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October 16, 2006
The iPod is a deeply personal device. The music, contacts, calendars and notes you store on it reveal a lot about your personality. From playcounts to playlists, our iPods can tell others what we enjoy, how we think and even who we are. But if you truly want to transform your iPod into an engine of ...
October 11, 2006
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October 10, 2006
Following Apple’s burgeoning relationship with car manufacturers, iPod integration in new cars is becoming far more common.
BMW has announced a new iPod interface that supports all current BMW and Mini models unsupported by the company’s original in-car solution. BMW introduced iPod support in J...
October 09, 2006
A host of iPod speakers have emerged in recent weeks, ranging from retro to futuristic.
SpeckTone Retro Docking iPod Speaker System
This fifties retro system costs £119, and is available in the UK from iWorld. It integrates an iPod dock, a wooden cabinet, and illuminated front volume-knob – as...
October 05, 2006
The Queen, David Bowie, Bono, Posh and Becks and Ronan Keating all have something in common: they’re iPod owners. We know for sure that Apple is the world’s leading MP3 player vendor – the tell-tale white headphones are everywhere – but who are iPod users?
Recent demographic data from Entertainme...
October 04, 2006
The iPod
While the company failed to launch the rumoured touch screen iPod, wireless-capable iPod or iPod phone, it did produce significant updates to its market-leading media player. The new iPods offer larger capacities (30GB, £189; 80GB, £259), 60 per cent brighter screens (which can be set to...
October 03, 2006
Apple has updated iTunes, ushering in the seventh generation of its popular digital media-management software. iTunes 7 offers a host of features seemingly inspired by user requests, including true –and automated – gapless playback, which also extends to the burning of albums from iTunes to a CD. Ad...
September 26, 2006
1. Wired or wireless hi-fi connection
MP3’s are no longer just ‘on-the-move’ thing. There are now ways to play music stored on your computer through your existing hi-fi. The simplest way is via an analogue connection – using a 3.5mm – jack-to-phono cable.
This can be done either straight fro...
September 12, 2006
Rechargeable lithium-based technology currently provides the best performance for your iPod. You can also find this standard battery technology in devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. Like other rechargeable batteries, these batteries may eventually require replacement.
Standard Technology
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September 08, 2006
Travel was a way of magnifying even the smallest mistakes. Forget that little VGA adaptor, and your entire presentation could be sunk. Forget that extra battery, and your laptop could die at the least opportune time. The fewer details you have to remember (or, as the case may be, forget) before, dur...
September 07, 2006
Playing video isn’t the strong suit of either Apple’s new iPod or Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). The iPod is primarily a music player, and the PSP is primarily a video-game system. But both play video as well, so it may be beneficial to compare the two, to see what (if anything) Apple can learn ...
September 05, 2006
While the iMac G5's software interface for multimedia – Front Row – is new to the Mac platform. Windows users have had similar tools – in Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition – for a couple of years now. Is it possible that, as Front Row matures, it could learn a thing or two from Windows?
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September 04, 2006
You don’t need to be a musician to use iPod’s new virtual studio GarageBand. It would be possible to construct a song entirely out of the hundreds of loops carried in the software (plus more add-ons called Jam Packs).
This is just what its designers, Apple intended – a music making program for th...
September 02, 2006
Panasonic is expanding its range of digital video cameras this year. The line-up includes five new DVC cameras and three new DVD cameras. The top models in each category features 3CCD processing, Leica lenses, optical image stabilisation (OIS) and widescreen LCDs.
A 3CCD camera generates three CC...
September 01, 2006
Apple and Intel have spearheaded work to develop a new standard for the interface that links PCs and high definition digital displays. The two companies are part of an industry consortium that is pushing for the new standard to be adopted. The UDI SIG (Unified Display Interface Special Interest Grou...
August 31, 2006
When Apple began selling video files, it offered just the latest music hits and animated shorts from Disney and Pixar. Since then, we've seen it grown to include offerings from Bravo, ESPN, Sci-Fi, Showtime, and Comedy Central. With its expanding catalogue, the iTunes Music Store is a good place to ...
August 29, 2006
Maybe you are terminally dissatisfied with the radio stations you find online, or perhaps you aren't that taken idea of creating your own podcasts. Well, if that's you, you can start your own channel.
If you have a PC there's a host of options for starting your own internet radio station: Radio 3...
August 28, 2006
1. Protecting your asset
So, you've just splashed your hard-earned cash on a smart, new MP3 player? Now, surely it's sensible to spend a few more money on a cover to keep it shiny and new – not least after the horror stories surrounding the nano's scratchability. A great place to start your sear...
August 24, 2006
iTunes offers built-in access to a few internet radio channels, but it's possible to add unlisted channels to the selection it makes available. While Apple no longer makes much noise about the feature, you can still use iTunes to access a variety of internet radio stations. These offer similar sound...
August 23, 2006
We're always being asked how to find decent videos to watch on the iPod and PSP. So here's a simple guide to transferring them yourself.
Portable Video
The easiest one-stop way to get content onto your portable device is to record files from a television turner to a computer. Elgato's Eye TV...
August 21, 2006
Nike and Apple have joined forces to develop a range of athletic products for iPods, with the first device, the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, out now in the UK. It's a wireless system that allows some Nike+ trainers to communicate with an iPod nano.
The kit consists of an in-shoe sensor and a receiver tha...
August 21, 2006
UK record label trade body the BPI has written to ISPs Tiscali and Cable & Wireless to demand they close the accounts of 59 people it accuses of file-sharing music. The BPI claims the ISPs have so far failed to take effective steps to stop file-sharers.
The BPI has been collecting users' IP addre...
August 21, 2006
Apple has created a directory of podcasts which makes it available within the iTunes Music Store. The podcast pages are like any of the others available on the store, with graphics, links to show information, lists of the most popular shows and the potential to browse through show category. You'll f...
August 20, 2006
A new wave of mobile phones equipped with tiny yet powerful hard disk drives is threatening to put an end to the meteoric rise of the iPod as the public's favorite portable digital music player.
When you look at the typical consumer, there are three things that they may come back to their house f...
August 20, 2006
Months of legal wrangling over the rights, royalties and revenue of movie downloads are slowly reaching a resolution. New services and deals are emerging that suggest iPod users in the UK won't be waiting too long for Apple to make television and possibly downloads available through iTunes.
UK br...
August 17, 2006
MP3 players have changed the way we organise and enjoy our music: the key is that many of us have now integrated our music collections with our home computers - and with the all important internet. As a result, the new possibilities are endless and it's the world of Podcasting that's leading the wa...