Introduction

Macintosh computers are born number crunchers and they can perform spreadsheet calculations and balance a checkbook as fast as any computer system in the marketplace. However, Macs were born for multimedia, and even after 20 years in the business, they're still considered the best when it comes to the world of images, movies, and music. When the Panther operating system was released, it came bundled with two old friends: iTunes and iDVD.

The iTunes application is a software jukebox that comes with Panther, yet it's also available on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, so you can share music between Macintosh and Windows (). iTunes allows ...

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