itune hacks

Rushmeon - Rushit Shah

How to get locked audio from an iPod to your computer. Very useful when, for example, you've had to format your drive because of a virus, and the music isn't on your computer but it's on your iPod. It's also an easy way to copy your music from one computer to another

Marco says Ipod Classic SUCKS

I was looking forward to the new iPod Classic, since it’s a great bargain for space (80 GB for $249) and seems like the perfect iPod for people who want to carry their entire collections or a lot of video. It would be great to replace Tiff’s aging iPod Mini, so we went to the Apple Store today to see the new lineup. (Unfortunately, the iPod Touch, a.k.a. the iPhone without a phone, isn’t available until the end of the month.)

iPod Nano

The new “fatty” iPod Nano was excellent. There’s not much to say about it, except that it’s amazingly thin and video looks decent. The screen is smaller than the iPod Classic’s, but not by as much as you’d think. Video is very watchable.

The new colors are more pastel than before. The (PRODUCT) RED version is definitely pink (“light red” at best).

But I wish they’d give us a 16 GB version for $249. It’s pretty sad that if Tiff wanted to upgrade her 6 GB iPod Mini from 2004 to a brand new Nano, three generations later, she’d only gain 2 GB of capacity.

iPod Classic

Unfortunately, the iPod Classic was extremely disappointing. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Its most significant problem is the sluggishness of simple actions.

The Nano and Classic both have an updated interface with photos and album art sprinkled around. I don’t like it — it doesn’t add any value, but it clutters the screen and makes navigation more visually confusing. Apple added many unnecessary new visual effects to simple operations such as track changes.

The iPod Classic stutters through every operation, including:

• Adjusting the volume
• Opening menus
• Browsing lists
• Changing tracks
• Seeking within tracks

Not only does the interface lag and stutter, but the music skips. It’s so bad that I assumed that the iPod I was testing was defective, so I tried others in the store and got identical results.

The worst offender is the new Cover Flow view in the Nano and Classic. Neither of them devote enough memory to caching the album art images, so scrolling through them isn’t seamless — you’re just shown massive sections of placeholder art as it loads. On the Classic, the music skips like crazy.

The Nano loads Cover Flow images much more quickly, and I couldn’t get the music to skip once. While the interface navigation wasn’t perfectly smooth, simpler operations like volume adjustments and track changes were dramatically better on the Nano.

Because the Classic has a hard drive instead of the Nano’s flash memory, loading data is much slower. My previous-generation 30 GB “video” iPod is sluggish when it loads new tracks, but it has never stuttered during the simple operations that the Classic struggled with, and the audio has never skipped.

The Classic’s hard drive isn’t to blame for its miserable usability — its new software is significantly more bloated and sloppily designed than the previous iPod generation’s OS.

Recommendation

Skip the iPod Classic. If you need large capacity, find a clearance video iPod from the previous generation. I’ve used one of these for two years, and it’s excellent.

Consider the iPod Nano. The Nano is dirt cheap for what it offers, and should satisfy nearly everyone’s needs. Do you really need to carry around all of the Spin Doctors’ albums wherever you go? (I’ve had them with me everywhere for two years, and trust me, I didn’t need to.)

I’m disappointed in Apple. They typically won’t release bad products, and I don’t know how anyone at Apple could stand behind the iPod Classic with pride.

iPod Anyone?

Having an iPod these days is not a status symbol anymore. For those like me who works for the web and designs graphics with high MB file size, iPod nano, iPod mini, or iPod shuffle is an investment. With iPods's 6 to 60 GB capacity, it is a dream of every techie. You can save all of your important files in a small, sleek and very elegant iPod.

But of course, a $300 to $400 ++ iPod nano or iPod video costs too much for some of us. If you want to have a cheap iPod and wouldn't want to settle for anything less (and go for the cheap flash audio players around), then you may need to read my suggestions below to be able to have that cheap iPod that your money can buy (and your conscience to allow).

GO FOR REFURBISHED

No one would notice that your iPod nano, iPod video, iPod mini or iPod shuffle was bought from a cheap iPod refurbished e-store. In fact if you buy a new iPod, it will look the same like the refurbished cheap iPod after a few months of use. No one would try to look for your receipt just to know you bought your iPod nano, iPod video, iPod mini or iPod shuffle from an Apple store and not from a cheap iPod store, or would they?

Also, if you bought a new iPod from an Apple iPod store and then the time came that you needed an iPod battery replacement, you will need to pay Apple iPod store 59 bucks for a refurbished iPod nano, iPod video, iPod mini or iPod shuffle, only this time, with a fresh iPod battery.

cheap iPod nano, iPod video, iPod mini or iPod shuffle costs for about $190 to $250 from the cheap iPod or refurbished iPod e-stores.

BID AT EBAY

Try your luck at Ebay and you might get a cheap iPod that costs only $250 for a brand new line.

Many people bid their equipment at Ebay because they need the money far better than the equipment immediately and badly. So most of the times, Ebay sellers sell cheap iPod and part ways with their sleek and sexy iPod because if the immediate need for large sums of money.

You can bid for cheap iPods at Ebay simple by searching "cheap iPods" or sale iPods. There is a chance that you might get a cheap iPod for a brand new iPod nano, iPod video, iPod mini or iPod shuffle.

Take your chance at Ebay, you may never know, you might get that cheap iPod that you want for as cheap as 100 bucks!

BUY YOUR FRIEND'S USED IPOD

All of us have friends who can afford to buy a brand new iPod without the need to starve for a few months of saving or can buy a Porsche car and still remain mortgage free. If you don't have this kind of friends, your friends maybe have this kind of friends.

Apple iPod regularly changes their models; regularly as in every 6 months since the last two years. iPod fanatics do not want to be caught tinkering on their old and already cheap iPod, they want to have the latest model in the market.

These kind of people, your friends or your friends friends, will gladly sell their 3 month old Apple iPod for a cheaper price.

Cheap iPod doesn't always come in a persons way that easily, so grab the chance when someone offers you a cheap iPod for sale!

GO TO EXCHANGE CENTERS

There are some exchange centers on the net or on local newspapers that offer cheap iPod, brand new and refurbished, in exchange of any items of, more or less, equivalent amount. If you have some items that are still of superb condition and might interest those people who are selling cheap iPods, offer your equipment or items in exchange of the cheap iPod.

If you think you don't need your 3G celfone, you can have it exchanged to a person offering brand new but cheap iPod. Or if you have two items that you think with their selling amounts combined could match that of the cheap iPod, then you can part with those items.

Remember to test first the cheap iPod before you make the exchange.

Touch comes to iPOD

Multi-touch

iPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone. Built to take full advantage of the large 3.5-inch display, the multi-touch interface lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and enlarge them with a pinch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page. And iPod touch features a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, or adding new contacts.

Ambient Light Sensor

The iPod touch display has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness to suit the ambient light in your surroundings. The result? A better experience for you and battery-saving efficiency for iPod touch.

Accelerometer

An accelerometer detects when you rotate iPod touch from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page, your music in Cover Flow, or a photo in its proper aspect ratio.