Back when people were still walking around with Treos and BlackBerrys that looked like they were fresh out of a Tamagotchi factory, Jobs and his pirates were taking every manufacturer to school with Apple's  iPhone line, leaving the rest of us dizzy over the mere implications of the technology. And he did it again with Apple's tablets, the iPads, a few years later, always opening the trail.

We have a lot to be grateful for from Steve Jobs. He was a truly brilliant man - the kind that surface two or three times in  your lifetime. A ferocious and determined businessman - a true a visionary who shepherded society itself into a concrete bigger and better future for everyone. Steve's legacy most certainly lives on, with over 100 million iPhones, 300 million iPods, nearly 10 million iPads and 10 million Mac computers sold every month, it's safe to say his influence will still cause ripples for exciting years to come...

Thanks Steve.

Get it straight from Cydia 1.0 - it should be labeled as an "Important Update".

Have fun, and feel free to let others know what you think of 1.1 in the comments!

Source: Modmyi

We are currently in the organizational stage of the project and there are lots of things left to figure out. We need volunteers - that's one thing we know for sure. Should you have interest, do not hesitate to contact us with what you think you can bring to the organization. Keep checking the site and MobileCamp Montreal's official Twitter account for updates!

Physical design

Image: Sony Insider

The first thing you'll ]notice about the Xperia X10 is that it's not as small as the iPhone. The Xperia's size is 119 x 63 x 13 mm while Apple's iPhone is 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3mm. It's available in two colours at the moment: black and white. I got the white version because I figured it would be a nice change after two years with a black iPhone. When first looking at the X10, the first thing you'll notice is its huge 4" TFT screen with scratch-resistant coating. It's capable of displaying 65,636 colours (that's an Android 1.6 limitation, not hardware) in a 480x854 pixel resolution (as opposed to iPhone's 480x320px) which consequently is also the size you'll want to use when creating wallpapers. As a reference point and a joyful stab at Apple, the Xperia screen is bigger than the iPhone by 0.5". That's not all the Xperia is better at either, it's significantly lighter than a regular 16G iPhone too, although they both supposedly weight 135 grams. The Sony Ericsson branding on the front (silver text near the speaker and below the screen respectively saying "Sony Ericsson" and "Xperia") and the back (same text as the front with a green/blue embossed (!) Sony Ericsson logo) is really not that bad once you stop paying attention to it. Nobody came up to me and said "Oh that's the Xperia!" yet, so I consider that a good thing. As you would expect, it's mostly made out of plastic. The back cover (that you need to take off to get to the battery, miniSD card and SIM card) feels really cheap once it's off the rest of phone - I'll have to see how long that lasts. There's a 8.1MP camera on the back and I believe there's also an objective on the front, though I have yet to figure out how to use it (which means it may not be a camera at all). Near what I think is or might be a camera lens on the front is a little barely noticeable LED that, as far as I know, can flash three colors: red, green and blue - more on that later. Comparing the buttons and layout with the iPhone (because it's the most popular one at this time and also my previous model), it's not as intelligent and user-friendly as Apple, but it's not that far. There's three lean rectangle buttons below the screen: Menu, Home and Back with nice little white LEDs on each side of the middle (Home) button and that's it. Apple's one-button design is nothing short of genius, but the folks at Sony Ericsson have provided users with a more customizable feel to it - more on the buttons and their effect later. The top of the phone sports an 3.5mm standard audio outlet, a covered firewire plug and another small button used, as the iPhone, to power on/off or lock the device in various scenarios. The cool innovation here is the camera button that's on the right side of the phone near the bottom. Once you turn your X10a in a landscape position, that button is exactly where you'd expect it to be to perform the actions it does such as  camera shutter.

Hardware

It rocks a huge 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that makes the phone pretty responsive and capable of running CPU-intense applications, as opposed to the 600MHz you'll find in a 3GS. There's 256MB of memory plus an extra 128MB reserved for graphics (the iPhone doesn't have that last part). It also does Bluetooth obviously. Hardware wise, that's really all I care about. It came bundled with a 16G miniSD card (I believe that's Rogers' doing and not Sony Ericsson since it's reportedly bundled with a 8G miniSD normally), a cheap pair of Sony Ericsson-branded headphones and a standard charger. The cool thing about the charger though is that it's just like Apple's: it's a miniUSB cable that you can use to plug in your PC or use it to plug in a power outlet using the adapter they provide. Convenient, I like it. There is however some things that are less appreciated due in part to the hardware. For one, the sound volume doesn't go very high. It could be a limitation of Mediascape since the alarm, notifications and ringers all seem to be louder than what songs played in Mediascape appear to be. Second, well there are no accessories for it yet - no screen protectors and no cases. I realize that's not really Sony Ericsson's fault, but the design of the phone is rather unconventional, very rectangle-ish so nothing that's out right now can be used with it efficiently.

Interface

Now that we have all that covered, let's use this thing. First thing you'll notice is the lockscreen. It really, really resembles Apple's (clock and wallpaper are displayed when locked) except that the swiping gesture you need to perform to unlock it is actually an arc starting from the bottom of the screen to the middle right part of it. Nice little clin d'oeil there. Once you get used to it it's really not a problem as you can imagine. The interface also reminds me of iPhones, but it's better in almost every way. I really hate that I haven't figured out how to take screenshots with it because it would make explaining this to you so much simpler... anyway. We all know what an iPhone screen looks like, right? Well keep that in mind, I'll use that to illustrate what's where and what does what. First, the app icons. Very similar, same concept. The Xperia however only has three pages of apps - you cannot have more with this crippled version. There are third-party applications such as Helix that will allow you to hack around that and basically create a new "homescreen application", but that's probably too advanced for most casual users so I won't cover it today. The homescreen manipulations are very similar to Apple's - tap to run an app, long tap to reorder it. Three major differences though; first you can add widgets to any of your pages. Widgets can be anything application-provided like Seesmic's Twitter ticker to the default widgets like the analog or digital clocks. One caveat regarding that though - there's lots of cool widgets and you can only usually add one per page since you run out of space and Android won't let you add any more. Icons plus widgets take a lot of room, it's a shame that there can't be more pages. Second, the statusbar is simply amazing. There's a big gap on the left side in which notifications appear. Notifications can be your new emails, new tweets, the song that's playing in Mediascape (for quick access to the player) or really anything that you would think of using the iPhone's push notifications for but implemented in a much usable way than Apple's. See, if you tap the statusbar than drag down, you'll pull a new window that contains all your notification - IN TEXT! - without having to open the application. How amazing and convenient is that?? And that's not the coolest part. On every notification, there's a LED on the front of the phone, kind of like the BlackBerry's annoying orange/red indicator but much smoother, that can flash in red (low battery), blue and green, as defined by the application sending the notification. A-ma-zing. My emails flash green and my new Twitter mentions flash blue. I can know why my phone beeps without so much as touching it. Beat that, Apple. The same concept applies for the bottom. There is no static dock on the Xperia, but you can access your menu (where all your applications reside since you can't possible have enough of 3 pages to put all your icons and restricting the number of applications you can have would be a suicide for the Android platform) the same way, by tapping the bottom and dragging up, pulling the application menu along the way. Very cool. For more information and a video of the interface in action, check out Gizmodo - but make sure you don't forget anything there.

The one thing that annoys me about all that interface though are the applications themselves. I'm coming from an iPhone background, I'm not used to have shit running all the time and I get paranoid about my battery usage (which with the Xperia easily lasts me for a whole day - no matter what I do or don't do). It's obvious that for their notification system applications need to run in the background and there are a lot of "task managers" available on the Android Market... but it's still kind of annoying. Unneeded things like Mediascape and Timescape can be running at any given time for no apparent reason, same for camera and other apps that really don't belong in the background process list.

All in all, do I think the Xperia X10 is better than an iPhone? It's hard to answer. When compared side to side, there are pros and cons to each device and the manufacturer behind it. Apple had two years to perfect its design, strengthen its userbase and plant a standard usage inside everyone's head. It will definitely be interesting to see where those new Android devices lead us. So do I think the Xperia is better than an iPhone? It's too early to tell, but what I really love about it is that it's an equally viable alternative to something that was beginning to reek of  oppression and restriction. For that, we should all be thankful.

1. Number one reason to justify this switch can be said very simply: Apple. Their product was revolutionary - the iPhone is to the cell phone market what the iPod was to the MP3 Players market and don't get me wrong, it's an amazing product. There is, however, a divergence of ideas in my relationship with Apple. They like their users locked in, powerless, doomed to abide by Apple's terms of services. What's worse than that is that Apple has absolute power over what it created. It's not wrong per se - hardware-wise (hello, Gizmodo!), but for everything else, it's a dictatorship. Everything is closed-sourced. Apple has the right (and abuses it) to refuse third party applications for whatever reason they choose, even if it's merely because it implements a feature better than the way Apple implemented it, but they're not afraid to steal features from said third-party developers when comes the time to release a new OS (WinterBoard, BossPaper, Backgrounder, etc). Look up what they've done in the last few years, from their multiple app refusals to their unsaid definition of the future of Mobile... I will not support that.
2. Another reason would be that, well, I've been there and I've done that. I know the iPhone inside and out and there's not much left that I can experiment save from taking the thing apart (which I will invariably end up doing with my 3G once I get an Android).
3. Sony Ericsson just came out with the Xperia X10, and she's a beauty. It's available on Rogers with for a relatively expected cost. I'm still debating the device a bit, but it'll be an Android. It's not an iPhone, but it's pretty damn close. Close enough to be familiar and different enough that it might be a whole other thing.
4. Android. It's backed by Google. It's open-source. I like the philosophy, anyone who knows me know that I'm a fierce open-source advocate, it makes sense to support an open-source community and leave a tyrannical one, even if the alternative wouldn't be as good. Fortunately, it appears to be.
5. I will not need to hack it up to get it to do what I want. Well okay, Rogers (my carrier) has locked the Xperia X10 to Android 1.6, and I will have to investigate as to why they've done that. I might need to hack around a bit to stick it to the man and get Android 2.1 on it, but that's expected. Carriers are abusive, restrictive assholes and will always be - I'm willing to deal with that for lack of viable alternatives.

All that to say that from this point on, this blog (whatever it is) will turn its focus from the iPhone to the Android, more specifically and in all likelihood, the Xperia X10... with Rogers. I will document my evolution with this new and unknown world that is Android and hope that it will help you solve your problems or maybe even convince you that Apple is the new Microsoft, and you should switch before you side with a corporate giant who wants to control and restrict everything there is going to be about the emerging market that is mobile.

Should you decide to update your pre-3.1 device to 3.1, Apple will make it so that not only does it wipe your jailbreak data, but make it nearly impossible for the user to manipulate the device in the future. As it is a highly technical subject, I'll simply direct you to Jay "saurik" Freeman's article which covers everything you need to know about this particular topic.

That being said, there's a hard reality out there. 3.1 is out, and iPhone owners want their devices -- may they be jailbroken or vanilla -- to run the latest firmware. It's absolutely normal, and even encouraged. Nowadays, you need to stay on top of software updates for security purposes, if anything. To that reality, you can add the current problem those people have: you can't jailbreak 3.1. Today, I'm going to enumerate the possibilities that lay before you as a jailbroken iPhone owner who wants to update to 3.1.There are, as of today, numerous options to hack up your device, some are unstable, some are experimental, some are widely recognized as official. Here's a list for easy reference:

• Dev-Team's PwnageTool
• iH8sn0w's iReb
• Chronic Dev's greenp0ison

As of the moment I'm writing these lines, there is one "official" way to jailbreak your device to 3.1... as long as you run MacOS X. The tool which the iPhone Dev-Team released, PwnageTool, is currently only supported on Macintosh platforms. That's a bummer for the rest of us. If you do run a Mac, you're lucky and can jailbreak like you always did.

The other ways are for the rest of us non-Apple fanboys. You'll be happy to know it's surprisingly simple. In order to jailbreak your iPhone with 3.1 on Windows, simply obtain a custom firmware generated by PwnageTool. Be very careful what IPSW you get as you can get fucked (yes, fucked) really easily. Ask your friends, I'm sure one of them has a Mac! Once you have the custom IPSW file, restore your iPhone (hold down the shift key as you click on iTunes' "Restore" button to browse for your custom firmware). Should you have problems (error 1601, 1602, 1604), use ih8sn0w's iReb application to fix it.

Then, when your iPhone will be fully restored using the new firmware, you have nothing else to do, just enjoy. Wasn't that simple? If you're looking to be carrier-independent.... well you can't just yet. We're still waiting on a release of untrasn0w, greenpois0n or whichever will come first.

See Altaf Sayani's great articles about it here and here.

I've been rocking a jailbroken iPhone for a few months now, and I must say I absolutely love it. It feels just like when I switched to Linux: power to the community, freedom of choice and usage, open source spirit... and you're pretty much on your own if shit hits the fan. I've blogged about the best Cydia applications I found in the past (Top 10 Cydia Apps and Top 10 Cydia Apps Redux), but I feel it's time to update that list and share it with you all. "Why?" might you ask. Simple. My needs and interests change regularly. The software source being Cydia, applications can be harder to find than with the centralized Apple App Store. New apps are added to Cydia on a daily basis, and new repositories are created daily, so new stuff is easy to find - good stuff is harder. There are a few tools on the interwebs to help you by attempting to centralize the Cydia apps information (appRater, ModMyi, hackint0sh, iPhoneFreakz, BigBoss, iSpazio), but it's still more challenging than your search-and-tap routine.

Here goes a revamped list of my current essential Cydia apps for your jailbroken iPhone in no particular order. I'm gonna leave out the obvious like Cydia and OpenSSH.

1. WinterBoard: This application allows you to customize pretty much everything you might want to customize on your iPhone. The interesting thing about it is that as a bonus to the default options, you can install plugins that are available for it in Cydia - and there are a lot of them. Themes for the LockScreen, SMS, Applications, SpringBoard, Keyboard, Sounds and much more.
2. SBSettings: Adds a bunch of configuration option such as hiding icons, toggling WiFi/SSH/Bluetooth and more. There are also a bunch of plugins for it. Just the ability to hide the annoying Stocks, Youtube, iTunes, Notes and Calculator icons I never use is really refreshing.
3. StatusNotifier: Adds icons in the top status bar for SMS, emails and calls, near the battery display.
4. FontSwap: This app provides an easy way to swap system fonts. Just select your font from the list provided by the font swap starter pack and select to respring and you will have new fonts! There's also a bunch of add-on fonts available, and new ones pop up everyday.
5. iTypeFastR: iTypeFastR is an app for iPhone, that adds a special keyboard (available as landscape too!). The keyboard allows you to type faster and with less typos, because on average the keys are much larger. This keyboard makes better use of the available room on the screen. Often used letters are bigger then less used ones. On average, you therefore hit bigger buttons. Check this video to see it in action. (Note: iTypeFastR is one of the very few apps in Cydia's App Store. It's free for the first 5000 users, but if you're out of luck, you can buy it here for an acceptable $3.99)
6. PwnPlayer: A full-featured media player that aims to be a replacement for the stock media player. It mimics almost the same interface with the same functionality, plus enables a lot of extra cool features such as filesystem playback, search, lock-screen gesture based playback control, and on-the-fly playlist managing. Check out the features or a video of PwnPlayer in action. The very cool thing about PwnPlayer is that in order to get music on your iPhone, you simply copy it over via SSH! For people for whom this matters, it's one big step towards Linux-only iPhone usage.
7. Icy: Icy is Ripdev's take on the freeware package manager that uses APT repositories to install and remove packages available in another free iPhone installer application, Cydia. The goal was to create a fast, lightweight and more slick solution that is easy and cool to use. And it is much faster and much prettier than Cydia indeed.
8. LogoMe: LogoMe allows you to change your iPhone's boot logo to whatever you want. Just give the app a picture (either in your iPhone or via HTTP) and it'll convert it to the appropriate format and set it as your boot logo just like that.
9. This little python script. Use it to convert your application icons (Apple uses some kind of special PNG format, go figure). You'll need GNU C Compiler (gcc) and libpng (just "png" in the repositories).
10. Kate: I'm not too sure about Kate, but it certainly looks promising. Kate is made by Ripdev, the people who make Icy and a few other quality apps, so it's why I'm putting it on this list even though it's not a free app. Kate is an unique package of little tools for your iPhone that can be installed separately from each other. Each module provides its own set of features aimed to make your use of iPhone more productive and fun. Two important notes before listing some of Kate's awesome modules: it seems to be only installable via Installer and not Cydia or Icy. It appears in all three, but won't run successfully unless installed via Installer. Also, I couldn't get most of Kate's features to work, but I'm guessing that's because I'm running an already heavily modified iPhone and some conflicts are happenning (Smard Dialer with WinterBoard Keypad theme, System Font with FontSwap, µCalendar with WinterBoard, etc). Let me know if you successfully get it to run! You can buy Kate here for 32.09$. Now for some of Kate's modules:
    • Smart Dialer: Favorites list inside of Phone application sure is convenient, but it's not as best as it can be… with Smart Dialer calling your contact has never been easier — simply start typing the name on the numeric keypad and watch Dialer suggest a list of contacts in a snap.
    • µCalendar: Ever wanted to quickly find out what day of the week is a certain date within the month from today? Or, even more, quickly check a list of pending events for today without having to unlock the phone and launching Calendar? µCalendar makes it possible — and it does just that — a quick access to your current agenda. No adding of new events, no previews for five years ahead — why make simple complicated?
    • Privacy: Grinding your teeth every time you're in a middle of showing your latest photo album to friends and an SMS arrives, blocking half of the screen? Or ever had your closest one raise an eyebrow when an unexpected SMS arrives? Well, Privacy is for you! With just one click of a button… er, finger, you'll be able to turn these alerts off, or hide the message text on that pop-up window, or even stop any notifications whatsoever on new SMS arrival. We respect your privacy.
    • System Font: That one is basically everything FontSwap is - but only for font used by the system... It's bundled with Kate. Convenient. Not sure how many third-party fonts are provided though.
    • Reminder: Is basically the same as StatusNotifier. Again, the advantage is that it's bundled with Kate.

A quick note about Ripdev

Ripdev seems to be on a rampage to recode popular applications for jailbroken iPhones. I guess it was inevitable. Letting Cydia have all the "market share" of jailbroken iPhone can't be a good thing in the long run. Competition breeds excellence! Cydia's much ahead though, which is normal considering they pretty much pioneered everything in that field, along with the famous dev-team. I don't get why they competition with third-party applications and not directly with Cydia though. They've already rolled out Icy and their version of Installer, which replace Cydia and their version of Installer. They should just concentrate on building a community to rival Cydia's, in my opinion. But whatever. Maybe they're on to something with their Kali Anti-Piracy system. Here are some examples of applications/features Ripdev have recoded:

1. Hood: Ripdev's SBSettings clone does everything SBSettings does, but it has less features. You can't toggle SSH for example. But there's an included process list/kill, which is a third-party plugin in SBSettings. And it hasn't been updated since December 2008. Shame, it had real potential.
2. System Font: As mentioned above, that's a clone of FontSwap bundled with Kate. It's however limited by lack of community and third-party plugins (fonts) and range of font swapping (it only replaces system fonts).
3. Reminder: Another clone of a popular application, StatusNotifier. Quite similar, can't really tell the difference. Maybe the icons.. Also bundled with Kate.
4. Icy: Obviously! The only competitor to Cydia. However, I think it globally wins. It's prettier and faster than Cydia but there are a few drawbacks. First, you can't choose to modify a package, you only have the option to remove it. The modify option appear only on core packages.
5. FaceLift: From within Kate, this application is a theming engine. It basically renders WinterBoard useless. But again, WinterBoard can rely on thousands of themes already created by its community.

Edit: This post is old and outdated. I'm aware. When it was published, it was accurate. Please refrain from saying "Oh man this doesn't exist anymore". Just read the newer posts instead )

Step 1: Edit your sound file

Since we're looking to replace a SMS tone, the sound file you choose should be short, ideally 3-4 seconds long. Personally, I was annoyed that the iPhone (and many other mobile devices) didn't come with a simple "beep" alert, so I'll be using two simple beep sounds in the example. You can download and/or preview them at the bottom of this post. If the sound you want is part of a longer track, you can easily edit it out with Audacity or any other audio editing application. I'll assume you have your sound file ready. One thing that's important in this step is that your sound file should be saved under the Audio Interchange File Format or AIFF. In order to do so, export your original file as an uncompressed .aiff file. Should be easy enough. If you dont have an AIFF export feature or Audio Converter program, dont worry, you can use iTunes to do the conversion. Import the MP3 file to iTunes. Goto iTunes -> Preferences (for Mac) or Edit -> Preferences (for PC). Navigate to Advanced -> Importing tab and set the “Import Using:” to AIFF then import the file. Once that's completed, locate your sound file and replace the extension from .aiff to .caf (Apple Core Audio Format). At the end of this step, you should be left with a .caf file of a few kilobytes.

Step 2: Package your custom tones (optional)

This is where WinterBoard comes in handy. WinterBoard basically allows you to package your customizations in order to avoid replacing the iPhone's default files. You can replace pretty much anything you might ever need to without modifying a thing and using WinterBoard's nifty little interface to enable/disable your modifications. If you don't have or don't want WinterBoard, skip to step 3. Otherwise, read on!

Making a WinterBoard package is rather easy. You simply have to respect a given structure and place your custom files according to their original locations. There's a great introduction/tutorial on how to make your own WinterBoard theme over at ModMyi if you'd like to know more. Start off by creating a folder on your desktop. Call it whatever you wish your WinterBoard package's name to be; I'll use "pLSounds". Go into that folder and create another folder, name it "UISounds" (case sensitive). Put the .caf file resulting from step 1 into this folder (UISounds). What this will result in is simple. The iPhone's default file structure places every sound file in /System/Library/Audio/UISounds - WinterBoard adds symbolic links in /Library such as "Themes", "Ringtones" and "Wallpapers" pointing to WinterBoard's file repository in /var/stash. In simple words, everything you will put in your package's "UISounds" directory will, once activated, emulate overwriting the iPhone's default "/System/Library/Audio/UISounds" folder, therefore allowing you to use your own custom data. Now, for SMS tones, the iPhone's default files are named like this:

1. /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received1.caf (Tri-tone)
2. /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received2.caf (Chime)
3. /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received3.caf (Glass)
4. /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received4.caf (Horn)
5. /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received5.caf (Bell)
6. /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received6.caf (Electronic)

So in order to be able to use the custom SMS tones you create, you need to respect the default file nomenclature. If you've created two custom tones, name them "sms-received5.caf" and "sms-received6.caf". Once enabled in WinterBoard, they will replace the Bell and Electronic tones in your iPhone's Sound Settings panel.

Step 3: Upload your data

The rest is rather obvious and simple: you've created a WinterBoard package containing your custom SMS tones, now all you need is to send it on your iPhone! In order to do so, you will need to have OpenSSH installed and enabled on your iPhone. OpenSSH allows you to connect securely to your device and perform actions typically available on a BSD platform. To make it easier, we'll transfer the files using the SFTP protocol (SSH File Transfer Protocol or Secure File Transfer Protocol). First you'll need to figure out your iPhone's IP address; this is much easier when you're on a local network you control. To figure out your IP address, either use available applications (such as BossPrefs), check your router's DHCP client table or log in to your iPhone via Terminal and type "ifconfig en0 | grep inet" at the prompt. Connect to it via SFTP and browse to the the appropriate directory (WinterBoard: /Library/Themes - without WinterBoard: /System/Library/Audio/UISounds) and upload your package's directory or your caf files. If you're not using WinterBoard, make sure to create backups of all the files you will overwrite just in case. Voila! You can now close everything, fire up WinterBoard on your iPhone and you should see your package. Enable it and check out the Sound Settings to set your custom SMS tone. Easy huh?

Sources and Downloads

1. How to make your own WinterBoard theme tutorial at ModMyi
2. Amplify UK

You can download the two audio files I've used for my custom SMS tones here in CAF format.

First off, I'll assume you're using iTunes since you own an iPod or an iPhone. Apple made it so that synchronizing that baby on any other platform is a real bitch, and they've greatly succeeded. So open up your iTunes, select a song you like in your library and right-click it to "Get Info". If you look at the tabs near the top of the popup window, you'll see a "Lyrics" tab. Clicking on that should simply open the tab with a big empty text area. What we'll do here is we'll fill up that box with the song's lyrics.

Once that's done and the song is synced on your device, when it plays simply tap the album art (or its placeholder) to get to the shuffle/repeat/position screen. Lyrics should magically appear right below the section you're used to see.

Now, I hear you saying "Yeah but I'm not gonna do that for every damn song in my library!" and you would be right to say so. There are a number of programs that will automatically fetch song lyrics for you and add them to the song that's playing in iTunes, so that is what you'll want to do. Here are a few suggestions:

• TuneLyrics (MacOS)
• iLyrics (Windows)
• iTunes Lyrics Importer (Windows)
• Apple Downloads for iPod + iTunes (MacOS)

So from here on out all you have to do is start the software you chose, play your music in iTunes and watch your software fetch your lyrics! Obviously not every lyric is findable by those applications, but most will offer you a "Google Search" button that should take you right to the lyrics you're looking for. As a tip, what I do is the following: I have three big playlists that get synced on my iPhone automatically. When I go to bed, I set my laptop's volume to its lowest, fire up both softwares and let the playlist play! When I get up, I have all my lyrics and sync my iPhone. Ta-daa!