All iTunes users, watch out: iTunes has introduced two new categories, Albums of the Week and Movies of the Week. The amazing thing: movies and albums are on sale for just $4.99! Don’t mix it up with the movie rental, where you can rent a movie each week for .99 cents. This one is the real deal.
 
Needless to say, I jumped at that opportunity and bought two movies and a complete album. Can’t wait for next week!

My problem: I have an iPod touch which has the capability of surfing the internet, but only via wifi. I don’t have a wifi router (there was no money left for an Airport Express device). But I wanted to go online anyway.
Here’s the solution, if you have a Mac! I guess there are other ways as well and I don’t know how to set this up on a Windows machine, but if you’re a Mac user, this should help you.
What you need: a Mac with an internet connection. My Macbook …

Everyone who uses iTunes might have despaired at least once about the limitations that this wonderful piece of software burdens us with: namely, the limitation to only some very specific video formats.
The following solution is for Mac users ONLY! Sorry, Windows guys (Possible solution … and now don’t bash me ). The goal is to be able to play  .avi, .mkv and that sort of files from within iTunes (without the need to convert them) and thereby access them via Front Row.
iTunes plays whatever QuickTime supports [see list of formats supported]. …

Okay, I assume you have all your video and music files imported into iTunes, maybe even with the help of VideoDrive.
Now you might still be dissatisfied with the looks of your library. VideoDrive utilized Amazon for cover art, but their images are often not very pretty. So here are some resources you can exploit to make your iTunes look stunning:

This forum thread at macrumors features some self-created artwork which is absolutely stunning. Best: you don’t need to register to access the images. Thanks to all those creative people for sharing!
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I absolutely hate to admit it, but I actually felt forced to install Windows XP on my beautiful, innocent Mac on Sunday. As hard as it is to say, but there are some tasks which run smoother under Windows (some! - not many.).
So I downloaded a trial version of VMware Fusion (thanks klti for the recommendation) and installed WinXP. It went astonishingly smooth … that should have been a warning sign for me. No Windows installation ever goes smoothly.
Just having the virginal operation system was ok. But once I wanted …