If you are a music lover with a collection of CDs, your number one priority after you buy an iPhone or iPod touch is to get them on your device. The process of “ripping” your albums into the proper format and copying them onto your iPhone/iPod is relatively easy. But if you’ve never done it before, there are steps in the process that are not all that obvious. This step-bystep guide will help you get your beloved collection of music CDs onto your device.

The best way to rip your albums onto your device is to use the Mac or PC version of iTunes, which not only lets you purchase music from Apple’s online store, but also acts as a media player and library for your media content. The program is free to install and there are no fees for using it to rip CDs. To download and install iTunes to your Mac or PC, go to apple.com/itunes/download.

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Have you ever listened to a great tune on the radio and wished you could hear it again or even purchase it? In the past, you would have to either go to your local record store or go to your computer and fire up iTunes or some other music download service to get your own copy.

Getting music from iTunes

All that has changed with the release of the iPhone and iPod touch. Now, everything is in the palm of your hand. All you need to do is connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot and you can download and listen to almost any song you can think of.

To get started, press the iTunes icon on your Home screen. From there you can search for a specific song by tapping Search along the bottom, typing in the name of the artist, and drilling down from there. The search feature will automatically populate results as you type, so even if you’re not 100 percent sure of the name, you’ll get results. Once you find what you’re looking for, just tap on it and the results will then be grouped by Albums and Songs.

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These days, whether you’re working on a static website, dynamic application or content management system, the final appearance of your pages comes down to cascading style sheets (CSS). Artisteer is designed to reinvent the way that CSS is handled, and itdoes so with considerable success.

To understand what’s so radical about Artisteer, it’s necessaryto understand the advantage that CSS brings -and the problems. The great strength of CSS is its centralised control, flexibility and efficiency update a single rule and the look and feel of your entire site updates accordingly. It’s simple in theory, but not in practice. The inherent complexity of trying to manage all the possible elements of a design through CSS, with its hundreds of parameters, cascade of rules, and infuriatingly different browser implementations, means most users never stray beyond the default templates provided by Dreamweaver or their CMS.

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