The iPod is probably the best portable music player the world has ever seen. It's simple to use, easy to operate, and instantly updatable. It's easy to take this beautiful and reliable device for granted. But the iPod isn't perfect. One of our pet peeves is the inability to transfer an iPod's music back to a computer. There are a handful of nice applications you can use to take back control of your iPod.

iPod to Mac Transfer is a Mac OS X application that compensates for the iPod's only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music from one to the other, or you only store your music and videos on your iPod and need to copy them back onto hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck! This is where it comes in: it allows you to transfer songs from iPod to Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher.

Step 1. Run the recommended program and connect iPod to your Mac
Launch iPod to Mac Transfer and connect your iPod to Mac and the program will detect iPod, then you will see all information about iPod device are shown in the program interface like the following picture.

Step 2. Copy music from iPod to Mac
Press on the "music" icon in the left pane to open the library/playlist that you want to transfer. And click on the "export checked files to local" button.

Step 3. Specify a folder to save your music files.

There is a pop-up windows and on the left panel you can select a local folder to save your music. Then click on the "Save" button to export music from your iPod to local folder.

Step 4. After it finishes transferring music from iPod to Mac, you will see a pop-up information dialogbox.

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Apple first sold all of us on the digital music revolution using the slogan "Rip, Mix, Burn." Indeed, thanks to Apple software, it was suddenly dead simple to copy and burn music CDs using your Mac. But what about video DVDs? It turns out there are a few hoops to jump through, but in the end, it's pretty easy, even though you may need to invest in some additional software.

Before burning DVD, you must confirm the Burn DVD Mac has been installed and the blank DVD-R/DVD+R/RW/-RW

Step 1: Run the software
Start the mac dvd burner or mac dvd creator software, and you will see the following friendly interface.

Step 2: Load Video files to burn.
You can add video files by clicking the Add buttonhow "+" to burn dvd mac to load video files or clicking the "File" menu and then "Add Video".

Step 3: Check the added video files
Preview the added file in the preview pane to check the file. If you don't want to add it ,you can delete the selected file by pressing the Delete key "-" how to burn dvd macon the keyboard.

Step 4: Edit Video Files
The software support powerful edit functions. You can trim and crop the video files and adjust the effects before burning the videos to DVD on Mac OS X.

Step 5: Edit DVD Menu
The DVD Burner for mac also allows you to create your own DVD menu with various built-in resources. Click the Menu buttonhow to burn dvd mac on the bottom right of the main interface to edit the DVD's menu.

Step 6: Select DVD type and the output quality
Before burning your DVD, you can select your DVD type and the output quality at the bottom of the main interface. When you choose different formats or qualities the recoding time of the DVD is different.

Step 7: Burning
Check the above settings and then click the Burn button to set burning settings and burn your DVD project.

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You have a portable video player and would like to watch your home video using it? Or you have to create a DVD for your home DVD player? Or you would like to convert a home video DVD to some other formats and save it on your PC? The mac video converter enables you to solve these problems quite easily with a few mouse clicks.

The Video Converter lets you convert video and audio files from one format to another at top speed and with zero quality loss. It supports a wide range of formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, FLV, 3GP, MKV, and AVCHD etc. and offers a variety of presets for popular mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod, HTC, PSP etc. Besides, this Video Converter software offers you series video editing functions including crop, trim, set the brightness, saturation, etc.

● Convert video to different popular formats.

● Extract audio or dialogue from movies or video clips.

● Support portable devices like iPad, iPod, iPhone 4S, PSP, Zune, Zune HD, etc.

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Since iPods are basically big hard drives with special software and a screen, the hard drive in your iPod needs to be formatted. Formatting is essentially the process of prepping the drive to talk to the computer it connects to.

Step 1

Download and install the latest version of iTunes. If you already have iTunes installed on your computer, update it by clicking the "Help" menu and selecting "Check for Updates."

Step 2

Connect the Mac iPod to your Windows-based PC while iTunes is running. iTunes displays a message explaining it has detected an iPod formatted for Mac computers, and you must restore the iPod before you will be able to use it in Windows. Click "OK."

Step 3

Click the iPod in the blue column on the side of the iTunes application, and then click the "Restore" button in the main area of the window. iTunes formats the storage on the iPod to work with Windows. During this process, use the meter displayed on the screen to track the progress. When the format operation is complete, the iPod reboots and iTunes detects it again. You may now proceed with configuring the iPod to synchronize with your Windows-based PC.

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