You have heard it all over—Apples iPod Video is the best video player there is. You dont question it anymore because a lot of people claim it is so. But is it, really? Not quite. That honor rightfully belongs to Zen Vision, a Creative Labs product. Zen Vision is every good thing iPod Video is, and more. The size of the screen for video playback in Zen vision is a whopping 3.7 high-resolution screen, which is a lot of steps ahead of the iPod Videos 2.5 screen. On paper, 1.2 may not seem to be such a huge difference, but it really does matter once you are in front of the screen.
Aside from that, Creative Lab players—in which the Zen Vision is included—have something very useful that iPod players dont have—a feature that allows listening to and recording FM radio. In this way, you can catch up on your favorite radio shows any time you want. Creative Lab players also have
August 7th, 2010 | Posted in iPod | No Comments
Apple recently surprised the market with its new iPod video, also know as the last generation of iPods. This powerful new gadget doesn’t just play music; it plays videos and photos as well and serves to be an all-in-one portable entertainment platform for the market. The new video function is a great addition but many owners will require some technical help to put videos into the iPod.
Firstly, you should know that the iPod can play H.264 / MPEG-4 encoded videos with AAC audio tracks. Due to this fact, the resolution is rather limited, together with the limitation of the bit rates that you can use on the device.
For the new iPod video, this limits means (for the H.264 video) up to up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 and 30 frames per second. For the MPEG-4 video, the limits are up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480 and the same 30 frames per second. Even more, the AAC audio bit
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Your iPod could certainly be the target of those malicious eyes roaming around in public places. And if you have been the quite so unlucky chosen one, then you would certainly not be having a grand day after you do find out that your iPod has been snatched out of your sight or has been sleighted to the hands of some other person.
There are plenty of ways of keeping your iPod safe and sound and out of harm’s way. One of these would be this cute little iPod cases which adoringly look like simple tins of candy.
These cute and nifty iPod cases are actually lovingly dubbed as the iDisguise and sure enough, it does disguise your favorite musical and audio gadget so that other people would not take notice of it. Who would want to go after a tin can of mint or peppermint for that matter?
There is no clever idea behind how you would actually use the iDisguise fo
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From rock music to pop to classical, nothing beats the iPod in its functionality. A cute little gadget that has turned the music world on its head, the iPod is set to storm yet another bastion â your car audio. After all, it is natural for you to want to listen to music, as a music lover, anywhere and everywhere and that includes your car. This article is about how to hook on your iPod to your car audio, freeing you from those pesky earphones that bite into your ears if put on for too long, and add the thumping power of your car audio speakers to your music.
Using your iPod thus frees you from the shackles of conventional CDs and tapes since it allows you to download music in unlimited quantity from the internet. You can thus harness the explosive power of music software to enhance your listening experience. The free music software that comes bundled with the iPod
August 6th, 2010 | Posted in iPod | No Comments
iPod is a digital mp3 / mp4 player developed and marketed by Apple Inc., an American consumer electronics multinational corporation. During their research, Apple found that in comparison to available camcorders, digital cameras, and organizers; digital music players recorded poor sales, primarily due to their awful user interfaces. Apple wanted to do something about it and so Jon Rubinstein, Apple’s hardware engineering chief brought together a team comprising of Tony Fadell (who dreamed of a hard disk based music player), Michael Dhuey (hardware engineer), Jonathan Ive (design engineer), and Stan Ng (marketing manager). In less than a year, they designed a hard disk based music player, that had a 5 GB hard drive and capable of storing 1000 songs.
Apple’s iTunes software is utilized to operate the iPod (m3 / mp4 player). The software is compatible with
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