What Do You Know About Your Apple Product?

What do you know about your Apple product? Do you know your exact weight of your product? How about your Mac's startup chime? With an application for Mac, PC, and Linux called Mac Tracker Mactracker also available for the iPhone and iPod Touch: Mactracker for iPhone

Why kill the Classic?

As many of you know Apple's September 9th event is tomorrow and will probably feature some refinements to Apple TV and the iMac's. One known fact is that they will update the iPod lineup to a more sexy lineup of music listening devices. The iPod touch rumored to have a camera, and the nano with more abilities and memory as well. But what about the Classic? Rumors have it that Apple will "kill" the Classic and move away from one of the original iPod designs since 2001 when they were first released. I say, " Don't kill the Classic" because 

1. It will start moving the defintion of iPod's to a more mobile device with more features like an iPhone rather than it's original intention of music.

2. It's the Classic, it was the first iPod ever built and it will make the old fashion mac or apple fanboy's upset that Apple will move away from the revolutionary product that it is.

3. What is wrong with the Classic? It has the capacity to hold 30,000 songs and 150 hours of video, which is nearly four times the capacity of the 32 gig iPod Touch.

So here's my point, for all you iPod users and new iPod users, if you love music and love watching movies and TV shows, why would you get rid of the one product that does that the best?

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History of iTunes

If you don't know what iTunes is, you have been living under a rock since 2000. In 1999, SoundJam MP was released by a company known today Casady & Greene, which shut down in 2003.

At the time, SoundJam MP was the second audio focused application for Mac OS, next to Audion, developed by a now popular Mac OS X developer company named Panic. Apple first approached Panic about working together on Audion to create a audio focused application that came bundled with the operating system. However, Panic had been talking to AOL and was never able to meet with Apple about the bundled audio application. Apple then moved to SoundJam MP, bought it, , removed a few features, revamped the interface, and named it: iTunes. By version 2, there was complete support for Mac OS X and the original iPod.

Version 4 released the iTunes store. Possibly one of the greatest decisions Apple has ever made. Apple quickly acquired rights from various record companies to sell their music, and give them a percentage of the profit. Apple also introduced iTunes cards, which were pushed out to thousands of stores across the United States. The cards could be redeemed for credit on the iTunes store, rather than being charged to your credit card.

When Apple added support for Microsoft Windows, iPod sales shot up dramatically. Apple became champion of the MP3 world. More and more features began rolling out, ratings, TV Shows and Movies, Cover Flow, Multiple languages, International iTunes Stores, Rentals, and then, Apple released the App Store for iPod Touch and iPhone.

The App Store update was just as successful as the release of the iTunes Store it's self, companies not even associated with music began developing applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Games, Social Networking tools, Medical tools, GPS and turn-by-turn, MS Exchange, and more were now all on the iPhone, and all of it had to be done with iTunes.

Though there are copies and competition of the iPods and iPhones there is surely nothing quite like iTunes.

JD

My Bite Into Apple

iPod Classic Makes Comeback?

With September around the corner, several rumors have been floating around regarding the future state of Apple's iPod lineup, several leading to the possible death of the iPod Classic.  Apple's only remaining harddrive based player has taken the back seat to the iPod Touch and Nano as of late, so no one seemed surprised at the notion that life at Apple would soon exist without the Classic model.  That was until today.  Taiwan's Digitimes suggests that not only will the iPod Classic continue, but "OmniVision will be the sole supplier of 3.2-megapixel [CMOS image sensor] products for new iPod nano, iPod classic and iPod Touch models which will be launched in September."  Can't get more direct than that.

Shocked?  So am I.  Granted these are just rumors, but I don't know if you guys have noticed the rumor mill seems to be pretty reliable these days.  Only time will tell if September 9 marks the death or rebirth of the semi-original iPod.

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iPod Scratch Repair?

We all hate it when our devices get scratched. We buy cases to protect them, and products to fix them, but somehow we always end up with annoying scratches all over our devices. If this doesn't apply to you, then I commend you. Can you teach me how to keep my devices pristine?

If not, I may have a solution to certain scratched devices. I was digging round the internet the other day, searching for ways to repair scratched iPods on the cheap, and some of the stuff I found just seemed crazy.

The first method I found simply involved buffing the iPod up with Brasso, which didn't seem too outrageous. The second was strange; rubbing a banana over it?

I realized I had nothing to lose, as neither product (as long as I was careful) would permanently damage my iPod. So why not try them both? People had had success with both methods, so in my mind it seemed like a 'cheap iPod repair' super-twin power.

This is what I did;

I firstly cleaned the iPod as I usually would with a pack from iClear. I then peeled my banana and broke a piece off. I flattened down one of the ends and began to rub it all over my iPod. Once there was a fine coating of potassium rich banana flesh on my ipod, I tore off a piece of the banana skin. The science behind this part was extremely simple. The idea was to use the skin to remove the little pieces of banana, the science being using similar fibers to connect to other fibers (like using a piece of egg shell to remove smaller pieces of egg shell in a whisked egg mix.)

Once all the little pieces were removed, I rubbed a cloth over it to remove the banana juice. Lint free cloth works best. Then with the same cloth, I poured Brasso onto it and began to buff up the back and the front. Once that was complete, I then cleaned it once more with iClear.

Now as I said previously, both the methods on their own have worked for other people on various kinds of iPods, so give it a go. What have you got to lose? Did it work for me? Find out in the video below;

-Adam