Before I ditched Apple completely, I had mixed results with a virtual XP and doing updates via iTunes. In my opinion it is less hassle to just dual boot or switch hard drives (I swap hard drives on my laptop to switch OSs).
I never had an iPhone as the whole idea of needing to connect to a computer to do anything with my wireless device seemed kind of backwards. I almost feel sorry for those of you "stuck" on the iPhone. Best of luck. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:00 PM, G M <g...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> From: rick.j...@gmail.com >> To: clug-talk@clug.ca >> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:56:23 -0600 >> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] a whine about wine >> >> Why the hell would you want to? > > As part of the Steve Jobbs plan to take control of the world away from Bill > Gates...... there are certain things > such as software updates for Apple products that as far as I know, you can > only do using iTunes > > I had considered using a stripped down version of WinXP in Vitrual Box just > to be able to occasionally do what ever > maintenance required on my iPhone/iPod. Until I get back to Calgary to get > my install disk for WinXP that won't > happen. So unless someone has a VB image of XP they are willing to share, I > will be SOL for a few weeks. > I was hoping for an alternative so I wud not have to install iTunes on the > Win7 partition. > > Unfortunately when I got my phone, I had no other choices available for what > I wanted the device to do..... > BB Storm had no Wi-Fi and was not on the 3g network as I recall and android > phones were not available and still > do not have some of the apps that I use available. I am not an Apple fan boy > by a long shot, but they are the > market leader for those devices for the present and yes I do use another > program for managing my music' > >> If you want to stay away from bloat and >> unnecessary baggage and dodgy processes running in the background, I'd >> stay >> away from iTunes!! even on Winblows it causes problems. There are >> excellent >> open-source apps to organize your music collection. Amarok is my fav. Has >> excellent internet plugins too for jamendo, magnatune and radio. >> Unfortunately >> they haven't got ipod syncing working again since kde4 but there other >> things >> that can do this. I prefer to move the file myself anyways so i know whats >> going on and where everything is. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
