iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen Release Date: 03/11/2009 Storage: 4 GB Battery Life: 10 hours Notable Features: Smaller design, controls located on earbuds, voiceover feature for track listings In early 2009, the Shuffle received a complete overhaul. The new Shuffle was longer and skinnier, resembling nothing if not a small pack of gum. Playback controls were [...]
iPod Classic v2 Release Date: 09/09/2008 Storage: 120 GB Battery Life: 36 hours audio, 6 hours video Notable Features: Replaced 80 & 160 GB versions All four iPod models received new upgrades in 2008. The iPod Classic remained mostly unchanged, reflecting the fact that the market had largely shifted in favor of the smaller, cheaper [...]
iPod 5.5 Gen Release Date: 09/12/2006 Storage: 30 & 80 GB Battery Life: 14/20 hours video, 3.5/6.5 hours video Notable Features: Minor software upgrades, Improvements in video battery life For the first few years, Apple generally released new iPod models at varying intervals and on separate dates. That changed in 2006 when they unveiled new [...]
iPod Shuffle 1st Gen Release Date: 01/11/2005 Storage: 512 MB, 1 GB Battery Life: 12 hours Notable Features: First flash memory iPod, no screen, built-in USB Several months later, Apple introduced their first flash-based iPod, the iPod Shuffle. The company clearly had budget-minded buyers and fitness buff in mind with the Shuffle. The tiny device,resembling [...]
iPod 3rd Gen Release Date: 04/28/2003 Storage: 10, 15, 20, 30, & 40 GB Battery Life: 8 hours Notable Features: Touch-sensitive buttons, Full Windows support through iTunes 4.1, First USB syncing capabilities The third generation iPod is one of the most unusual revisions of the device ever to hit the market. In addition to the [...]
There’s no question that Apple’s iPod is the dominant force in the mp3 player market. Like Nintendo was for videogames in the late ’80s, the word “iPod” is synonymous with mp3 player for the average American. With numerous models and countless revisions over the past nine years, the iPod shows no signs of loosening its [...]
Accessing your iPod’s (again, pre-2007) music and transferring it to your Mac is similar to the process of doing so on a PC. Like the PC method, you have to set your iPod to manual transfer and open it from the Finder (the Mac equivalent to the Windows Explorer). Whilst browsing the iPod in the [...]
There are few things more frustrating than losing an entire hard drive’s worth of information, photos, documents, and music due to a hardware failure or virus. While a regular backup of the contents of your hard drive on either an external drive or a server-based storage system are effective ways to prevent a critical loss [...]
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The free download just went hot and requires a $15 per month Rhapsody To Go subscription — you can try it for free for a week — and streams 64kbps quality (ugh) music over WiFi or cellular data (only, no off-line access) from a catalog of about 8 million tracks offered by the MTV and [...]
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