Apple TV Review

Hello everyone, Alex here from ace4vikings productions. Today I am doing a written and video review (you can see above) of the Apple TV. The Apple TV can do many great things with your iTunes content, which I will be explaining to you today. The Apple TV can connect to your HD TV via component cables or HDMI. When you first turn on your Apple TV, you will be asked to open iTunes on your Mac or PC. Under the Devices category you will see, APPLE TV, and be asked to name your device. You can name it anything you want. You will also be asked to sync your iTunes content onto your Apple TV. You can choose to do the automatic sync or you can do a custom sync. For a custom sync you can choose what to sync in your iTunes library instead of syncing all of your content. The Apple TV has a few distinct categories such as Movies, Music, TV Shows, Podcasts, Photos, Internet, and Settings. Please let me break down each category (excluding settings). The Apple TV has a 160 GB Hard Drive. The Apple TV costs $229.

Movies: You can browse all of the newest released movies and purchase or rent a movie in standard or HD quality. You can browse by New Releases, Top Sales, Genre etc. Sometimes a new released movie won’t be available to rent until a certain date. Remember the Apple TV is synced to your iTunes account, so you can purchase or rent the movie right on the Apple TV. Standard quality movies usually cost $14.99 to buy and $19.99 to purchase in HD.

TV Shows: Browsing all of the latest released TV Show episodes is very easy with the Apple TV. You can browse by category such as, Top Shows of the Year, TV Network, Hottest TV Episodes, etc. A TV Episode usually costs $1.99 in standard quality and $2.99 in HD quality.

Music: You can browse and buy all of the newest released music on the Apple TV. You can choose from the Top Songs, New & Noteworthy, and by Genre of Music. A song usually starts at $0.99 or $1.29.

Podcasts: Browsing Podcasts is made simple with the Apple TV. You can now watch a full video podcast on your HD TV, instead of using your very small iPod or iPhone Screen.

Photos: Syncing your photos is very easy with the Apple TV. You can sync photos from your Mobile Me or Flikr account. You can even make a custom screen saver out of your photos downloaded onto your Apple TV.

Internet: The Internet feature gives you full access to YouTube and an Internet Radio. Watching YouTube is great on the Apple TV. You can browse by the Featured Videos, Most Viewed, etc. You can even log in to your YouTube account and view your favorite videos.

Thank you for taking the time to read my review. I hope this review was useful and helped you out.

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

iTunes Introduces Digital 45's: Two Songs 1 Price.

Recently, Apple has put Digital 45s in the iTunes Store. For those of you who don't know what Digital 45 is, it is a type of music that holds two songs in one. There are two sides of an original Digital 45: Side A and Side B. Side A would have a popular song and Side B would have a lesser know track or a special. For example the song Billie Jean by the King Michael Jackson is side A and Can't Get Outta The Rain a lesser know song is side B. These Digital 45s will cost you $1.49 USD to $1.99 USD respectively. iTunes has many great D45s in the store and I hope that they will add more.

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Bodega- The Mac App Store

The iPhone and iPod Touch have the Apple App Store, but why can't the Mac have one? Well this may be the response- Bodega. In this video below, I will give you a look at the application and what it does.

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My Top 5 App Store Picks

In front of me, now, is my iPod Touch. On it, the Top Five applications, paid and free, that I am about to recommend to you people!

1. - Backgrounds [FREE] - Backgrounds is a great app in which to get free images and backgrounds for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It has a great user interface including multiple options to browse with as well as sorting options. This makes finding great backgrounds fast, easy and fun.

2. - Arcade Hoops [$1.99] - Arcade Hoops is a fun and addictive game that challenges you to make as many shots as possible. It has two modes: Classic and Progressive. The only difference: the shooting length "progresses" during gameplay making it a fun and challenging way to see how amny shots you can make. PLUS you can share your scores online around the world and compete against millions of other online players to get to number in the rankings.

3. - Pocket God [$1.99] - Pocket God is a great app that has come SUCH a long way. After a numerous amount of updates, it became one of the top selling apps in the entire store. In Pocket God, you are the "God" of an island filled with little villagers. You can torture them in any way imaginable or just play around! See what you can do with Pocket God in the app store.

4. - Trace [FREE] - Not all the best apps cost money. Trace is an amazing strategy game that has a simple objective: get the little stick man to the other side of the screen. However, you must draw your way through this exciting adventure. With hundreds of levels, this game will keep you playing for a long time without getting bored a single bit.

5. - Yo Mama - [FREE] - Yo Mama is one of my personal favorites because I'm not the best at making my own jokes. For those of you like me, you know that we all just steal other peoples jokes! Yo Mama is the best app for tons of hilarious Yo Mama jokes for you to use. Who's the funny guy now?

Other good apps:

BeeJive IM - [$15.99]

Enigmo - [$1.99]

Super Monkey Ball - [$9.99]

Grand Lite - [Free]

Urban Spoon - [Free]

Band - [$9.99]

Arcade Bowling - [$1.99]