Category: iPod

5 posts

Must-have iPod Software

by kai on 19/08/2004

Two days ago I attached my iPod (3rd Generation) to an amplifier and to my car. I wondered about the fact it was very difficult to get it to play music loud, I had to pull up the volume of the device and the amplifier dramatically.Strange...Hmmm...today I found the solution. Apple limited the possible volume of the iPod for European devices. No idea why - are European ear more sensible when it…

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Macromedia goes iPOD

by kai on 16/08/2004

Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers created Take-Away, a collection of mp3 audio files containing the latest Macromedia community news aggregated by MXNA. The nice feature is: I could try to convice the tax authority to accept my iPOD as a tax expense, because I use it for work now ;)

Take-Away allows you to download textual news which appear as notes on your iPOD or to download the real audio stuff which is read by a computer voice.

iTunes 4.6 installation issues

by kai on 16/06/2004

I accidentally downloaded iTunes 4.6 US Version yesterday to upgrade mit 4.5 installation. After installing it - I even didn't wonder why all messages pop up in Englisch suddenly *g* - I ended up with a totally messed up iTunes. It didn't find my library again and asked me to link my iPod with a new (blank) lib...args! Strange, because I got my music files in a seperate folder and didn't use the…

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Apple opened iTunes for European users

by kai on 16/06/2004

Yoohoo, Apple finally made it and opened up their iTunes shop for European users (at least for UK, France and Germany). That's great because they offer a very huge archive of songs for a very reasonable pricing. Apple takes 0.99 Eurocent per song or 9.99 Euros for a complete album (at least for the most of them). But the big advantage is that they use a very user-friendly DRM concept. The songs…

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Er ist da...

by kai on 17/05/2004

...mein iPod. Auf ein Bild verzichte ich, wer trotzdem keine Ahnung haben sollte, was ein iPod ist, möge hier mal schauen. Na gut, es ist ein MP3-Player und eine tragbare Festplatte. Nachdem ich nun lange mit mir gehadert habe und mir auch mehrfach überlegt habe, ob ich nicht vielleicht einen anderen MP3-Player möchte - in Neudeutsch: "das Produkt eines Marktbegleiters von Apple" - habe ich mich…

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