This go-round, I downloaded the album straight to my iPhone from the iTunes App.

To think, I thought moving my 121.5GB of music was hard – at least I had easier access to named songs organized in artist/album folders. With iPhoto, I have to export each photoset manually from the old MacBook Pro and import everything manually to the new MacBook Pro. This, honestly, is the least Apple-like experience I’ve ever had with an Apple product.

At least I have everything backed up on Flickr!

Last night we tried to rent an iTunes movie on our newish Apple TV. Instead of starting right away, the Apple TV said it would be 2+ hours before we could start watching. I’ve got a healthy 15-20Mb/s connection and a clean wire to the Apple TV, so this shouldn’t be happening.

A little bit of research turned up a surprising fix: Don’t use Google DNS.

/via Joe Maller

On Ping you can easily link to your Twitter account to instantly find Ping users among the people you already follow on Twitter.

Once you’ve linked the accounts, whenever you Post, Like, Review, or tell your friends why you purchased a song or album on Ping, this activity will also be tweeted to your Twitter followers – complete with playable song previews and links to purchase and download music from iTunes.

When you click on a Tweet that’s sent via Ping or that contains an iTunes link, you’ll see the song or album in Twitter’s details pane, with the ability to listen to song previews from iTunes, making the experience even richer.

Agree.

GIVE ME MOAR APPZ!!!

I know this because it was unnecessarily complicated to install (update iTunes to 9.0.1, connect iPhone, download software update, wait for the iPhone to install, then restart) and it seemed to have taken forever to finally roll out.

Now, I understand that iPhone users consume more data than other smartphone users, but there really is no reason why, when I’ve had to use the AT&T 3G Network to email photos to friends and family, that I couldn’t have used that same bandwidth to send a MMS instead.

I’m so used to MMS workarounds with other iPhone-toting friends that using the MMS function is going to take a seismic shift in photo-sharing philosophy. That said, I’m not really sure how much I’m going to even use MMS – now that I have the Flickr application for the iPhone (a must download, by the way), there’s really no need to send a photo to one person, when I can upload one photo and share the link with everyone.

So what took this update so long?

The vitals:

1. I’m running version 5A345 of the iPhone 2.0 software.
2. I’m running it on a 16GB iPhone 3G that I purchased on launch day.
3. I’ve downloaded every application from the App Store on my iPhone, not through iTunes.
4. The problem persists ONLY with non-native (as in downloaded from the App Store) applications.  All the applications that shipped with the iPhone 2.0 software are unaffected.

Here’s what’s happening:

1. I sync the iPhone 3G to add songs, movies, whatever.
2. When the sync/charge is complete, I’ll disconnect the phone and go about my day.
3. So I’ll be out and about, and all of a sudden need to do something with an Application I downloaded from the App Store.
4. I’ll tap what I want to use and then the App will launch…
5. … but then promptly quit, returning me to the home screen.
6. I say “f*ck it” and find the closest bar and have a beer.

There are a few steps that I’ve taken to remedy this unfortunate situation:

1. I plugged my iPhone 3G in to my Mac and launched iTunes.
2. I clicked the big, ugly “Restore” button and downloaded the latest and greatest iPhone 2.0 build.
3. I prayed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that this would work.
4. I started a sync of my music, Safari bookmarks and videos.

So here I am… tapped out from praying to his noodly greatness waiting to sync all of my music to the phone.  I’ll edit the post if this works with the good news!