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Apple tonight a new version of iTunes U was announced. The catalog gets its own study iOS app and more options for everything around a course from iTunes to control. For example, teachers can post assignments and to send their students, who then also appear in iBooks. An automatic task list shows what you need to do homework. Once you hand in something is checked off the list. The course administrator of a school or university determines what information will be placed online. For example, the course instructor, contact information, syllabus and other course material are provided. There is also a link to the new iBooks today : notes and assignments appear automatically in the textbooks. Students can register through the app register for a course or leave feedback. All related materials for courses such as videos, texts, audio and other documents are now in one place. Apple iTunes U with a huge amount of study has been built and 700 million downloads counted. Universities part...

Apple has just after the announcement of two iBooks and iBook Author a new version of the desktop iTunes application released. 10.5.3 with iTunes, it is possible to iBooks interactive textbooks with iPad synchronization. These e-books can be purchased through the iTunes Store or the iBookstore on the iPad. Also homemade books with this new version of iTunes to sync. Furthermore, there appears to have changed nothing in iTunes 10.5.3. 10.5.3 iTunes for Mac users need to install at least Mac OS X 10.5 or later. For Windows requires Windows XP Service Pack 2 or a later version of Windows is required. 10.5.3 iTunes at the time of publication of this article is not available via Software Update.

On Monday, January 16 released iTunes Match in 19 new countries including the Netherlands . Since Tuesday morning, when the match was also active, run iTunes music service users who try to use against various problems. In, among other reactions iPhoneclub , the iCulture forums and Apple support forum complaints about piling a very slow synchronization process. Some would their iTunes on different days to keep the entire iTunes music library to include Match, inconvenient if your laptop still want to take. Most iTunes users report Match stuck at step 2 of the configuration process. In this step, all songs in your iTunes library matched with tracks in the iTunes Store. For many, the counter at any number of songs hang. Others said to suffer from a very slow synchronization process, while a few even claim that during the synchronization process, the number of matched numbers even deteriorated from night to day. What is the exact cause of it remains to be seen, since Apple has give...

Collecting society Buma / Stemra announces that the negotiations with Apple about iTunes Match are completed. "The contracts are signed," says the organization, which not a Dutch launch for iTunes Match more in the way of having to stand. Buma / Stemra caused the launch of the new Apple music service delays. This put iTunes Match is available in countries like Germany, France, England and Belgium, the Netherlands but was missing from the lists. Buma / Stemra has over 50 online providers under contract, which is now Apple's iTunes Match can be added. Mid-December Apple started rolling out iTunes Match only European countries. What was remarkable was that the Netherlands was missing from the list and there was a reason behind it, we discovered later, the Buma / Stemra was still under negotiation. Spokesman Bas Erling the organization said in December that his organization "still in negotiations with Apple" was to get the best deal possible for composers an...

iTunes Connect was concluded this year between 22 and 29 December and that means that in this period no new apps appear, no updates are released and no price changes are made. Today iTunes again and back office for developers that will immediately notice are the first update in all streams on your phone. iTunes Connect is the portal that iOS and Mac developers to add new apps to submit descriptions in the App Store, manage, promo codes to create and view sales reports. Downloading apps was still possible. Not that the App Store now has stopped because of a report by Flurry showed that during the Christmas season a lot of apps are sold. This is due to the large number of people who have an iPhone, iPod touch or iPhone and get immediate gift is filled with interesting apps. At Apple were 12 times more active units than on a normal day. Price changes that developers have made ​​before closing are now implemented. So beware, if you thought a little Christmas a bargain to be me...

iTunes Match at first sight a fairly simple service: you pay 24.95 euros per year and may all your previously purchased / downloaded music, convert iTunes songs. Well, according to them in the iTunes database. But who thinks about iTunes a little longer match, runs against all kinds of questions. What about? How many songs can you convert? Can you reveal your "illegal" music legally do? What happens to the illustrious musical numbers that are unknown to Apple? That and more, Apple has now incorporated an instruction page, with video and list of frequently asked questions (FAQ). There are also instructions on how to use iTunes Match can take. Part of this question is also answered in our own dossier on iTunes Match . Possibly the new site have to do, but that users were often the same questions. Because it sounds almost too good for words, you can upgrade all your songs, no matter where they come from. You may herself have ripped from CDs, downloads from newsgroups, or ...

Late last week Apple began rolling out iTunes Match in some European countries: Germany, France, England and Belgium . The Netherlands is, remarkably enough, the great absentee in that list and it is unclear why. This now seems this has to do with Apple's negotiations with holders of music to perform. Buma / Stemra, which represents owners in the Netherlands, opposes Macfan that negotiations with Apple are still ongoing. "We are still negotiating with Apple to get the best out of it for our composers and lyricists" , explains spokesman Bas Erling Macfan across the organization. Incidentally, the delay does not take long. The talks are progressing well according to Erling, but he can not predict when the Dutch rollout will take place. "We expect to come out and then the Netherlands in the next release's turn," said Erling. Match enables iTunes for € 24.99 per year in your iTunes music library through icloud to synchronize all your devices. In additio...