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Is there any way of synching my iphone to another itunes library without losing its contents?

 

The solution to your question can either be a convoluted procedure which would apply to iPhone and iPod or a simple software solution for iPhone only. I will give you the latter since you specifically mentioned the iPhone.

 

One frequently lamented iPhone omission is the inability to synchronize media with two separate computers, containing two separate iTunes libraries. If you already have iTunes media (music, video) synchronized from one computer, hooking the iPhone up to another computer will only give you the option to overwrite all existing media with what's stored on that system.

 

You need a small iPhone program called SwapTunes which, when run, simply creates and switches to a new iTunes library on the iPhone itself. This new library can be synchronized with a different system. You can then run SwapTunes again to switch back and forth between the two libraries. The process works like this:

 

1. Sync your iPhone with the first system, acquiring the appropriate media

2. Disconnect your iPhone

3. Run the SwapTunes application (from your iPhone)

4. Go check the iPod application on the iPhone, and notice that it displays "No Content"

5. Connect your iPhone to the second system and sync it, acquiring the second set of media.

6. Run the SwapTunes application again when you want to switch back to the media acquired from the first system.

 

SwapTunes can be easily downloaded and installed through Installer.app (under Utilities).

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Thanks again sir boomhouse. All you replies were of help to me. More power!

 

You are welcome. Merry Christmas.

 

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On another note, those of you still thinking of making a hackintosh, unless you know your way around 'Darwin' and 'Cocoa' (in which case you would probabaly have a real Mac already), better think again.

 

Psystar, the clone maker just closed down. They lost their case against Apple. Their website is now down. Psystar was also selling a small utility called Rebel EFI online which allowed Mac OS to be installed on most any Wintel machine. I suspect that Apple will be moving very fast to change the way OS X hooks to the hardware to make it unworkable.

 

Merry Christmas.

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Is there a free video converter for mac?

 

There are a lot. Just Google for 'free osx video converter'.

 

But I also like Handbrake. It is here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12987

 

My converter of choice of course is VisualHub but that is not free and unfortunately, not being supported anymore. You probably can still find it though if you know how to use bit torrent. More details here: http://www.techspansion.com/. It seems like you can still get it though. Visit the site.

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Another question. I am planning to buy an external dvd. What will be the advantage of mac superdrive from the regular external slim dvd-writer/players (e.g. philips)?

 

It is a bit pricey (almost P2k more) but the slim, slot loading Sony external worked very well for me until Ondoy killed it. I now use a slot loading Samsung which works just as well but not as presentable. Both are USB bus powered however.

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