Last year, Apple announced iCloud for storing all your iTunes music purchases “in the cloud,” making them available to all your devices wherever you have an Internet connection. Now Apple has taken this concept one step further with iTunes Match. iTunes Match is a paid service ($24.99 per year) that will store your entire music collection in iCloud. The neat trick is that for music you already own that matches a track that iTunes sells, you do not need to upload it. iTunes Match will simply see that your track matches one that they sell, and make it available to you on any cloud-ready device you use, such as your iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Macbook, etc. The benefit here is the time-savings from not having to upload gigabytes upon gigabytes of music. For a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up iTunes Match, read Dave Taylor.

Although taking a screenshot on an Apple iPhone is easy (simply simultaneously press the HOME and the POWER button), doing so on an Android phone is not. Some of the Android apps that take screenshots require you to root your phone. Those of us not willing to root our phones, are stuck with this rather cumbersome (but doable) procedure described in the following video using the free Android app No Root Screenshot It.

OpenDNS is a unique parental control system for the Internet that doesn’t just work on your computer. Once setup, it also will restrict access (according to your settings) for WiFi connected phones, gaming consoles and tablet computers. Gary Rosenzweig of MacMost.com explains how to use OpenDNS to implement parental Internet filtering in the following video.

The recent OS X Lion release for Mac computers no longer supports applications written for the PowerPC. Before upgrading, it is a good idea to check to see if this presents a problem for you or not. For details on how to do this, watch this video from Steve Loyola, of Mac Help for Mom.

Forget about cables or cloud servers! Cheetah Sync a free Android app, will wirelessly sync Android files with a folder on your Mac or Windows computer. Available for free from the Android App Market, just install it on your Android phone via a WIFI connection, and the app will email you download link for installing on your desktop. Then simply select a folder and press Sync! Ta dah!!!

Cheetah Sync will sync files from your Android to your desktop computer.

Do you hate waiting on hold for customer service? Now there’s an app for that! Simply download the free FastCustomer app for iPhone or Android, search for the company you want to reach, and click. That’s it! A customer service rep will call you back, and you will have saved yourself the agony of navigating phone trees and waiting on hold. The brand new app claims that they have already “saved people from spending 343,868 minutes on hold.” Wheee!!!

Although Apple has a policy of only letting you download a music purchase once, if you’ve had a hard disk crash and do not have a backup anywhere, there is a procedure for asking Apple to allow you to re-download all your purchases a second time. Anne Mitchell of The Internet Patrol explains how in this article.

Mac users who are tired of being a one-man tech support team for their moms, or any kind of Mac user that wants to learn more about their Mac computers, will love the easy to digest Mac lessons from Steve Loyola at MacHelpForMom.com. The site started as an easy way for Steve to help his Mom, but has blossomed into a great resource for Mac users everywhere.

Find My iPhone is a free app (for iOS 4.2) that allows you to track the location of your iPhone or iPad. If you lose your device, you can log into MobileMe, and play an alert (maybe it’s just fallen under the bed?) or lock the device with a four-digit PIN or even wipe all your data off the device, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Learn more at Lifehacker or Ask Dave Taylor.

Apple recently unveiled the long anticipated Apple iPad, and announced that the first models will be shipped in late March. Gizmodo describes the iPad as a smaller, thinner, lighter MacBookPro, with a unibody construction. Or, one could also call it, a bigger iPhone. With this announcement, Apple has also opened an ebook store called iBooks, to compete with Amazon and their Kindle.