Put Dvds To My Apple Tv

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I buy an Apple TV A few days ago. You know, Apple TV gives you access to an easy-to-navigate world of entertainment, I want to enjoy my DVDs on the Apple TV, but Apple TV don’t support DVDs. Therefore, I download a good DVD to Apple TV Converter called iMoviesoft DVD to Apple TV Converter. I will shareware the Use process for more people.

1. I learn it from Google Search, and download it here: iMoviesoft Multimedia 2. Following is the interface:

3. Add DVDs. There are two methods for you to Add DVDs:Click “Add” button to load your DVD, DVD folder, ISO, IFO file from your Computer.Click the dropdown list right to the ” Add button” to load your DVD, DVD folder, ISO, IFO file .

4. Select your aiming Profile “Apple TV H.264 1200*720(*mp4)”and Output Folder for your DVD

5. Adjust the Video/Audio Parameters if you want.

6. Click “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Tips: You can pause, stop and continue smoothly when converting.

Further Edit:

Two ways for cropDrag the hidden line around the video image.Directly set Zoom, Left, Top, Width and Height of the video image.

Two ways for trimDrag the Trim bar by clicking the small flag symbol to choose one part of the video.Click the “Trim” button and set the exact time values in the Start Time field and End Time field and then click “OK”

EffectAdjust brightness, contrast, saturation of the video you like.Set special effect, Choose Negative, Old film or Gray if you like.

Video Joiner

You can merge several DVD movies into one output file.

Two Video Viewers for Contrasting Video Effects

This converter is designed with two video viewers. One is for the original video and the other one is for edited video. You can immediately watch the effect of edited video.

Apple, Why Do You Hate Adobe Flash So Much?

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It must have been the summer of 85 (not sure what season, it just sounds better), my mother owned Precision Typing, a small typesetting and graphic arts company in Anaheim California. She used to have this gargantuan typesetting machine that filled a quarter of the office. Sixty five grand is what it cost and this was back in the eighties. Black monitor with green type, that didn’t even come with a cup holder.

That summer my mom purchased her first Macintosh computer. I still remember that little trash can on the desktop and the must have been 7inch monitor that my mom successfully did graphic arts on. At the time I only played a golf game on it.

Since the 80’s Apple has fueling designer and developer creative mojo with continuous innovation and ease. You are a designer, you used a Mac and it was as simple as that. Us designers and people in the advertising agencies stuck with you, when you were practically a virus and your stock suffered significant dropage, we supported you.

So now you have the iPhone. Besides the fact that I can barely hold a call on it and if myself and the other party are both using it, that is almost a guarantee of a dropped call. That is another article for AT&T. My real problem with you isn’t the connection; it is your stubbornness to allow Adobe Flash. We all know, including Adobe, that adapting Flash to your Safari browser and iPhone apps is almost as simple for you as flipping a switch. Yet you refuse.

I can see what I think is your side regarding iPhone apps. Currently the only people who can develop an iPhone app needs to have a Mac in order to run your SDK software. The few do not are using horrible hack SDK software or installed your OS Leopard on their PC in a hack fashion and against your will. So I can see you wanting to keep developers buying Apple computers even though it seems lately you dropped a bit and Windows picked up a bit (bllllah sorry threw up a bit in my mouth).

I can also see your wanting to keep the SDK software because Flash isn’t the most reliable, however it has greatly improved and with the right attention, it would flourish on your devices. I can see a bit of a reason why you would want to keep it completely in your software platform, so annoying as it is, I am trying to make piece with that.

This is the part I do not understand. What is your avoidance of the flash media player for web browsing? You already command millions of people who search the web using your iPhone Safari browser. Yet you hold many sites back because you do not allow Flash. Last time I check 70% of video is still played using Flash. The entire development community has been buzzing for recently months because we thought the new iPhone would have Flash integration and now we find out the new iPad will not. So millions of people will have almost a laptop size screen and a lot of website’s functionality and ad space won’t be viewable. So what gives Apple? Adobe Flash has been a part of the web like it or not since 1996.

I think personally want a world filled with HTML 5 and not flash and you want people to purchase iPhone app games and other applications from your App store versus people using the current enormous amount of Flash ones already on the Internet. The sad part of this whole story is that your business model was the anti corporation. Let Microsoft look like the evil corporate capitalists while you take over the indie scene for all of those years. Why kill user’s experiences who are paying a fortune for your product just because you of your profit margin? Aren’t you better than this?

Apple To Google to ROK enterprises involved in the television market Samsung Electronics, LG and other challenge

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Apple To Google to ROK enterprises involved in the television market Samsung Electronics, LG and other challenge

According to the “Korean Daily” reported that dominate the global TV SONY VGP-BPS9 Battery, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics from Apple and Google face challenges.

In recent years, with Japan’s Sony and Sharp in the fierce competition, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics in the global TV market share had been out the first two. In the meantime, experts say South Korea’s TV industry will be a period of time ahead of Japan. But Apple and Google join the fray, which has become the new market structure will change the variables. Apple CEO Steve – Steve Jobs said recently: “will be launched in the year the extraordinary (extraordinary) of new products.” Foreign to this passage interpreted as the company may be involved in the television market. In addition, Google has also stepped up launch of built-in operating system developed by Google – Android television.

Apple and Google plans to introduce television to the Internet to download all kinds of video and software, with some computer functions. For example, “Google TV” (Google TV) can watch TV, switch to Twitter (Tweet), or Facebook and other social networking services website, engage in dialogue with a friend, or access to YouTube and other video sites video search requirements.

Eugene Investment Securities analyst Jeon Seong-hun, said: “Apple may be the earliest in the fourth quarter, Google is the fastest around November this year launched a new TV. South Korean TV manufacturers, if not correctly deal with Apple and Google set off TV new trend is likely to be squeezed out of the mainstream market. ”

“Japan and Taiwan” will threaten the “Made in Korea”

Late last year, Taiwan’s electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Group bought Sony LCD TV plant in Mexico. Both swap and large LCD panel makers in Taiwan Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) for the merger. CMO has been receiving orders from Apple for its production of “iPod” and “iPhone”. It is reported that Hon Hai Group is to pick one of Apple’s upcoming television.

Google in the middle of this month acquired a company called “Agnilux” chip design company. Agnilux is A4 processor (Apple’s main product used by central processing unit) development companies were founded. Google’s strategy is to acquire the company, will enhance the hardware technology, including television, including force.

Google co-operation with Sony plans to address the manufacture of TV issues. “New York Times” reported: “Back in a few months ago, Google and Sony and Intel to jointly develop new concept of Google TV.” Sony has the world’s top television manufacturing technology. If the Sony camp to join Google, Google’s TV manufacturing technology will not be more than Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics difference.

In addition, Apple and Google has a Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics do not have the “software advantage.” Apple TV can be installed on 180,000 applications. Google can search the internet and related technology to the TV.

“Smart phone TV market will not repeat mistakes”

Last month on the 9th, Seoul headquarters of Samsung Electronics 5th SONY VGP-BPS8 battery Conference Room, 450 South Korean games and software developers gather together. Samsung Electronics said that day, as long as it was developed more than a certain level of television software, you can operate in the demonstration of “Samsung TV App store” on sale. This is the apple of the “mobile software store” strategy applied to the television market.

Samsung Kim Hyun-seok, tertiary services, said: “If Apple and Google to change television industry ‘rules of the game’, that would indeed pose a threat. But no matter how good Apple’s applications, competition key to success still lies in the number of consumers have TV can use these procedures. “Samsung Electronics last year sold in the TV, 11% have Internet access. This year, Samsung plans to extend its proportion of 30-40% in order to ensure that the basis of the world’s largest internet TV.

LG Electronics earlier this year to hire community of experts, set up by the 200 smart television task force set up for Apple and Google’s TV Internet platform (platform), development of independent Internet platform. LG Electronics stakeholders said: “There are increasing investment in this area. In the development of autonomous platforms same time, if Google put forward cooperation, will also consider joining the Google program.”

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 morning news today, according to foreign media reports, Yahoo CEO Carol @ Bartz (Carol Bartz) that within the next year the company acquired a small start-ups are very interested, but she refused the specific acquisition budget, and whether it intends to acquire social networking site Foursquare comment orientation.

Bartz is a visit to Britain, made the comments during the period. She said that Yahoo’s goal is to further personalize the site home page. This action has already received some advertising revenue, this is because more and more people click on the localization of advertising and news.

Bartz said: “I will not comment directly on the Foursquare, but I want to say is, localization information, the place where a person and what happens around you, will be very interesting.” In her view, the localization service become a tremendous engine of growth.

Earlier there were reports that Yahoo is negotiating with the Foursquare acquisition agreement, valued at approximately 80 million U.S. dollars. Foursquare current users have Apple A1185 Battery than one million, the company said earlier this week, is considering financing or be acquired.

When asked about Yahoo’s acquisition budget, Bartz said: “It depends on how much they want.”

Over the past year, Bartz has been working to achieve its mission of: “Your world, as well as other parts of the world into the Internet.” To compete with Google and Microsoft. Bartz believes that the individual sites and services will bring enormous benefits, so that the user location can provide a unique advice and services, and advertisers can open the mobile market.

Bartz said the total amount from the perspective of potential mobile users, Yahoo and Google to produce a draw, with both sides with operators and handset manufacturers to get the mobile user agreement. Last week, Yahoo just with the world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung has signed cooperation agreements.

My Yahoo allows users according to their need to customize the Yahoo home page, although the service has been launched for some time, but Bartz said that at present only 15% of users spend time on your own customized home page.

For Yahoo’s shortcomings, Bartz also forthrightly. She said: “Last week I flew to England on the home page to find the flight situation, but found a 17 hours before the Associated Press. This is not good, so I looked again, this time one from the CNN reports that 38 minutes earlier. This is a bit better. Nothing should be possible to achieve real-time. ”

Butts insisted that Yahoo would regain some of the search market share. After several quarters of decline, the Yahoo search last quarter market share began to stabilize. Bartz said last week that the company’s share has bottomed.

Internet traffic, according to comScore data monitoring bodies, in March this year, Yahoo in U.S. search market share was 17%, Google 65%, Microsoft will be 12%.

Yahoo has also won the next three seasons of Premiership football league in the United Kingdom’s exclusive network broadcast rights.

When asked whether the fear that many developers will leave her term of office, HP pavilion dv6000 Battery well as Yahoo is losing its innovation, the Bartz said they were not worried, she said: “You will see that we rely on the social map to create more products . I disagree with it very annoying to those that Yahoo no longer have the innovative point of view.

Apple TV next generation design of the whole touch-screen remote control exposure

admin    Google TV     Apple, control, Design, Exposure, Generation, Next, remote, touchscreen, whole

Apple’s iTunes 9 has been heard before the new interface shots of the BGR foreign websites, and recently brought a suspected Apple’s next generation product design, picture, rumored that it is likely to be the second-generation Apple TV remote control concept design artwork.

Information obtained from the picture you can see, this is a no button of the remote control, which uses similar with the Sony Vgp-bpl2 Laptop Battery all-touch-screen cell phone design, looks like a stretched version of the iPod nano, mode of operation is also with them very similar, by a finger touch to complete a variety of media players, and even web browsing applications.

Just ended in September, Apple on the Apple TV product lines of fine-tuning of the 229 U.S. dollars before the 40GB product delisting from 329 U.S. dollars to replace the 160GB version of the product, priced reduced to 229 U.S. dollars. Should the exposure of this picture is really the next generation of Apple TV’s standard accessories, it is so seductive strong remote control, for only the price of more than 200 U.S. dollars of the Apple TV is, is not it seem too extravagant to do?

Single from the sales point of view, Apple TV is Apple products introduced in recent years, the sales of the most dismal paragraph. Since it went public two years ago, the hardware configuration has not been much change. Although this position with the Apple TV itself is related by Apple as “interest products”, but Apple recently a series of moves of view, does not rule out the possibility he became the main product. When that happens, this revolutionary remote control design may become a major selling point.

Edit Comment: From the full-Touch Tablet PC rumors, to the full-touch remote control, Apple’s products the recent exposure, it seems related with the touch screen. We look back at this stage in the sale of popular Apple product, whether it is iPhone cell phone, iPod nano, there are MacBook laptops, have touch technology. These applications are the user’s love and concern, and because of patent reasons, Apple has become an insurmountable advantage of other brands within a short time, replication technology to copy product so far not as simple.

In fact, frequent introduction of Apple’s touch-screen products, also in copying his success, he saw from the Hp Pavilion zd8000 Series Laptop Battery a powerful business opportunities, people’s habits are changing, more mechanical parts button operation, it is likely because of Apple’s strong elected touch technology has been eliminated from the final will only be able to see in museums, this is not impossible to happen. Perhaps, is to change the habits of our time.

As market competition intensifies, the Internet phenomenon of the homogenization of the more serious, major manufacturers have to seek a breakthrough in order to obtain higher profits. However, when large-screen access to the Internet after the introduction, the price began to rise with the tide and even comparable with the traditional notebook. To industry sources, manufacturers in pursuit of profits at small and lightweight to change the characteristics of this way, the advantages of the Internet will cease to exist.

Rapid increase sales volume

According to the latest report released in the second quarter, notebook sales to reach 38 million units, of which the Internet was particularly strong in this market, compared with the preceding quarter, up 40%, the growth rate nearly twice the average laptop. Internet access to this strong sales, making its total notebook market share rose to 22.2%. ASUS Internet pioneer market share in this decline, as first-line brand Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba have access to the Internet in this market.

At present, the Internet in Latin America and China, the prevalence was even higher than regular notebooks. Internet in this low price is more suited for these emerging markets. Particularly in these areas for the first time computer buyers do not need to mainstream notebook possess all the features. In many areas, telecommunications operators to subsidize the purchase of the Internet, which also facilitated the access to this sales growth.

In Western European countries, many telecommunications companies signed a two-year Ibm Thinkpad t43p Laptop Battery in the user agreement to provide 100% subsidy, which is provided free of charge Internet access to this. Analysts said the markets surging in the Internet is bound to Apple and other companies will have a traditional notebook computer to form a larger pressure.

Gradual increase of the phenomenon of homogenous

As market competition intensifies, many manufacturers have begun to look to play cards. Recently, the Japanese Bandai has launched a cartoon online book, its greatest feature is the appearance of a cartoon image of the shell part of the desktop backgrounds with the relevant patterns. The product is sold in Japan rapidly. Sony has also launched a sudden appearance design and excellent workmanship processes VAIO W series, while we have a MININOTEBOOK, but either from the processor or chipset, all indicate that this is a pure and simple access to this. The Asus EeePC latest clamshell phone is one of the representatives of the family to make, its only a business card size, the world’s smallest PC motherboard, to overcome the difficulties of internal space for small, high level of integration to achieve a more energy-efficient, longer-lasting The endurance capacity.

In addition, Google and Nokia are also entering the online market is full of the expectations, these companies continue to join not only enriched the Internet in this market, product lines, but also in technology, market planning, long-term development of the industry to the Internet in this one More change the future.

Experts point out that in recent years, the Compaq Presario m2000 Laptop Battery in its present developments in the field less and less clear, homogeneous phenomenon even more serious, a number of cottage manufacturers have shifted their positions, and even mainstream companies are also devoting himself struggled in the face of sales gradually declined, making a number of vendors have to adopt a similar appearance of mold, but also for future market development of this great Internet bottlenecks.

The price war will no longer have the advantage of

The screen size because of the Internet in this growing, especially in the 11.6 inches of the advent of the Internet since the Internet has soared in the price. Reporter Zhongguancun see that there is a lot of Internet companies have already started this price war, like the Asus EeePC clamshell phone 1005HA-H’s prices have been lowered to 3199 yuan, not only so, until October 15 the same day promotional period, purchase EeePC clamshell phone 1005HA, you can receive more gifts

Asus EeePC relevant person in charge, told reporters that the Internet has its own room for the development of this still exists, but it has its own characteristics that must be taken one way, blindly to meet consumer demand, will be the immediate short-term interests as the highest goal of the behavior will lead to the development of the Internet in this track.

At present, various new technologies and new demands of customers are constantly emerging, according to the actual user needs to develop the Internet in this and other differences between the existing terminal, rather than a single price war in the PC makers to set aside the title of straw after , Internet this should show its own unique charm.

How to convert FLV Flash video to Apple TV with Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2

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A lot of friends are asking me how to convert FLV to Apple TV movie. I have told those one by one. And now, I would like to share my knowledge of this respect with more people who have the need to play Flash video on Apple TV. This guide is written for Apple TV users to explain how to play back your favorite FLV Flash video files on the Apple TV at home. The guide is easy to follow and doesn’t require technical knowledge of multimedia.

Requirement: To finish this guide, it is recommended to install Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2 on your computer.

For Apple TV users, you can either buy movies and songs from iTunes store and transfer them to Apple TV, or find the proper video program to convert your favorite video files to Apple TV movie.

FLV to Video Converter is a fine utility for FLV to conventional video conversion. I have tried it multiple times and find it works smoothly. This program is a fine FLV to MP4 Converter and could efficiently convert FLV to MP4, which is compatible with Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, PSP, etc.It also supports H.264 encoding which provides higher video quality.

Step 1. Launch the FLV to Apple TV ConverterAfter launching this program, you will face the following interface, which is quite easy to use. Import your source FLV (Flash video) into the program. It will be played back by default in the preview panel. If you import not only one file, you must select the right file in the list, and do the other settings.

Tips: There are two ways to import source FLV files into the program: From Folder on the hard disc; From IE Cache.

Step 2. Clip an Area & Watermark the VideoIn the step of editing, you have the access to leave out those unwanted areas of the video image for the conversion. You can crop the video by dragging the edge of the dot frame on the left preview pane, or change the value in the dimension boxes. To trim the video, you can either drag the slide bar under the right preview pane, or set the “Start time” and “End time”.

Besides, this program could meet the advanced requirements in the FLV application: you can add the logo or a text as the watermark of the output file, and you could specify the position of the watermark. You are also able to set the transparent color for the image and font for the text.

Tips: The red marked button in the following picture is for setting transparent color. Under “Text” tab, the “T” button is for setting the text font.

Step3. Change the Audio & Video SettingsBefore you do the settings, you must select the right output format with the pull-down list of “Export format”. Click on the folder icon right behind “Export to…”, you can change the output path. And then you select your favorite one among the choices of Apple TV. Click on the tab of Settings and go on to adjust the audio and video settings for the output Apple TV movie.

The codecs are set properly. If unnecessary, just leave it by default.It is suggested that while specifying the frame size of the video, make sure to check the box of “Proportional” to keep the original ration of the image.

Tips: For advanced users, they could select to change the video frame rate, video bit rate, audio sample rate, audio bit rate, channels, etc.

Step4. Convert

Choose the tab of “Convert” and click “Start”. The program will help you to encode the FLV file into Apple TV movie format. Then, load it to your Apple TV, and enjoy it anytime anywhere!

Apple iPod touch 8 GB (2nd Generation)

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Apple iPod touch 8 GB (2nd Generation) – The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies–including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics–and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Browse YouTube videos. And shop the App Store for games and applications.

Music

Music on iPod touch not only sounds amazing, it looks amazing, too.

Touch Your Music
Remember what it felt like to flip through your CD or record collection? Cover Flow brings that feeling back. Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Tap the cover to flip it over and display a track list. Tap again to start the music. Even view the lyrics while you’re listening.

A Musical Genius
Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself.

Fill It Up
Fill up your iPod touch with audio and video from your iTunes library. All you have to do is choose the playlists, videos, and other content you want to sync, and iTunes does the rest.

Movies and TV Shows

Movies and TV shows have never looked this good on a portable device.

Everything’s a Must-see
Carry hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch widescreen color display. Need ideas? From Hollywood blockbusters to independent favorites, there’s something for everyone at the iTunes Store. Download and watch movies with a few clicks. Prefer TV shows? Buy a single episode or an entire season’s worth all at once.

In Control
While watching your video, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. You can play/pause, view by chapter, and adjust the volume. You also can use the new volume controls on the left side of iPod touch. Want to switch between widescreen and full screen? Simply tap the display twice.

Sync and Go
Need some entertainment for your next flight or road trip? With iTunes on your Mac or PC, you can sit at your computer and choose the movies and TV shows you want to sync to your iPod touch.

Games

With its groundbreaking technologies, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand.

Get in the Game
Developers all over the world are creating exciting games unlike anything you’ve ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Many games come alive with stunning 3D graphics and immerse you in the action with the advanced technologies in iPod touch. There’s even a built-in speaker, so you can hear all the action.

Fingertip Control
Many games for iPod touch use Multi-Touch to give you precise, fingertip control over game elements. Use your finger to drag your pieces around the board in chess or dice games. Or pinch to enlarge or shrink your view, rotate your character left or right, or just tap to make a selection.

Tilt, Turn, and Go
The built-in accelerometer actually responds to your movements, so you can tilt and turn your iPod touch to control the action. It’s perfect for racing games–where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel–and for tap-and-tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character rolls to your movements.

The App Store
Even if games aren’t your thing, there’s an iPod touch application for you. Thousands of applications in almost every category–entertainment, social networking, sports, photography, reference, and travel–are a tap away at the App Store.

iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store

Discover new music anywhere.

Buy on the Fly
The built-in wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can choose from millions of songs with a tap. Browse New Releases, What’s Hot, and Genres. Take a look at Top Songs and Top Albums. Or find exactly what you’re looking for with a quick search. Play a 30-second preview of any song, then tap once to buy it. Your music starts downloading instantly, and you can keep tabs on its progress by tapping the Downloads button.

Sync it Back
When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music you bought on-the-go syncs to your iTunes library. If you’ve partially downloaded a song to iPod touch, your computer completes the download automatically.

iPod touch at Starbucks
If you have an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer with the latest version of iTunes, you get free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes Store and to Starbucks’ Now Playing content. Stroll into a participating Starbucks, and you’re connected automatically.

Home Screen

Get instant access to whatever you need on your iPod touch.

Customize Your Home Screen
Arrange the icons on your Home screen any way you want. Even move them to another Home screen. Create up to nine Home screens for quick access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari Web Clips.

Go Home
No matter where you are on iPod touch, you can press the Home button to return to the Home screen. You can go back to what you were doing at any time.

Add Apps, Web Clips, and More
Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And if you check the same websites every day, just create Web Clips and you can access the sites directly from your Home screen with a single tap. Not happy with how they’re organized? Reorder them any way you want by dragging them around the screen.

Safari

iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device.

Browse Anywhere
The iPod touch is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. Whenever you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping.

Search and Find
iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access favorite sites quickly. It has Google and Yahoo! search built in, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for on the web.

Zoom with a View
Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the website rotates, too.

Clip it.
If you check a website frequently–a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site–why not create a Home screen icon for it? Make Web Clips with Safari, and your favorite sites are always just a tap away.

Mail

Email on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer.

See it All
iPod touch supports rich HTML email, so images and photos appear alongside text. And you see email attachments in their original formats, not stripped-down versions. Rotate, zoom, and pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, including PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and iWork.

Access it All
Access your email from popular providers–including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Google Gmail, and AOL–and most industry-standard IMAP and POP mail systems.

Send Fast
iPod touch recognizes email addresses in different applications. If you run across an email address on a web page or a map listing, for example, just tap it; iPod touch opens a new message and addresses it for you.

Type Smart
With its built-in dictionary, the intelligent iPod touch keyboard predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write email.

Maps

When you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic.

Find Yourself
iPod touch finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots. It also finds points of interest by keyword: Search for “coffee” and iPod touch shows you every cafe nearby.

Get Directions
Just type in an address and get directions from wherever you are. View a list of turn-by-turn directions, or see a highlighted map route. You also can mark specific locations and find the best route between them.

Enjoy the View
Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on iPod touch lets you switch between views of Google map data, satellite images, and a hybrid of both. Multi-Touch makes the difference. Tap to zoom, pan, and change your view on the move.

See Traffic
Maps on iPod touch shows you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in easy-to-read green, red, and yellow highlights.

YouTube

Love to watch the latest YouTube videos? iPod touch gives you all the fun of the web’s best videos–pocket-size.

Share from Anywhere
Email your favorite videos to your favorite people. Tap “Share” on any YouTube video detail page, and iPod touch creates an email with the video link already in it.

Watch What You Want
Explore Featured, Most Viewed, Most Recent, and Top Rated videos. Or search for the video you want with a keyword search. Once you find what you’re looking for, bookmark it to watch later.

Photos

Carry up to 25,000 of your favorite photos everywhere.

Share Photos
Show thousands of photos from the palm of your hand. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate to see a photo in landscape. Pinch to zoom in or out. Play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Email a photo to a friend, set it as your wallpaper, or share it in a MobileMe Gallery.

Save Photos
If you receive a great image in an email, save it to your photo library on iPod touch. Once there, it acts just like any other photo. You can set it as your wallpaper, share it on the web, or pass it on.

Sync Photos
iPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. Just choose which photos or albums to sync to your iPod touch, then you can look at them–and share them–anywhere you go.

Calendar

With iPod touch, it’s easy to make plans and stay on schedule.

Add Events
Keep your schedule at your fingertips with iPod touch. Add events to your calendar. Set a custom alert. Write a note or two. Manage multiple color-coded calendars. And do it all with just a few taps.

Stay in Sync
Connect iPod touch to your computer, and the events that you’ve created on-the-go automatically sync to Microsoft Outlook on a PC or iCal on a Mac. And all the events you’ve added on your computer sync to iPod touch.

Three Ways to View
iPod touch gives you three ways to view your calendars. List view shows you all your appointments in the coming days as a comprehensive list, which you can scroll up and down. Day view displays one day’s worth of appointments visually. And Month view offers an at-a-glance look at an entire month.

Contacts

Put names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more at your fingertips.

Make Contact
Build your contacts list on your Mac with Address Book or on your PC with Microsoft Outlook, then sync everything to your iPod touch using iTunes. You also can add contact information directly to your iPod touch from maps, web pages, and email. Next time you sync, your computer is updated, too.

Search Contacts
If you have a lot of contacts, a quick search shows you a list of matching names. Or you can scroll up and down your entire list to find the right contact. Want to send them an email? Just tap an email address and the Mail application opens automatically.

Organized by Groups
If you keep your contacts organized into groups–such as co-workers, friends, family, and so on–iPod touch will, too. And iPod touch can hold more than just names, email addresses, and phone numbers. You also can track birthdays, websites, nicknames, and notes.

Stocks, Weather, and Notes

Stay on top of it all.

Check Stocks
Stocks on iPod touch shows you performance information for any stock you choose. When you want more details about a stock’s performance, tap the Y! for instant access to Yahoo! Finance.

Get Weather
Check worldwide weather at home or away. Add the cities you want, then flick back and forth to get six-day forecasts for each. Tap the Y! to open a Yahoo! city guide that shows you what’s happening, rain or shine.

Take Notes
Forget the pen and paper. Use Notes on iPod touch to write yourself a quick note and keep important information on hand. There’s even a built-in email function that lets you send notes to yourself or others.

Calculator

Calculator on iPod touch helps you settle the restaurant bill or keep track of your budget.

Calculate Simply
When you tap the Calculator icon, iPod touch shows you a simple application with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and memory functions. Use it just as you would a pocket calculator.

Calculate Scientifically
Your simple calculator doubles as a sophisticated scientific calculator. Just rotate it to landscape to access dozens of functions for solving complex science and math problems

Nike + iPod

Tune Your Run
iPod touch now includes built-in Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your run. The sensor communicates wirelessly with your iPod touch, tracking your time, distance, and calories burned. It even gives you voice feedback on your progress.

Tune Your Cardio Workout
This feature also works with new cardio equipment available in many fitness centers. Just look for treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and stationary bikes that are Nike + iPod compatible.

Sync with Nikeplus.com
When you get back to your computer, sync your iPod touch via iTunes and transfer your exercise data to nikeplus.com, where you can track your workouts, set goals, and challenge friends.

Multi-Touch

iPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone.

Glide, Flick, Pinch
Built to take full advantage of the large 3.5-inch display, the Multi-Touch touchscreen interface lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and enlarge them with a pinch, zoom in and out on a section of a web page, and control game elements precisely.

How it Works
The Multi-Touch display layers a protective shield over a capacitive panel that senses your touch using electrical fields. It then transmits that information to the LCD screen below it. iPod touch software enables the flick, tap, and pinch.

Type with the Touchscreen Keyboard
iPod touch features an intelligent touchscreen keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, getting directions on a map, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, or adding new contacts. It analyzes keystrokes to suggest words as you type and correct spelling errors automatically. And because it’s software based, it changes its keys to support typing in multiple languages.

Accelerometer

iPod touch responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer.

Responds to Movement
iPod touch detects when you rotate it from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display. So you immediately see the entire width of a web page, view a photo in its proper aspect ratio, or control a game using only your movements.

How it Works
The accelerometer inside iPod touch uses three elements: a silicon mass, a set of silicon springs, and an electrical current. The silicon springs measure the position of the silicon mass using the electrical current. Rotating iPod touch causes a fluctuation in the electrical current passing through the silicon springs. The accelerometer registers these fluctuations and tells iPod touch to adjust the display accordingly.

Perfect for Gaming
Accelerometer technology really shines when you play games because it immerses you in the action. It’s perfect for racing games–where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel–and for tap-and-tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character responds to your every movement.

Wireless

Connect iPod touch to the Internet anywhere there’s a wireless network.

Connect Automatically
iPod touch locates nearby wireless hotspots, including protected networks. If you’ve never used a particular network, it asks you to enter a password the first time, and it remembers the password from then on. So the next time you’re within range, it connects automatically.

Surf’s Up
Now you can send email from a coffee shop. Surf the web at the airport. Shop for games from your couch. Browse, buy, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at select Starbucks locations or other wireless hotspots in your area.

What’s in the Box
iPod touch 8 GB, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, polishing cloth, quick start guide