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Times Herald
A culture has developed around Apple's popular line of mp3 players. The trend has moved beyond major urban centers and spread as far as Port Huron, and it shows no signs of letting up. As Apple continues to introduce new models, other companies have sprung up to offer an abundance of accessories. Today you can buy such gear as iPod cleaners, iPod cases and iPod remote controls. Other products plug into the iPod to turn it into a miniature flashlight or guitar amp.
WKYT
An active boomer wants to know how her new iPod Shuffle knows what she's thinking and doing -- how it knows to play a slightly up David Benoit tune while she's warming up for her run -- before segueing into some rockin' Beach Boys oldies as she really hits her stride -- and then bringing her home with the cool-down sounds of Sinatra... The bottom line, according to mathematicians -- life truly is random, but we humans like to impose our own order on it.
Wired MagazineFormer MTV VJ Adam Curry is the brains behind iPodder, a tiny application that he believes has the power to challenge commercial radio. iPodder is the bastard offspring of the blog and the Apple MP3 player. It combines the hyperactive talkiness of blogs and the hipness of iPods into something utterly new: the podcast. iPodder uses the blog syndication tool RSS to automatically download homebrew radio shows, podcasts, directly into a portable MP3 player.
iPodlounge
Apple's support site briefly hosted documents early Wednesday morning that offered details on using an iPod photo with the company's new iPod Camera Connector. The support documents, which are no longer available, provided information on photo importing formats, tips on using the USB port on the device and deleting pictures, and linked to a complete list of supported digital cameras.
iPodloungeApple has quietly added the iPod Camera Connector to its online store. In addition to making the connector available for order, this is also the first time an official photo of the device as been offered by Apple.
Walt Mossberg, Wall Street JournalEveryone knows that Apple's iPod is a terrific music player. But what you might not know is that it's much more than just a high-tech Walkman. There are quite a few things you can do with an iPod, things that have nothing to do with music. If you got an iPod recently, you're probably not yet familiar with some of its talents. So here's a quick guide.
Reuters UKApple Computer has a winner despite increasing attacks by iPod wannabes. As Sony, which introduced a new music player this week, and software maker Napster, with a new portable subscription service, crowd into the market, many analysts are nervous an 'iPod killer' will ravage Apple's ability to grow.
But others see an exploding market where Apple can win without maintaining the breadth of its lead -- it now has about 70 percent of the digital music player and music download markets.
New York TimesAt first glance, digital music is the field in which Sony's considerable assets seem best suited, with a little rearrangement, for a comeback. On one side, Sony has 50 years of experience in producing portable music players, beginning with transistor radios in the 1950's and extended by its Walkman franchise that has sold more than 340 million players. On the other, it owns one of the world's largest music labels to supply content. Yet in the iPod era, Sony's headstart counts for nothing. It's as if the company were the Sony Graphophone and Wax Record Company.
Business Week"Designed by Apple in Cupertino."
The words are printed in such small type on the back of Apple's tiny new iPod Shuffle MP3 player that you have to squint to read them. But they speak volumes about why Apple is standing so far out from the crowd these days. At a time when rivals are outsourcing as much design as possible to cut costs, Apple remains at its core a product company -- one that would never give up control of how those products are created.
Playlist
I've mentioned Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes, but they're worth mentioning again, so here's an article about it:
Enhance iTunes with these cool AppleScripts
iTunes on both the Mac and PC is a terrific application, but it has a singular advantage on the Mac—its support of Apple's scripting language, AppleScript. Regrettably, writing AppleScripts is beyond the ken of a lot of Mac users. Fortunately, that makes not a whit of difference thanks to Doug Adams and his invaluable site, Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes.
Here you'll find a vast collection of scripts that do everything from grabbing album artwork via Google, to removing missing tracks from your iTunes library, to making AAC-encoded tracks bookmarkable.
Since it's St. Patrick's Day, take a look at iTunes' Celtic music essentials.
Melissa Etheridge and Joss Stone announced that they are releasing an audio version of their Grammy performance tribute to Janis Joplin exclusively on the iTunes Music Store. The song will be available until April 15th. Proceeds generated from the $0.99 Joplin medley will benefit the City of Hope and the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.
WISTVApple's commercial for the new iPod Shuffle features the dancing silhouettes from iPod's original campaign. It also touts the price tag of $99, which is significantly less than any other iPod. Consumer Reports just took a look at the Shuffle to see if it really is a bargain.
The RegisterApple is facing two separate patent infringement suits over the iPod, according to reports. One suit relates to a patent for the protection of software against unauthorised use, while the other relates to a patent for a type of musical jukebox.
EngadgetEric Sinrod has a completely nonsensical column in [a recent] USA Today about how MP3 players are going to be the next big risk to personal privacy... The advice he then gives on how you can prevent your MP3 player from being the source of a privacy violation are either obvious or befuddling.
PC Magazine
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We picked the iPod mini as one of our favorite music players when it debuted, thanks to its superior ergonomics, great in-hand feel, easily readable screen, jazzy colors, and generally good music performance. Apple's recent refreshing of the player has made it even better. The Apple iPod mini 6GB holds 50 percent more music, has more than twice the battery life, sounds better, and costs the same ($249 direct) as the original 4GB mini (which now costs $199).
WiredChecking out a new iPod now applies to more than shopping trips or web browsing. This week the South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles.
For the past three weeks, the library ran a pilot program using the portable MP3 devices to store audio books downloaded from the Apple iTunes Music Store. They started with six shuffles, and now are up to a total of 10. Each device holds a single audio book.
EngadgetAt the end of the day there isn’t much you need to know about the new 2nd generation iPod mini except that it comes in both 6GB and 4GB versions, they’ve made the colors more fluorescent, and its battery life is way better than it was before, but we’re throwing together this roundup of reviews anyway.
Different District A recent job listing from Apple on Gamasutra.com, a recruiting site for the game industry, seeks a programmer with "experience working with embedded systems" who would in part be "responsible for rapidly developing memory and performance." This points to new games for the iPod.
Tech News WorldThey don't tell you, unless you do some digging, that you never actually own anything with their subscription service, even if the music is on your Napster To Go compatible music player. If you want to own the music, so that you can play it anywhere you want, you have to pay the additional cost for the song or album.
ForbesThe world's favorite digital hip-hugger, though prized by the music-porting crowd, often feels incomplete. That's why there are add-ons. Lots of them. Some iPod accessories are about converting the shiny little brick from a personal space-filler to a party animal. Others are simply about style.
BBC NewsApple's Gold iPod mini has run out of juice.
As the makers of the world's best-selling digital music players announced a revamp of its famously vibrant "mini" range, the gold option was conspicuous by its absence. Pink, blue, green and silver -- the four other options -- all made it through to stage two of iPod Mini's development. But gold is destined only to survive in the collective memory of eBay listings.
For those of you iPod shuffle owners who aren't happy with its simple white casing, take a look at ShuffleArt, which sells stickers to skin your shuffle.
MacDevCenterThe iPod shuffle is so simple to operate that even your 2-year-old might soon be nagging you for one. But there are plenty of fun intricacies and nuances to learn about in iPod shuffle and in its faithful companion, iTunes 4.7.1. In this article, we'll take a deeper look at the newest iPod and iTunes.
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