November 30, 2005

Download free Videos for your iPod

Veoh Networks, Inc., the first Internet Television Peercasting Network, today made available more than 3,000 videos for easy download and transfer to Apple's newest iPod. iPod owners can now fill up their entire device with video, free of charge, at www.veoh.com.

Well worth a look - if you find a show you like you can subscribe to all new episodes as they are released. Even produce your own show and distribute it through them.

Two Lovely Ladies fight over a Miller Lite

How2Share Technologies on Wednesday introduced Flixpo.com , a new service that provides users of Apple iPods and Sony Playstation Portables (PSPs) with video content for their devices, including movie trailers, independent shorts and comedy reviews. The downloads are offered for free.

Take a look at the Two Lovely Ladies clip.

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November 28, 2005

iPodder Lemon squeezed by Apple into Juice

Open source developers have changed the name of an application after pressure from Apple's lawyers.

iPodder Lemon was a free application distributed under the GPL licence that allows users to manage their podcasts — audio and video programmes downloaded from the Internet to their MP3 player.

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November 27, 2005

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About the Apple iPod Nano

Apple has now three main iPod models. The Apple iPod shuffle if you want to store music and data. The Apple iPod Nano if you want to store music, data and photos. The Apple iPod with Video if you want to store music, data, photos and video. To read all about the Apple iPod Nano...

Apple iPod Nano 2GB
	Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. The pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.

Apple iPod Nano 2GB

iPod nano, the pencil-thin marvel featuring a color display, up to 14 hours of battery life and space for up to 500 skip-free songs, audiobooks and podcasts.

When it comes to iPod nano, you need to reconsider your definition of "small." Slip it in your pocket - it weighs less than a handful of change. Or wear it around your neck and forget it's there.

Want to take it for a jog? No problem. Your music will never skip.Thanks to its 1.5-inch color display, iPod nano makes your music look as good as it sounds. View album art as you play your music. Browse up to 25,000 of your favorite photos. Or navigate bright, easy-to-read menus.Add accessories to your iPod nano and your music will always keep up with you - at home, on the go, even in your car.

Get started by exploring Apple's ingenious Lanyard Headphones and iPod nano Armbands.iPod nano's Click Wheel puts music under your thumb. Click to fast-forward, rewind, play, pause or access menus. Run your thumb over the touch-sensitive surface to control volume.

The iPod battery can be charged up to 80 percent capacity in an hour and a half; a full charge takes just 3 hours.

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About the Apple iPod Shuffle

Apple iPod Shuffle 1GB
	Time to mix things up. Meet iPod shuffle, the unpredictable new iPod. What will it play next? Can it read your mind? Can it read your moods? Load it up. Put it on. See where it takes you.

Random is the New Order

Welcome to a life less orderly. As official soundtrack to the random revolution, the iPod Shuffle Songs setting takes you on a unique journey through your music collection -- you never know what's around the next tune. Meet your new ride. More roadster than Rolls, iPod shuffle rejects routine by serving up your favorite songs in a different order every time. Just plug iPod shuffle into your computer's USB port, let iTunes Autofill it with up to 240 songs and get a new experience with every connection. The trail you run every day looks different with an iPod shuffle. Daily gridlock feels less mundane when you don't know what song will play next. iPod shuffle adds musical spontaneity to your life. Lose control. Love it.

DJ Your Day
	If you favor cycling to a hip-hop soundtrack and snowboarding to a little electronica, Autofill iPod shuffle from a specific iTunes Playlist and roll. Download an album from the iTunes Music Store and listen to it in order before you Shuffle it into your collection. Or just drag and drop individual songs from iTunes onto iPod shuffle. With Play in Order mode, you manage the music. If things take a turn for the predictable, never fear. Turn iPod shuffle over, flip the slider to Shuffle and mix on the go.

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November 26, 2005

About the Apple iPod with Video

Apple has now three main iPod models. The Apple iPod shuffle if you want to store music and data. The Apple iPod Nano if you want to store music, data and photos. The Apple iPod with Video if you want to store music, data, photos and video

Apple Unveils the iPod with Video 30GB & 60GB

The new iPod, featuring a gorgeous 2.5-inch color screen, can display album artwork and photos, as well as play stunning video including music videos, video podcasts, home movies and television shows. The new iPod holds up to 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or over 150 hours of video and is available in a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB model for $399, with both models available in stunning white or black designs.

Witness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Then podcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you experience your music and more. Again. In lighter, thinner 30GB and 60GB models starting at $299, the new iPod is music to your eyes.

Better Yet

Time for the world's best music player to take the stage for another encore. In 30GB and 60GB(1) models that hold up to 15,000(2) songs, full-color album art and up to 25,000 photos(3), the new iPod makes the most of your music and more. Yeah, you've heard that tune before. Only now, you can watch it, too. With support for up to 150 hours(4) of video and a 2.5-inch color display, the new iPod lets you take music videos and TV shows on the road.

More and Less

The new iPod boasts up to 20 hours of battery life(5), five hours more than before. Plus, you get a bigger display and one more iPod color — sleek black. But here's the kicker: At under half an inch thin, the new 30GB iPod takes up about 45 percent less room than the original iPod. Even the new 60GB model is 10 percent thinner than the fourth-generation 20GB iPod. More features in less space? Sounds like iPod.

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Search for pods by keyword

A new service in Beta claims to be able to search the actual content of podcasts. Let Podzinger explain in their own words

Podcasts are rapidly emerging as a popular on-line audio publishing vehicle. But trying to find podcasts that are of interest to us is reminiscent of the early days of the internet. Instead of using general search techniques, sites attempted to organize all the content on the internet into categories. The diversity of the available content became too cumbersome for mere categorization to be an effective means for people to find what they wanted. Search evolved to where it is today, that is, to look inside websites quickly for words and phrases.

Podcasts have been subjected to the same primitive search through categorization ... until now. PODZINGER looks inside podcasts, not just the metadata, letting you search podcasts in the same way that you search for anything else on the web.

When you type in a word or terms, PODZINGER not only finds the relevant podcasts, but also highlights the segment of the audio in which they occurred. By clicking anywhere on the results, the audio will begin to play just where you clicked. There are also controls that let you back up, pause, or forward through the podcast. Or you can download the entire podcast.

PODZINGER, powered by 30 years of speech recognition research from BBN Technologies , Cambridge, Massachusetts, transforms the audio into words, unlocking the information inside podcasts. Using PODZINGER you open up a previously untapped source of content via a simple web search. So when it comes to podcasts, instead of searching for it ... just ZING IT!

And why not!

Get fit with your iPod

How about this!. Now you can take your iPod to the gym and watch professionally made videos of nearly 80 routines for weights, machines etc

A new service from iPod Gym have adapted existing material to the iPod format in response to the introduction of the iPod with Video Currently the movies do not have sound, but most have sub-titles with exercise advice, safety tips and muscles used for each exercise. They are planning on adding a voice over with instructional comments soon.

Best of all it's FREE! Get fit with iPod Gym

The top pods at a glance

We all love to know what's top of the pops. A new service in Beta aggregates the most popular podcasts from a variety of sources.

Popcasts lets you see at a glance, on just one page, what is popular in many different podcast directories, without you having to constantly check the individual directories for the latest ranking results.

It scans and synchronises with pre-registered podcast directories or ranking sites every hour and generates RSS feeds for each top 10 podcast. The sites registered to Popcasts include: Apple iTunes Podcasting , Odeo , Podnova , podfeed , iPodderX , PodcastPickle , Podcasting NEWS and Podcast Alley .

For those who are interested in Japanese or Chinese podcasting, they also have Popcasts Japanese and Popcasts Chinese . They plan to launch international podcast services in the near future, including German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Korean. Give Popcasts a try!

How to use our eBay Rss Feeds to buy an iPod

How to use our RSS feeds to search for an iPod on eBay

Step 1

From the menu on the left hand side of the page choose which eBay site you want the feed for.
eBay.com or eBay.co.uk (more sites to follow)

Step 2

Decide which feed you want to subscribe to either:
New Listings or
Auctions with 2 hours to go (Grab a bargain)

Step 3

Decide which model you are interested in and click the preview button. This will give you a good idea of the quality of our feeds (a lot of potential scammers and accessories have already been filtered out).
If you click the link at the bottom of the window you will get the auctions "ending soonest"

Step 4

Decide which model of iPod you want to create the feed for and select either the RSS or the ATOM feed. If your feed reader doesn't automatically detect the feed you will need to cut and paste the URL into it.

Step 5

You can update the feed as often as you like - until you find the bargain you are looking for. See how fast our method is in comparison with the eBay site!!

Happy Bidding - let us know your success stories!

The Podfather - Adam Curry

The man who played a large role in creating and popularizing Podcasting has his blog site at Adam Curry.com. His motto "There are no secrets - only information you don't have..." sums up this generous man.

He recently started the Podshow Network:

Podshow was created out of total frustration with current audio programming. The same songs, the same messaging, the same programming, everywhere, all the time, with no exceptions… Welcome to PodShow, where you get to choose what you listen to and when and where you listen to it. We have thousands of programs ready to be heard on every topic imaginable, waiting to be downloaded, played, and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, anytime. It’s your choice 100% of time.

a fantastic Podcasting resource.

Buying iPods on eBay

In a recent article by Anthony Bruno he states that

The popular iPod Nano and the just-released video iPod are expected to lead a surge of holiday sales for Apple Computer. Research firm Fulcrum Global Partners predicts Apple will sell 10 million iPods in the fourth quarter, a strong follow-up to the 7 million sold in the previous quarter. But not all of these sales will be to new iPod owners.

Piper Jaffray analysts say about 30 percent of the iPod purchasers are now repeat buyers who are either replacing an existing, earlier-generation iPod or adding to their range of styles (such as an iPod Shuffle and a video iPod).

Enter eBay. A recent search on eBay.com (201105) revealed that there were over 9000 Apple iPods for sale and over 53000 Apple iPod Accessories ( from armbands to earphones to covers and chargers) .

As reported on Reuters an interesting aspect is that people's "collections" are sometimes included in the sale - I wonder if this will be a way of adding value to a second-hand iPod in the future. Mentioned is the fact that:

Several iPods up for auction include the sellers' music collection and instructions on how to transfer the music from the iPod to the buyer's computer. Some even take requests for additional songs to be added prior to shipping.
One video iPod for sale contains an entire season of TV show "King of Queens" included.

However, despite what eBay says about how little fraud there is on their sites, in my opinion and from personal experience it is very much "buyer beware".

iPodBloggers.com provide innovative RSS feeds for finding suitable iPods on eBay. We have tried to filter out potential scammers but

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Apple iPod Models - Quick Reference

First Generation - Firewire & Scroll Wheel
	iPod 5GB Mac	M8513LL/A
	iPod 5GB Mac	M8541LL/A
	iPod 5GB PC	M8697LL/A
	iPod 10GB Mac	M8709LL/A

Second Generation - Firewire & Touch Wheel
	iPod 10GB Mac	M8737LL/A
	iPod 10GB PC	M8740LL/A
	iPod 20GB Mac	M8738LL/A
	iPod 20GB PC	M8741LL/A

Third Generation - Dock Connector & Touch Wheel
	iPod 10GB	M8976LL/A
	iPod 15GB	M8946LL/A (2003)
	iPod 15GB	M9460LL/A (2004)
	iPod 20GB	M9244LL/A
	iPod 30GB	M8948LL/A
	iPod 40GB	M9245LL/A

Fourth Generation - Click Wheel - Monochrome
	iPod 20GB	M9282LL/A
	iPod 20GB U2	M9787LL/A
	iPod 40GB	M9268LL/A

Fourth Generation - Click Wheel - Color
	iPod 20GB	MA079LL/A
	iPod 20GB U2	MA127LL/A
	iPod 60GB or Photo	M9830LL/A

Fifth Generation -Video
	iPod 30GB white	MA002LL/A
	iPod 30GB black	MA146LL/A
	iPod 60GB white	MA003LL/A
	iPod 60GB black	MA147LL/A

First Generation - iPod Mini
	iPod Mini 4GB silver	M9160LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB blue	M9436LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB pink	M9436LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB green	M9434LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB gold	M9437LL/A

Second Generation - iPod Mini
	iPod Mini 4GB silver	M9800LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB blue	M9802LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB pink	M9804LL/A
	iPod Mini 4GB green	M9806LL/A
	iPod Mini 6GB silver	M9801LL/A
	iPod Mini 6GB blue	M9803LL/A
	iPod Mini 6GB pink	M9805LL/A
	iPod Mini 6GB green	M9807LL/A

iPod Photo
	iPod Photo 30GB	M9829LL/A
	iPod Photo 40GB	M9585LL/A
	iPod Photo 60GB (2004)	M9586LL/A
	iPod Photo 60GB (2005)	M9830LL/A

iPod Shuffle
	iPod Shuffle 512MB	M9724LL/A
	iPod Shuffle 1GB	M9725LL/A

iPod Nano
	iPod Nano 2GB white	MA004LL/A
	iPod Nano 2GB black	MA099LL/A
	iPod Nano 4GB white	MA099LL/A
	iPod Nano 4GB black	MA107LL/A

You can tell which iPod model you have by checking:

If it has a scroll wheel, a touch wheel, or a Click Wheel.
The size of its hard drive.
If it has a color or monochrome screen.
The dock connector
Checking by the model number (MMN)

More information at the Apple site

Advantages of using RSS feeds

From the average iPodder's point of view the main advantage is one of time. Imagine having to trawl your way through dozens of websites to locate material that you may want to listen to. By subscribing to a favorite RSS feed in a feed reader you can in seconds browse the headlines of many sites and with one click you can be downloading the podcast.

You can subscribe to blogs (text based) as well as podcasts (an audio file) and vodcasts (a video file). It isn't necessary to understand or even know anything about the technology behind them - just do it! Download my favorite feed reader - Feed Demon or subscribe to an online version such as Bloglines and get going.

Once your reader is set up go to a specialist search engine such as Feedster find a few feeds you fancy,and then practice organizing your feeds into their Folders or Channels.

Let's try an example for keeping up with the news - Go to google news and put in a keyword - for our example i'll use "music downloads" - when the search results page comes back look for the RSS link - copy the URL and paste it in your reader.Try yahoo news - put in your keyword and repeat the process. With a little practice

For keeping up with blogs - Technorati is a favorite of mine. For audio pods and video pods see the iPod Bloggers list of search engines and directories.

You can set up many "alert" type feeds, whether it is a shopping alert or when a favorite podcast episode is updated. You'll find a huge selection at iTunes.

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