Simple Computing

I updated my iTunes a couple of days ago. Today I got something of a surprise, as it switched from the podcast that was downloading to a shared folder called Kerry's LimeWire Tunes. And scrolling down the list of tunes displayed, I found as soon as I got beyond the initial visible titles that there was a substantial collection of porno videos. Each to their own and all that, but I certainly hadn't invited this list to put in an appearance on my PC.

It wasn't difficult to work out how to stop it coming back (Edit / Preferences / Sharing - untick the box 'Look for Shared Libraries'). But what really gets my goat is that Apple resets my preferences when I install their update without so much as a by-your-leave. That Steve Jobs likes to think he's a clever bloke; overpriced mobiles that won't even work with G3, and now a laptop that's about the thickness of a cigarette paper, very handy if you never want to put a CD or DVD into it no doubt, but can't he get the iTunes updates to install without fiddling with my existing settings? You'd think he'd be up to it, wouldn't you? Fat chance....

I'm being a bit unfair actually. This latest iTunes finally lets individual users on PCs change their download formats regardless of whether they're Administrators or not. It's taken them five years or more but they've cracked it at last. Nice one, Steve...