Tony Bove

Writer, marketing specialist, musician, and author. See resume. Clients include Adobe, BEA, Citrix, Intel, McAfee, and Sun. Be my MySpace friend and Follow me on Twitter.

Author: iPod and iTunes For Dummies (Wiley) and Just Say No to Microsoft (No Starch Press)
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 Tony's Tips for iPhone Users Manual (iPhone Application). Includes everything you need to know, only $2.99!
  • Tips on synchronizing with iTunes and MobileMe
  • How to save battery power and travel costs
  • How to manage your email accounts
  • All the details about all the settings
  • New tips and updates appear automatically
  • Save pages on your iPhone for offline reference
  • Convenient, readable, and always up-to-date
  • And more!
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Tony's Tips Wiki

Learn all you should know. Tips on using iTunes, iPods, iPhones, media and personal apps, and Microsoft alternatives. Register to join the Tony's Tips communnity wiki and add your comments.

Bove's Blips (blog/rss feed)

Blips on my scope, analyzing innovation (iPods, iPhones, computers, digital media), and the software industry (tools, media, enterprise IT).
Rockument: Documenting the history of rock, with a shop of reviewed items. Also:

Rockument podcast: The roots of rock, featuring rare performances. Free to play, download, or subscribe.

Haight-Ashbury:
History of the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s with music, videos, and Haight St. shop. Based on Rockument's critically-acclaimed documentary.

Flying Other Brothers:
Music videos, band members, and podcast.

Recent gigs podcast
Featuring live performances with special guests (and yours truly on harmonica and vocals). Free to play, download, or subscribe.

    Barry Sless on pedal steel guitar with Tony on harmonica, somewhere in Alaska, 2006 on tour with the Flying Other Brothers


    Tony with Mickey Hart at the S.F. Zoo, photo by Jay Blakesberg.

    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.

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    Diesel eBooks by Tony Bove available here. Books and CDs by Tony Bove (on Amazon.com):

    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)

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