Mon, 26 Mar 2012

3:20 AM - Revelation from the Challenge to Apple

The challenge to Apple has never stopped, and we all remember those MP3 players, Tablets and mobile phones produced by Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, HP and Nokia etc, none of them succeeded, some of them ever quit from the market forever. So what have we learned from all these examples?

Just like what Michael Scott has said, "You can fight with myth, once it spreads in the Internet, it can't be changed." There have been numerous companies to challenge Apple's myth, the most famous is Microsoft's Zune challenges iPod, at that time, Microsoft was confident about the technical performance of their product, and they had plenty of marketing funds, but what happened after a few years? iPod is still the most popular MP3 player and iPod touch is becoming an essential part in our lives, we use it to listen to music, to play games, to watch movies, to do everything we can imagine. We can transfer music from ipod to computer and even can make phone calls with iPod touch, so now you know how funny Zune wants to challenge iPod.

How does Zune stack up against the iPod? The general opinion is that Microsoft did all right, but maybe not quite enough to counter Apple's dominant grip on the MP3 player market. Zune handles all of the basics -- music, video, podcasts, apps, games and photos. The Zune and the iPod share many of the same features, including a touch screen interface and built-in WiFi. The Zune HD's screen is smaller than the one on the iPod touch -- 3.3 inches compared to 3.5 inches, respectively. The Zune HD also features an HD radio tuner, something the iPod touch doesn't have. But the demands of iPod are always bigger than other devices, as well as those accessories like ipod to itunes transfer free. So why would this happen?



Steve Jobs had commented on the causes of Microsoft Zune's failure, "When I grow older, I realize the importance of 'motivation'. Zune is a failure, because Microsoft does not love music and art like we, we win, because we love music from the heart. we produce the iPod is for our own, when you really do things for yourself, your friends or family, you will not give up easily, but if you do not like it, then you would not take one more step and would be reluctant to work overtime on weekends, you just only indulge in the status quo. "

The analysis of reasons why Apple succeeds from Jobs seems like have nothing unique. But in fact, Apple's unique value inherent in the attitude of excellence and depth of the potential demand of consumers to grasp. Jobs said he never did market research, never hired marketing consultant, he said: "You can not walk on the streets to ask someone 'what is the next great product?'"

So to me, the revelation is you can't just follow Apple and copy their products, what you need to do is to figure out why they produce these products, what demands have they seen from the market.

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Thu, 22 Mar 2012

4:00 AM - Is Apple an Important Part in Your Life

Do you like to show off your mobile phone especially when you are an iPhone user? Do you take your iPod with you when you go out? Do you always see other people playing Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja on their iPads in subway? Well, you know what I mean, Apple devices have been a very important part in our lives.

The New iPad has been released for a few days, what's the situation right now in the whole world? Do you know how popular it is? The new iPad is already available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, UK. Apple's retail stores and select Apple Authorised Raesellers, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

Someone says there is no big difference between the new iPad and iPad 2, really? Here is an experiment to show that new iPad is better than iPad 2 in some ways. But there isn't necessary to buy a new iPad if you already have an iPad, and you should know how to sync ipad 2 to computer to protect your iDevice. To figure out the advantage of new iPad, I take "The New York Times" as the example to make a comparison. Images look about the same, though primary colors are richer on the new iPad. If you put a magnifying lens to the images, you'd notice the iPad 2 pics look a little pixilated compared to the same photos viewed on the Retina display. On the iPad 2, the color has a reddish tone; on the new iPad, it's more golden.

Then let's talk about iPod touch. It's much cheaper than iPad and iPhone, but it has the same functions with them, almost. People always would like to use it to listening to music, to play games, to chatting. Those apps that can run on iPhone or iPad, they also are available for iPod touch, that's the difference between iPod touch and other iPod products. And there are bunch of third-party tools serve for iPod touch, like ipod to computer transfer, which is very useful for users to keep the device safe.

What about iPhone? Apple's mobile device dominance is not overstated, but use of new technologies like video chat and LTE is - at least for now, according to the results of the first Mobile Life survey, published by UBM TechWeb's Light Reading. The popularity of Apple devices is not just in developed countries like America, also in developing countries. Mobile analytics company Flurry reports that activation of new iOS devices in China has surpassed the U.S. for the first time.

It's not exaggerated to say that Apple is gonna take over the e- market of the whole world. Ask anyone in any country, what is the most wanted portable device? The answer must start with letter "i".

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Tue, 20 Mar 2012

2:57 AM - Will iPod Touch 5 Still Come to Us?

Who is talking about iPod touch 5? No one? Why? I mean before the third generation iPad and new Apple TV or new iPhone being released, the whole world is talking about them, but now, have you heard anything about the new iPod touch? Not really, so the first thing we need to do is to have a very clear understanding of iPod touch and believe that iPod touch 5 will come.

iPod touch is much cheaper than iPhone or iPad, but it has almost the same functions. Since its release, the iPod touch has become a popular portable media player. Its sibling iPod models specialize in audio and video playback, which is great if that's all you need. The iPod touch goes beyond that, including two cameras, wireless networking, built-in applications for e-mail and Web browsing and the option to install many of the thousands of applications available through the App Store. To protect the apps in your iPod touch, there are many tools being designed for iPod touch, like ipod computer transfer, you just need to transfer files from iPod touch to computer in case losing them.

The iPod touch's home screen also looks like the iPhone's. When you touch a capacitive surface, the amount of charge it holds changes. This is why devices like the iPod touch require you to touch them with your bare skin -- insulating materials like gloves, pens and styluses don't cause the same changes in the capacitive circuitry. Regardless of which method the screen uses, you change the electrical properties of the screen every time you touch it.

When comes to business usage, generally, people go to iPhone and iPad. This is not fair, because iPod touch can do the same thing. The iPod touch supports the same OS (iOS 5), multi-touch-driven interface and apps ecosystem as its brethren. It hosts FaceTime meetings; with some effort and some software/hardware additions, there are ways to make the device place calls. Straight out of the box, the iPod includes the Safari browser, Calendar, Mail, Reminders for to-do lists, Contacts and Notes for email-synced note-taking.

The iPod touch grew in popularity in its first three years, and it came close to outselling the iPhone in late 2009. The Apple iPad, introduced in early 2010, does most everything the iPod touch can do, but on a larger device with more features. That's when people start to worry about the future and fate of iPod touch, but that issue has been talked about for a long time, right? See what has happened to iPod touch? Nothing, except iPod touch is becoming better and better.

Now you know why you should pay attention to iPod touch 5, logically, iPod touch 5 will meet us this year, even there is no news about it, but we should believe that it will not disappear. If you are handing an iPod touch right now, you should know how to transfer music from ipod to computer, that's a very important tip for all of you to protect your devices.

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Wed, 14 Mar 2012

6:16 AM - How to Export Audio Books from iPod touch to Computer?

  Most of us would like to download a bunch of audio books in our iPod touch. That's very convenient to listen to those classic masterpieces when we are outside, but if we want to share our all these works with friends or want to backup them to other devices, what should we do?

The first and most important step is to choose a good transfer, for example, ipod to computer transfer, it's not easy to find a good tool to help us do a lot of work on your iDevices, it has many requires, like the quality, speed, of course and the price. Generally, this transfer meets all the demands, so what you need to do next is to follow these steps to transfer all your audio books to your computer.

Step 1: Once you connect iPod touch to computer, you will see all information about your iPod, such as Type, Capacity, Version, Serial Number, and Format that be shown on the main interface.

Step 2: Click "Books" icon under iPod list that you want to transfer. All these audio book files are shown in file browser. Choose the books you want to transfer.

Step 3: After you have chosen the books that you decided to transfer to computer, click Export button, and choose Export to Disk only to transfer to computer disk.

This is about how to get books off iPod touch, and maybe some of you will say that what if I only have iPod nano, well, many users say that iPod nano is more appropriate to for audio books, why?

It is amazingly tiny!
Fits in hand, pocket, wherever.
Perfect exercising companion
Beautiful and easily read color LCD - much easier than 4G B&W
Does Photos
Shows cover art on downloaded books and music - kinda tiny, but center select button shows cover art filling LCD.

And most importantly, iPod nano uses USB, so we don't have to transfer them via iTunes, that's more convenient, however, fewer people would choose iPod nano as the media player, after all, it has lots of limitations, so I guess most of us own an iPod touch not iPod nano, if so, we need to learn how to transfer audio books from iPod touch to computer with  ipod to computer transfer free, it's very important for us to protect our resources.

Speaking of the audio books, we all have our favorites, but you shouldn't miss these great works, like Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

It's a very good habit to back up your favorite files, no matter these audio books or other stuff, like songs and movies. All these audio books I have mentioned are free, if you just delete them by accident, you can download again, but if you download paid audio books, you won't want to lose it, so it's very necessary to backup them.

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Thu, 23 Feb 2012

2:45 AM - The Beatles Ringtones Are Available for iOS Users Now

The Beatles has cooperated with Apple before, they released their album in iTunes Store at that time, but they haven't done anything since then. After waiting for so long, finally they give us a big surprise, they launched in earlier time that their ringtones are available in iTunes Store now. And if you know the rick about transferring music from ipod to computer, you can remove the ringtones to computer in case deleting them by accident, after all they are precious.

They are 27 songs in total, and the 30-second ringtones are priced at $1.29 each, don't try to figure out why a complete song priced at $1.29 but a ringtone only has 30-second also priced at $1.29, I mean you wouldn't care, right? And you may have noticed the word "exclusive", which means you only can get those stuffs in iTunes Store, if you are not iOS users, I gotta say you have to use another way to get them.

The full list of available ringtones includes: "Love Me Do", "From Me to You", "She Loves You", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Can't Buy Me Love", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine", "Eight Days a Week", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!", "Yesterday", "Day Tripper", "We Can Work It Out", "Paperback Writer", "Yellow Submarine", "Eleanor Rigby", "Penny Lane", "All You Need Is Love", "Hello, Goodbye", "Lady Madonna", "Hey Jude", "Get Back", "The Ballad of John and Yoko", "Something", "Come Together", "Let It Be", and "The Long and Winding Road".

The Beatles' music has been available in the iTunes store since November of 2010, but only after many years of negotiations. Though the band has since sold a huge number of mp3 downloads at the digital retailer, they may have waited too long to get in the ringtone business, as the market has been in decline since smartphones and ringtone-making apps have become more popular.

"It has taken so long to get The Beatles on iTunes, and for that reason, it feels like a bigger deal than perhaps it should be," said Stuart Dredge, an online music expert with Music Ally. That's right, we really have been waiting for a long time, and you definitely don't want to lose them, so just in case, you'd better have an ipod to pc transfer free, so if you do something bad things, you still can find them in your computer.

Speaking of The Beatles and their music, I bet all of us will think of Steve Jobs, because he had called the Beatles as his favorite band, and also admitted that he had learned lots of skills that also could be used in technology industry from this band. Even decades of years have passed through, the fans of The Beatles still all over the world.

If you like The Beatles, or just want to realize those inspirations from their music that had inspired Steve Jobs before, you can visit the iTunes Store and download the ringtones, maybe you really can learn something from these songs.

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Thu, 16 Feb 2012

2:27 AM - How to Get Apps from iPod to Computer

Have you ever wondered that how to get apps from iPod to computer? What I am saying is from iPod to computer, not from computer or iTunes to iPod. Of course you know how to sync things from iTunes to computer, as long as you are an Apple user, you definitely know how to do it, but not all of Apple users know how to do the opposite thing.

When you get an iPod touch, what's the first thing you will do? Downloading your favorite apps and games of course, like Angry Birds, Infinity Blade and Fruit Ninja. These are the most popular iOS apps right now, and they are paid, so maybe you want to save them in your computer, but the question is how?

iTunes can't help you do that, so if you just download a bunch of apps in your iPod and want to backup them to the laptop, you may feel upset because there is no way to do that directly. You need a third-party tool, there are a bunch of transfers you can find in the Internet, but it's not easy to find a good one. Just a few days ago, my computer broken, so I lost everything in my iTunes, but then I thought maybe I can transfer those apps from my iPod to computer, so that I didn't need to pay for them again, but you know, I just couldn't, and that's why I find out that we only can do that with the help of transfer.

Cucusoft iPod to Computer Transfer is an easy to use iPod utility designed to help you backup the stuffs in your iPod, like transferring music from ipod to computer.Recover lost or missing music, backup and restore all of your iPod content, including your favorite songs, videos, photo files and Play Lists, and that's not all. If you have any iPod device, this software is a must-have utility to keep your iPod safety. Of course, if you prefer the free tools, iDump or Floola, that's ok though, but you need to know that free things always have drawbacks, so if you want the perfect functions, it's the best for you to use Cucusoft. Here we can begin:

Step 1: Install the iPod to Computer Transfer on your computer, then plug your iPod in to the computer via USB cable. Run the software and it will automatically show you all iPod files on the interface.

Step 2: Choose your iPod apps that will be uploaded to computer. Then mark the apps you need to upload to computer from iPod.

Step 3: Click Export button and then choose Export to Disk Only on the following form.

Now you know how to get apps out of iPod touch, and it's the same thing to transfer songs or movies from iPod, you just need to change the options.

With this ipod to pc transfer free, you can transfer whatever you want from iPod to computer. Like I said before, this tool aims to protect your iDevices. If you just buy an iPod, you'd better have this tool.

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Tue, 14 Feb 2012

1:46 AM - Best iPod/iPhone/iPad Apps for Valentine

Everyone knows that it's the most romantic time in the year, boys, girls and couples are having their best festival ever. Roses and lovely decorations are everywhere, also, lovers can choose one or two apps for iPod touch, iPhone or iPad to send love to each other or play the romantic apps with each other. Here are the best apps for Valentine's Day.

1. TextPics-v2.3. This app that released by FTW Innovations is for iPhone users to text unique contents to other people. You can design whatever you want, sent to anyone you want to. It's for social networking, so even it's not Valentine's Day, you also can use it, there are Over 1,000 customizable text art pieces and over 130 Western style emotes for texting to any phone, anywhere!

2. iPod to computer transfer. Do you have lots of pictures or videos in your iPod? Now on this day, you want to share them with your boyfriend or girlfriend, right? OK, that's a good idea, but how? Actually, it's easy, what you need is an ipod to computer transfer, which can let you transfer anything from iPod to computer.

3. Movies. Right, you probably know what I am gonna say. Watching movies on Valentine is kind of tradition, that's why movie companies release love comedies for this day. Movies is a free app released by Flixster, you can get all the latest romantic films here. It isn't great when you lying on the couch with your partner watching romantic movies? So if you need an app to find what to watch, go to movies.

4. Romantic Ideas. Don't have an excellent idea for valentine? Here is what you are looking for. To be honest, every year you have to prepare a big surprise for your lover, but those ideas are so stereotyped, no one likes the same "surprise", everyone likes something different. I bet most of us are very upset when we can't think out an idea to make him or her impressed, however, you don't have to any more, because someone can help you, with this app, you totally can get satisfying results.

5. Fingle. Maybe you think the relationship with him is not good enough, so do you believe that a game can do you a lot of help? Fingle is very different with other games, it requires two players playing on one device, is that reminds you anything? Now you believe it can promote the emotion between you and him, right? The beauty of this is it's bound to force a bit of hand to hand contact which can help speed up any inevitable chemistry, on top of the game, the music helps set, oh let's call it a sensual mood.

What are you waiting for? If you are outside, go download these fabulous apps to play with him or her, if you are at home, you can transfer music from ipod to computer to share your favorite love songs with him or her on the computer. It's Valentine's Day, so you can do anything romantic you think to make him or her happy.

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Thu, 2 Feb 2012

4:43 AM - Top 5 Apps for iPod Touch

Here I have picked top 5 apps for your iPod touch. These apps are very comprehensive, I mean you can use them for pleasure or work, and some of them can protect your files in iPod touch. It's not easy to find the best apps from the vast app library, because there are so many, everyday there are new apps will show up, so here I have done the work for you, you just need to try them and have fun.

1. GoodReader. If you just search the eBooks reader in App Store, there are millions of results will show up, and trust me, you hardly can decide which one to choose, so here, according to my personal experience, GoodReader is the best one I can find so far. It adds iCloud support in iOS 5. You can copy or move files to the new iCloud storage folder; they'll then sync to iCloud, becoming accessible across multiple iOS devices. And AirPlay integration lets you stream audio files.

2. Find My iPhone. This is a sort of security app, you can see that from the name. But it not just serves for iPhone, it's also available on iPod touch and other iOS devices. There are many reasons that you may lose your Apple devices, because of the thieves or your own carelessness, so this app is designed for locating lost iOS devices, if the bad thing really happens, this app can help you find your iDevcies back. But to be honest, I haven't tried this app, and I hope I don't need to try it.

3. iPod to Computer Transfer. Now we are talking about a very useful tool for your iPod touch, imagine this, if you buy a new computer, do you want to buy those songs, videos, apps or games for the second time? I mean no one would like to do that, but you still don't want to lose them, right? So this ipod to computer transfer is designed to fix this problem for iPod touch users.

4. Facebook. Ok, you don't want to hear my rubbish to describe this app, everyone knows it, right? I bet it's the first app you will install after buying an iPod touch or other Apple devices, so… is there anyone who forgets to download this app? No?

5. Gem King. Gem King is a brand-new game that makes good use of simple, but useful, iOS 5 features. In your gem-collecting quest, you can pick up where you left off playing on another iOS device, thanks to iCloud integration; you can use AirPlay TV mirroring to play on the big screen, too. You'll also find native iOS 5 Twitter integration, Game Center achievements, and leaderboards.

And if you are iPad user, those apps are also applicative for you, but to backup your files in iPad, you need know how to sync ipad 2 to computer, it's the same thing with ipod to computer transfer. Now you have known five best apps for iPod touch and other iOS devices, it's time to enjoy.

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012

3:08 AM - Why Are People So Obsessed with iPod Touch

iPod series is not Apple's favorite in current time even it did change the traditional music mode and the whole music industry, because that happened about ten years ago, people are not attracted by iPod nano, iPod shuffle any more, not like before. However, that's exactly why iPod touch is still chased by Apple fans and the amount of iPod touch users is keeping increasing.

Considering iPod series' contributions, Apple doesn't want to give it up. After all, it was iPod who saved Apple inc. ten years ago. But time is changing, people pay more intention to iPhone and iPad, it seems like iPod nano and iPod shuffle are outdated just like another players that weeded out because of appearance of iPod. So Apple has to figure it out how to save iPod, the result is iPod touch, which is called by Apple person "iPhone without phone". It's easy to understand, iPod touch has the same functions as iPhone, it's just users can't make a phone call with it, literally.

Whatever apps that can be run in iPhone, they are available on iPod touch too, no matter all kinds of accessories or games. Moreover, there are many especial tools for iPod touch, such as ipod to computer software, which is designed specially for iPod touch users to protect the files in iPod touch in case deleting them by accident. Compare to iPhone, the biggest advantage of iPod touch is the price, we all know that it's much cheaper than iPhone. To enjoy the same experience with cheaper price, who won't want it?

The latest iPod touch models have two cameras, one on the front and one on the back. They can make Facetime video calls to other current iPod touch devices, iPhone 4 handsets and Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later. The camera also gives you the chance to capture and edit HD video using your iPod touch. The mp3 player now has a retina display with four times more pixels on the screen than previous iPod touch models.

If you are new Apple user, you hardly can distinguish the iPod touch and iPhone just looking at the picture, what I said iPod touch is "iPhone without phone" is not totally right, because there are many apps can help you turn iPod touch to iPhone, like Skype, which is the most familiar video chat software for us.

Of course, the features of iPod touch are more than what I listed, if you decide to own one, you should know how to transfer music from ipod to computer, because maybe you will delete these files in your iPod touch by accident that have cost you lots of money, so it's better to make a backup to other devices.

Most of us can afford an iPod touch, so for those people who are really obsessed with Apple devices, iPod touch is the first and best choice. Even iPhone and iPad dominate the headline of all kinds of new, but you can believe that Apple has further expectations on iPod touch, so more benefits will come to iPod touch users.

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Sat, 14 Jan 2012

3:34 AM - 5 iPod Touch Apps that You Can Not Miss

What conditions should an app meet so that it can be called as a good app for iPod touch? Firstly, it must be able to work without Internet, because we all know Wi-Fi is not so popular. Secondly, it must be interesting, after all entertainment is the primary characteristic of iPod Touch. Why do you want an iPod touch? Just to listen to music? Of course not, music, movies, games, entertainment, any of them is indispensable, but how? Well, that's what those apps used for.

1. Line 2. People always say an iPod touch is an iPhone without phone, well, not any more, even though it can't be used as a phone originally, but with the help of some app, like this Line 2, everything is possible. You can assign a real phone number to make calls and send and receive text messages over Wi-Fi. It costs $9.95/month to make unlimited calls (after a free trial), and if you're offline, you can set Line2 to automatically forward to a different phone.

2. iPod to computer transfer. Somehow, we need to transfer files from iPod to computer, and we know that iTunes can't help us with that, so a third-party tool is essential, with this ipod to computer transfer free, we can backup our files in iPod in case losing them, and also, when we change a new laptop or lose everything in our computer, we can move those songs, movies, apps, games etc from iPod to PC, so we don't have to buy them twice, which definitely will cost us a lot of money, so obviously, this tool aims to protect your iPod.

3. Dropbox. The eternal theme of iPod touch application eternal theme is to work perfectly no matter offline or online, well, Dropbox is a great example, you can always access your files, or download them to your iPod Touch, also send your own content to other people. When you are not with your computer but have an emergency on work, it is your shwd.

4. VLC. Playing videos and audios is not iPod touch's strength, unless you install VLC, it can play almost any type of file. You can sync videos or audios to your iPod touch via iTunes, if you don't want them in your iPod any more but don't want to delete them, you can transfer movie from ipod to computer, of course, if you think they are worthless to you, you can just delete those files in the iPod directly.

5. Radio. Except for iTunes, Radio is the best way for iPod touch to play music. You can access its music jukebox, play singles, album or playlist. You can also download music to your iPod, as long as you subscribe to Radio (free trial $ 9.99 / month), even offline you also can listen to songs.

So these apps refer to almost every aspect of our lives, entertainment and work etc, they can make our lives more colorful.

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Thu, 12 Jan 2012

2:05 AM - How to Copy Ringtones from iPod to Computer?

We both know that iTunes can't allow us to transfer files from iDevcies to computer or other devices, that's a litter annoying, especially when we have this demand. For example, what would you do if you want to transfer ringtones from iPod to computer?

You must have a bunch of great ringtones in your iPod, but bad things always happen, like your iPod will be damaged or you just delete the files in your iPod by accident, in that case, your money that cost on those songs, videos and games is just wasted, you don't want that. So it's very necessary to transfer your files like your favorite ringtones from iPod to computer to backup, as long as your computer is OK, you won't lose them unless you want to. And there is another situation, if you have a new laptop, everything in iTunes will gone, but you still need them and don't want to pay for them twice, there is only one solution, which is to copy everything from your iPod to the new laptop.

If you have an iPhone, don't you want to have a unique ringtone? Of course you do, with the help of ipod to pc transfer free, you can just transfer the ringtones from iPod to iPhone, so there is no need to download them again. This transfer can easily transfer podcasts from iPod to computer, it also can manage your iPod as a portable hard disk, find what you want quickly by filter and quick search function. This prominent software can keep the nice quality in the transferring, so you needn't worry about that.

Step1. To copy podcasts from iPod to computer, first you need connect your iPod to your computer via USB cable. Then install and run the transfer. After done, the files will be shown on the main interface as below.

Step2. Click "Ringtones" icon in the iPod list to open iPod ringtone folder and check the ringtones in it. You can select any ringtones as you like. Turn to the top toolbar, press "add" button to start copying iPod podcasts from iPod to computer.

Easy, right? If you would like to, it also can help you copy movie from ipod to computer, nowadays, more and more people choose iPod as the multi-media player, I mean why not? It's considered as the mini iPad or iPhone without phone, and more importantly, it's much cheaper than other Apple products, of course, I'm talking about iPod touch. When we are outside or just not convenient to use a computer, it's pretty fun to watch movies with iPod, but some people are not satisfied with its small screen, they prefer to use the computer which has a bigger screen, of course, if the computer is available, watching movies on it is much better than on iPod, that's for sure, you just need to transfer them from iPod to computer.

Now you know how to transfer your files from iPod to computer? It's a protection to your purchased goods in your iPod, so you don't want to miss this.

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012

2:22 AM - How to Transfer eBooks from iPod to Computer?

Almost all portable devices can be used as e-Readers, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Kindle Fire or other smart devices, of course, the most famous e-Reader is Kindle, which is for sure, it is designed specially for us to read eBooks, and that's it, we barely can do other things on it, so why not choose iPod touch as your e-Reader? Because reading eBooks on iPod touch is easy, and you can do more other things on it, like watching movies or something, which hardly can be done on Kindle.

But why iPod touch? How about iPhone or iPad? Well, we all know that they are more expensive than iPod touch, so I guess iPod touch is our first choice, at least mine. However, we can't transfer eBooks from iPod to computer or other devices, not with iTunes, what should we do when we need to? Actually, it's easy to achieve, what we need is a good third-party software.

After figuring out what to do, the next thing is to choose a best tool, there are a bunch of programs out there if you just Google it, they all appear to do similar things and make similar claims, so how do we decide which one offers the best combination of features, speed, and price? Lucky you, there is no need to try a dozens of software, because I have done the work for you. After all the tests about so many gadgets, finally some of them can do the good job, which is this ipod to computer transfer, it is different from other software because of its new function, it can copy purchased songs/movies/podcasts/eBooks from iPod to computer. Now we should begin to learn how to transfer eBooks from iPod to computer?

Step 1: Start the software and then connect your iPod touch to PC via USB cable. Wait for a few minutes till your iPod have been detected by the program.

Step 2: You will find an ic on called "Books" on the left pane, click it and the purchased books will be appeared on the main interface, select the books that you want to copy to PC by ticking the boxes next to file names.

Step 3: Click "add" button to start copying. After your books have been properly copied to computer, it may take a few minutes to finish the file transfer.

This is just a litter trick to tell you how to make the most of your iPod, because iTunes can't help you with that, so we need to find another way, the same with iPad, if you have an iPad 2, when you need to backup all your files in your iPad, you need to know how to sync ipad 2 to computer, then no matter what you have in your iPad 2, there is no problem to transfer them to your computer or other devices.

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Fri, 6 Jan 2012

2:34 AM - Are You the One Who Becomes Apple User on Red Friday?

If you hit Apple's official website this morning in twelve o'clock, then you must notice that those Apple products were much cheaper than before, but what I said "you" just means consumers in Asia, especially in China, this promotion activity of Apple is called Red Friday, which aims to celebrate the Year of the Dragon in China.

So if you live in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore or the Philippines, you are one of the beneficiaries. Red Friday is similar to Black Friday in that you don't get to know what the actual sales prices will be in advance. So if you're in one of these countries, and you're looking for an Apple bargain to start the Year of the Dragon, head over to your country's Apple store quickly, because this promotion just has one day, if you wake up in the morning the second day, you won't stand a chance.

As for discounts, most products, including iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs appear to be on sale for in between 5% and 10% off. In Hong Kong, Apple is offering discounts of roughly 8% on Wi-Fi iPad models across the board, while 3G-capable models are seeing slightly smaller discounts of 6-7%, if you finally decide to buy an iPad 2, you must know how to sync ipad 2 to computer, trust me, you will meet this demand after you having an iDevice.

Usually, Mac is too expensive for most of us, but you deadly want one, right? Don't say you still can't afford it after discounting, even it's true, you shouldn't have a second idea, because you will never have another chance to get one that is cheaper like now. Apple is offering a flat HK$ 770 discount on all MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac models. That discount translates to a 10% discount on the low-end MacBook Air, decreasing to 4% on the high-end MacBook Pro. There are also discounts on all mobile devices, home computers, wireless keyboards and other computer accessories, speaker systems, cases and software.

And if you have been looking forward to an iPod touch for a long time, this is your chance. The iPod touch is seeing approximately 10% discounts on all models, so get your chance and take one, after you become an iPod user, there is a trick you need to know to make the most of your device, which is how to transfer music from ipod to computer. Ok, back to the promotion, the iPod nano is seeing a flat HK$ 80 discount that equates to an 8% discount on the 8 GB model and a 6.7% discount on the 16 GB model.

Apple has seen major growth and adoption of its products in Asian markets, particularly in China, and is looking to expand its reach by conducting sales and announcement of products internationally around key dates in the Asian calendar.

But no matter what their purpose is, to make money or dominate Asia market or whatever, as fans of Apple products, we just want to have more chances like this.

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Wed, 4 Jan 2012

2:32 AM - Flurry Announces the Statistic of App Downloaded in Christmas Week Over One Billion

Do you know how many app downloads in Christmas week? 1.2 billion, Can you imagine that? What a zillion! However, that's reasonable, when you get iPod, iPhone or iPad as the Christmas present, what's the first thing you want to do? Download your favorite apps of course, not to mention Apple released so attractive promotions among Christmas.

Flurry claims estimates that 1.2 billion applications were downloaded during what it calls the "holiday power week." It also believes that more than 20 million iOS and Android devices were activated during the holiday period. Seriously, I don't know if you have made your contribution to that statistic, but I did, I can't remember how many apps I have downloaded on my iPod touch, transferring previous apps, videos, songs to my PC with ipod computer transfer to save space for the new apps. Maybe you have done the same thing, maybe you are one of the biggest contributors of App Store's income.

Whether you accept that methodology or not, the premise behind the 1.2 billion downloads seems sensible. iOS devices (and their Android counterparts) probably found their way on to many a holiday gift list this year. While you'd expect to see a burst of downloading on Christmas day immediately after presents are opened, new device owners are unlikely to confine their App Store shopping sprees to a single day. Existing device owners are also busy cashing in their App Store gift cards on new software. And since smartphones pose a gift-giving challenge thanks to contracts with wireless carriers, there's also the prospect of new iPhone owners activating their devices in the days after Christmas for adding further fuel to the downloading fire.

While Apple does not formally release data about the number of devices being turned on for the first time, Google has confirmed that over 3.7 million Android devices were activated on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Since Android has such massive amounts, you certainly can imagine the situation of iOS, which is definitely bigger than that. Think about how many Apple users out there? iPod, iPhone, iPad, almost everyone has one of them, especially iPad, which is the most wanted thing in Christmas gift list, and if you are an iPad user, here is a trick that you must know, which is how to sync ipad 2 to computer, so that you won't lose one thing that you don't want to lose in your iPad.

The United States accounted for 42.3 percent of the total with 509 million downloads, followed by Chine with 99 million, The U.K. with 81 million, and Canada with 41 million. New device activations played a role in the record breaking app download numbers. Flurry's estimates put the total number of iOS and Android devices activated during the Christmas week at 20 million, and the company expects those numbers to continue to climb.

Now the Christmas shopping season is almost going to end, but Apple's promotion just begins, it will releases Red Friday in Asia which begins from Jan.6, and it just gonna make that number becomes much bigger.

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Fri, 30 Dec 2011

1:49 AM - Top 5 Apps for iPod Touch

The brand new year is coming, are you ready to increase new apps from your iPod touch? Among all those apps, do you know which one is what you can't miss? Here are top 5 apps for your iPod Touch, maybe you want to try one or more.

1. Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift. A quick synopsis of the idea is candy is suspended above a green monster of some type named Om nom, and it's your task to cut the ropes holding the candy in order to deliver it to the little guy. Of course, nothing in life is simple, or at least not in games, since that would take the fun out of things, so there are three golden stars to collect in each level as well. Of course there are various other objects that need to be used in order to achieve your goal, some of which will be familiar to those that played the original (bubbles) and some new (stockings), but each is explained in turn.

2. free ipod to itunes transfer. The reason that I recommend this app is simple, I have seen many questions about how to transfer files from iPod to iTunes or computer. The reason is obvious, because iTunes doesn't provide us the function to backup stuff of our iPod to other devices, but we have that demand sometimes, for example, when we have a new laptop, everything in iTunes will gone, but we don't want this, so with this app, we can transfer the music and movies etc from iPod to our new computers.

3. Camera+. The great thing about Camera+ is just the sheer number of options you have. You can of course use auto-focus and auto-exposure when taking pictures, with the ability to lock in the focus so you can adjust exposure easily, take pictures with front or rear cameras, and use digital zoom. As well, there's a stabilizer option so you can take steady pictures, a timer so you can take photos on a delay, and a very cool Burst feature that lets you continuously take pictures as you hold down on the camera button.

4. Fruit Ninja. Fruit Ninja made a splash (or was that a splatter?) this year in the App Store sales charts, and it's a must-try for casual and serious gamers alike. Let's see how people appraise it:

"It's simple, fun and best of all challenging." - Touch Arcade Review

"Fruit Ninja is fun, fun, fun. It's an instant pleasure." IGN review

"The low price makes the game more than worth it." - TUAW Review

"Fruit Ninja is the sort of game that has come to typify the rising dominance of quick, simple and most of all additively fun gameplay." - AppSpy Review

5. Words with Friends. Zynga's addictive Scrabble clone allows you to play multiple turn-based games simultaneously with up to 20 friends. Words With Friends also allows you chat with your opponents, that's unexpected.

All these apps are the most popular ones among vast library, of course, there are more out there, such as transferring music from ipod to computer, you can check out which one you have missed.

tags: ipod touch games app

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Wed, 28 Dec 2011

2:34 AM - How to Transfer Music from iPod to Computer

Now it's the happiest time during the whole year, we don't have to work, don't have to go to school, just settle down and enjoy the great moment with family and friends. When you hanging out with your friends, what do you usually do? For me, I will share my favorite music and videos in my iPod with my friends. If you would like to do that too, I can share my personally experience in this great time.

We all that we can just share our files in iPod with friends directly, we have to transfer them to a third-party tool first, like our PC, you know you can do anything you want on your PC, so, if you know how to transfer music from ipod to computer, then it won't be problem to share the music with others. But among all those gadgets in the Internet, which one is the best? If you Google it, there are millions results you can get, you will feel a litter confused to decide which one to use. After my compare, I believe what I am using now is the best one.

You need to make sure that you have installed iTunes on your computer, then run this ipod to computer program, and you can manage your ipod device with no problem.

Step1. After your iPad/iPhone/iPod connected to pc, Launch the program you will see the right UI. Normally, the program will search the device automatically. If the device is enabled, the music will be shown in the list.

Step2. Choose the list and files you want to transfer, Click the Export button.

Step3. After you clicking the Export button, the following window will pop up, you can choose transferring to computer or iTunes directly. You can set the output folder at Advanced->Options before transferring.

Step4. When the transferring finished, the following window will pop up. It shows that how many files have been done. You can click the OK button to view the output files.

It isn't that hard, right? This trick is not just can be used when you want to share things with your friends, there are more situations that you can use it, for example, you decide to replace all your files in your iPod with new things but you don't want to delete them because there is a chance that you still want to recall, when that happens, this transfer can help you backup all your files in iPod onto your computer, sometime you would like to listen that old song again, just sync it to your iPod, so there is no need to buy it in iTunes one more time.

Except for music, there are so many things that you can share with your family and friends, like photos that record the precious time in the past year, which have important meaning for you, I believe when you watch those pictures with your friends together, it will be very lovely.

tags: computer music share ipod

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011

2:38 AM - Top 5 iPod Apps You May Have Missed in 2011

It's not easy to choose a few good apps from vast apps library, and now 2011 is almost ended, do you know what top-rank apps you have missed during the year? Well, here is my collection of the best apps for iPod touch, you may want to try some.

1. Tiny Tower. Maybe Tiny Tower is not your cup of tea, but trust me, it's not that easy to play, if you really want to get over it, you need to know more tricks, and find out the knacks yourself. Tiny Tower puts you in charge of a residential or business block of towers; you can build and furnish additional floors to attract "bitizens" (residents) and then manage their daily affairs (much as in SimCity).

2. Djay. Djay is a virtual, touch screen DJ setup with a realistic turntable and mixer interface that lets you mix, spin, cue and scratch your tracks straight from your iPod music library. Users can take full advantage of the djay app's Split Output mode to cue upcoming songs through their headphones, independently of the live mix that is sent through the speakers. This is the perfect solution for DJs on-the-go using headphones to preview and prepare the next song to ensure the audience can groove seamlessly to the playlist. The DJ Cable offers a unique experience for beginners and professionals alike turning any social event into the ultimate dance party.

3. Instagram. It's not as good as the iPhone's shooter, but it's certainly good enough. The Instagram app lets you apply cool filters to make your photos look old, or edgy, or like a Polaroids, and then share them on the Web. It's a great, fast way to get your photos out there and see what other people are shooting.

4. ipod to computer software. Maybe you don't need it often, but when you have this kind of needs, for example, you want to back up your files from iPod to computer, this is what you need. iTunes can help us sync files from computer to iPod, but it can't help us do the opposite thing, so to make the most of your iPod, you definitely need this.

5. Snapseed. Snapseed is a popular photo editing app. First off, it uses gestures, which are well-explained within the app. It contains all the basic editing functions like crop, rotate, and the ability to adjust brightness, saturation, etc. You get a number of filters and frames to enhance your photos. You can always check back to compare your altered photo to your original one. Save your finished creation to your camera roll. Print and/or share directly from Snapseed to email, Facebook, or Flickr if you like.

These are what you've probably missed in the past year, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, there are much more that you may don't know, like how to get music off ipod onto computer, I can tell you, if you know more about these tricks, you can have the biggest fun with your iPod.

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Thu, 22 Dec 2011

3:22 AM - Are You One of Apple Users Who Can Not Download Apps with iOS 3?

What would you feel if your iPhone or iPod touch can't download apps any more? Angry? Well, this problem may be the hottest topic right now. More and more iPhone and iPod users have complained that they can't download any app right now, what's going on?

"Whenever I go into a specific app in the app store, none of the buttons work properly," Apple user mwiesner wrote in the Apple forums. Specifically, he said an app will not download once you click the price, the ratings button is inactive, and photos do not appear, among other things. Actually, we will meet lots of problems when we use iDevices, the battery issues, now the update issues, so it's very important to know more about how to make the most of your iDevices like iPod. For example, how to backup the files in iPod so you won't lose them? When that problem comes to you, you should know that you need an ipod to computer transfer to help you backup. Well, that's not hard to fix, but this time, this update problem really peeves somebody.

Here are the reactions from Apple users, they are serious and I guess Apple should take this problem seriously, too, however, Apple hasn't responded any comment yet.

"I had no problems downloading apps on my iphone through the appstore a few days ago…

I can download apps on my PC and push them to my iphone…

I have plenty of free space and icon positions/pages for more apps on my phone…

It's just the app store on my iphone that NO-Longer works!"

Here is another user who is from France, no doubt, this is an international issue.

"Just to tell you all that I'm using a 3G under 3.1.3, can't update it because of my company rules, and App Store is a broken link for me too (same issues as described before). I'm in France," wrote one user.

Ok, there is a solution though, if you can't download apps with your iDevices which are running iOS 3, why not update it? Then everything will be fixed. Oh, really? Maybe we should hear what this guy said.

"I know...upgrade to OS 4.x....I would but everything I read says that the iPod is basically useless after the upgrade as everything is too slow," wrote another. And update is risky, if you do that, you will lose everything you already have, songs, movies, files in your iPod, everything, of course, if you know how to transfer music from ipod to computer, then you won't lose nothing, but generally, we all don't want to update it, unless we have to, especially the problem is caused by our own mistakes, however, this time, we have nothing to do with it, it's all because of Apple. This is definitely an issue on Apple's side which Apple must resolve.

Are you one of them whose iDevice have been stuck with its older OS, can't run iOS 4 or iOS 5, can't update it, can't download any app, and Apple hasn't give you a resolution, do you feel you can't do anything about it? Let me know.

tags: apps iphone touch ipod

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Wed, 21 Dec 2011

2:45 AM - Happy Feet 2 The Best Animated Film for Christmas

Among all kinds of movies that released before Christmas, "Happy Feet 2" is the best one that can let us experience the happy atmosphere of Christmas (I think). After the smash hit of "Happy Feet", the sequel "Happy Feet 2" returns with a high box office in its debut, just be inferior to "Twilight 4 (Part1)".



Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven-a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father's "guts and grit" as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures-from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals-to put things right. It proves that a lot of love, along with a little help from your friends, can go a long way. Ok, it has a deeper meaning, although as an animated film, we can't expect more, honestly, it's a good film though, you can convert the DVD version to AVI with dvd to avi converter freeware if you would like to watch the high definition DVD on your portable devices.

In a major subplot, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt voice two chatty krill. Their journey to move up the food chain provides a few funny moments and the most spectacular visuals, including krill swarms, a whale attack and jellyfish encounters. But their rather-nonsensical quest isn't well-integrated into the main story. There are several pop remixes, of course, and songstress Pink (as Erik's mom) shows off her vocal chops, even as she reveals a limited acting range.



The real-world Antarctica and Southern Ocean consists of a wide range of species, and in Happy Feet Two we get to see a bit more variation in these represented. As mentioned earlier, krill is more prominently featured, and so are the elephant seals. Several different penguin species can be seen as well - all well animated and lifelike. The Happy Feet Two movie opened up in US movie theaters on November 20th, 2011 and scored $21.2 million dollars in its opening weekend.

The sequel told how one little penguin rallies his colony trapped by shifting ice due to climate change. Someone says it looked like "just more of the same," instead of something compelling and new. However, if you have kids or you just like it yourself, it's not bad to pass your time with it, after all, it's a music movie, so it will be much fun to rip it to your iPad or iPod with dvd ripper for mac and watch it whenever you want.

Even though it has a great box office, for most of us, it is just a sequel that has no new themes and just wants to make us have a good mood in Thanksgiving or coming Christmas, well, it has achieved that goal, ignore those drawbacks given by critics, it is a good movie which filled with laugh and music.

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Mon, 19 Dec 2011

2:33 AM - Top 3 Multi-Player Games for iPhone

There are so many multi-player games for your iPhone in App Store, so it may be hard to choose which one to play, well, as a faithful game player, here are my favorite multi-player games, you can check out if you like. And if you want to transfer these games or other stuff to your computer to share it with friends or others, iphone to pc transfer can help.

1. FIFA

If you are a football fan, FIFA is the best multi-player game for you, and nothing is more interesting than a football game (just personal preference), take FIFA 12 on the iPhone, for example, with its new control system. While it may include a virtual direction control and buttons for shooting, passing, etc, it also offers some swipe controls, double taps, and player selection by just touching them. And free kicks are now taken in a sort of Flick Kick Football fashion; you swipe through the ball to send it in the direction you wish from a 3D rear view.

2. Fruit Ninja

It's the most interesting fruit game ever. Here are the tips for you to gain more achievements.

Cutting the pineapple 3 times in a row

What you need to do is wait until two in a row fly up then wait and pray that there's a third. If don't want to cut the fruit then move on.

Lovely Bunch Achievement help

To get the "Lovely Bunch", you need a combo of 6 coconuts in Zen Mode (may also be achieveable in other modes).

Year of the Dragon Achievement help

For the special fruit secret, you play classic mode and eventually a big fruit will fly across the screen from left to right. Not only will you get the achievement but you will also get 50 bonus points. For the secret ones, you have to get 0 fruit, 69 fruit, 99 fruit, and you have to get your exact high score, then you just let youself lose.

3. Infinity Blade

An iPhone game with graphics as good as any classical PC or console game. Infinity Blade uses Unreal Engine 3 to give you some of the best graphics available on a mobile game. Infinity Blade is a sword fighting action game. You can use the Gamecenter multi-player to play a match against available online players. In the multi-player mode, one player is responsible for controlling the main hero of the game, hacking, and slashing by swiping fingers across the screen, while the other player controls the main monster bosses who also control weapon slashes by swiping their fingers across the screen. The goal of both - kill each other.

These games generally can be played in all iOS devices, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, but I only have iPhone 4, and sometimes it will have serious problems when I playing games or doing other things, so it's really necessary to know how to restore iPhone 4, and if you have the same problem like me, you should know it, too, because when you utilize your devices too much like playing those games all the time, the damage is inevitable.

tags: ios devices games iphone

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