I can not wait for Madonna’s new album MDNA to hit the shelves! I’m so sick of hearing the samey pop tarts (Gaga, Rihanna, Perry, Ke$ha, etc), Madonna’s return is a much needed one. The charts have never been in such a sorry state. It’s been nice reminiscing with Madonna’s Tribute act GaGa constantly reminding us of M but it’s damn good to have the real deal back!

Yes i know this is old news to many but it’s my first time in Northrend and wow it’s quite dull. I think part of the problem is i dinged level 80 quite early on so now i’m at level 81 and i’m just whizzing through the seemingly endless quests. I’m doing half the quests for each zone to speed it up a bit and now i’m just starting Storm Peaks. You know i think i had the most fun on the early levels. Looking forward to starting a new character! That said, Storm Peaks and Icerown do look amazing visually!

Got a new app for iPhone called ‘noir’, very nice looks and I imagine it will be great for street photography.

I subscribed to iTunes Match and installed iCloud on my PC and whilst generally i’m really happy with it, there does seem to be quite a few teething problems. As soon as i installed iCloud (so that i could see my iPhone Photo stream on my PC’s) i could no longer use iTunes on my main PC. Once i launched iTunes it completely froze and became unresponsive. Well after much searching i found this:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3540759?start=0&tstart=0
(Post number 5 and 6)

I’ll also paste it here in case the thread ever gets deleted:

Ok not sure if this will work for you, I did the following – task manager APSDaemon.exe*32 end the process tree and the go into the following: Click Start Then Local Disk (C:) – Program Files (x86) – Common Files – Apple – Apple Application Support – delete APS Daemon.exe *32 And the APS Deamon dll – dont delete the ApplePushService.dll – then run the crapcleaner registry cleaner. download iTunes and iCloud click on them, then repair iTunes and iCloud and re start your PC – seems to have fixed it! Will keep you posted

**sorry its APS daemon_main.dll to delete

So there, you have it. I followed the above advice and it did indeed fix my iTunes. Now on my second laptop i have a different problem. The iTunes on that laptop has all of the songs that are in the cloud greyed out so i can’t do anything with them and the only way around it that i’ve found so far is to deactivate iTunes Match and then re-activate it EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU OPEN ITUNES!

I thought Apple stuff was supposed to “Just Work”? Well that’s not been my experience of it so far. I’ve always had one problem or another with iTunes.

But all that aside, i do like iTunes Match and iCloud (when they work). It’s nice having your iTunes in synch on every device and computer and it’s very handy having your photo stream automatically downloaded to your computer(s). Makes backing up very easy as i believe that unlike the photo stream on iPhone, the one on your computer doesn’t get deleted after so many days or images.