Archive for November, 2009

How to Activate your iPhone

November 11th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

You’ve made the purchase and you made in home – with a quick stop at book store to pick up the book you’re currently holding – and you’re ready to start using the phone. Not so fast, hot shot. You’ve got some setting up to do. Your first step is activation. Instead of waiting inside a cell phone store, you actually set up teh iPhone yourself using Apple’s music management software called iTunes. Here’s how you do it.

  1. If you are already running an Apple OS X machine purchased in the last couple of years, you probably already have iTunes installed. Windows users may or may not have already installed iTunes. Never mind that, because you want to make sure you have the latest version anyway. Open up a web browser and type apple(dot)com/itunes/download into the address bar. (more…)
Posted in iPhone Tags: No Comments »

What is an iPhone and How is it different form other cell phones?

November 10th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

The iPhone is, first and foremost, a cell phone, However, as Apple Inc’s CEO Steve Jobs said when unveiling the iPhone at MacWorld 2009, it’s these three devices integrated together that makes the iPhone such a remarkable piece of hardware. More specifically, the thing that makes the iPhone as such so great isn’t even in the hardware itself – the secret sauce is in the software.

That’s right – it’s the software that makes the iPhone such a revolutionary phone. Not only does the iPhone have easy-to-access speed dial lists, call history, and contacts, but there’s a giant traditional dial pad as well. But most phones have this already, you say, so what’s different here? In one world: integration. It’s in the way that you can easily bring up your friends addresses in Google Maps, the flawles way they sync with Address Book on the Mac and Outlook on the PC, and the convenient way you can quickly assign unique ringtones and pictures to all your contacts. These functions are present to other phones, of course, but they require a Batman-like level of technical knowledge to get to.

(more…)

Posted in iPhone Tags: No Comments »

Get your PC or Mac Ready to work with an iPod or iPhone

November 9th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

If your PC or Mac is a recent model, it probably is ready to work with whichever new iPod you choose. If it’s older, or if it’s a budget model, or if you’ve picked up an older iPod, you may need to add new components

Here are the requirements for an iPod classic, an iPod touch, an iPod nano, an iPod shuffle, or an iPhone:

  • A PC running windows Vista(Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise Edition) or either window XP Home Edition or Windows XP professional with Service Pack 3, or a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4.10(Tiger) ir Mac OS X 10.5(Leopard).
  • A USB port. It’s best to have a high-power USB 2.0 port, although you can scrape by with a USB 1.x port if you’re prepared to be patient. This USB port must deliver enough power to recharge the iPod or iPhone. If your keyboard has a built-in USB port (as many Apple keyboards do), chances are that it doesn’t deliver enough power for recharging.
  • An optional drive(a CD drive ot a DVD drive) if you want to be able to rip songs form CDs to put on the iPod or iPhone.
  • A CD burner if you want to burn CDs from iTunes, or a DVD burner if you want to be able to burn both DVDs and CDs (Most modern optical drives include burning capabilities).

Why USB 2.0 makes a Huge Difference to using an iPod or iPhone

  • USB 2.0 is up to 40 times faster than USB 1.x, so you’ll definitely want USB 2.0. If you have the choice. USB 1.x has a top speed of 12 megabits per second(Mbps), which translates to a maximum transfer of about 1.5 MB of data per second. USB 2.0 has a top speed of 400 Mbps, which gives a data transfer rate of about 60 MB per second.
  • As a result of this difference, loading an iPod via a USB 2.0 port will go far faster than via a USB 1.x port. The difference is most painful when you’re loading an iPod classic, but you’ll feel the pinch of USB 1.x even with the lower capacity of an iPod shuffle or an iPod nano.Apple will no doubt release higher-capacity iPods and iPhones in the years to come, but USB will be improving its act too. USB 3.0, known as SuperSpeed USB, will provide up to 5 gigabits per second(Gbps), will be backward compatible with USB 2.0 and is expected to arrive in 2010.
Posted in iPhone Tags: , , , 4 Comments »

How to Buy an iPod or iPhone for less than full Price

November 7th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

If you’s refer not to pay full price for an iPod or iPhone, consider the alternatives:

  • Buy a fefurbished iPod or iPhone from Apple: Apple sells refurbished iPods and iPhones at a discount – sometimes up to a third off the normal price. To find them, search the Apple store for refurbished iPod or refurbished iPhone. These iPods and iPhones have a one-year limited warranty, which you should read before buying one. You can also buy AppleCare to extend the coverage, although this is typically worthwhile only for the most extensive models.
  • Buy a reconditioned iPod or iPhone from another vendor: eBay and other sites carry reconditioned iPods and iPhones. However, you will not normally get a warranty, and it may be hard to determine the quality of the reconditioning.
  • Grab an old iPhone or iPod when a relative or sibling upgrades: If you know someone who simply must have the latest technology, get ready to jump in line for their existing device.

    • fear of speaking in public

    Used cnc lathes

Posted in iPhone Tags: , No Comments »

Choose the iPod or iPhone that’s best for you

November 6th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

By ruthlessly discounting earlier iPod models even when they were selling strongly, apple has made the process of choosing among the different iPods pretty straightforward:

  • If you need a mobile phone that includes an iPod(or vice versa), buy an iPhone.
  • If you need the smallest player possible, or a player for active pursuits, get an iPod shuffle.
  • If you want the cutest medium-capacity player, go for an iPod nano. The iPod nano is great for smaller libraries, or for carrying only the newest or most exciting songs and videos in your colossal library with you, but its lower capacity makes it a poor value alongside the iPod classic.
  • If you want to carry as many songs and videos as possible with you, buy the iPod classic model.
  • If you want to watch videos, send mail, surf the web, and run applications on the iPod, but you don’t want to pay for an iPhone contract, get an iPod touch.
Posted in iPhone Tags: , , , , No Comments »

Why the iPod’s or iPhone’s capacity Appears to be less than Advertised

November 3rd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

One hundred twenty gigabytes is a luge amount of music – around 30,000 four minute songs at the ipod classic’s default audio quality, or enough for about 80 days solid listening. It’s also a decent amount of video: about 700 hours at the compression rate the iTunes Store uses. But unfortunately, you don’t actually get the amount of hard disk space that’s written on the iPod or iPhone.

(more…)

Posted in iPhone No Comments »

App sorting improved with iTunes 9.0.2

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

iTunes

Apple released iTunes 9.0.2, an update that included additional improvements to app sorting for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In early September, Apple offered a bug fix for arranging apps on iTunes after the release of iTunes 9.0 and later that same month Apple released iTunes 9.0.1. Progress was made in squashing some of the bugs Apple found, but the app sorting feature was still pretty tedious to use and nearly impossible to use if the number of apps on your iPhone exceeded 176.

Apple has resolved this problem by displaying the apps past the first 176 onto home screens that are grayed out. These home screens, numbered 12 or higher, will not currently display on your iPhone, but at least now you have a chance of grabbing apps from these screens and moving them to another visible screen. You should keep in mind that any apps on the home screens past the first 11 will only be accessible via a Spotlight search.

Problems sorting apps were not completely resolved by this iTunes update if all the home screens and the extra ones are completely populated. In this case, you lose any chance of moving the apps around effectively. However, there is a work-around–simply sync one more app back to your iPhone and iTunes will add another grayed-out home screen. The exception being that this screen will now be mostly empty giving you the work space you need to get your apps sorted the way you want them. When you are done, make sure that extra app is the only one left on the extra home screen and delete it once you are satisfied with the way your apps or home screens are arranged.

iTunesThis last step is optional; however, I recommend you perform it to prevent apps from accidentally being placed onto this screen. If you add more apps by syncing or purchases iPhone OS will recreate it.

Posted in iPhone News Tags: , , 2 Comments »

The iPod classic and what it does

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

iPodThe iPod classic is the sixth generation of regular iPod. The iPod classic is a protable music and video player with a huge capacity, a rechargeable battery good for 8 to 15 hours of music playback (less if you watch a lot of video), and easy-to-use controls.

The iPod classic is built around the type of hard drive used in small laptop computers and comes at this writing only in a 120GB capacity. (The capacity is engraved on the back of the iPod.) Larger hard disks are available, but not yet in the slimline format that the iPod classic needs. So far, as hard-disk manufacturers have released higher-capacity hard disks. Apple has continued to release higher-capacity iPods, so the maximum capacity seems certain to rise. The more space on the iPod’s hard disk, the more songs, video, or other data you can carry on it.

The iPod classic has a 2.5 inch color screen with a resolution of 320*240 pixels, which is called Quarter VGA resolution, or QVGA for short. (VGA resolution is 640*480 pixels – twice as much in each direction, so four times as much overall.) The screen can display videos, photos, and album covers as well as the iPod’s menus, information about the song that’s currently playing, and text-based items, such as your contacts, calendars, and notes.

Posted in iPhone Tags: , No Comments »

The iPod touch and what it does

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

iphoneThe iPod touch resembles an iPhone without the phone, the camera, and the waistline. Like the iPhone, the iPod touch has a large, touch-sensitive screen that you use to control most of its functions, from playing back songs and videos to surfing the web via a wireless network and sending mail.

The iPod touch has an on/ off button on the top, a volume rocker button on the side, and the Home button below the screen. It has a minimailst built-in-speaker that’s just about adequote for games, but you’ll want to use headphones or exiternal speakers for listening to any audio you want to hear well

Posted in iPhone Tags: , No Comments »
Newer Entries »


  • Featured Video