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In order to transfer music from a friends iPod from your iTunes without ERASING their music or photos you must first make sure that when you plug the iPod in and it asks you if you’d like to erase it you say CANCEL or NO. 

This trick works with windows formatted iPods on Windows or Mac formatted iPod’s on OSX. It will not work cross platform.

When you plug the iPod in you should see the following message: 
 

You should choose cancel.

Next you’ll see this message if the iPod has photos on it: 

To that you’ll say no. 

The next few steps include clicking on the iPod in the devices area of iTunes and setting it to manual sync and choosing apply. Once you done so you can go to the music area of iTunes and start dragging and dropping music to the iPod’s icon in the device area. 

Video Example *coming soon*

The steps;

1. get some icons
2. drag and drop
3. no step 3

Okay so there is a little more to it than that… but not much more.

You can get icons from websites like http://iconfactory.com/ basically you search around til you find something you like.

Once you have some icons downloaded they’ll be in a folder on your computer.

Go find a folder that you’d like to change the icon of, hit command+i, now just drag one of the new icons on top of the existing icon of the folder you just pulled up info for.

Now hit command+w which will close the window, or just close it with your mouse and you’ll be done.

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I snagged this from this guy:
http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/startup-keys-boot-options/
Who snagged it from this guy:
http://eshop.macsales.com/reviews/Framework.cfm?page=/Tips/Key_Combinations/bootkeycombos.html

I don’t want it getting lost out there. It’s hecka interesting!

C : Forces most Macs to boot from the CD-Rom drive instead of the internal hard drive. Only works with Apple ROM drives and with bootable CD discs.
D : Forces the first internal hard drive to be the startup disk.
N : Netboot (New World ROM machines only) - Looks for BOOTP or TFTP Server on the network to boot from.
R : Forces PowerBooks to reset their screen to default size (helpful if you’ve been hooked up to an external montior or projector!)
T : Target Disk Mode (FireWire) - Puts machines with built-in FireWire into target Disk mode so a system attached with a FireWire cable will have that device show up as a hard drive on their system. Very useful for PowerBooks!
Mouse Button Held Down : Ejects any mounted removable media.
Shift : Disables all extensions (Mac OS 7-9), or disables Login items when using Mac OS X 10.1.3 or later. Also works when booting Classic mode up just like you were using the OS natively.
Option : When using an Open Firmware "New World ROM" capable system, the System Picker will appear and query all mounted devices for bootable systems, returning a list of drives & what OS they have on them. On "Old World" systems the machine will simply boot into it’s default OS without any Finder windows open.
Space bar : Brings up Apple’s Extension Manager (or Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher, if installed) up at startup to allow you to modify your extension set.
Command-V : Boots Mac OS X into "Verbose Mode", reporting every console message generated during startup. Really shows what’s going on behind the scenes with your machine on startup!
Command-S : Boots Mac OS X into "Single User Mode" - helpful to fix problems with Mac OS X, if necessary.
Command-Option : Rebuilds the Desktop (Mac OS 7-9).
Command-Option-P-R : Erases PRAM if held down immediately after startup tone. Your machine will chime when it’s erased the PRAM, most people will hold this combination for a total of 3 chimes to really flush the PRAM out.
Command-Option-N-V : Erases NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM). Used with later Power Macintosh systems mostly.
Command-Option-O-F : Boots the machine into Open Firmware (New World ROM systems only).
Command-Option-Shift-Delete : Forces your Mac to startup from its internal CD-ROM drive or an external hard drive. Very helpful if you have a 3rd party CD-ROM drive that is not an Apple ROM device.
Command-Option-Shift-Delete-#(where #= a SCSI DEVICE ID) : Boot from a specific SCSI device, if you have your 3rd party CD-ROM drive set to SCSI ID 3, you would press "3" as the # in the combination.