By Bob Pardue

The audio books market has taken a turn recently toward audio books for iPods. With iPod products becoming so popular, many audio book companies are realizing the tremendous opportunity of using iPods to store and distribute audio books.

Let's take a look at how this works along with some pros and cons of developing audio books for iPods.

How do iPods Work for Audio Books?

Audio books are simply books that are spoken and then stored on an audio cassette tape or compact disk (CD). Those who lack the time or ability to read books often find audio books to be very enjoyable.

Children enjoy listening to their stories read aloud by audio book. They make great baby-sitters in the car while taking long family trips. Also, those traveling alone can enjoy a good book while driving. It's a great way to read without actually "reading!"

The iPod Stampede

Electronics consumers have been rushing out to get the latest technology called "iPods." Why? Because iPods have revolutionized the way audio is stored. Ipods are smaller than CD players, but can hold far more audio data.

Consumers can store their favorite music from many CDs onto one iPod unit. This saves time and storage space!

iPod owners can take their music or book on iPod with them wherever they go. Whether it's in the car, while taking a walk or bike ride, hiking, boating, etc. The possibilities are endless.

Pros of Creating Audio Books for iPods

There are many pros of creating audio books for iPods such as making more than one book available on one iPod player, providing an easy way to read books for those with a busy time schedule, and allowing children to listen to their favorite stories.

Many libraries are now offering iPod audio books on rental as they become more popular. This will save space and reduce maintenance costs. Books on tape usually require many tapes for one book. Books on CD reduced this to several CDs. With iPods, and entire book can fit into one file.

Another advantage is audio book files can be downloaded online from any computer. Public domain books are usually available at no charge.

Cons of Creating Audio Books for iPods

Though iPods can certainly make life easier for bookworms and music lovers there are a few disadvantages to creating audio books for iPods. iPods are still fairly new.

With any new technology, there will be many changes and "improvements" over the years to help quality, add features, increase memory, etc. iPods are still fairly expensive. Each year will offer new iPod technology that's better than the year before. So, consumers should be prepared to spend more dollars on new improved iPods to stay ahead.

Another disadvantage is that not all books are available for iPod just yet. So, it might be difficult to find some audio books.

To sum it up, audio books for iPods can provide great entertainment for those who love to read. And, as they become more popular, iPods will likely become more affordable for everyone.

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By Daniel Dwase


iPod compatibility on the original iPod was designed for use with Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X but Apple began selling a Windows-compatible iPod too on July 17, 2002. Apple released a Windows version of iTunes on October 16, 2003; previously, Windows users needed third-party
software such as Musicmatch Jukebox (included with Windows iPods before the release of the Windows version of iTunes), ephPod, or XPlay to manage the music on their iPods.

iPods originally shipped formatted with Apple's native filesystem, HFS Plus (Hierarchical File System) and consequently would only work with Apple's Mac OS because Windows does not support HFS Plus. An iPod formatted with HFS Plus is able to serve as a boot disk for a Macintosh computer, allowing one to have a usable, portable operating system installed on their iPod.

With the advent of the windows-compatible iPod, Apple switched iPod's default file system to FAT32 because FAT32 is the only file system that can be used natively with both Mac OS and Windows. Fourth-generation and earlier iPods could still be made to boot a Macintosh by reformatting their hard disks with HFS Plus.

The iPodLinux project has successfully ported an ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) version of the Linux kernel to run on iPods. It currently supports first through third generation iPods, and features simple installers for Mac OS X and Windows. The Linux interface is known as "Podzilla".

The interface will run on all iPods, however the development team does not support its usage. The iPod uses standard USB and FireWire mass-storage connectivity, and therefore any system with mass-storage support can mount it and use it as an external hard drive. The iPod will also charge from any powered USB or Firewire port, regardless of software support.

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By Mircea Cojocaru


All over the world, people carry with them walkmans and other music devices so that they can play their favorite music as they move around from place to place. The latest thing in the portable music devices field is the iPod, which offers a higher quality of the music being played and one of the most compact design out there.

The iPod allows you to play your music for an very long time (up to 12 hours for most of them) and have a huge amount of storage (some have 30GB). You can store thousands songs within a standard iPod and have instant access to them wherever you are at the moment. This makes them the perfect choice for your nowadays music necessities.

With iPods, transferring music from a CD takes less than 5 seconds, assuming that you use the FireWire and USB 2.0 support and can be transferred in a rather wide variety of formats, such as MP3, WMA, or AAC. With the iPods, users have the ability of importing songs from CDs, shuffling through songs, or choosing specific playlists, to name just a few of the iPods' features.

iPods are also equipped with a calendar, contact lists, notes and a musical alarm clock, which makes them more than just a portable music device, along with their huge storage capability. With them, you can take your files anywhere at any time, use memos as reminders and even record whatever you want with their microphone option.

iPods come with a wide variety of language support for languages like English, Italian, German etc. and models, such as iPod mini, iPod, iPod Special Edition and iPod Photo, each with its own storage capability (4GB for the iPods mini to 30GB for iPods Photo).

In addition to the device itself, a wide line of accessories are available for iPods, such as camera connector, power adapter, auto charger, car holder, voice recorder and many more.

In conclusion, with their high quality of the music being played, high storage capability, high transfer speed and all their functions, the iPods make the perfect choice if you are a music addict or just need a portable storage device.

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By Carly Charu


Music is intrinsic in each of us. We are swayed by the sounds of music every time we listen to any of our favorite songs. And in today's context of stiff competition and the tendency to outdo one another in every field, music also acts as a great stress buster. As a natural corollary, mobile music options as offered by the latest gadgets are in great demand. One can use these sophisticated gadgets to relax and de-stress after a long day's of work, even when one is on the move. Mobile phones with advanced music options as well as iPods are some of the most popular and widely bought gadgets. Apple iPods, with their great looks and impressive features score quite high in this context.

Since the day it was launched, the iPod from Apple has given the digital music player stiff competition.

Apple iPod with their varied models and features have made the consumers sit up and take notice. For one, the minute size and versatility in features have been responsible for the enhanced popularity of Apple iPods. The Apple iPod nano can be cited as a case in point. As is evident from the name, the Apple iPod nano is quite small when it comes to its size. With a mini size and color display and sufficient storage capacity, the Apple iPod nano is one of the more popular of Apple iPods.

The Apple iPod nano is very small and light. The gadget is designed aesthetically and is an example of engineering brilliance. One can easily carry this Apple iPod in the pocket of one's jeans. Ipod nano comes with several accessories; headphones, a dock adapter and a USB cable are some among them.

The sound quality of Apple iPods are rather good; which explains the popularity that these gadgets enjoy. Some of the more popular Apple iPods are Apple iPod nano; iPod Shuffle; and the Apple iPod color line. These and other iPods definitely making an impression on tech-savvy music lovers the world over. Then there are the third generation (3G) iPods which are an improvement over the first and second generation of Apple iPod.

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By Steven Francesco Simpson


Cheap and free iPods are available in a lot of places, the internet however only has a limited few. A lot of sites demand expensive fees, but for the cheapest there are a few sites which will satisfy a lot of buyers interests. It is possible to buy iPods brand new for as little as one hundred dollars. This is a bargain and you should be on the look out for these.

Some of my friends actually buy iPods for cheap prices and then sell them again for more expensive prices, making a solid profit. The product is a major seller around the world, the most popular music product which has sold hundreds of millions of the stock in different countries around the globe. The popularity of these products by apple will only continue to improve, eventually until they are brought in poor countries and continents such as Asia and Africa.

So if you looking out for an iPod then make sure you look across a lot of sites. The more you search for them on the internet the more the cheapest price will continue to lower and the more money you will save when purchasing the product. Make sure you spend a lot of time on the shopping process, as it is not a waste of time, it is worth it. Also check that the supplier has a good name, if you do not want to take the risk make sure you buy the product from apple who will always sell products of the highest quality.

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By Samuel Herrick


Music has universal appeal. However, the ways of enjoying the same is changing for the better. Take Apple iPods, for instance. As a matter of fact, the use of Apple iPods is one of the most popular ways in which people in today's world are listening to music - even when they are on the move. Apple iPods, with their sleek looks and a range of innovative features, are making their presence felt in many lives the world over.

There are several factors for the rising popularity of Apple iPods. For one, they are portable and easy to carry around. Users can easily carry their Apple iPods with them from one place to another. For music lovers, this translates into their favorite songs being with them 24 hours a day - seven days a week. Secondly, Apple iPods come with easy interfaces - making them simple to possess and use.

The sound quality is mesmerizing; people with a ear for music would not be disappointed with the sound output of the Apple iPods. Since its launch, the Apple iPods have been giving tough competition to digital music players so much so that quite a large portion of the market for music players has been taken over by iPods. The Apple iPod nano is one of the more popular Apple iPods currently available in the market.

Light in weight and small in size, the Apple iPod Nano is a must buy for tech-savvy people who want to possess the latest and the best that is currently available. The color display is impressive and the storage is ample making the nano one of its kind. The design of this gadget is rather aesthetic making it one of the more "in-demand" iPods from Apple. Apple iPod nano, iPod Shuffle, Apple iPod color line and 3G iPods are some of the other popular Apple iPods that have taken the mobile music industry by storm. It can be concluded that Apple iPods are a great way to listen to music

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By Gagan Kumar Makin


The nano technology is giving the new shapes to electronics gadgets. VLSI (Very large scale integrated circuits) is used to make electronics devices of small size. All electronics devices contain chips and each chip consists of billion of transistors. Manufacturing these chips small by using transistors are done by nano technology. And the example of this is ipods.

As in past walk man's are very popular in demands but is run only by cassettes but these walk man's are no longer in demand they have taken the shape of ipods, ipods shuffle.

Ipods are better not only in size but also by features. The walkman's requires battery which is in the form of pencil cells but these ipods are very much advantages as it has inbuilt batteries which are rechargeable means you don't have to waste money on buying pencil cell again and again. One more beneficial thing is that it has inbuilt memory no cassettes, or external part is required for the songs. They provide the memory space that it can store millions of mp3 and mp4 songs in the small ipods having negligible weight, size.

Ipods are classified Mp3 ipods, Mp4 Ipods. Bootable mp4 player

Ipods are of two type audio ipods, video ipods. In audio ipods there is option to listen the songs but in the video ipods there are options to see video and hear audio mp3 songs.

There are different manufacturers in the market for ipods like apple. Apple is one of the leading manufacturer of ipods not only in one country but also worldwide. Apple ipods are available with different configuration, in attractive size, attractive colors like pink, white, means thousands of colors are available. Apple ipods shuffle provides memory space of 1 GB, 2 GB up to 8 GB.

Now the latest launched these devices are vanish the name of ipods and emerging in the form
1) Ipod nano 4gb which is available in 4 different colors and 8gb ipod nano which is available in 2 different colors

2) Ipod touch which is available in 8 gb and 16 gb

3) Ipod Classic

All three ipod nano, touch and classic are the product of apple. Apple is the market leader of these nano, touch, and classic ipods.

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By Pearl White


The Apple iPod, what can be said about this fine little electronic marvel? The iPod is a very neat little techno gadget, portable media player that can be used to store downloadable music with the basic iPod Shuffle to the now much sought after iPod Touch.

The question is, "Where To Find Very Cheap iPods?"

Well, first let me tell you a little bit more about these compact portable media players. First, there was the Apple iPod Classic. This little handy dandy player was first marketed by Apple in 2001. Of course, as you all know it has a 1.8 gig hard drive used for storage and can hold quite a few songs.

There is also the iPod Shuffle, Nano and the high end spinoff the iPod Photo. To the ever popular iPod Touch.

The new generation of iPods have a capacity of from 4 Gigabytes to as much as 180 gigabytes of storage! That is alot of storage and they just keep increasing.

The iPods can be found at almost any brick and mortar store such as Walmart, Pennny's, Best Buy and such. But, these portable media players can be found in abundance almost anywhere you look, even online. But, finding very cheap iPods are a different story.

Finding very cheap iPods can be as easy as searching in newspaper classifieds, Craigslist, and more. But, they are usually used. What we want to do here is find very cheap iPods that are new or fairly new and at very reasonable prices.

We have found several websites where iPods are selling and about 60% or more off the retail price, new and with warranties. You just have to be patient and search until you find the one you like. We have seen some great discounts for the iPod Touch at this site as well. So good luck in finding your very cheap iPods.

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by Lucy


Currently, Apple only provides you with one way to put movies on ipod: The iTunes Store. Using only iTunes means you're stuck paying for movies you may already own. Luckily, Apple doesn't prevent you from putting properly formatted movies on the device, and we know some ways to format them. Grab some popcorn and let's get started.

Step 1: Download Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper Download the latest version of Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper. In order to get DVD movies on iPod, we have to get a DVD ripper software, because DVD's have copyright on them and this tool removes the copyright protection, and then you can rip the DVD movie to iPod mp4 format. then you can get the movies onto ipod nano , iPod video, iPod classic and iPod touch.

Step 2. Load DVD movies

Open Wondershare DVD to ipod ripper, and click Load File. Here we can load three kind of DVD's: 1. Real DVD, just put the DVD in your DVD drive and click Load DVD, ( you can find it by clicking the triangle on the right of 'Load File' button.) 2. DVD ISO image, you can amount your iso files in the daemon tools and then load the virtual DVD drive. 3. A DVD folder, sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it appears like "Video_ts" "audio_ts" folders. You can load it by clicking the "load DVD folders" button.

Step 3. Subtitle, Audio, Output Settings

DVD provides multi languages Subtitle. You can click the drop-down menu to select anyone you want. Select "Audio" is the same. To "Save as", enter the full path or select the path where you want to save your video files by clicking the icon in the right side.

Step 4. Further editing the movie. (Optional)

Movie trimming: If you only want to get a segment of DVD movies onto iPod nano, iPod video, iPod classic and iPod touch, you can trim the movies by setting the start time and end time. Video Cropping: This feature enables you to crop a defined area on the video to output, you can also use it to cut off the black borders of DVD movies. Merging titles: You can merge several titles into one single file, even the titles are not consecutive. There are also some other features that you can apply to your movies, you can find them by yourselves.

Step 5. Get the converted DVD movies onto iPod

Finally, you can upload the mp4 file to iPod nano , iPod video, iPod classic and iPod touch using itunes. If your iPod is an iPod video, you can use the built-in iPod Video Transfer to help you transfer DVD movies.

by Johnatan Maxwell

Now we can hardly find a person who doesn't know Apples great product an iPod. It has become a kind of symbol like the Mercedes or the Rolex. Launched on October 2001, it has made a revolution in the field of music players and changed the way people think about music players. They are no more old big boxes which look really ugly. The IPod has a better look than any other music player in the market. Modern and sleek, compact and roomy, the item has entered Western culture and has made a great impact in every sphere from culture to economics.

Still not everyone is aware of the history of ipod and that's why we can face a great number of questions like: who invented the iPod, who was the first with the idea of iPod's, who is the real creator of the iPod? As the question is very popular, I'll try to answer it. So my article today is related to the topic of who invented the iPod. In reality, we can't name just one person that can be pointed as the actual inventor of the iPod. And the iPod wasn't invented in our traditional understanding of the word. Its concept and design came into being in 2001. There already existed MP3 players which were created by German research center. But Apple had a desire to make MP3 players somehow smaller and more stylish.

For this reason ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardware engineering team with Jon Rubinstein in charge started developing of the item. The product was to be developed in less than one year. Jon Rubenstein can be credited to putting the initial pieces together. He did a great deal of research work to see if such a device was even possible and they found out that it was.

The outward look came about when Jonathan Ive was hired to create what was to be the iPod. He designed the whole thing to be pleasing to the eye, to feel like it deserved expensive, and to be hip. In his usual style, designer Jonathan Ive designed the iPod to be smart and compact. And thus, the mp3 became something much more it became the iPod.