Senuti
Encyclopedia
Senuti is a Mac OS X
computer application written by Whitney Young. It was released on April 19, 2006 for copying songs from an iPod
to a Macintosh
computer running Mac OS X 10.3
or later. According to FadingRed, the company that sells and distributes Senuti, it has been downloaded over 2 million times.
exclusive application - no version of Senuti has been released for Microsoft Windows
. It can be downloaded as a free demo with which you can transfer 1000 songs from an Ipod. The unlimited version is available for around US $20.
community to help him write the code. Senuti is now sold by a software company called FadingRed, of which Young is co-founder and lead developer.
Senuti was originally released as GNU GPL software, the code following the 0.50.2 release was changed to payware in February of 2009, although publications such as Wired still referred to the product as Open Source code as late as April 2009. . The older, GPL'd version of this software an still be found at http://wstein.org/senuti/.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
computer application written by Whitney Young. It was released on April 19, 2006 for copying songs from an iPod
IPod
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
to a Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
computer running Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X v10.3
Mac OS X Panther is the fourth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" and preceded Mac OS X Tiger...
or later. According to FadingRed, the company that sells and distributes Senuti, it has been downloaded over 2 million times.
Description
Senuti is an application for transferring files, such as songs and videos, from an iPod or iPhone back to a Macintosh computer. It is a Mac OS XMac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
exclusive application - no version of Senuti has been released for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
. It can be downloaded as a free demo with which you can transfer 1000 songs from an Ipod. The unlimited version is available for around US $20.
History
Senuti was developed by Whitney Young, who started as a high school senior searching for a way to transfer music from his iPod onto a Mac computer. Upon realizing that a good solution did not exist, Whitney wrote one himself. He leveraged the developers in the open sourceOpen source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
community to help him write the code. Senuti is now sold by a software company called FadingRed, of which Young is co-founder and lead developer.
Senuti was originally released as GNU GPL software, the code following the 0.50.2 release was changed to payware in February of 2009, although publications such as Wired still referred to the product as Open Source code as late as April 2009. . The older, GPL'd version of this software an still be found at http://wstein.org/senuti/.