out MBR problems. All you have to do is download the files and use them to create a bootable floppy (or CD or USB drive). It’s not the sort of thing you’ll need to use very often, hopefully not at all, but you’ll be glad you downloaded come the day your PC stubbornly refuses to boot!

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If you try to run an old DOS game on Vista, you’ll probably get an error “This system does not support fullscreen mode.” Fortunately, this isn’t a dead end. Download a copy of DOSBox, the greatest MS-DOS emulator for any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and more), and try running your game under DOSBox. Not only will you get support for old-school graphics like CGA and EGA, you can even run it in a window!

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Love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. Apple’s iPod is the top mp3 player on the market by far and 80% of us have one. To get more out of your iPod and mp3 collection, then check out these cool tips. Ranging from how to prolong battery life to how to copy songs from an iPod to how to merge two songs into one, the article’s selection is certainly worth a read.

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Last week, someone asked me for my fax number. I thought, “How quaint.” Seriously, there are some day-to-day office functions that are not email, web site related.

So it goes with mailing labels, envelopes, addresses. Old fashioned? Yes. For some. For others, it’s a factory job with Mail Factory.

Most of us at Mac360 have our favorite Mac applications and, as the Mac platform grows and software writers improve their wares, we have favorite developers, too.

BeLight Software falls into that category, and we’ve reviewed nearly every Mac application they publish. BeLight ”gets it” and understands what a Mac application should look like and feel like.

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I’m sure there are plenty of Mac users who’ve wished that Apple would create a tablet version of their notebook computers, but so far it hasn’t happened.

Axiotron to the rescue, who seem to have done a fantastic job at converting the latest MacBook machines into ModBooks - Mac OS X based tablet computers.

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