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iPods – Confused? Find Out the Differences Between All the Versions

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Getting Christmas gifts for your tween or teen can sometimes seem like a major hassle, but you can trust that iPods are always something that they can look forward to. Christmas 2010 will see new versions of iPods that are sure to fly off the shelves. this article will tell you what is out there, and if your teen will absolutely love the iPod.

iPod Classic

The now sixth generation Apple iPod classic has the best features out there, especially when compared to earlier models. It remains the mp3 player to beat on the market, and you can get 160GB of hard drive space, which means space enough for tens of thousands of songs If your teen loves music and wants to carry all of it around with them, this is ideal. you can get it for about $250.

iPod Nano

Christmas 2010 sees the new sixth generation iPod Nano coming out, providing a sleeker design than you’ve seen before. you can get 16GB or 8GB varieties of this device. These colors can all be chosen for your particular Nano:

* Blue

* Green

* Orange

* Pink

* Silver

* Graphite

You can charge up the Nano and play it for 24 hours straight, and the latest version is smaller and lighter than ever. you can take it with you wherever you go, it even fits in a pocket. this Nano variety works a lot like the Shuffle (which I cover below), but there is a touch screen on it now. you can get it for about $150.

iPod Touch

This device is now the cream of the crop, featuring a lot of iPhone features, basically being an iPhone without the phone feature. you can get them in hard drive capacities from 8GB to 64GB, and they are as cheap as $200. Therefore, you can store most of your music on it, but there are a lot of music lovers who want to be able to carry their entire music library around.

You can play the iPod Touch for almost 40 hours straight, and there are several features with it. you can watch movies and shows on it, get online, use the vast app library that the iPhone comes with, and even use instant messaging and camera features

iPod Shuffle

The now fourth generation iPod Shuffle comes in a variety of colors, including pink, silver, orange, blue, and green. you can store 2GB on it, and it is extremely small and portable, making it the perfect version to take with you to the gym. There is no screen on it, so you don’t need to look at it to work it. the small size makes it perfect for carrying, and one charge holds 15 hours of power. you don’t have to pay more than $50 to get this budget-minded, affordable iPod option.

Which iPod Is the Best Choice?

No matter what version of iPod you decide on, your teen or tween will love it. For the best fit, you want to figure out what they value most – a lot of disk space, a small physical size, or features like downloadable apps. If you want them to have all the bells and whistles, then the best choice is the iPod Touch, which of course is the most expensive. so if you’re looking for something that’s a little less pricey, consider getting him or her the iPod Shuffle.

iPods – Confused? Find Out the Differences Between All the Versions

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EETimes.com – Xbox controller cuts gaming cord

admin — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:00:38 +0000

For around $50 retail, the Xbox 360 wireless controller represents one of several means by which Microsoft Corp. hopes to blunt the loss generated with every Xbox 360 console sale. Software titles may represent the mainstay for positive cash flow, but hardware accessories play a role, too.

Given that the $299 retail Core Xbox 360 system (console, no hard drive and only one wired controller) has an estimated cost-of-goods of more than $310, there can be little doubt that once other business costs and retail margin are accounted for, there is a financial hole to fill. it seems the gaming-industry model of consoles as a vehicle for future cash rather than standalone profits remains intact.

We’ll try to cover the console in a later column but will start here with a really practical adjunct to the Xbox 360 environment: the wireless controller. With game-playing kids around, the risk of tripping on a stray controller cord is very real. and for those sick of cables in all forms, any chance to unwire and tidy things up is welcome.

The Xbox 360 wireless controller is designed with the same smooth-flowing shape that characterizes its wired equivalent. only an underside bulge created from the snap-on battery pack in the wireless version differentiates these otherwise identical twins. within the battery pack, two AA cells power things up. to further enhance the potential accessory spend, a socket on the front is available for plugging in an optional charger and nickel-metal-hydride battery pack. A second jack on the backside allows for a plug-in headset. while any standard headset will work, an official Xbox 360 headset available for the truly accessory-crazed.

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Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:00:18 +0000

I have the Ipod 30 gb 5th generation…and the hard drive is damaged….lol like completley smashed…(Skateboarding accident) the screen click wheel and chips inside are all perfect..i just get the sad face of death which means bad hard drive…so my question is if i buy a 60 gb hdd will it fit in the case of the 30gb ipod?

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Microsoft to launch smaller Xbox 360 game console | VentureBeat

slacker — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:00:11 +0000

Microsoft said it will launch a smaller Xbox 360 video game console today in a move to lower its costs and compete head to head against smaller machines from Nintendo and Sony.

That move was expected. But the surprise is that it will be available in stores right away, as early as tomorrow, for $299. it comes with a 250-gigabyte hard disk and 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking. that price is the same price as the current Xbox 360 with a 160-gigabyte hard drive.

Sony launched its revamped PlayStation 3 Slim last fall to great success. Previously, Sony had a big and costly box that it started selling in 2006. But it streamlined the electronics inside the box and learned how to make the same components smaller without sacrificing any of their performance. that helped lower the cost, power consumption, and physical size of the components. This is one of the critical moves that we anticipated in our story on the state of the video game console war.

Microsoft wasn’t nearly as aggressive as Sony in making a smaller console. it has been using the same size box since it launched the Xbox 360 in 2005, even though it has redesigned the motherboard (the main circuit board) and its chips several times. By keeping the console size the same, Microsoft was able to benefit from economies of scale in making the same device over and over again in the tens of millions. it also avoided retooling costs. But it didn’t capitalize on the savings that could result with a smaller box.

Apparently the time has come to make that smaller box. We noted earlier that the company was working on a chip code-named Valhalla, which would combine the graphics chip and microprocessor inside the same chip, lowering costs.

Nintendo, meanwhile, already has the smallest box, since its console is relatively simple and doesn’t support high-definition graphics. Try as they might, neither Sony nor Microsoft will ever be able to match the lowest production costs of the Wii. still, this is a necessary step for Microsoft to make.

It also has benefits for consumers, whose living rooms are getting overloaded with set-top boxes of various kinds. and in Japanese homes, where physical space is at a premium, it makes sense to have products be as small as possible. the new box will likely position Microsoft to make further price cuts. in August and September of last year, Sony and Microsoft shaved $100 off the price of their mainstay units, while Nintendo cut its price by $50. to date, the consoles in this generation of hardware have been priced higher at this point of the sales cycle than they’ve ever been in previous generations.

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a cookie is a small amount of information that a web site copies onto your hard drive. MMS uses cookies to improve performance by remembering that you are logged in when you go from page to page. If the cookie cannot be set correctly, then MMS cannot determine whether you are logged in and a new session will be created for each page you visit. This slows the system down. therefore, you must accept the MMS cookie to use the system.

What Gets Stored in a Cookie?

MMS only stores a session ID in the cookie, no other information is captured.

In general, only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a web site, can be stored in a cookie. For example, the site cannot determine your email name unless you choose to type it. Allowing a web site to create a cookie does not give that or any other site access to the rest of your computer, and only the site that created the cookie can read it.

please read our privacy policy for more information about data collected on this site.

Setting your browser to accept cookies

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You have cookie notification switched on in your browser and you did not accept the cookie set request. to remedy this, hit your browser’s Back button and try again, accepting the cookie this time.
You have cookies disabled in your browser. You need to reset your browser to accept cookies or to ask you if you want to accept cookies. For information on cookies and Netscape Navigator you can go to the Netscape cookie page. For Internet Explorer, go to information about cookies from Microsoft.
Your browser does not support cookies. See whether your browser accepts cookies.
Very important: Check the date on your computer. If your computer’s clock shows a date before 1 Jan 1970 then the browser will automatically forget the cookie. to fix this, simply set the correct time and date on your computer.
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cd to ipod transfer | CD COLLECTION

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:26 +0000

cd to ipod transfer

How do i transfer music from a cd to my ipod?

i have already transfered my music in to itunes, but how do i transfer the itunes onto the ipod?

Use iTunes. put the CD in and it will appear in iTunes and you’ll be asked if you want to import it to your library. After importing plug in your iPod and it will synch up automatically.

Amaze yourself – Download your Audio Books from your Hard Drive to your Ipod

If you have iTunes software installed on your computer, upon inserting the CD with your audio files on it, into your computer, all audio files will automatically upload onto your hard drive. However, due to certain restrictions, known as DRM (digital restrictions management), should you download any audio book directly from a site on the Internet, there is a slightly different process involved.

Passwords are required in order to first use digital audio files under DRM, after which they will have to be opened and a short process to ascertain legality completed for you to copy them.

Burn your audio files from the computer’s hard disk onto a blank CD, then, without ejecting it, open iTunes. Transfer the contents of your CD by clicking on “Import CD” which can be found by accessing “Devices”, then “Audio CD” (situated to the left of the monitor).

Although the names of some of your audio files appear when transferred, many do not in which case place the cursor on the file e.g. Track 1, right click, and choose “Get Info”. this will provide you with enough information to rename the track with a more easily recognisable name.

After you have renamed each audio file, start a fresh “Playlist” for them and drag and drop the ones you want into it. this will make it easier to access them when using an iPod.

If your iPod is set to Automatic Synchronisation, upon connecting it to your computer, all audio files, complete with Playlist and titles will routinely be copied onto it. if your iPod is set to Manual, on the other hand, you will have to select those audio files you wish to transfer and then select “Synchronise” in order to transfer them across. this Manual method is advantageous in the sense that you might not wish to transfer all the files together at that time, so can choose the ones you want and only transfer those.

Zipping large audio files is a good way to save space and can be transferred effortlessly to a portable hard drive for storage or as a backup. in this way, they do not slow down your laptop and can be easily accessed by unzipping them and then downloading them to another location. Alternatively, you can hear them straight from your computer’s hard drive.

Similarly, as books take up space in your home on shelves, audio books take up space on your computer hard drive. Therefore it’s advisable to set up a special storage device for them.

Naturally the greatest advantage of audio files over actual books made from paper is that you can take your entire collection with you on a portable disk drive ‘ wherever you go to enjoy whenever you want. And now that you’ve learned how to copy your files to an iPod, you have the freedom to do exactly that!

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How can i download free new movie releases on the internet,.???

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:00:09 +0000

im trying to download some movies,is there a specific program i must have to do this,.
i would like to record them on a c.d not,.my hard drive,..

How can i download free new movie releases on the internet,.???

Why I Hate the Xbox 360 Elite — and You Should Too

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:00:27 +0000

Ill come right out and say it just so that theres no confusion about my overall feeling for the Xbox 360 Elite: I hate the Xbox 360 Elite. The entire third model and strategy behind it is nothing more than a gigantic slap in the face of the gaming community at large. It insults the intelligence of everyone with at least an ounce of sense in their heads.

Looking at the hardware itself, Microsoft has done an ample job convincing a lot of gamers that the 360 Premium is worth $399, and nobodys really questioning it at this point in time. Even skeptical consumers like me tossed down the $399 required to go premium for an Xbox 360, and came away quite impressed. Most of us thought that what we were buying was the best of the best in terms of packages that were offered by Microsoft. sure, maybe in the future, Microsoft would release an updated version of the premium system with a few extras here and there to entice new buyers, like a bigger hard drive and an HDMI port eventually. That was fair. That made sense.

This new version being fair for gamers is quite debatable at this point in time. We already know that it doesnt make sense. this new version is nothing more than necessary changes being price-gouged from those who would like these features. Black casing and accessories, a bigger hard drive, and the inclusion of an HDMI port and cable do not justify a $479 price tag. In fact, it doesnt really warrant a price increase. These inclusions probably cost Microsoft next to nothing to implement in their existing Xbox 360 Premium. make no mistake that is exactly what they did.

After trying to wrap my head around this for several weeks, off and on, I still cannot for the life of me understand why Microsoft decided it necessary to implement a third version of the Xbox 360 to add features that should have just been added to the existing 360 Premium. For a company that wants to be the leader in the game industry, Microsoft is doing absolutely everything it can to splinter their users and screw over practically everybody who becomes a customer. this mistake is just the latest in a very, very long series of blunders and poor decisions from Microsoft.

Dont get me wrong Im not picking on Microsoft for wanting to make money. Far from it, actually. Making a profit is the name of the game. Nobody wants to work for negative income. I think just about everyone can agree that this seems to be a bit of an extreme way to recoup losses, though. this is certainly not the way to do it.

Heres a question Id like you to keep in mind as you read the rest of this article:

Who is Microsoft trying to appeal to with the 360 Elite?

Really, sit down and look at the 360 Elite and all of the other projects theyre doing. see if you can figure it out.

Microsoft has made it very clear that theyd like to rip you off earn your money from content on Xbox Live Marketplace via a subscription that most pay for on top of this content. So to that end, a 14GB 20GB hard drive isnt nearly enough space to make that a convenient task for its users. When you start downloading high-definition stuff, 20GB starts getting very laughable, very fast. An easy solution here is to offer a larger capacity hard drive for sale for as low a price as you possibly can, and to introduce that same drive in all of the new 360 Premium editions you sell. After all, theyd like as many people as possible to get in on this whole downloadable content thing. one would think thats the real reason they included a hard drive with the 360 Premium in the first place. while theyre at it, they might as well add an HDMI port for people with fairly new HDTVs to enjoy that high-definition content that theyd like consumers to buy on the Marketplace.

Why I Hate the Xbox 360 Elite — and You Should Too

iPod Comparisons and Reviews

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:00:10 +0000

The iPod is a portable media player designed and marketed by Apple and launched on October 23, 2001. the product line-up includes the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touch screen iPod Touch, the video-capable iPod Nano, and the compact iPod Shuffle. the iPhone can function as an iPod but is generally treated as a separate product. former iPod models include the iPod Mini and the spin-off iPod Photo.

iPod Classic models store media on an internal hard drive, while all other models use flash memory to enable their smaller size . as with many other digital music players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2GB for the iPod Shuffle to 160GB for the iPod Classic.

Here we take a funny journey through wholesale iPod MP3 Players.

iPod nano brings video to your music with the new built-in video camera. Additionally, it was updated to have FM radio, voice recorder, and pedometer.And for that extra kick: a larger screen and a polished aluminum finish in nine electrifying colors. it shows a larger 2.2 inch screen.

Its the video camera thats small enough to take with you everywhere. the video camera can record in either portrait or landscape. it also includes 15 special effects including mirror, sepia, and motion blur.

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The iPod Touch feels even better in your hand thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel. And now a built-in speaker lets you hear the music, dialogue, and action without headphones, perfect for casual listening.iPod touch features the same multi-touch screen technology as iPhone. Brilliant 3.5-inch widescreen display. Watch your movies, TV shows, and slideshows come alive with bright, vivid color on the 320-by-480-pixel display. Music downloads straight from iTunes.

Games for iPod touch are made to take advantage of its built-in technologies such as the accelerometer, Multi-Touch, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth wireless technology. the result is truly immersive gameplay – whether youre playing alone or with others in multiplayer mode.

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With 160GB of storage, iPod classic is the take-everything-everywhere iPod. With 160GB of storage, iPod classic gives your music and video room to move and lets you enjoy up to 40,000 songs or up to 200 hours of video wherever you go.

Now with Cover Flow. Browse through your music and video collection by flipping through album art. Select an album to turn it over and see the track list.

Beautiful, durable, and sleeker than ever, iPod classic now features an anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel enclosure with rounded edges.

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