Faced with the high pressure of  several class-action lawsuits,which is about how on earth iPod batteries
could last between charging, Apple Canada finally agreed to compensate $45 credit to any Canadian
who bought an Apple iPod player before June 24, 2004.
 
The claimed working hours is 8 hours,but iPod says farewell to its users after just three hours’ hard work.
In this case, more than 80,000 Canadian users have been recognized as eligible, and it may cost Apple $36 million
in credits.It’s really a great cost to them, but if they had known how to make use of this amount of money to lengthen
the working hours of the battery, to do as it advertises.

Apple must have learnt this lesson well.

 More and more iPod audio book downloads sites are emerging to meet the demands of some people.
It’s totally understandable, because the paper book entails certain space and enough time which
are just essential for those who are too busy to be true.

But they still have to commute,and never want to have any second wasted on the road, so iPod audio
book gets the chance.Though avid reader still stand against this newly sprouted thing.

Book-knowledge are still necessary no matter how fast the rythmn of life is, though pleasure reading prevails most of the time.
Nobody can deny a science-fiction book, self-improvement course, or the latest top seller that they can get access thought the mere
earphone.

There are also websites that offer such books for free, and the price is also competitive.
Hard to find some good free audio book sites, so here I’m going to provide you some sites which offers the best service and fastest speed.

via http://celebritypress.info/2008/05/ipod-audio-book-downloads-a-modern-alternative-to-reading/

Do you want to access Unlimited Free iPod Music Downloads for life without any monthly or per download fees?

Here’s the answer for all these questions:  iPodDownloadsPro

iPodDownloadsPro - It’s the most admired Free iPod Music Download Website. This has been a leader in the free iPod music downloads for years and keeps getting stronger.

Most if not all iPod users fell in love with this Free iPod Music Download Website. One factor that brought popularity to this download website is its excellent easy to use software that even newbies can start downloading contents in minutes.

Within Minutes of signing up, you will be able to download all your favorite movies, music, games and more. It’s really easy to use!

You will be gaining access to over 95,000,000 media files with excellent download speeds.Moreover, there are lots of DVD or movie to iPod/iPhone/PSP converters in google.

Download and watch sports events, get instant access to unlimited free DVD quality movies, music, mp3s and more.

There are over 20,000,000 songs for download. You can even play them on your computer, burn them on a CD or transfer them to your iPod.

via http://www.squidoo.com/download-free-ipod-music

However do I think that rich media players like the iPod Touch are the way to go. Yet I would prefer them to have an open platform to be based on. Having played around with the Android SDK, I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t hide the phone functionality the same way Apple does and offer rich media players.

I hope there will be manufacturers considering exactly that. I’d like to be able to scp my music files to my media player as it comes right out of the box, not hack it to kingdom come and hope that the libgpod developer managed to reverse engineer it in his spare time. I’m sure that guy has better things to do than keep doing this.

Ah well, we’ll see. One thing’s for sure. My iPod Touch is definitely getting replaced with an iPhone formfactor Android device, as soon a decent one will be available. If it won’t be a media player, then an Android phone with headphone jack.

via http://www.tomservo.cc/2008/04/20/google-android-why-only-for-phones/

via http://www.pqdvd.com/blog/ipod/wp-admin/post-new.php

Japan’s Solid Alliance is now selling an Apple iPod cover that’s designed to look like RAW MEAT. It comes in a cellophane-and-styrofoam package just like meat does. It’s what’s for dinner.

via http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/04/new-ipod-cover-looks-like-raw-meat.html

Their plan was to make a VOIP compatible with the iPod Touch to bring an iPhone like experience to users without access to the iPhone. Check it out and tell us what you think in the comments.

via  http://www.apple-touch.com/voip-for-ipod-touch-sip-voip-21609.php

Nokia will launch Australia’s first subscription music service today as it seeks to use its mobile industry clout to topple Apple’s iTunes off its perch.

But the venture could struggle to gain traction in a market dominated by the iPod, as songs bought from the store are incompatible with Apple’s ubiquitous music player.

The store, part of Nokia’s concerted diversification into online mobile services such as gaming, navigation and social networking, will sell downloads of individual tracks for $A1.70 ($NZ2) and albums from $A17.

And in an Australia-first offering, Nokia will allow customers to stream an unlimited number of full-length tracks directly from a player built into its music store website for a subscription fee of $A10 a month.

Songs can be downloaded directly from certain Nokia mobile phones or via the PC and synchronised to mobile devices. Nokia’s 5310, 5610, 5700, N78, N81, N82, N91, N95, N96 and N76 handsets are all compatible, and the phone giant said other mobile music devices should work provided they support Windows Media Player.

All 2.5 million songs will be locked down using Windows Media digital rights management (DRM), and must be synchronised with mobile devices using Windows Media Player 11. Users will only be able to load tracks on to five different devices.

The move to restrict the use and distribution of the songs using DRM locks is curious because record labels are already experimenting overseas with DRM-free MP3 files, which are widely supported and can be played on an unlimited number of devices.

The iPod does not support the Windows Media format, WMA.

Karen Farrugia, Nokia Australia’s music services manager, acknowledged that locking out iPod users would greatly limit the potential target market but said Nokia still aimed to topple iTunes.

“At this time we are launching Windows Media DRM-protected files and we will look in the future to introduce an MP3 service. . . we’re in discussions with labels to really work on that,” she said.

Nokia’s catalogue includes artists represented by the major labels Sony BMG, EMI and Universal, as well as a swathe of smaller labels including the Australian-based Hillsong, Modular and Shock Entertainment.

Farrugia said there would be a distinct focus on Australian artists, and Nokia has already lined up exclusive tracks from John Butler Trio and Pete Murray. Discussions were under way to bring the final major label, Warner Music, onboard.

Nokia would also offer “free tracks of the week” to push forward emerging artists, starting off with Stone Parade of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, which won last year’s Nokia Be Heard competition. This month the band also won the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, ahead of fellow Australian group Eskimo Joe.

The Australian unveiling of the Nokia Music Store follows the launch of the service in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Germany and Italy.

“Australia is one of the top 10 countries in the Nokia world,” company spokeswoman Louise Ingram said.

While most music stores based on Windows Media DRM have failed to gain traction - largely due to the dominance of the iPod and iTunes - Nokia has a better chance of success due to its position as leader of the mobile phone handset market.

Nokia shipped 146 million music-enabled devices in 2007, more than any other device maker.

The move comes at a time when digital music sales are booming but, much to the chagrin of record labels, not enough to make up for the decline in physical CD sales.

Earlier this month, Apple’s iTunes Store surpassed retail giant Wal-Mart to become the No 1 music retailer in the US.

Australians will be able to access the Nokia Music Store at music.nokia.com.au.

via http://www.stuff.co.nz/4490483a28.html

  Can you believe it! I’m watching The Forbidden kingdom on my iPodnow! This movie just made
its worldwide premiere, and I rushed into the theater the day before yesterday, as if fighting for
a ticket to beat Jet lee and Jackie Chan. Then you may guess that after seeing it in widescreen, I was
still left feeling unfulfilled. So the DVD of the The forbidden kingdom soon adds into my DVD collection.
the fight between these two super kungfu star fascinate me, and I begin to think of ripping this funny and
exciting clip onto my ipod, to make sure I can enjoy it whenever I can on the go.
       After trying on about five dvd to ipod rippers I free-downloaded, I finally found an easy and inexpensive way
to settle this dear DVD movie.That’s a fabulous DVD movies to iPod conversion tool,PQ DVD to iPod Converter Suite. It’s a superb software, and allows
me to set the start time and end time, producing the exact clip I want. Meanwhile, the speed is really as fast as you
can imagine.
 
  Of course, I have something to say about the film itself.It’s said that all characters in the movie
refer to lots of other Chinese movies or legends, and I believe the movie will seem much funnier to us if we
know more about the China and its people. On the other hand, it’s really a  harmless outlets for the impulses repressed
in the hearts of about 13-year-old boys whose parents won’t let them rent Once Upon a Time in China or
the Kill Bill movies.

    Anyway, Such a easy access to watch The forbidden kingdom on  makes me overjoyed.If you wanna
see The Forbidden kingdom on your iPod or psp or pocket pc, or watch Sex and Death, Deception, etc. on these handheld devices,this PQ software is really a good choice.