Why tagging is important

I always wondered why tags are so important and why does everyone talk about it so much, but once I started using it, I have found it very useful it helps in organizing the stuff and also if we use the tags in a very appropriate way, it also ensures that search engines pick the right tag and in a way tagging the title appropriately makes it a good SEO practice, also unnecessary tagging also doesn't help the cause.

Wayne Hurlbert has written a good article on title tags, I think spending 10 minutes reading the article is worth the salt.

There is so much to learn :)

Cool and necessary tools for iTunes

Using iTunes throws up a lot of questions.
I have been using iRiver for couple of years, and when I plugin my iRiver, I manually manage the music files on it, drag and drop the files required and deleting and not allowing windows media player to manage, but with iPod, since I am forced to use iTunes as and when I hit a roadblock, I google and have found some cool tools for iTunes

1)iTunes ART importer
This allows users to search for an album cover image of a song automatically.
More information regarding this can be found at iTunes ART importer.

2)iTunes library updater
How to make iTunes automatically scan for new songs added to the your songs folder without you having to add it manually every time, this one I found it to be very useful since I keep updating my songs list every week.
More information regarding this can be found at iTunes library updater.

Deleting songs from iTunes but not from iPod

After getting an iPod (actually gift from one of the clients we have for having delivered the portal), I am totally hooked on it and every day I use it, I am finding different issue and googling for the problem took me to this url, which explains how to delete songs from iTunes but still keep the same in iPod.

The author provides 2 solutions, simple and ease to use (does not need any additional install).