iPod Buffet

We’re faced with a new challenge: .flv files won’t play on iPods or in iTunes. And with the popularity of video podcasting growing, it seems that the only solution is to create two versions of every video—one to embed and another to podcast. But that’s not the case. In this article I’ll show you how to build a simple Flash video player that streams

Chris Wysopal is the head of a four-iPod family. His wife and two kids all carry the pint-size nano music player from Apple, while he uses a 2003-vintage device he got as a hand-me-down from his wife. But as much they love their iPods, the Wysopal family has no plans to buy any new ones in the foreseeable future.

The wildest thing someone would dare to do is to count the thousands of iPod compatible products that are now available on the market. There is no day that passes by without having a brand new device in front of our eyes that was made to work with iPods. And they (meaning the manufacturers) are always claiming to be different than any other similar products. The DLO HomeDOck HD Pro dock, which was revealed to the public at CEDIA this year, is said to upscale video

Music purchased from Napster is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don’t continue to pay, you won’t keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Napster and find some songs in Napst

Digital music sales have risen by 33 percent for the first nine months of 2008. Musicians just have to continue to record, produce and distribute great music and fans will buy those new songs for their iPods at retail stores such as iTunes.

It’s no secret that most iPods seem to die a little after their one year warranty expires. Rather than resign your baby to the back of draw status (I know you won’t have thrown it out) why not get creative?

It is like fighting an army with a pea-shooter. Microsoft (MSFT) is chaning the subcription model for its Apple (AAPL) iPod knock-off, the Zune. According to Reuters, MSFT “announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its Zune players, which would allow them to keep 10 tracks per month and add them to their permanent collection.”. With 180 million iPods sold around the world since it was introduced by Apple six years ago, Microsoft would have to give away music for free to get any su

Griffin which supplies all types of iPod accessories has recently unveiled updated versions of both Griffin TuneBuds and its SmartTalk. The TuneBuds Mobile. The original version of earphones was designed to substitute the in-line mic and remote control of the Apple iPhone ‘buds. These earphones are the earbuds with an inline microphone that now beholds compatibility with iPhone, 4th generation iPod nano, 2nd generation of iPod touch, and iPod classic (120 GB). The package include

Griffin has announced updated versions of their TuneBuds Mobile and SmartTalk products for both versions of the iPhone, the iPod nano 4G, iPod touch 2G, and iPod classic (120 GB). TuneBuds are intended to be an alternative to Apple’s upcoming premium in-ear headphones—both offer a built-in microphone and remote for answering calls and controlling playback, although Griffin’s version costs considerably less at $40 (but that is without the dual drivers). Or, if you prefer, Griffin’s updated Sma

In case you are worried about getting virus from USB drives or Ipods to your computer, iKill is a perfect detector for this. It scans your computer for the presence of removable drives and parses the autorun.inf file for the executable it may run. It will warn you about the program which intends to run which you can set to auto delete if required. This is what they say : In general a USB drive of any kind, a pendrive, ipod, mp3 Players, mobile phones, all may contain viruses, they just act