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by Cher K Markov
iPod...An ultra-portable digital music player that enables you to bring your music collection with you, wherever you go. It provides you the flexibility that you crave for. Listen to music in the bus while traveling, when taking a jog, at the gym, and even when you are at work. No more heavy baggage of CD's. The iPod weighs just a few grams and you can load over 10,000 songs in it. It comes with varied storage capacity options.
It was in the year 2001; Apple introduced the ipod with a memory of 5 GB. It was the memory which never heard of then. The latest i.e., the 5th generation iPod was introduced in October 2005 with 30 and 60 GB sizes. It can play songs, movies and photo slideshows, and with the recent one you can store up to 60 GB of any type of file you want.
Apple has continuously made innovations in its product. The current generation of iPod players includes:
*iPod shuffle which has 1-GB capacity. The only problem is that it can play songs but display is not available. *iPod nano which can play digital audio and display digital photos. Its available in 2, 4 and 8GB storage
iTunes is the integrated media-player software that comes along with an iPod. Its installed on the computer/laptop with which one can use for organizing, playing, converting and downloading files from an external source to the computer and even from the computer to an iPod.
The iTunes Store lets iPod users purchase music, movies, podcasts, audiobooks and music videos with a click. The Store offers 3.5 million songs, tens of thousands of podcasts, 3,000 music videos and 20,000 audiobooks, as well as TV shows, feature films and iPod video games. One can directly watch or listen to the files through iTunes on the computer and download them to the iPod.
The Click Wheel is easy to navigate. Its very fun to select playlists, scroll through artists, and select the song. Even a child can do it playfully. Apples iPod is the best portable digital music experience possible with highest sound quality possible. Some of the notable features include:
Digital Audio: You can have access to 20,000 songs in 80-GB iPod whereas for 30 GB model iPod, one can store up to 7,500 songs. It supports MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC, Apple Lossless and Audible 2,3 and 4 audio files.
Digital Video: The 80-GB version can hold up to 100 hours digital quality video. It supports H.264 and MPEG-4 files as well as MOV files which can be converted to iPod video through the iTunes software.
Digital Photos: The 80-GB iPod can store up to 25,000 photos. The important feature of the iPod is that it can support files which are converted from JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG and PSD. You can download your photos to the iPod from both Mac iPhoto and Windows Adobe Photoshop Elements/Album.
Other Uses of iPod: *Functions as handy hard disk, carrying all types of files for computers. *Calendar/contacts syncing *Download and create games *Car integration with iPod player into the sound system.
Rather than buying the iTalk for 40 USD, you can install a program called Podzilla on your iPod and use a regular old microphone to record high quality audio. All iPods, except for the shuffle, come with calendaring functionality built in, so you can sync your desktop calendar to your iPod and keep track of where youre supposed to be and when if youre out and about. Using Griffins Total Remote Software and IR device, you can set up your iPod as a remote for any number of devices, including your TV, DVD player, Xbox, and Roomba.
The best notable feature of Apples iPod is that it can work with both Mac and Windows machines.
So with a 30GB or 80GB iPod in hand, one can enjoy music, movies, TV shows, iPod games, podcasts, audiobooks, photo albums, and, of course an entire library of music. In other words, iPod is a pocket-size prodigy.
You can continuously listen to the iPod songs up to 20 hours. Or else, if you want to watch movies and TV shows you can have the nonstop entertainment up to six-and-a-half hours.
On the whole, iPod can give you a non-stop entertainment of 20,000 songs, 25,000 photos, and 100 hours of video -- or any combination of each. Thus its aptly said with iPod in hand one can enjoy the whole world as a theater.
Cher K Markov articles on various subjects and has a treasure chest of information and resources on iPod at http://ipod.onlinedownloads.org and http://online-downloads.blogspot.com
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Create a playlist on the fly...Your iPod offers an On-the-Go feature for creating a playlist while away from your computer. Highlight a song in one of the music menus, then hold down the Select button until its name flashes, indicating that it's been added to the On-the-Go playlist. You can access this via the main Playlists menu.
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Safari: Stopping a scroll. After flicking a page to get it to scroll, you can tap the page at any time to stop that movement. Don�t forget, you can also manually drag the screen display to reset the part you�re viewing.
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Pac attack...Thanks to iPodMAME, you can play Pac-Man on your iPod. This hack will install a version of MAME, the arcade game emulator program, on your iPod. As with the Wikipedia hack, iPodMAME requires that you first install iPod Linux. The program comes with romsets (the set of files including all the game data) including one for Pac-Man. PodMAME should work with any iPod with a colour screen.
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Use Favorites and Recents for More Than Calls Favorites and Recents are part of the iPhone's main Phone screen; Favorites is the iPhone's version of frequently called numbers, and Recents is a list of the numbers of people you've called recently and calls you've missed. You can tap on any number in these lists to place a call quickly. But this is not just a phone feature: Assuming that a number or name in Favorites or Recents belongs to a mobile phone, you can also send it an SMS message. Just tap on the right angle bracket (>) icon next to the contact name or number, and then tap on the Text Message button at the bottom of the contact listing.
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