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Question Asked: Can I Run Mac OS X On a PC?
You can, but not very easily. Running Windows on a Mac is relatively easy compared to the other way around, using Bootcamp, Parallels, or VMVare.
However, running OS X on a PC, you’d need to built what’s referred to as a “hackintosh”. A machine specifically built for the purpose of running OS X.
PCs and OS X have different standards as to what will make them “work” for the machine itself. The majority of standard PCs aren’t capable of running OS X, so you need something custom.
Lifehacker has a great walk through to build one of these “hackintosh” computers for less than $800. Check out their tutorial here.
Question Asked: Can I Listen to my iTunes Songs Away From Home?
There’s nothing built into iTunes that will allow you to stream your music to somewhere you aren’t. You can stream music to other rooms in your home, on the same wi-fi network, with Airport Express, which I talk about here.
However, there is a number of solutions that will let you stream music over the internet from iTunes. A co-worker recommended Simplify Media to me a few days ago. He was using it primarily to stream music from his iTunes library to his iPhone while he was on the go.
The reviews I read of the iPhone app were less than desirable, mainly because of a strain on battery power. So I skipped that aspect of their application.
I installed the PC software at home, where my library is. Then installed it on my iMac at work.
I logged in and it told me it’d take a bit to process my library because it was so large. Once done, the library I named “Home” showed up in my iTunes Shared Library list. Along with all my playlists.
And the best part: the audio quality is perfect. There’s no compression or loss of quality as far as I can tell. It sounds as though I am sitting at home and listening to the tracks on my computer.
Also, Simplify Media also does photos over the same process. So you can get access to all of your photos as a shared library in iPhoto, as well.
This answer pertains specifically to iTunes. However, Simplify Media also works with any media player of your choice that supports shared music libraries. It’s not limited to iTunes, though that is what it was designed for.
Question Asked: Can I Use My iPhone On A Network Other Than AT&T?
Offically, no. Not yet, at least. Rumor has it that Apple is planning on adding Verizon to the available carriers for their iPhone.
Unofficially, yes. There’s a method people are utilizing called “jailbreaking”, which will allow you to use the iPhone on any carrier that you choose.
However, doing so will void your warranty with Apple, and will likely cause your phone to stop working when the new 3.0 software comes out in a month and a half.
If you’re interested in jailbreaking your phone, anyway, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies online that will do the service for you for a small fee.
Question Asked: Can I Install iPhone Apps I Buy To More Than One Phone?
Technically, no. That’d be a violation of the Terms of Use for the app store. The operating agreement stipulates that the apps you purchase are to be used exclusively on your phone, and not to be shared.
However, you can install the app on multiple phones, assuming that you’re syncing it to the same computer, and have the same iTunes account on both phones.
That would work, but would require you to sync all the apps to be exactly the same. So you couldn’t have apps 1, 2 and 3 from phone A, and 4, 5, and 6 from phone B. Both phones would have either 1, 2 and 3 or 4, 5 and 6, depending on which computer you sync’d from.
Question Asked: Can I Sync My iPhone To More Than One Computer?
Yes, and no. That’s confusing, I know, but let me explain:
You can sync your iPhone to as many computers as you want to. However, each time you do, whatever data you have set up to sync will overwrite the existing data on your device.
For example, my wife and I have our entire music collection on my computer, but want to put it on her iPhone, as well. The first time she sync’d her iPhone to my computer, it overwrote all her data, until we configured it to only sync music.
The upside to this is that we can always sync just the music to her computer.
The downside is that if she syncs the music from her computer (or anyone else’s, for that matter), it’ll overwrite all the music from my computer.
So, the answer is that yes you can do it, but it comse with a stern warning that you may (and most likely will) lose your existing data.