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Just in time for the holiday season, Apple today unveiled a massive revision to it’s 110 million selling iPod line.
The revisions began with the iPod Shuffle, this small iPod is the size of a stamp and clips onto a lapel or shirt collar in a discreet manner suitable for bringing on trips to places that an iPod Nano might be too valuable to have, lke the beach, a jog through the woods, or when you’ve got to carry as little as possible. The iPod shuffle is now available in five new colors, including a Product (Red) edition which benefits African charities, they are still $79.
The iPod Nano received one of it’s most sensational revisions yet when the third generation became a video playing, game playing slender and sleek model. The iPod Nano starts at $149 for the 4GB model and $199 for the 8GB model, prior to hands on testing, the blogosphere was concerned it was too broad, but Engadgets Ryan Block said this after getting hands on with it at the Moscone center:
Ok, we know we’ve been calling it the fatty, but we’ll be straight up with you guys: the third gen iPod nano is friggin’ tiny. It’s maybe not the most beautifully proportioned iPod we’ve ever seen, but its tapered edges and ridiculously thin frame make up for the squatness going on here.
The iPod that we’ve known and loved has gotten a beautiful aluminum wrapper and beefed up storage, it can now hold 80GB of music videos and pictures for $249 or 160GB for $349. The iPod classic is exactly what can be expected a sleek and good looking elder iPod who seems content to hand the throne over to the successor King, his beautiful and technologically amazing son, the iPod Touch
The iPod Touch is the iPod to rule them all, Multi Touch Wide Screen Display, Web Browser, iTunes purchasing on the go, slender as can be, and absolutely gorgeous. Starting at $299, it’s got a generous 8GB of storage and goes up to 16GB of storage for $399 (at which price you can also now buy an iPhone 8GB model)
The iPod Touch and iPhone have similar feature sets with the iPhone having enough extras to make it a tantalizing temptation, Maps, Email, and, Camera are certainly three of the top reasons I’ve got my iPhone, it’s a business tool through and through, the iPhone meets a certain user set and I’ve a feeling the iPod touch is going to meet the larger user set who is simply seeking an iPod, after all, two days ago folks were paying $249 for an 8GB Nano with a small screen, they’ll surely love a full screen multi touch display, with Wifi web browsing and iTunes purchasing built in. They don’t even need a Mac or PC anymore to fill it with Music.
Both the iPhone and iPod Touch are gaining the superpower of Wireless iTunes purchasing through a new custom application that looks nice and simple.
With this revision of the iPod lineup, Apple is sure to reignite the interest of consumers and leave competing music players scrambling for competitive solutions, the iPhone price drop is a masterful piece of Machiavellian marketing, let Steve Ballmer and others scoff at the iPhone for the last six months, “Pfff, $600 for a phone!”
Then stun all by making it incredibly affordable, to compare, examine the price of unlocked Palm Treo’s and Rimm Blackberries, both sets of smart phones are in the $350 plus price range with the Palm 750 at $599. Out of the clear blue sky the iPhone is now a major competitor on price and a clear winner in terms of functionality.
One more feature worth noting is the existence of CoverFlow on all three of the new iPod models, iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Touch, more than making these devices incredibly sexy to navigate, this confirms the existence of a OS X style operating system under the hood, great news for all Mac Programmers, developers and users, it verifies Apple’s commitment to the OS and their skills in advancing their software for the benefit of customers.
To ask questions about the new range of iPods, send email to brendan@auburncom.com, telephone 415-871-9683 or leave a comment on this page.
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Friends and Regular readers will already be aware that my friends outside Los Angeles, Dreamhost, provide the very best Web Hosting in terms of reliability, security, customer service and value.
After my clients sign up with Dreamhost, they get a lot of features, PHP, MySQL on the backend, lots of one click installs for great Web applications like Wordpress, Mambo, WebGallery and lots more, but, they also get 5000 email address spaces to give to friends, family and employees, volunteers or even specific causes, e.g. comments@yourdomain.com, stories@yourdomain.com.
Dreamhost mail supports industry standard mail functionality including Webmail (Squirrel Mail), Spam Filtering (Spam Assassin) and Mail Forwarding.
To set up an extra email account under your Dreamhost account, follow these steps, this email tutorial guide is brought to you by San Francisco’s Favorite Mac Repair, Service and Consultants, AuburnCom, if you’d like to see tutorial’s for other issues write to brendan@auburncom.com
First, point your browser to Dreamhost, then enter your information like the image below shows.
Secondly, click “Mail” in the navigation bar to the left of the Dreamhost Panel as shown below:
Next click on “Manage email”
You’re almost there! You’ll now be seeing something similar to the picture below,
click on “create new email address”
From here on, it’s quite straightforward to setup the email account, default options will be fine for most users, any email address you creat can be removed, modified or enhanced at any time in the future, so there’s no need to fret over whether to allocate 200mb for space or 2000mb for space.
You will however want to decide whether to use that powerful “Forward Only Email Address” or a standard email address, the forward only email address can work great for friends who need to be contactable through the offical company or organization’s web address but would rather have their email centralized.
We provide lots of Web Strategy advice for individuals and companies in the Bay Area and would be happy to meet with you or give a support call to you if you’d like some further help with this, call 415-871-9683 and speak to Brendan to learn more about how we can help you.
Here’s a question I received recently, for the benefit of all of my San Francisco and international clients and readers, I’ve posted my answer with it.
Hello Brendan
I keep getting an error message that my startup disk is almost full and that I should delete some files. I have deleted some and still get this message. Any thoughts on why this is suddenly occurring and suggestions for what specifically I should be deleting? That would be much appreciated as I would not want to lose anything if possible. Thanks!
Randi
Hi Randi,
Thanks for writing, as a first step, make sure that you are “Emptying” the “Trash”, when you delete files, they are actually sent to the “Trash”, and, once a week or month, that bin should be emptied, to do this, click on the small icon of a trash container in your dock. Once that window pops up on screen, you’ll click “Finder” in the Menu Bar and then click “Empty Trash”
If you still have trouble making space on your Hard Drive, we could have a meeting or phone support call at your convenience.
Thank you very much for getting in touch Randi,
Steve Jobs today announced at an Apple Special Event at Moscone West in San Francisco by $200 to $399!
The iPhone will have sold one million units within days and to make it eve more attractive, they’ve made the cost a much more affordable $399, which has to be a major surprise for other Cell Phone makers including Palm, Research in Motion and the Open Source folks.
I’ve recently witnessed the Airport Extreme, that is, Apple’s latest revision of the Airport Extreme, complete with Four Gigabit Ethernet ports, 802.11n Wifi (Wireless Internet), performing in the extremely harsh and dusty environment of the Nevada Black Rock Desert.
One feature of the sleek Airport that hadn’t been noticeable till today was that it has no ports or holes for dust to come through, it is completely encassed in a beautiful Ivory white case that is impervious to dust. Contrasting this to the many other wireless internet routers on the market shows a vast difference in the design philosophies between Apple and other Tech companies.
The linksys routers are peppered with holes to keep them cool, as are the D-link and Cisco wireless routers, after all, a wireless router is going to warm up beaming 802.11n Wifi (Five times faster and Twice as Far as previous generation routers), despite this challenge, Apple designers figure out a great design that keeps the router cool without exposing it’s sensitive electronics to Dust. This is one of the reasons why Three year old Apple Airports still sell for $75 (See Pic) while Two Year old D-Links and Linksys routers are found for $25 and under.
Remember this wonderful quality of the Airport Extreme when you’re choosing your next wireless router, the Airport is almost perfectly hermetically sealed and retains perfect working operation for many years through dust and harsh environments and will concurrently retain it’s value when you’re upgrading in three to five years.
People often ask how they can get longer life from their iPods, iPhones and MacBooks.
There are a couple of simple things that apply to almost all of todays modern devices, modern electronics use Lithium Ion Batteries that have differrent properties to old fashioned Nickel Cadmium Batteries.
On a daily basis: Turn the brightness of your devices screen as low as you can tolerate it, on most devices this won’t allow you to go much below the default but Apple iPods, Macs and iPhones have incredibly bright displays to please the eye and only require to be on the lowest setting for most use.
On a Monthly basis, remember to ‘Calibrate’ your battery, this is a simple procedure that consists of fully discharging and then fully charging your devices Battery, this should be done as often as once a week but at least once a month, laptop/notebook, cell phones and iPods should all have their batteries completely cycled once per month, this makes your battery last much longer in daily use and also in lifespan.