By Robert Kaneko Today’s mobile community is in desperate need of portable power. As our iPods and iPhones gain functionality, they also eat through their built-in batteries. My 8GB first-generation iPod touch will last for a full day if I’m just using it to listen to music. However, if I start playing games, surfing the […]
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Apple Releases iTunes 8.1 Update
Late Wednesday, Apple released iTunes 8.1, the latest version of its multimedia/jukebox application for Mac OS X. The new version, a 63.4 megabyte download, offers the following fixes, changes and new features: Supports syncing with iPod shuffle (3rd generation). Allows friends to request songs for iTunes DJ. Adds Genius sidebar for your Movies and TV […]
Apple on Wednesday introduced the third generation of its iPod shuffle music player, the smallest of its iPod line and now nearly half the size of the previous generation. According to Macworld, the new Shuffle boasts a feature called VoiceOver, which enables the uniot to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. The shuffle […]
iPod users may soon be able to adjust the volume of a song or flip between tracks via a motion of their head according to Macworld UK. Per the article, Japanese researchers have developed a pair of headphones that use infrared sensors to interpret facial movements as a way of controlling a digital audio player. […]
Regarding Yesterday
As you may have noticed, there was no news yesterday. Not that there wasn’t news, per se. Things happened, software was updated and announcements were made and covered. From my end, I spent a fair amount of the day at a local glass repair location since someone had decided to put a rock through my […]