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MusicBee is a Powerful, Easy-to-Use Music Manager

Windows only: Despite the many great media players out there, MusicBee earns itself a spot high on the list with super tagging, managing, browsing, ripping, syncing, and converting powers, all on top of an intuitive interface familiar to any iTunes user.

MusicBee positions itself as the media player for those that want more than what iTunes has to offer, but don’t need the extensive customization that something like previously mentioned foobar2000 is capable of. ..read more

Pastefire Makes Sharing Text Desktop-to-iPhone a Breeze [Downloads]

iPhone only: Anyone with a smartphone has been there: You’re browsing on your computer but want to transfer a bit of info to your phone. You could email it to yourself, or you could try Pastefire, a clever desktop-to-iPhone sharing tool.

Once you’ve downloaded it to your desktop, head to the Copy Zone, enter in any bit of text along with a username and password (doing this once will create an account for you—the ..read more

Get Lyrical Adds Song Lyrics to iTunes

Mac only: If you’re going to warble along with your favorite song, make sure you get the words right. Get Lyrical is a free app that automatically displays the lyrics of whatever song is playing in iTunes.

This tiny app grabs lyrics from lyrics.wikia.com and shows them in a resizable window as the song is playing. you can choose to have Get Lyrical display words to every song as it begins, or only the ones ..read more

Mark the Spot Lets You Tell AT&T Exactly Where Your iPhone Crapped Out

iPhone: Say what you will about the iPhone as a device, but if there’s one consistent weak spot for U.S. users (particularly in cities like New York), it’s AT&T’s service—specifically frequent dropped calls. Mark the Spot quickly reports your problems.

The app is a breeze to use. Whenever you experience a dropped call, failed call, lack of coverage, data failure, or poor voice quality, just fire up the app, ..read more

CopyTrans Manager Organizes and Manages Your iPhone or iPod Without iTunes

Windows only: If you love your iPod but aren’t crazy about iTunes, CopyTrans Manager is a solid alternative that can add media to and organize media on your iPod, iPhone, and Palm Pre.

(Click the image above for a closer look.)

This nifty little app is compatible with all iPod models, iPhones (up to firmware 3.1), and also the Palm Pre. Use it to drag and drop media files to your device ..read more

Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch

iPhone/iPod touch only: Dropbox, one of our favorite cross-platform file-syncing tools, has now made its way to the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with offline file viewing.

Once installed on your device, Dropbox for iPhone provides access to all your Dropbox files, allows you to view any file supported by your iPhone (including documents, photos, music, and video), uploads any photo or video you’ve taken on your device to your Dropbox account, and lets ..read more

Zune Desktop Player Updates to 4.0

Windows only: Microsoft’s Zune HD was released yesterday and it looks great, but whether you’ve got the latest Zune, an older model, or just like the Zune desktop player, Zune 4.0 brings new features and an improved look to desktop music players.

The Zune player sets itself apart from iTunes in one important way (not including the whole iPod vs. Zune support). As the Zune marketing folks put it: “Browse music, not spreadsheets.” That is to ..read more

Google, Apple, and AT&T All Make Their Statements to the FCC over Google Voice

Apple’s been bad, and now the FCC is all over Apple, AT&T, and Google trying to get to the bottom of the Google Voice app rejection from the iTunes App Store. So far no one’s really saying all that much beyond some legal maneuvering, and the only interesting bit of information (”What explanation was given for Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice application?”) was redacted. TechCrunch has ..read more