iTimes w/Tony Bove
Blog and shop covering iPod, iTunes, iPhone, audio and video tech, and digital rights (DRM).

Get Off Microsoft!
Includes blog, news, reviews, and alternatives, with excerpts from my book Just Say No to Microsoft.

Rockument
Music history and shop with commentary, Web radio and podcasts featuring roots music.

Haight-Ashbury
History of the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s with music, videos, and Haight St. shop.

Flying Other Brothers
Music videos and podcast of the FOBS (featuring yours truly on harmonica and vocals).

I'm a writer, producer, high-tech consultant, musician, and book author. See resume.
Consulting clients: Adobe Systems, BEA Systems, Citrix, Hypermedia, Intel, Live Picture, Macromedia, NTT, Random House, Sun Microsystems, the Well. Email is tony "at" tonybove "dot" com).

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Tips from books:
* Overview of iTunes
* Transferring Files Too Large for Email
* Kick Out the Jams: GarageBand Overview
* Changing Windows Media Player Settings to use other players

Musical friends: Flying Other Brothers (with Pete Sears and Barry Sless), T-Bone Burnett, Jack Casady, David Gans, Mickey Hart, Vince Herman, Mark Karan, Jorma Kaukonen, Little Feat, Country Joe McDonald, David Nelson, the Rowan Bros., G.E. Smith, and Bob Weir. (For a review of a show, see "Spencer Dryden Benefit" at jambands.com.)

New Album Exclusively on iTunes! Estimated Charges by the Flying Other Brothers.

Check out FOB videos on YouTube.

iPod and iTunes For Dummies (Wiley): Covers everything you need to know to use your iPod and iTunes with Windows or Mac OS X, including buying music online, ripping CDs, using podcasts, adding contacts and calendars to your iPod, burning CDs from iTunes, and much more.

The iPod Companion: This book covers the everything you need to know to use your iPod with earlier versions of iTunes or MusicMatch Jukebox.

Just Say No to Microsoft (No Starch Press): In its foreword, John Dvorak hails this book as "one of the most interesting overviews of desktop computing history that's ever been written... possibly a watershed event."

This book explains how the company's practices over the years have discouraged innovation, stunted competition, and helped foster an environment ripe for viruses, bugs, and hackers. Learn how you can dump Microsoft -- even the Windows operating system -- and continue to be productive. Read a sample chapter.

Visit Get Off Microsoft! for news, reviews, and alternatives to Microsoft software.

The GarageBand Book (Wiley): GarageBand turns your Mac into a portable recording studio with built-in instruments, special effects, thousands of pre-recorded loops, and the wisdom of at least one or two recording engineers. This book for Macintosh owners covers the everything you need to know to use GarageBand.

52-Week High by the Flying Other Brothers: This CD features original songs recorded during 2002 at Sy Klopps Studio and Hyde St. Studio in San Francisco, and EMI's Abbey Road Studio in London). Guest stars include Pete Sears on keyboards and Jack Casady on bass. Produced by Jack Casady and Stacy Parrish.

iLife '04 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies (Wiley): This book for Macintosh owners covers the suite of applications provided free with Macs -- iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand, with bonus coverage of the iPod. Learn all about ripping music into iTunes, creating music in GarageBand, using digital cameras with iPhoto and DV camcorders with iMovie, and burning DVDs with iDVD. Includes advanced techniques for getting the most out of iLife.

"There's nothing you can do that can't be done / Nothing you can sing that can't be sung."
-- Beatles, "All You Need is Love" (Lennon/McCartney)

The iLife '04 Book: Andy Ihnatko and Tony Bove deliver a fun, informative, full-color guide that shows Mac users everywhere how to make the most of Apple's iLife digital media suite-iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD.

San Francisco Sounds by the Flying Other Brothers: This CD features original songs recorded during 2004. The band's line-up includes Pete Sears on keyboards, Barry Sless on lead guitar/pedal steel guitar, and Jimmy Sanchez on drums. Produced by the Flying Other Brothers and Stacy Parrish.

"And it's only the giving that makes you what you are."
-- Jethro Tull, "Wond'ring Aloud" (Ian Anderson)

More stuff:

Barry Sless on pedal steel guitar with Tony Bove on harmonica, somewhere in Alaska, 2006.

Rockument Podcast: Americana Roots, Ballad Roots of California Folk-Rock, and Country Blues Roots of California Rock

Featuring historical performances by Woody Guthrie, Roscoe Holcomb, Paul Clayton, the David Nelson Band, G.E. Smith, the Flying Other Brothers, Peter Rowan and the Rowan Brothers, Hot Tuna, and many others.

Flying Other Brothers: Recent gigs and podcasts

Featuring the Flying Other Brothers

Excerpts of Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties CD-ROM and rockumentaries on the Grateful Dead, Beatles, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys Smile Sessions, and Bob Dylan.

Archives: Backstage Report, What's the New Mary Jane.

Novel in progress:
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