September 30th, 2005 by Matt
After my troubles upgrading to iTunes 5.0, I was a bit reluctant to respond to the dialog box that popped up earlier this week when I started up iTunes. When asked if I would like to upgrade to the newest version of iTunes that is now available, I quickly clicked No. Later in the week, when I had a little time and was feeling daring, I decided to try it.
I downloaded the iTunes 5.0.1 installer, threw caution to the wind, and tried it again. The installation process proceeded without a hitch, until I saw this:
Oh no, I thought, here we go again. I decided to grab screen shots of everything I was about to do, so I started up the Snipping Tool (from the Experience Pack for Tablet PC) and grabbed this image. After I had saved the picture and chosen a name, I was just about to click OK and begin another adventure, when the dialog box went away and I received a message that installation had completed successfully.
Wow, what a strange installation experience. An error message appears, then after about 2 minutes it goes away and everything seems fine. iTunes started right up and is working just fine.
September 18th, 2005 by Matt
I don’t actually have an iPod – YET, though I am accepting donations – but I have come to be a big user of iTunes. On my home computer I have ripped my entire CD collection to my computer using iTunes. I now have my complete music library on my PC, along with a few other songs that I have purchased from iTunes Music Store. As countless others have also discovered, iTunes is more than just an enabler for the iPod; it’s quite an amazing application on its own.
And, with support for podcasts in version 4.9, released a couple of months ago, it has become even more useful. On my work computer – my Toshiba M200 Tablet PC – I have set-up iTunes to pull the three or four podcasts that I listen to (among them: The Tablet PC Show, The Personal Productivity Show).
Last week, when I opened up iTunes on my Tablet PC to download the latest Tablet PC Show, a little dialog box popped up and informed me that a new version of iTunes was available, version 5.0, and would I like to download and install it. Well, I thought this would be fantastic. I couldn’t wait to see what Apple had cooked up now for this great app, and as a major release (5.0), not just a dot release. I clicked OK to get the new version, and that was almost the last time I was able to do anything with iTunes…
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