Custom Global Keyboard Shortcut for iTunes When It’s Out of Focus
iTunes has its own keyboard shortcuts but they can only be accessed when the program is in focus. Moreover, the hotkeys cannot be customized. HKTunes is a simple yet useful freeware that gives you the possibility to control your iTunes with customizable global keyboard shortcut. More »
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Speed Up iPhone and iPod Touch Sync. iPhone and iPod Touch sync can be very slow if you have a large amount of data in your iTunes. To speed up the synchronization of iPhone and iPod Touch, you can use BackOff. This is a simple utility working on both Mac OSX (Tiger, Snow Leopard, Leopard) and Windows (7, Vista, XP) operating system that allows you to turn off or disable the automatic backup in iTunes. By disabling the auto backup, you can speed up the synchronization.
iTunes doesn’t allow you to transfer your iPod contents to your computer, while you as an iPod owner might need this transfer feature for some reasons like backing up the iPod music files or sharing the song playlists with some of your best friends. There could be other reasons that make you need to transfer the contents of your iPod to computer and this is exactly what this free program does.