iTunes 11

How to Show the Sidebar Menus in iTunes 11

Apple already released their update in their iTunes

 software yesterday. There’s a little refining done on the graphical 

interface that is somewhat unnoticeable to the eyes of an average iTunes user.



 Overall, you might not be delighted with the updates made if you seldom use 

iTunes to purchased iOS apps, music, magazines, e-book and movies. But upon 

launching the new iTunes 11 after the upgrade is finished, I was surprised 

that the sidebar menu  is missing. I have to admit that I’m one of those average 



iTunes user that I’m really used to navigating within the iTunes using the sidebar 

menu.






So where did the sidebar menu go? In my 

frustration, I was going to write a blog post about this but when I try 
to save my work via Ctrl + S, the iTunes software suddenly became the 

I
 will 
app in focused. This incident happens because iTunes is asking whether

 download all the updates of all the apps installed on my iPad 2.

 So after receiving the Ctrl + S command that was really intended for my
 MS Word app and not for iTunes, the sidebar menu just appeared. To test

works I tried again the command and it 
 whether it really
 


just toggles to showing and hiding the sidebar menu.









A small icon located at the upper left corner of iTunes 11 can help 

bring back the Sidebar menu.





Before that happens, I’m looking for 

ways to turn everything back to normal on the Internet after the iTunes 
upgrade to version 11. But all of my efforts were futile. What I didn’t 

After clicking that icon, there’s an option to show the Menu bar. If you
notice is the small icon at the upper left corner of the iTunes 11 GUI. 
 choose that option by clicking or via Ctrl + B command, the top Menu 


bar will appear. If you will try to see what’s inside the View menu, you


 will find the “Show Sidebar” option that is also doable via Ctrl + S 


keyboard command similar to saving documents in most text or word

 processing software.




Though I’m not familiar with all the 

updates and changes made to iTunes, I really hate when developers tried 
to change how software looks or behaves. This could mean nightmares to 


 by software upgrades. A little notice will do or perhaps a pop-up 
mes
casual users like me not knowing how to cope up with the changes brough
tsage telling you that “we did something terrible that you might not 
be able to use this software again” so that you will know how to use the


 newer version.

Android & iOS

Hide It Pro Hides Files and Locks your Apps

There are many instances that my favorite game on my iPad 2 to disappear without a trace because it was accidentally deleted by my 3-year old son. It was a very frustrating experience finding out that my favorite game was gone. I even try to find ways to hide it on my tablet but there’s no simple way of doing it. Then I found this great app from Google Play Store that allows me to lock apps from being played. This app called Hide It Pro was originally developed for the Android users and is now available to Apple fans as well.

Developed by Anuj Tenani for both Android and iOS users, the app can hide your target files as well as lock the apps that you don’t want others to be playing too. This app is completely FREE and UNLIMITED version that has a rating of full 5 stars on the Google Play store that already reached 1 million downloads.

Once installed, this app was cleverly disguised as a fully functional “Audio Manager” that uses a different icon to misrepresent itself from prying eyes. But even they found out about it and ask for your unlock password, instead of giving the real unlock code you can hand them the ‘escape unlock code’. Using the escape unlock code to unlock the app, Hide It Pro will just display an empty window and will fulfill its promise of hiding all your secrets from everybody else.

You can hide different file types with Hide It Pro ranging from pictures, videos, audio files and even the contents of the entire folder. The app has a built-in file manager that will allow you to delete, hide or move your files from folder to folder. It also includes send/share functionality to easily share pictures and images with your friends. But that’s not all the app also allows you to view the files in a slideshow or gallery with Hold, Fade and Zoom effects.