How To Enable Half Star Ratings in iTunes

April 23, 2009 by Dave Senior  
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If you want to get those fancy half star ratings in Itunes you can follow these instructions to get them on either Windows or Mac.

Windows

  1. Close Itunes
  2. Find Itunesprefs.xml and open it using Notepad
  3. Find <Key>User Preferences</key><dict>
  4. Under that line add: <key>allow-half-stars</key>
  5. Under that line add: <data>dHJ1ZQ</data>
  6. Save the file and Open Itunes

Mac

  1. Open up Terminal (in Application/Utilities)
  2. Make sure iTunes is closed
  3. Type the following line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars-bool TRUE
  4. Hit enter
  5. Close the terminal and fire up iTunes

Episode 017: April 23, 2009

April 23, 2009 by Corey Charette  
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This week the gang is going to let you know that Trivial Pursuit is alive, we’ll let you know who was Dead At Your Age, cover some programs that check updates on your programs, how to put half-stars on iTunes, and much more……

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Jason Kelly talks about a modernized version of the classic Trivial Pursuit.

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Episode 016: April 16, 2009

April 16, 2009 by Corey Charette  
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This week the guys go over Killzone 2, talk about the iPod Shuffle, show you how to hide your email address with Scr.im, and why DestroyTwitter can actually help make it better…………

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GAMES

Jason Kelly gives us a quick review of Killzone 2.

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APPLE CORNER

Ben Skripnik talks about the iPod Shuffle.

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Episode 015: April 9, 2009

April 9, 2009 by Corey Charette  
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This week the guys cover the game FIFA 2009, how to check usernames on multiple social networking sites at once, PIDGIM instant messenger program, and so much more…………

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Jason Kelly kicks it around with FIFA 2009.

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Ben Skripnik introduces us to Mac the Ripper.

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Episode 014: April 2, 2009

April 2, 2009 by Corey Charette  
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This week the gang talk about Far Cry 2, let us know how to Print What You Want, Google Analytics via email, Jing software, news, and so much more……………………………………………………..

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Jason Kelly goes over Far Cry 2 for us.

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