Ipod Dj Mixer
Ipod Dj Mixer
Dj Mixer question???
I am a brand new DJ hopefull and am looking at mixers. I don’t have a laptop and don’t want to buy one- I want to dj from my iPod touch… Will any mixer work with this? For example, I saw a mixer at guitar center for $60. I also saw the idj2 that is built for iPod for $399… Can someone help me- I know almost nothing about the subject
SoCal – Any DJ mixer will work fine. All you need is a standard 3.5mm to RCA cable:
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Connect the headphone end to the ipod and the other ends to the DJ mixer.
The ipod DJ mixers are better because they will control two ipods so you can mix between songs – you can set up the next song while one is playing.
You can do that with the $60 mixer too if you have two ipods.
If you plan to DJ remember that you will need an amp and speakers too if you are going to DJ somewhere where there is no sound system.
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Nano Black
Nano Black
How much is a 4gb black ipod nano worth in very good condition?
how much is a 4 gig black ipod nano in very good condition worth??i was thinking on selling it…
I would say somewhere around $100…..it depends, i guess, on what someone will pay. There is a new model out, so that hurts the value, but it is still good (assuming that it works well, etc.) tghere is one on eBay that is Buy It Now, for $100. I would say that is about right…..good luck….
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Sony Nwz A815
Sony Nwz A815
Mass Adwords Product Ads Takes the Advertisement to the Next Level
Search engines like Google, Yahoo!, AOL, and others are used by Internet users to find the information or products they are interested in. When a user searches Google’s search engine on www.google.com (or the relevant local/national google server [e.g. www.google.com.ua for Ukraine]), ads (also known as creatives by Google) for relevant words are shown as “sponsored links” on the right side of the screen, and sometimes above the main search results.
AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google’s text advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two content text lines. Advertisers specify the words that should trigger their ads and the maximum amount they are willing to pay per click. – Wikipedia.org
Now if you are Store Manager for osCommerce user you can create separate Google AdWord ads for EACH product in your store with the help of Mass AdWords Product Ads. It is an addon for this osCommerce Store Manager application, providing you friendly windows interface to create your AdWords campaigns in time, eliminating possible problems.
If you own a large store with hundreds or thousands of products it’s quite complicated to make an advertisement for every product, which would include manufacture name, product name, price, etc. A separate person would have to do this, and she would’ve done it for days. With Mass AdWords Product Ads you can make ads for all of the products in your store automatically, creating hundreds or thousands of ads or just select one or few products. When people search on Google using one of your keywords, your ad will appear next to the search results. Now your advertising is going to be even more efficient!
Let’s say a customer is looking for MP3 Player Sony NWZ-A815 Walkman. Enter this inquiry “Sony NWZ-A815 MP3 Walkman”. Searching for this product on Yahoo! he gets the following results:
Buy Sony NWZ A815
Sony NWZ A815 on Sale Save on MP3 Players.
www.company1.com
Sony NWZ A815
Buy now – $89.96 only!
www.company2.com
Buy Sony MP3 Accessories Online
High quality and cheap prices. Buy Mp3 & Accessory now!
www.company3.com
It’s quite clear that the second advertisement will be chosen, as it coincides the most with customer’s inquiry. So the customer won’t have to waste his time clicking on other advertisements. Mass AdWords Product Ads chooses the most exact keywords, which most accurately coincide with the inquery. It greatly decreases cost per click, usually higher competition concerns more general, popular words.
Mass AdWords Product Ads offers you wide range of features and advantages you will benefit from:
… This addon allows you to create separate ads for each product in your store – you can create separate ads for each product, including product name, model, price, manufacturer, store name and more then 20 other macros right into the ad.
… This tool automatically finds proper keywords for each product – you have control over keyword selection process, including product variables only (product name, product model, product manufacturer (and other product-specific fields) only – for laser-targetted campaigns), keyword matching options (broad match, exact match, phrase match) and more.
… It gives you the opportunity to create multiple ads for each product by template – you can use built-in predefined templates or add your own ad templates! Just create multiple ad variations for each product and let AdWords Optimizer find out the ones, which work best for you automatically.
… Another feature of Mass AdWords Product Ads is the ability to preview which ads will be created. Before you generate anything – you can preview and disable ads, which you think won’t work for any reason.
Actually Mass AdWords Product Ads has even more to offer. This addon allows you to create laser-targeted advertisement and economize on context advertising. It saves your time, attracts more customers and increases your sales. Most operations are automated. All you need to do – make only key decisions. Better targeted and relevant ads bring more sales and more profits. Save your time – let the professionals do some work for you!
Already got interested and want to know more details? osCommerce Manager Addons
About the Author
Martin Wann is an Internet Marketing Assistant of a Ukraine-based company called MagneticOne. Do you have any comments or questions about this software or other osCommerce topics? Speak out in the Store Manager for osCommerce Support Forum
Are there any docking systems that fit sony walkman NWZ – A815 mp3 players?
my brother has a sony walkman NWZ – A815 mp3 and wants a docking system, he was bought one which said would fit mp3s but it didn’t so are there any particular ones that will fit it?
Thank you x
See – http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Sony%20Walkman%20NWZ-A815%20MP3%20Player:1994974532:page=details
Hope this will solve your problem.
Sony™ Walkman NWZ – A815 Review
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Ipod Glass Replacement
Ipod Glass Replacement
how can I replace the glass screen on my iPod touch?
my Ipod touch’s screen is cracked. I dont know how it happened, I must have bumped into something while it was in my pocket. Where can I get a replacement glass screen? Everythng on the iPod works fine, including the LCD, its just that the glass is cracked. I dont wanna pay $160 to replace the whole screen, I need ONLY the glass part. Where can I get one? And I can’t bother with the warranty because I no longer have the reciept information and target doesnt have the info In their system anymre either. Like I said, I just need to replace the glass cover- the ipod still funtions great, in fact I’m using it to type this question right now. Please Help!!
I don’t think you could. The ipod LCD screen and digitizer are both fused together, so you can’t just take the plastic part and put a new one. You need to buy the whole screen together.
iPod Touch Digitizer Glass Screen Replacement How-to Video
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Player Sealed
Player Sealed
Finding the Best Headphones For a Sports MP3 Player
If you use your sports mp3 player when engaging in outdoor or water sports, using proper headphones that won’t be damaged by shocks or quick motion is necessary. And if you will be listening while in or on the water and have one of the new waterproof mp3 players you need to match it with waterproof headphones. Technology is constantly advancing and now there is an alternative to the traditional ear bud type phones.
There are many people who have changed from traditional ear bud type headphones to the newer headphones that use bone conduction technology. These types of headphones do not fit in your ears like ear buds, or cover your ears like traditional headphones. When you are exercising, hiking, biking or swimming there are many times when it is important to be able to hear external and ambient sounds. And this is something that can be very important as far as your safety is concerned.
When you wear ear bud type headphones, especially if you like to listen to your music at a high volume, it is very difficult and sometimes impossible for you to hear other external sounds. This can be very dangerous in situations where you might need to be alerted. A jogger who comes to an intersection and proceeds across depending on the cross lights might not hear a car coming that is running the light or emergency vehicles that will not stop. There are many cases where being able to hear sounds from the world around us can give us warning or alert us to possible danger that we don’t see with our eyes.
Another growing problem with in the ear buds is potential damage to your hearing from extended exposure to loud sounds and music. There are many people who are becoming concerned with the possible long term damage to your hearing. Bone conduction headphones do not create this problem since the sound is sent by bone conduction with vibrates the inner ear directly and allows you to hear the sound without loud sound waves impacting your ear drums.
Whether you are in, out or near the water when you are swimming or taking part in water sports bone conduction headphones can give you very good quality sound. Many people prefer these over in the ear waterproof ear buds. The problems with inserting and sealing standard waterproof ear buds can be uncomfortable due to the need to fit them more tightly than usual in your ear canal. Some people have also reported discomfort in removing these traditional ear buds since the waterproof fit is very tight.
The bone type conduction headphones have a number of things that make them a better choice. When you are considering which type of headphones to choose for your sports mp3 player, you may want the bonus of being able to hear external and ambient noise which gives you added safety. Along with this you also get extremely good sound quality and the comfort of these non traditional type headphones.
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Iphone Press Conference Live Video
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History repeats itself: IBM vs Apple then, iPhone vs Android now
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
History, ironically, tends to repeat its self. This may be old news in political, economical or historical events but what happens in Hardware/Software industry ?.
While I was reading some articles on the web about the market share of mobile OS’s today/tomorrow, a “pattern” started to emerge before my eyes. There is something in this pattern that indicates what mobile OS will have the major market share maybe 2 years from now, or sooner. As I predict, near future of mobile phones will belong to Android Linux operating system.
Ok that may have sound like foolish… but please be patient and let me (try) explain what are the historical similarities between the war of IBM-Apple then, and Apple(iOS)-Google(Android) now and how will probably be the end of this fight over the market share pie chart. So grab a cup of coffee and open your mind !
Keywords: IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Open/closed source/hardware/architecture.
Historical events…
Before 1980s there was… chaos. Incompatibility, deferent platforms on hardware and software, less or no industry standards where some of the troubbles in the market. Despite the presence of informal standards which allowed a fair measure of interoperability between different machines from different manufacturers, no single company controlled the industry. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Their hand-built, Apple I was first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club as personal computer kit that was just sold as a motherboard with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips. In December of 1979, Jobs and several Apple employees visited Xerox PARC to see the Xerox Alto. Jobs was immediately convinced that all future computers would use a graphical user interface, so he rapidly pushed the development of a GUI for the Apple Lisa computer.
Meanwhile, Microsoft entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, called Xenix. However, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft to provide a version of the CP/M OS, which was set to be used in the upcoming IBM Personal Computer. For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, branding it as MS-DOS, which IBM rebranded to PC-DOS.
The Board is set… and now the fun begins…
In 1981 IBM, finally entered the microcomputer market, with a machine that was very unusual by its standards, largely sourced from outside component suppliers, technically unambitious, ran third-party operating systems, and above all, had an open architecture (somehow this reminds me the way that a Linux distribution is built). It was called the IBM PC (Personal Computer).
IBM PC 5150
I repeat… IBM decided to go on an open architecture, so that other manufacturers could produce and sell peripheral components and compatible software without purchasing licenses. IBM also sold an IBM PC Technical Reference Manual which included complete circuit schematics, a listing of the ROM BIOS source code, and other engineering and programming information. IBM announced the PC on August 12, 1981. Six weeks later at COMDEX Fall, Tecmar had 20 PC products available for sale. Thanks to the open nature of the PC architecture, PC soon had thousands of different third-party add-in cards and software packages available for almost every imaginable purpose. This made the PC the only viable option for many, as the PC was the only platform that supported all hardware and software they needed, allowing the PC to snatch the business market, a market with very diverse software requirements from customer to customer.
Industry competitors took one of several approaches to the changing market, which was to build a machine that duplicated the IBM PC as closely as possible and sell it for a slightly lower price, or with higher performance. The two early leaders in this last strategy were both start-up companies: Columbia Computers and Compaq. They were the first to achieve reputations for very close compatibility with the IBM machines, which meant that they could run software written for the IBM machine without recompilation. This meant for software companies, that it was rational to write for the IBM PC and its clones as a high priority, and port versions for less common systems at leisure. Even thought Apple had the “beautiful” GUI desktop in Lisa (1983) becoming the first personal computer sold to the public with a GUI, it was a commercial failure due to its high price tag, limited software titles, and due to the “ugly” MS-DOS which was available for more machines named IBM PC clones. From around 1984, Microsoft were achieving enormous revenues from DOS sales both to IBM and to an ever-growing list of other manufacturers who had agreed to buy an MS-DOS license for every machine they made (PC clones). For the competing computer manufacturers, large or small, the only common factors to provide joint technical leadership were operating software from Microsoft, and CPUs from Intel. In essence, during the bulk of the 1980s and early 1990s, the main machines that were talked about in the press and in how-to guides, were IBM’s and IBM PC clones.
Nobody is perfect…
Even thought Open Architecture “was the way to go”, with many manufactures supplying the market with IBM PC clones “pre-loaded” with Microsoft’s MS-DOS and most of the market was buying faster and cheaper IBM compatible machines made by other firms, in 1987, IBM made a bold and ultimately disastrous business decision. IBM chose to “go the Apple way” and introduced their PS/2 line. The PS/2s remained software compatible, but the hardware was quite different, which meant that none of the millions of existing add-in cards would function. The new IBM machines, in other words, were not IBM compatible. In addition, IBM planned the PS/2 in such a way that for both technical and legal reasons it would be very difficult to clone it in a similar way that Apple produce its products. At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s IBM made a second disastrous decision by planning to replace DOS with the vastly superior OS/2. In response to this, Microsoft preferred to push the well established IBM PC clones industry in the direction of its own product, called Windows thatbecame the de-facto standard. IBM finally relinquished its role as a PC manufacturer in April 2005, when it sold its PC division to Lenovo for $1.75 billion.
By the early 21st century, the dominant ”IBM PC compatible (clones)” computing platform with millions of “homebuilt computers” that are assembled from available components, rather than purchased as a complete system from a computer system supplier, ensured the success of Microsoft Windows which had driven nearly all other rival commercial operating systems into near-extinction. By the mid 1990s for any manufacturer, introducing a new rival operating system had become too risky. Even if an operating system was technically superior to Windows, it would be a failure in the marketplace (BeOS and OS/2 for example). Microsoft continued delivering software to cheap commodity personal computers to the vast majority of computer users while Apple was delivering a richly engineered, but expensive, experience. Apple relied on high profit margins and never developed a clear response. Instead they sued Microsoft for using a graphical user interface similar to the Apple Lisa in Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation. The lawsuit dragged on for years before it was thrown out of court.
The decade 2000-2010
By the year 2001, Microsoft holds approximately the 95% of the desktop/small business computers ” locked-in” on their technology. On the other hand Open Source projects are getting some attention and by the year 2000 Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) was founded as a non-profit organization supported by a global consortium tasked to “accelerate the deployment of Linux for enterprise computing”. Its goals included “to be the recognized center-of-gravity for the Linux industry”. Linux Foundation was founded in 2007 by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG). The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux “by providing a comprehensive set of services to compete effectively with closed platforms”.
Microsoft did not like this, as Open Architecture PC (IBM clones and homebuilt computers) combined with the Open Source Linux Operating System could threaten their domination on the web. How that could happen ? Well, the same way Microsoft succeed their domination on the market:
- Open Architecture was inevitably going to spread in the market by its nature (remember home-build PC’s versus Apple’s closed architecture Mac’s)
- Microsoft didn’t do, by purpose, anything about pirated copies of Windows until Windows XP
Linux is by nature open source, so any company/individual could create a distribution for any purpose. Also the fact that Linux can be easily modified to run on any type of ” architecture” was the reason why the war over who dominates web/file servers, mission critical systems , data centers is lost by Microsoft -as Linux smoothly replaced Unix in those areas. Every interaction we have with the web and any internet infrastructure in general, is powered in a “monopoly” way by Linux servers. So they started a precautionary ”war” on the Desktops/Netbooks market for the sake of their survival. This was called FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). On November 16, 2005 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project gained much more attention when Nicholas Negroponte and Kofi Annan unveiled a working prototype of the Children’s Machine 1 (CM1) at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. Microsoft, also did not like this…. they tried to kill it (Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop )
On the other hand, Apple, having learned several painful lessons (1986-1998) tried to adapt its self in the upcoming era of Open Architecture combined with Open Source Projects. On March 24, 2001, they announced Mac OS X that is based upon the Mach kernel with certain parts from FreeBSD’s and NetBSD’s implementation of Unix incorporated in Nextstep. Also they started a successful transition from the PowerPC architecture to the PC architecture. But wait… that didn’t meant that Apple was embracing Open philosophies. Nobody is allowed to make home-build Mac’s. Even if the kernel was based upon open source projects, Apple was more interested in providing third party developers with access to internal code than in creating a community where developers would write its operating system for it. Again… they failed by being stuck in an 8% of market share. To overcome this problem on profitability, in Jan 9th 2007 Apple Computer Inc. dropped the word “Computer” from their name to better reflect their move into the wider field of consumer electronics. The same day, they announced iPhone, an internet and multimedia-enabled smartphone engineered during a secretive and unprecedented collaboration with AT&T Mobility—Cingular Wireless at the time.
Apples habit to control everything, wasn’t changed at all with these new product line :
- Carrier lock-in with SIM lock - The iPhone normally prevents access to its media player and web features unless it has also been activated as a phone with an authorized carrier. Whereas on other smartphones this not an issue.
- Third party software development – Apple strictly controls the developers’ creativity freedom by any means. Developers to develop native applications for the iPhone have to pay an Apple Developer Connection membership fee. Developers are free to set any price for their applications to be distributed through the App Store, of which they will receive a 70% share. The problem starts when a developer creates an application that is way better and intuitive from iPhone’s bundled software. If this happens to be true then Apple is free to ban your app from App Store (see more : iPhone developers frustrated with App Store )
With the above attitude, Apple left out carriers and mostly developers who wanted more freedom to unleash their creativity. Somebody saw this coming… and by somebody I mean Google. Some really interesting historical events started to hit the news press. As written in wikipedia, in July 2005, Google acquired Android, Inc., a small startup company based in Palo Alto, California, USA. At the time, little was known about the functions of Android, Inc. other than that they made software for mobile phones. This began rumors that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market.
Google Chairman/CEO Eric Schmidt in response to the rumors with a press conference in November 5, 2007, unveiled his vision about an Open Software, Open Device, Open Ecosystem :
“Today’s announcement is more ambitious than any single ‘Google Phone’ that the press has been speculating about over the past few weeks. Our vision is that the powerful platform we’re unveiling will power thousands of different phone models. This partnership will help unleash the potential of mobile technology for billions of users around the world. A fresh approach to fostering innovation in the mobile industry will help shape a new computing environment that will change the way people access and share information in the future.”
At Google, the team led by Andy Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel which they marketed to handset makers and carriers on the premise of providing a flexible, upgradeable system. On 5 of November 2007, the Open Handset Alliance was unveiled, a consortium of 71 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices, which include Texas Instruments, Broadcom Corporation, Google, HTC, Intel, LG, Marvell Technology Group, Motorola, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. Along with the formation of the Open Handset Alliance, the OHA also unveiled their first product, Android, a mobile device platform built on the Linux kernel version 2.6. On 9 December 2008, it was announced that 14 new members would be joining the Android project, including PacketVideo, ARM Holdings, Atheros Communications, Asustek Computer Inc, Garmin Ltd, Softbank, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, and Vodafone Group Plc. Since 21 October 2008. Google opened the entire source code (including network and telephony stacks) under an Apache License. With the Apache License, vendors can add, if they will, proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community.
That was it… Android Linux started to gain rapidly a lot of attention and according to NPD Group, unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked first among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2010, at 33%. BlackBerry OS is second at 28%, and iOS (Apple) is ranked third with 22%.(see Reuters). This results are reasonable as Android is sold by several manufacturers over all the worlds carriers, while the iPhone is sold by only 1 manufacturer and only on a single carrier network. As summed up in his blog, Louis Gray states some reasons on why android platform could overcome the sales of iOS platform:
- Choice : Choice of handsets. Choice of carriers. Choice of manufacturers
- Momentum : Android has momentum in terms of improved quality, in terms of the number of devices sold and users, applications, which are growing in quantity, soon to be followed by quality. The growth in the number of handsets, carriers and users will drive more developers to the platform, and the holdouts who are not there will eventually make the move
- Cloud : The phone is built to tap into data stored on the Web is the idea that user doesn’t need to be tied to his desktop computer to manage data on the phone.
- Capability : The Android platform, as any commercials offer, simply does more and is by nature capable of doing more.
The trends certainly seem to support the notion of continued Android growth in a manner that Apple should look back to its pasts mistakes and rethink the “think differently” model of doing business. Compete’s Nathan Ingraham explains :
The reason Apple should be concerned about Android’s newfound strength is because it has been in a similar situation before, in its competition against Microsoft for home computing. Apple, of course, is the only manufacturer and vendor of phones running the iPhone operating system, while any manufacturer is able to run Android if it wishes. This mirrors Apple’s history pitting its Macintosh operating system against Microsoft Windows. Apple is the only manufacturer who builds computers that run the Mac OS, while a variety of manufacturers were able to manufacture computers running Windows, which helped Microsoft run away with the lead in the OS war back in the 1990′s.
Recent data from AndroLib.com is worth mentioning. The company’s current measurements (by the time this article is written) suggest Android’s App Market is poised to hit the 150,000 mark any day now. On 12 of July, Google publicly announced a new project called App Inventor. App Inventor isn’t about to replace or even threaten the traditional developer model. App Inventor’s goal, Abelson tells The Times , is to “enable people to become creators, not just consumers, in this mobile world.”:
“The Google project, Mr. Abelson said, is intended to give users, especially young people, a simple tool to let them tinker with smartphone software, much as people have done with computers. Over the years, he noted, simplified programming tools like Basic, Logo and Scratch have opened the door to innovations of all kinds.”
Conclusion…
To sum up, Android Linux will be the universal platform that will make possible to every device to be connected with millions of other devices and share information with each other…. an absolute wireless network of devices. This is due to:
- Multiple devices can run Linux
- Linux is open source, and everybody can be involved in.
- Multiple manufacturers build devices that run Android
- Linux belongs to “humanity” and not to a single company.
Human nature is reflected in any aspect of our society. We love exploring, researching, inventing new ways of making our lives easier and ones we do that we urge to be sharing this knowledge with others. The Shamans and Alchemists were the first explorers of material nature and the “invisible” forces that dominated it. The knowledge that they possessed was their strength, well kept and protected from any ignorant that will try to “steal” it. Their apprentice were the only heirs of this knowledge. In this case, the knowledge is generated by few and only to benefit themselves rather than society as a whole. This is a “closed source” model as a method of producing knowledge. Because of humans’ nature to share the produced information, slowly but inevitably this method has been replaced by a new and more open method. Science as opposed to esoteric knowledge, uses the opposite methodology for the production of knowledge. The knowledge and the source of it (the way that is produced) is available to anybody. This way the “fire” is invented only ones. Someone else takes this invented knowledge end creates something new. This is a standard, “open sourced” method to generate knowledge.
Software and hardware industry is approximately only 100 years old. It is in humans’ nature to change the model of producing innovative products from a closed ecosystem (like Alchemists did) in a more open ecosystem model (like Scientists do). The use of open models, over the years becomes more apparent. Linux is gaining more and more ground not only because it is another software, but because it is the ideal platform that enables more ideas and solutions in all areas of Science and Technology. Microsoft , Apple and any other company will make the same mistakes over and over again if the do not learn from past mistakes. Maybe thats why IBM is getting involved with the mobile phone industry. In a recent post, 09 August 2010, by Jean Staten Healy of IBM in Linux.com explains the situation:
Businesses and consumers are fast creating a mobile world — there will be nearly one trillion Internet-connected devices in 2011 — and open standards such as Linux are necessary to make this new world work. Embedded Linux runs on virtually every smart phone today and will help support the 20 times more mobile data and 40 times more spending on mobile transactions that are forecast to occur in 2015. Consumers don’t know Linux is in their phones, but developers do. The proliferation of smart phones like iPhones and Droids portends that application development for the mobile platform with Linux is only set to grow; a recent Eclipse survey showed that 33 percent of developers now use Linux as their primary development operating system, up from 20 percent in 2007.
Apparently they’ve learned something from their past. Thanks for your patient and I hope you enjoyed my article.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
Original post: http://www.cerebrux.net/documents/articles/2010/08/history-repeats-itself-ibm-vs-apple-then-iphone-vs-android-now/
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Ipod Classic – The Revolutionary Device
Apple has introduced the iPod classic – a medial player that is portable. It is the pride of the iPod family of Apple. Till now the market has seen six generations of the iPod classic. The term `classic` has been used to the sixth generation of the device. It made its debut on 5th September 2007. Hitherto the generic term used was just `iPod`.
All iPods have colour displays using anti-aliased graphics as well as text with sliding facilities for animation. All have five buttons but the later ones – from the 4th generation onwards – use a click wheel. This makes the gadget free from cluttering and the minimum of interfacing. The common five buttons are the menu, center (for selecting an item on the menu), play or pause button that is also used for switching on and off the set, skip forward and skip backwards. The special characteristic of the iPod is its storage capacity. The hard disk can spin up and copy of 30 MB of songs coming in into a RAM. This saves on power.
The first generation of iPod classic made its debut on 23rd October 2001. It had a 5GB hard drive that had the potential to store 1,000 songs. The best thing about the iPod classic was its small size. It used a 1.8“ hard drive while its peers in the market used 2.5“ ones. Thus iPod is easier to navigate by controlling a scroll wheel, button for selecting center as well as 4 subsidiary buttons placed around the wheels. The battery lasted 12 hours.
The second generation of iPod classic made its entry on 20th March 2002. The body was the same but the hold switch consisted of a new design. The fire-wire port came with a cover. The mechanical wheel was done away with. Instead there was a touch sensitive wheel. The corners and edges of the front plate were rounded. The price was also reduced while the capacity strength increased to 20 GB.
The third generation of iPod classic that made its debut on 18th April 2003 was totally new in looks and mechanism. The fire-wire port was replaced with a dock-connector. The touch wheel was totally non-mechanical with the buttons placed in a row sandwiched between the screen and touch wheel. A wired remote connector was used.
This generation of the iPod classic had a 4-pin jack next to the headphone port. The battery life however was lessened to 8 hours due to the use of lithium iron battery. Previously lithium polymer battery was being used. All the iPods were compatible with Mac and PC. iTunes and musicmatch all crowed inside the iPod classic. Later musicmatch was discontinued.
On July 24th the 4th generation of iPod classic appeared on the scene. It was much slimmer. The button arrangement was different. The touch wheel was replaced with the click wheel. The price too was reduced thus making it within easy reach of a larger consumer group. The strength went up to 40GB and the battery life extended to 12 hours.
The 5th generation was one step ahead and entered the market on 12th October 2005. It came to be known informally as the iPod video having a QVGA screen. The click wheel was smaller. An alternative colour scheme was introduced together with `Signature iPod White.` It has a front plate that is fully flat.
On 5th September 2007 the world was introduced to the sixth generation iPod classic. The body was slimmer with a remarkably improved battery life. Up to 40 hours of music can be played and 7 hours of video. The front plat is anodized aluminum and polycarbonate plastic. This time the signature model of white was replaced by silver.
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iPod: Please Wait, very low battery?
My iPod is a 30GB 5th Generation, black. When I plug my iPod into my computer, the iPod’s screen says Please Wait, Very Low Battery. After a few seconds, the Apple screen comes up. But then, after the screen has only been on for about a minute, it goes back to the Please Wait, Very Low Battery screen. It repeats this cycle over and over and I’ve charged it to the point of 2 days, and still no luck. Any SPECIFIC HELP?
By the way, my warranty ended so no free replacement battery for me =(
reset your ipod press menu and the center buttons at the same time until the apple appears
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Iphone Vent Mount
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Best iPhone car charger
was looking for a car mount suction cup and a car charger for my iPhone 3G. I came across an interesting package at FNAC, a suction mount bracket + Air Vent + cord cigarette lighter for iphone brand MCA. The iPhone is perfectly held in the carrier, the arm is rigid and the cup seems stuck on the windscreen. I have not tested support for air vents. I am not happy with current kit. So, if you can suggest me some of the car kits for iphone it would be great. Thank you for your help.
Re: Best iPhone car charger
Hello,
Apparently many adjustments in all possible directions by cons-supporting air vents but if you want to use it to use GPS is not the best support grid. Note also the air conditioning blowing on the iPhone is pretty average. Just follow this and see what is the result. If you are not happy then go for some other kit, such as provided by Kingston.
Re: Best iPhone car charger
I tested all car stereos home, and impossible to have it. Either the iPhone was not recognized, or it was not loaded, or it put the (very ugly) white screen “accessory connected” and the music is controlled on the radio. Do you have any idea about it? Basically, I need a car kit that makes me the same functionality as a FM emitter: iphone music sends, receives calls, makes GPS, etc. … And send all the car audio. Any additional information is appreciated.
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There are two modes that are configurable you car kit
- Either you can configure the car drivers to the iPod
- The iPhone can be mounted to car driver
For my part I activated the 2nd mode. A small “iPod” is displayed in the lower right corner of the screen, and track number / title / etc displayed on the screen. I chose the music, and driver / playlists from the iPhone.
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Hello,
For me this was not a need because I never landed in principle by car, except for rare exceptions. And terms of look these radios are pretty nice. By cons I think the docs quite unclear and I hate to read a doc. The most significant thing is not having a wire and a charger plugged. There are even quite short dock cables if your iPhone is not far from the car.
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Today I bought a charger “Xtreme inchargeauto mac” in orange or a store they said it was compatible with the 3G or I feel that this is not the case according which is marked on the package and on different sites. Before you open for anything, would there be the holders of this model? If it works with 3G, is there not a risk dabimer iphone 3g? If not, what model do you recommend to be on the compatibility? Thank you for your answers but find accessories for the 3g is not so simple it seems? So much for the support I can wait but not for the car charger?
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Wholesale Lots
evaluation of wholesale Lots and Land
The rating of wholesale lot used for residential housing is mystical and often misunderstood. The rating of lots and raw wholesale lot wants a detailed knowledge of construction and selling costs as well as a good estimate of the sales cost of the final product: a residential housing unit. In short, the rate of a lot is the all tax revenue (sales price of the home) minus the prices of output and the needed profit. ground value is a balance computation.
Irvine, California has been near entirely prepared by a single land owner, The Irvine Companion, as a wide, master-planned residential area. The growing has been wildly prosperous. The median income of vendees on The Ranch is 30% above the Orange County central. This transforms into higher house costs and advanced wholesale lot rates. The Irvine Companion makes a profit by dealing its ground to builders who build and sell homes in the community. Once the forces government land value are understood, it becomes obvious why the Irvine Company is protecting of house costs in Irvine, and why The Irvine Party wants to maximize salable tightness on its ground holdings like any other developer would.
The rate of a piece of land is whatever is “left over” after all the other costs of output and profits are subtracted from gross. This is a key point. land for residential home use has no intrinsic value. It is a commodity useful for the product of houses just like lumber or concrete. A finished lot is a invented product, and it is subject to many of the same market forces as commodity markets.
If land or much become scarce, the cost increases; if this commodity is plentiful, the price reductions. If the sales cost of the terminative product increases revenue, like in a bubble, the value of land increases; however, if tax revenue falls, like after a bubble, the value of ground diminishes. For a given cost level, if the cost of house construction increases, the value of land decreases; if the cost of house construction decrements, the value of ground additions. This last point is often unclear as the inverse relationship between building price and land value does not seem intuitive, but since land value is a rest calculation, this relationship is the world of the market. The value of a piece of ground utilized for residential housing is flat tied to the and costs of home.
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