Time lists iPod touch among its best inventions of the year

Time lists iPod touch among its best inventions of the year

"The new star of Apple's iPod lineup steals more than looks from the iPhone," reads the description of iPod touch in Time's assessment of the Best Inventions of the Year. "It sports the same brilliant 3.5-in. (9 cm) wide-screen video display with touch controls, and built-in wi-fi lets you surf the Web, check e-mail and even buy and immediately download iTunes tracks on the fly."

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iPod touch “the clear frontrunner” among flash players

iPod touch "the clear frontrunner" among flash players

"Boy, this baby is beautiful," Tim Gideon (pcmag.com) says of the iPod touch. "After reviewing the freshest crop of flash-based music and video players, Gideon concluded that with its "cool-looking glass display, a built-in Web browser, and the ability to buy music wirelessly" iPod touch was "the best of the bunch."

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Touch-screen shortage, Office 2008, Mac Pro RAID card; iPhone

Touch-screen shortage, Office 2008, Mac Pro RAID card; iPhone

A shortage of touch-screens for Apple's new iPod touch player is having an adverse affect on the NAND flash market. Meanwhile, Microsoft is offering new upgrade incentives to customers who purchase Office 2004 ahead of January's Office 2008 launch. A...

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iPod nano: “one of the most enticing iPods” ever

iPod nano: "one of the most enticing iPods" ever

Calling it "awesome," Digital Trends lavishes praise on the new iPod nano. "It's thin, sexy, easy to use, holds plenty of music, videos and photos. The sound quality is impressive," and the review concludes, "video quality is great, too."

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Learning creatively at the Western Academy of Beijing

Learning creatively at the Western Academy of Beijing

Teachers at the Western Academy of Beijing have created a 1-to-1 learning program that's second to none, letting students work at their own pace, collaborate with one another, or get assistance from a teacher—or the Help Desk—with absolute ease. Students from all over the world use iLife on their Mac notebooks to create multimedia projects. To share their work with friends and family back home, they use iWeb, creating online digital portfolios they can update as frequently as they'd like. And they study Chinese on the go with iPod, using digital flash cards and podcasts to augment traditional curricula.

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iPhone leads in Stuff’s “Cool List 2007”

iPhone leads in Stuff's "Cool List 2007"

"The mobile to end all mobiles pipped all the other top-name entries to earn the planet's biggest gadget accolade," according to the editors at Stuff. "The touchscreen device redefined how humans interact with their phones as well as offering almost every feature no self-respecting mobile should be without," they conclude. And iPhone wasn't the only honoree. "Sporting video playback and a scroll wheel," iPod nano made the "Cool List" for 2007 gadgets. And Stuff readers voted iPod "the greatest gadget ever." Cool.

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Apple to air student-made TV ad; Aperture & Backup updates

Apple to air student-made TV ad; Aperture & Backup updates

A new iPod Touch TV spot due to begin airing Sunday night isn't the work of an Apple bigwig or members of the company's ad agency, but rather a teenage student. Meanwhile, Apple has updated Aperture for Leopard and also posted new versions of Backup,...

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Warner Music may not renew yearly iTunes contract - report

Warner Music may not renew yearly iTunes contract - report

Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry by courting struggling record labels to his iPod + iTunes ecosystem, but his bargaining position hasn't been as strong when it comes to video content. As a result, some music companies are now starting ...

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Colorful iPod / iPhone Skins From Digital Camo

Colorful iPod / iPhone Skins From Digital Camo

A new line of designer skins from Digital Camo have been released for the 2G iPod shuffle, 2G/3G iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod touch, and iPhone. Crafted from 7-mil vinyl, these skins utilize...

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Apple's Macintosh Is Rolling Thunder

Apple's Macintosh Is Rolling Thunder

This is an iPod site, we know. But Apple recently posted it's Q3 financials and what they show of Mac sales is nothing short of amazing. John Gruber sums it up rather nicely.Apple sold 2.2 million...

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iPod.iTunes 3.6.1 Released

iPod.iTunes 3.6.1 Released

crispSofties has released iPod.iTunes v3.6.1. iPod.iTunes is a track / playlist sync assistant that saves time and effort by preventing the syncing of duplicate tracks from Mac to iPod.Unlike other...

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The iPod's Dark Side: The iCrime Wave

The iPod's Dark Side: The iCrime Wave

We've posted a number of stories of the years concerning the theft of iPods and, in some unfortunate cases, the associated murder of their owners. According to Washington D.C. think tank The Urban...

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Senuti 0.50 Released

Senuti 0.50 Released

Whitney Young has posted the initial release of Senuti v0.50 for Mac OS X v10.3 (or higher). As described by the developer:"Senuti is a simple utility that makes transferring songs from an iPod to...

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iStyles Launches iPod shuffle 2nd Gen Skin Sets

iStyles Launches iPod shuffle 2nd Gen Skin Sets

iStyles Launches iPod shuffle 2nd Gen Skin Sets

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