The recession has led to a lot of changes. One of these is a search for new ways to earn revenue for the government. People who download music onto their MP3 players may soon see a tax on their downloads in addition to the amount they already pay. Governor David Paterson has put forward a proposal to levy what is now being termed as the iPod tax. The tax amounting to 4 percent on MP3 downloads is meant to ease the huge budget crisis on the government’s shoulders.
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iPod enthusiasts have yet another toy to consider buying – the Maranz Bluetooth Dock for iPod.This new product from Home Entertainment Peripheral Maker Maranz America may just become the rage among iPod peripherals. The model number is IS301, the price is $250 and the release…umm the bummer is that it is not in time for christmas. Yep the information right now is that the IS301 from Maranz is releasing in January.
Both Macbook and iPod prices were dropped by Apple on Black Friday.
There has been no drop in the iPhone price though. A sale website has also been unveiled this Friday. In fact the 13 inch Macbook is $101 cheaper. Now it cost just $1198. The white 13 inch Macbook is $51 cheaper.
The iPod Nano is cheaper by $11. The 8Gb and 16Gb are the ones which are cheaper. The 120 Gb iPod classics are $21 cheaper. The Apple TV is $21 cheaper. The 40 gb costs $208 and 16 Gb costs $308.
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You have the Nano in your hands, it’s like having the whole world of music in your hands. Although you have stylish entertainment at your fingertips, there is always the human desire for more. For such times, there are a number of Nano accessories that can spice up the experience you have with this wonderful device.
The headphones that come with the Nano are one part of this great product that can be even better. Get a new headphone from one of the many available out there. There are also a number of accessories that make your Nano experience huge. A Nano case will go a long way to sending out a style statement.
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In time, MySpace may build a device that competes with Apple’s popular iPod. This is what comes out from a hind dropped by Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace. Reuters reported this Friday that at the Web 2.0 summit in SF, DeWolfe said that such a device could possibly be developed by MySpace.
Currently though, the focus of DeWolfe’s company was to be the music service which incepted in September. The music industry is behind MySpace Music in a big way as Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group are involved.
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We’ve touched on this subject before, but we continue to receive a lot of requests about how to rip DVD movies to iPod Touch format. It’s quite an easy process if you have the right tools. We recommend you checkout the iSofter DVD to iPod Ripper.
Your first step of course is to download the software. A free trial version is available if you want to try it out before you pay any cash for it. After you’ve downloaded, installed and run the software, you will input the DVD into your hard drive that you want to rip.
The software should automatically recognize the DVD and then prompt you to start the conversion process. You can either do it the easy way with one-click ripping (using the default settings) OR you can select the individual chapters or episodes you want to rip to iPod format.
Once you have made your mind up, click the convert button and go grab a snack. It will take a little bit of time to get the entire movie converted. Once complete, you just have to use iTunes to upload to your iPod Touch. That’s it. It really is that simple.
10 percent of iPod users may not be able to enjoy music anymore
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More than an hour a day of listening to your MP3 music may be harmful for your ears. This is the finding of a group of scientists. The EU Scientific Committee on emergin health risks studied MP3 usage. They found that using the iPod for an hour a day for five years could make one in ten listeners deaf.
The problem is not the listening to music but listening to it too loud. The limit on MP3 players in Europe is 100 decibels, however even a sound of 89 decibels regularly listened to is devastating to the ears. In tune with these findings, Britains Royal National Institute for Deaf People has a “Don’t Lose The Music” campaign.
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In the announcements of the T3 technology awards by the British magazing, iPod Touch has swept the awards. It has won 4 of the prizes. It has also won gadget of the year. It edged out the Asus Eee Pc budget laptop, Sony’s HDR TG3 compact camcorder as well as six other devices. According to T3 editor Michael Brook, style and usability are well taken care of in this great gadget.
Although Mp3 players were not pioneered by Apple, the iPod is the best there is in the genre. The iPhone won an award for best commuter gadget. The iPod Touch 32 gb won the best music gadget. More than 54000 votes were cast to pick 11 prizes. Some of the gadgets were picked for award by T3. The ceremony took place in Park Lane, London, Thurday.
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The iPhone has a number of security flaws. According to Israeli researcher Raff, the technical details have been disclosed to Apple weeks before a post in his blog. His concern was that the security issues should get fixed as soon as possible. Now, even after two and a half months, there has been no patching of these issues. He had asked Apple for a schedule many times but was given no dates.
One flaw is the flaw in URL display. This allows an attacker to send a message with a malicious URL that looks real. Generally all you need to do is hover the link and you get a tooltip which will tell you the real URL you will click. In the iPhone, only after clicking the link for a few seconds would you get the tooltip. With the smaller iPhone screen, long URL’s are cut off.
iTunes 8 and the iPod is now to become easily usable for those without eyesight. Apple is working with Massachusetts to use technology from the Mac OS X, specifically voiceover technology. This is to be pointed in an effort to make the iPod and iTunes systems easily usable by the visually handicapped.
Even earlier Apple had been making efforts to make the iPod usable by the blind. Closed captioning for the iPod and Apple TV as well as voiceover and Braille support for the OS X have been put into action. However Apple is going further in it’s effort to make the iPod accessible to the blind.
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SingStand, a portable microphone speaker system was introduced on Thursday by Memorex. It has been designed with the iPod in mind. In fact it hits Walmart this November. Priced at $69.99, it is sure to make you want to Karaoke. A Microphone and full size integrated mike stand are part of the package. With two four inch speakers sounding the singers voice out loud, this device works with any device that comes with a 3.5 mm headphone jack which includes your iPod.
A new and environmentally friendly sound system is available for the iPod. This time it is greener than ever. Vers has come out with a sustainably designed wood sound system. Bamboo is it’s most recent addition. Lets have some facts about Bamboo. It grows extremely fast, can be finished by hand as well as harvested by it and looks stunning. One more thing, bamboo is a kind of grass!
David Laituri says that the most sustainable and renewable wood material on the planet is Bamboo. It sounds very natural in combination with 3/8 inch thick cabinet walls. The response to Bamboo has been great and has left the company happy. Although Natural Cherry, Dark Walnut and Natural Walnut were popular as well, customers have been seeking Bamboo out very actively.
There seems to be a flaw in the iPhone that allows unauthorized users gain access. This is the latest in what has developed into an embarrassing sequence of glitches. This flaw allows unauthorized users gain access to private contacts as well as emails even when the iphone is locked. This flaw can be misused only by people who have the device in their hand. Gizmodo disclosed this flaw recently.
In an email Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock acknowledged the malfunction. She said that Apple was aware of the bug and would deliver a fix in the next software update. When the next software update was likely was not mentioned.
Ok, the heading was just a teaser, but it is true that many athletes are using the iPod as a part of their routine. Simon Whitfield, the Olympic triathlete listens to music on his iPod at 5 am. When at the course, it is Jason Mraz’ music for him. It is his way of chilling out. Whitfield incidentally won a silver in the triathlon. His iPod is an important part of his pre race routine, just like many other artists.
Workman is a favorite artist of Whitman. Sports psychologist for the Canadian canoe/kayak team, Penny Werthner says music serves two purposes for athletes. It helps athletes avoid distractions as well as psyches them up for the competition.
One major issue many users have faced with the 2.0.x version of the software in the iPhone is sometime the phone does not go beyond the Apple logo while booting. If you have applied an update to the application via iTunes or on the iPhone, the phone may spontaneously reboot and get stuck during the process. Hundreds of people have had this issue. If you are hit by this glitch all you can do is an iPhone full restore. Hold the Home button down. Plug it into the USB cable or dock and and when the special screen is displayed then release the Home button.
iTunes will then inform you that it has found a phone in recovery mode and then the process of restoring your iPhone begins. The first step will be a reinstall of the OS by iTunes. Then the applications will be restored and then the data can be synced back to the iPhone. This annoying bug has been a part of the 2.0 version of the software and has found a place in the 2.0.1 update as well….sigh.
Just when you start to think that what else could you do with your iPod, Apple comes out with an answer. Gone are the days of just listening to music or watching videos its time to play ‘Ball’. Literally! Recently, Gameloft released Mystery Mansion Pinball for the iPod. Priced at $4.99, the fame is available for download from the iTunes store.
Apart from the fact that you can play it on your iPod, one thing this Pinball game differs from the rest in is in the sort of features it has. You are brought to a haunted house in Mystery Mansion Pinball where you encounter the likes of creatures like Vampira to the Frankenstein’s monster etc. All this while you keep a pinball going through a B-movie game. Amongst other options, the game has high-scoring chutes, bumpers and lots more.
Good news for Apple lovers! On Tuesday evening, Apple announced that it has finally managed to get rid of the bugs and kinks that have plagued the MobileMe since its launch nearly three weeks ago. Apple also said that it now aims to improve other areas of the service.
The Cupertino-based company said that it has succeeded in mail restoration. For nearly two weeks, owing to a mail server crash, one percent of users had been locked out of their email accounts. They can now happily access their mails. In the beginning, Apple had feared that it had actually lost some subscribers emails owing to the crash but thankfully an update on the issue posted on official MobileMe status page reveals that these emails have been successfully recovered and shall soon start appearing in their inboxes.
In less than a week since its release, Apple’s iPhone 3G has hackers trying to break open it’s supposedly full proof system. iPhone Dev Team, which is a group of hackers, has over the weekend released a ‘jailbreak’ software for the iPhone 3G. It allows iPhone 3G users to install those applications on their handsets that are not approved by Apple.
Pwnage Tool 2.0, as the software has been dubbed allows users to charter their way through an iPhone or iPod touch that has a firmware version 2.0. What it does is remove all those software controls that Apple has put in place in order to restrict users from installing independent applications. The iPhone Dev Team was quick to clarify that these softwares which are not available through the Apple’s Application Store can run alongside Apple-approved programs. Read more… »
In this competitive day and age where everybody is fighting to grab your attention, electronic gadgets too are a part of the rat race. With new technologies bursting in on the scene by the second, it becomes difficult for the common man to decide what the right choices are. In the case of the iPod touch and iPhone too there is an influx of compatible applications available. Below is a brief description of the best of the lot.
For all those who like to listen to the radio, the AOL Radio is a great application as it allows you to stream over 200 radio stations, including local stations, covering 20 music genres. For book lovers, the eReader allows you to download books bought at the eponymous site and flip the pages by a mere finger swipe. Included for free in this application are two public-domain books. Keeping you up-to-date with the current happenings in the world is the NYTimes which is literally the New York Times in the palm of your hand. Read more… »
Not only is the iPod the most popular MP3 player in demand but the sort of accessories it can be teamed up with has created a niche market for iPod compatible gadgets. From twin docking stations to alarm clocks and audio systems, the iPod is ruling the roost. Leading the race to come up with the most innovative ways of integrating the iPod is iHome.
And their latest offering to the iPod is as good as it gets. The new iHome Audio computer speakers are furnished with iPod synching and charging dock facilities. Compatible with your PC and Mac, these 15 Watt speakers have an in-built dock for your iPod touch, Nano, iPhone or iPod. Now you can play and sync your iPod with iTunes even when it is docked at the base of the speakers and getting charged. The speakers come with a sync switch, headphone jack for personal listening, volume controls and also a remote control. These are available at your local market for a retail price of $149.99. Read more… »
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