Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: random points

[quote name="Helpful iTunes Monkey"]The iTunes Store can be removed from the sidebar via the parental controls. The Store is how you acquire apps for iPhones and iPod Touches, however, so Apple does insist that you create a Store account as part of the setup process. Which, doubly unfortunately, requires you tie a valid credit card # to it. All I've done with it is grab free apps, so that seems unnecessary. None of that was needed for older iPods. Amazon tracks import fine into iTunes, being regular MP3s. They released (on the Mac side, not sure about Windows) a helper app for downloading MP3s that'll even automatically add the tracks to your iTunes library. I use a generic radio transmitter in my car. Just plug it into the headphone jack and cigarette lighter, pick a frequency and it works. There's no need for a special dock connector model, unless you travel incredibly long distances and need to charge your player on the go. A car radio with an audio-in jack would sound better and be not prone to interference, but I look at the six-disk in-dash changer with weather band that my car came with and have no desire to rip it out.[/quote]