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It’s not 100% official but next iPod Touch Generation 4 or iPod Touch 4.0 will have Camera on the back. Checkout the image below! It is a iPod Touch 4.0 Apple Development iPod Touch which was originally displayed for sale on Ebay! Yeah, No kidding! Somebody is selling Development iPod Touch 4.0 on Ebay!



 
Well if you want to see it on ebay , or maybe even bid on it, go to this Ebay link.
Also thanks to 9to5Mac for news and photos.

There is common repertoire for every instrument. Every brass player comes across Arban's Carnival of Venus, every alto saxophonist encounters Parker's licks. For some instruments - piano, guitar - the literature is so extensive that there may not really be anything common for two musicians to share. If you're into country blues or Segovia, you can play guitar for fifty years and never get to learn Purple Haze. On the other hand, every slide guitar player can play Rollin' and Tumblin'. For many other instruments, the book is pretty thin: every banjoist can pick Black Mountain Rag, French horn's got its Mozart Third Concerto and Wagner bits, for harmonica there's My Babe, bagpipers have a handful of Scottish/Irish tunes... and how much is written for gamelan or theremin? It takes a long, long time to build a literature for an instrument - which makes the euphonium situation all the more miraculous.

Euphonium is a wonderful but obscure instrument of the brass family (it's also got a twin brother called a baritone saxhorn - the difference is like trumpet and cornet, i.e. pretty much none). Looking like a dwarf tuba, it is a tenor-pitched instrument with a range similar to that of a trombone. I blame its obscurity on the fact that there was pretty much no repertoire for it - until recently. In the last decade or so, an interesting thing happened: euphonium book spontaneously expanded and engulfed a most unlikely style - the video game music. A cursory search on youtube reveals hundreds of young euphonists (euphonimists? euphists?) bashing out this or that Mario theme, Zelda's Ocarina Of Time etc.etc. It's not like there's a music school somewhere with a particularly geeky/open-minded low brass professor - the players are from all over, Europe, UK, US, wherever. It seems like the idea of picking out a videogame tune on a euphonium or tuba is the most natural one.
Hereby, I present my case:

A one-man brass orchestra:


A one-man euphonium trio:


Final Fantasy 6

Teeeetriiissss!!!!!


Here's one for three tubas

No less than five overdubbed euphonium parts - notice it's the same guy as the first video, euphonium07, Anthony Caillet - check out his youtube channel!



And this one must be the coolest videogame music interpretation ever - not on euphonium, though.

If I were to compile a list of my favorite jazz players, it probably won't overlap with a "jazz genius top ten" by much. I'll take Sonny over Trane any day, ditto Fats and Brownie over Miles, and I am only lately starting to warm up to Parker, and then probably because of overexposure than because of a true emotional connection - I must've heard his Savoy sides more times than I've heard Pink Floyd. But there is one guy that will probably top both lists, and that is Louis Armstrong. Satchmo does it for me every time.

I'll take his Hot Fives/Sevens to a desert island, no contest. There is no point in sharing them, though: there have been at least three different "complete" reissues, probably more, and all are easily available elsewhere. However, his sideman recordings are more obscure. After coming up to Chicago in 1922 to play with King Oliver and then Fletcher Henderson, Pops was very much in demand as a studio musician and accompanist. I am sure he did not mind making some dough on the side, either, so there is a wealth of his solos backing the famous and not-so-famous blues singers of the day, from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith on down. In fact, the record execs noticed that the 78s with his solos - even uncredited - often sold better, and that gave them a bright idea to record Armstrong as a leader; the rest, as they say, is history.

Today's share is a collection of tracks with Armstrong's participation, recorded between 1924 and 1927. There are some sublime solos here; my favorites are two Bessie Smith tracks - I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle and You've Been a Good Ole Wagon; another great track, He Likes It Slow, features the whole Hot Five and so appeared as a part of the "Complete" box sets. I should warn the prospective listeners that some of this is pretty sonically crude. Hot Fives and Sevens were an all-star band and they got all the latest studio gizmos and extra attention from the recording engineers; also, we get to hear the Hot Fives and Sevens after they've been put through the marvels of modern remastering. These tracks, OTOH, have none of the above; what they often do have is a distinctive unrehearsed "let's cut it and go drinking" one-take feel - the balance is all over the place, there are stumbles and rough spots, and the instrumentation is sometimes rather skeletal, such as the vocal-cornet-harmonium trio on the St. Louis Blues. So, for all the historical interest and occasional brilliance of Satchmo's solos, these probably won't be going with me to any desert island unless I'll be taking my 500GB hard drive with me.

A very thorough Armstrong discography can be found here, refer to it for session dates, personnel and instrumentation.

This is about ipod errore message and steps to troubleshoot these error. I suggest you to read basic ipod Troubleshooting. Ipod is new device and there are many unknown error messages like “ipod cannot be synced, An unknown error has occurred”, ipod 1418 error or ipod 1429 error and it make user frustrate. ipod error messages whether it's ipod mini or ipod touch or ipod shuffle this is actually communication problem Some error are vary simple and easy to rectify here is solution for

ipod Error 1415, 1417, 1418, or 1428: it also display message that
“Cannot restore or update iPod in itune 7 or later”

Where this problem occurs :-

If you are using itunes 7 and you are updating or restoring you ipod., you may got some error message saying "An unknown error has occurred" it also followed by error number 1415, 1417, 1418, 1428 or 1429. this problem are common for itune u or later with ipod.

Solution

1) try to use different usb port or first remove any other USB Device that you have connected to the computer (don’t remove usb keyboard or usb mouse ). And then try different USB Port.
2) update your itune to the latest version or download the latest version and do fresh installation.
3. Try connecting your iPod to a different USB port and restore.
4) If you are using microsoft Windows operating system, then try to update your usb driver or reinstall Windows USB drivers.

If you have ipod shuffle then you need to use ipod reset utility to restore ipod.

How to download convert video from youtube to ipod

This post about how to download or get videos from youtube to your ipod or how to convert or put videos from youtube to your ipod.
There are many useful video on youtube and you like to put youtube video on ipod .But ipod play only MP4 format and youtube play FLV format. You need to convert youtube video to mp4 format to upload it on ipod.

There are two part:
Part 1 of converting youtube video to iPod mp4 forate

Step 1 : go to youtube.com and Copy the URL of your video which is shown in red box it will look like this: http://youtube.com/watch ? csfdsx67

Step 2 open this website: vixydotnetslashflv_converter. It's an online FLV converter.

Step.3 Paste your youtube url name in the input box and choose “MP4 for iPod/PSP”. Then click on start button.

.Step.4 you will get download link for mp4 file which is compatible with ipod. Click the download link to download file and save it on your computer.

Part 2 Transfer files to iPod
Step.1 Connect your iPod to PC, launch iTunes
Step.2 browse the mp4 file you have downloaded, add it first to itune library. Now if you have auto sync then it update ipod and add video to ipod or if it manually manage ipod then select the mp4 file from library and drag and drop to ipod. You can rename the file if you want.

Unlocking ipod nano, ipod shuffle, classic and ipod video without software and code.
iPod nano, Second Generation, ipod touch, and 5th gen Generation iPod (iPod with video) includes Screen Lock code of 4-digits. This code is used to unlock ipod screen lock. In this post I will guide you how to unlock ipod without screen lock code software.

About Screen Lock SecurityFirst how to configure screen
Go to the extra manu then
Extras --> Screen Lock

Then set combination
Now set code for screen lock:

You can use Previous/Rewind or Next/Fast-forward button to scroll through numbers.
1. When you get the desired number, press the Center button to confirm your choice; the second number will then be highlighted.
.when you enter the last digit, you'll be returned to the Screen Lock menu.

Now to Locking Your iPod
1. Select Extras > Screen Lock > Turn Screen Lock On.
2. iPod displays a "Please remember it!" message in the Screen Lock menu; select Lock to lock your iPod.
3. Once ipod locked, it displays an Enter Code screen. and a key icon in the upper-right corner that indicate you your iPod is locked.

Unlocking iPod
You can unlock iPod in one of two ways:
• Enter the combination code of 4 digit to unlock the iPod. If you enter wrong code combination, the digits onscreen flash red.
• Or Connect iPod to the main computer you use (computer with which iPod synced with), and open iTunes. Now disconnect the iPod from the computer, it will be unlocked.

Unlock ipod without combination code
Now if you forgot you combination code then in this case you have to restore your ipod to factory setting. Important note :-when you reset your ipod, it this will erase all data from your iPod. You need to add your song and data again.

When you need to enter your screen lock code.
When You force iPod to sleep When you wake it, the Enter Code screen appears.
How to add Screen Lock to the Main MenuIf you use Screen Lock frequently, then it’s nice to add screen lock to main manu.
Just open Settings > Main Menu, then select Screen Lock to change its status to On. Screen Lock should now appear in the main menu.

• iPod goes to sleep by itself
if ipod remain inactive for more then 2minutes , iPod will go to sleep mode automatically. When you wake it, its ask for screen code.

The most common problems for ipod are
1) Apple Ipod stops responding
2) It got stuck with just showing battery logo
3) All of sudden while you play music it just hang and not responding even play pause key
4) Not waking up from sleep mode

If you are facing frozen ipod problem here are Ipod Tips for that


1) check that your ipod’s hold switch is on if your hold switch is off then ipod will not respond. In this situation turn the hold switch off and then again on. There is an orange bar below the hold switch if hold key is on orange color will not appear.

2) Check the status of your battery and charge the battery. If battery is not charged then
Ipod will not turn on. If it is at low battery then low battery screen appear for 3 second. You can charge battery with power adaptor or with USB. If you charge ipod with computer (at least charge for 20 minutes) then make sure computer not in sleep or stand by mode.

3) Ipod Reset is the another best and most common ipod tips in such situation.
You can find in details about how to reset ipod here.

4) another solution is charge ipod for about 20 to 30 minutes and when it is connected to power supply turn off hold switch and turn it back to on.

5) Now if apple logo appear on screen then connect to the computer and check through itune then you can see ipod in source and play music. If this happen then no further Ipod Troubleshooting required.
6) But if you can’t see the apple logo on screen then ipod servicing is needed.

7)sometime you may face problem that ipod not turn on don’t worry leave it for 24 hours and then again try to reset ipod. If it turn on then it may require to update the ipod software which available on apple.com

Here are the steps for transfer music from ipod to itunes or computer.
Make sure your computer is installed with itunes.
Now connect your ipod to computer via USB cable.
Computer may open itunes and ask you that you want to sync your ipod.
Click on NO
Your ipod is detected as a one of the drive may be as a G: drive on your computer. Open my computer.
You need to unhide file and folder. Here are the steps for windows vista and xp.

In ipod drive you will find a folder called ipod_control. Open ipod_control folder and you will see : 1. calendars 2. contacts 3. ipod_control 4. notes 5. photos

Open the ipod_control folder Then open the music folder > Copy entire folders (it should like these: F00, F01 ...) onto your computer. Paste it to somewhere on desktop. This is the music that you want to transfer from ipod to itunes or computer.

Open itunes and insert desktop folder into: library Music
Now sync your ipod with this computer you will not lose any of your music.

Here are steps for how to transfer music from ipod to ipod. This will guide you how to transfer music from your old ipod to new ipod.

If you have large collection then this will take more than 30 minutes. But you need to do this only once. After that whenever you connect your ipod to computer, itune automatically find all the tracks and consider it as other tracks installed in music folder of your ipod library. You can also burn everything on cd.

Now transfer music from old ipod to new ipod.
After finishing all the steps explained above. First mount your old ipod so tht all those files appear in local itunes music folder. Now mount new ipod and sync itunes automatically. This will transfer the entire music library from your computer and old ipod. This process is slower as compare to routine sync but you need to do this only once. After sync ipod, navigate itune preferences and change it from automatic sync to manual sync.
Once you are done syncing all of the music to the new ipod, click on it in the side pane, select its preferences from the bottom of the iTunes window, and switch it from Automatic sync to Manual sync.

Transfer music to ipod without using itunes
It may possible that you tired of using itunes to manage your ipod. There are many other options are available to mange your ipod.

Itune is just ipod management software and itunes has its store for music.
There are many ipod manager software so you don’t need to buy stuff from itunes store and you can use other free ipod manager.
You can search on google or yahoo for free ipod manager software.

You can find many software some have free trails or are free.
But I would advice you that you first take back up of your itunes library if you have.

on your windows pc go to my computer,
Local Drive C:
Documents and Settings

You'll see a folder iTunes..
• Paste it to safe place or on pan drive.
• Open iTunes, go to Edit and select Preferences.
• Select the Advanced tab.
• Under the General tab, you'll see "iTunes Music folder location".
• That is your path to your iTunes folder.

Transferring music from ipod to mac computer is easy if you use ipod as a regular device rather than auto sync device. I know auto sync is important feature but for few minutes disable it.
Now connect ipod to computer and open itunes.
On left side pane you will fine your ipod (name of ipod). Click on it to open.
It the right edge bottom you can find many icons. One icon looks like a tiny ipod. Click on it. This will open configuration windows.

You can see in picture. It is selected "Manually manage songs and playlists". If automatic update is selected then uncheck automatic update and select manual mange songs.
Now open main itunes windows.
Now to select all songs click on edit tab  select all
Drag them all onto the library in the left column.

Copying will take time depend upon your music library. you have a restored iTunes library. Or you can say transferring music from ipod to mac computer is done.
If you want you can go back to itunes preferences and re-enable auto sync.
Note: I have not purchased music from iTunes music store. These steps for transfer music from ipod to mac computer are not for registered music. I don’t know what happen with registered music if you do copy like this.

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.
I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.
First, there’s “Open”.
Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.
Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.
Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers.
Second, there’s the “full web”.
Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.
Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.
Third, there’s reliability, security and performance.
Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.
In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?
Fourth, there’s battery life.
To achieve long battery life when playing video, mobile devices must decode the video in hardware; decoding it in software uses too much power. Many of the chips used in modern mobile devices contain a decoder called H.264 – an industry standard that is used in every Blu-ray DVD player and has been adopted by Apple, Google (YouTube), Vimeo, Netflix and many other companies.
Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software. The difference is striking: on an iPhone, for example, H.264 videos play for up to 10 hours, while videos decoded in software play for less than 5 hours before the battery is fully drained.
When websites re-encode their videos using H.264, they can offer them without using Flash at all. They play perfectly in browsers like Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome without any plugins whatsoever, and look great on iPhones, iPods and iPads.
Fifth, there’s Touch.
Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?
Even if iPhones, iPods and iPads ran Flash, it would not solve the problem that most Flash websites need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices.
Sixth, the most important reason.
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.
Our motivation is simple – we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform.
Conclusions.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

The most common issue for ipod is to transfer music from ipod to itunes or on a mac computer.
Here are the steps for transfer music from ipod to mac computer.
Apple and itunes are designed in such a way that music transfer one way from pc to ipod. This will force ipod owner to buy registered music. If you click on mounted ipod inside your computer u will not find anything in it.

here is the way to transfer music from ipod to itunes on a mac computer.

First you need to download 3rd party software. Most common are senuti and podworks. Keep in mind itunes is just a ipod manager software.
Install above utility on your computer. This software would help you to transfer music from ipod to itunes. Here is another post that will help you to transfer music from ipod to itunes without using 3rd party software.
Open the installed software. This will allow you to copy song directly from ipod and put them on your selected location. It also allw to copy library, playlists and albums from your ipod

You can also search on internet for software according to your requirement for mac computer.
Note: You can also do some research on the internet and search for some 3rd party programs for Macs which would suit your needs.

First and biggest problem iPod won't start up.

Ipod Tips to troubleshooting ipod won't start

1) first before starting troubleshooting fully charge your i pod.

2) secondly and most common mistake is - User by mistake make i pod in hold position and so it will not work so make sure hold switch is off. And if hold switch is on then you will see lock symbol on screen. soo move hold switch to off position. If it shows hold switch is off even then toggle hold switch on and off for couple of time. If remote control plugged into it make sure that its hold switch is off as well.


3) if you can mount your ipod on your computer then restore it with latest software updater according to your model. You can find latest software on Apple website. To start ipod restore process read this post about how to Restore Ipod. I will explain this in details vary soon.

Note :- If you Restore ipod all your data like calendar, music and contact will be erased. Soo take back up before restoring.
4) if it wan’t charge or you are not able to charge it, make battery completely dry. Take out battery from i pod and put outside for 24 hours so it will dry completed and again fully charge the battery.

5) if it is 18 months old and you have used it extensively it may possible that battery is completed dead.

This Ipod Troubleshooting tricks will solve almost all problems in most off the cases or else contact technician for repairing.

Ipod Tricks - iPod doesn't mount or not appear in itunes

1)ipod will not be recognized by low power USB port so make sure to plug in usb2.0 port or fire wire port.
2) it needs all the power a fire wire port can deliver soo if it is connected with chain of fire wire devices it will not get required power and soo it will not appear in itune.

3) reset your ipod I have explained it in last post how to reset ipod.

4)If you are using mac system then restart pc while holding a shift key of keyboard this will disable start up items and if ipod respond to this treatment should be restored.

5) for first three generation i pods hold next and previous button and for mini and fourth generation play and the Select button to place the iPod in Disk Mode. If ipod mount only with this disk mode then it should be restored.

Update : many people search on google and yahoo how to transfer music from ipod to computer, pc or itunes. Here is steps for transfer music from ipod to computer and how to transfer music from ipod to itunes.

Ipod Tricks for The iPod displays a folder with an exclamation point when it starts up.
1) fully charge it it may possible that ipod is confused by some process.
2) make sure it is updated with latest version of software which is compatible. An incompatible software may cause this problem soo restore your ipod.
3) If it is formatted with some windows or mac disk utility which are incompatible .if you have done this then restore ipod with latest updater available on apple.
4) If none of this ipod tricks steps work that means your hard drive is dead try diagnosis your hard disk with diagnosis test or contact service center.

Ipod Tricks for The iPod displays a battery with an exclamation point.
1) make sure you are charging from working power source. It will not charge if it attached to sleeping computer and also USB 2.0 connection won't charge a third-generation ipod.
2) your ipod locked up then try to unlock it by resetting. For first three generation ipods simultaneously hold Menu and Play button and for forth generation and mini press Play and Select button for about 7 to 10 seconds.
4)if it does not charge even you plugged it with power receptacle for longer time then try to use another cable as damaged cable also prevent it from charging.
5 if none of these treatments work that means ipod battery is dead

Ipod tricks for The iPod displays the image of a spinning disk and magnifying glass.
1) this indicate that it performing disk scanning test this icon appear in first three generation ipod, not available in mini and fourth generation ipods. If you don’t want to perform this test reset your ipod if you like to complete the scan then plug ipod for charging as this test takes lots of power and take long time about 15 to 20 minutes to complete.

These Apple ipod tips and tricks are common for diffrent types of video ipod, ipod touch or shuffle.

UI improvements

The most obvious changes to the user interface in FileMaker Pro 11 are found in Table View, where you see fields as columns and records as rows, much like you would in a spreadsheet. Table View is now the default view for new databases. As soon as you name a new database, you start defining fields right in Table View. And since you are actually working in browse mode, you can start entering data at the same time. (ProVue’s Panorama database has had this for a long time.)
As a data-modeling fanatic and notorious killjoy, I worry that FileMaker Pro 11 may have made things easier here than they should be. You can’t create a new table or define a relationship working this way. I will bet a plate of barbecued pork ribs that somebody is going to make a mess of a new database using this new user interface, since it really doesn’t require much thought. On the other hand, careful do-it-yourselfers building flat-file databases (i.e. fairly simple lists) will surely be grateful for the running start that the new interface provides. Experienced developers will probably continue to do things the old-fashioned way, using the Manage Database dialog.
Another neat enhancement to Table View: You can now quickly show or hide fields without having to edit the underlying layout, which wasn’t possible before.
FileMaker Pro 11 expands upon dynamic subsummaries, which were introduced in FileMaker Pro 10. With dynamic subsummaries you can total sorted groups of records while you continue to edit data. To set up a dynamic subsummary in FileMaker Pro 10, you had to define the summary calculation (say, count of records by state) in the Manage Database Dialog, then you had to switch into Layout Mode and use a couple of dialogs to set up the subsummary display. In FileMaker Pro 11, you can do all of this on the fly (so to speak) without leaving browse mode. You tell FileMaker Pro what you want to summarize and how (count by state, average by total sales, etc.) and FileMaker does the rest for you: creates the summary field and the subsummary layout part, and displays the results immediately. However, there is one potential gotcha—if you create a subsummary total this way, you won’t be able to format the result, so you might see “7.333334” when you would prefer to see “7.3.” For experienced developers, these changes are not a big deal, but for ordinary do-it-yourself users, they represent a real step forward.

The new Quick Find search field in the Status Toolbar looks like your Web browser’s search field or the quick search fields in many other Mac OS X apps. It simply does a quick search for records that have your find criterion in any of the fields on the current layout. When you need precision, you simply switch into Find mode and enter your find criterion in the right field, as you’ve always done in FileMaker.
Although FileMaker Pro 11 tries to make it unnecessary for you to go under the hood, you will end up in Layout Mode sooner or later. When you do, you’ll notice the new Inspector, which provides quick access to various property palettes that used to be hidden in a variety of modal dialogs. And the Manage Layouts dialog now allows you to organize layouts in folders.

Charts

Perhaps the most exciting new feature (and the top reason to upgrade) is the ability to make charts. This isn’t an entirely new capability for FileMaker Pro; earlier versions could create charts with the help of third-party plug-ins or through the use of ingenious but very complicated calculation techniques. But now charting is available to everybody and is easy to use. It took me only a couple of minutes to create and format my first chart (a bar chart) and then change it into pie chart.

Sharing data

Two nifty features in FileMaker Pro 11 relate to the exchange or sharing of data.
The new Snapshot Link saves the precise found set, layout and sort order of your current view in a FileMaker Pro Snapshot Link (.fpsl) file. You can send this little file to another user (who must have FileMaker Pro 11 and access to the database) who can open it and instantly see exactly what you were looking at.
The Snapshot Link file isn’t a true snapshot, as if you made a screen capture; nor does it save the find criteria you might have used to get the records you are looking at. It simply saves the record IDs of the records in your found set. A Snapshot Link won’t reflect records that have been added or deleted after the Snapshot Link has been created. If something has changed in a record, the record will be displayed with the new data. For these reasons, Snapshot Link seems most useful when you’re dealing with relatively stable data and you want to save customized record sets that would be hard to recover otherwise.

Snapshot Link is also a neat way to save your own found set. Say you’re planning a wedding and trying to sort out the guest list. You could create a Snapshot Link to save your mother’s preferred list, and another Snapshot Link to save your own preferred list. Here again, this functionality has been within the reach of experienced developers for a long time, but saving and retrieving found sets involved marking records or capturing record IDs and saving them in the database itself, and in either case required a little intermediate-level scripting. Snapshot Link, on the other hand, is quick and easy.

The new Recurring Imports feature was something that could be done in FileMaker Pro 10 with a little scripting, but FileMaker 11 will write the script for you in response to a couple simple questions. A Recurring Import is simply an import that occurs over and over again. You might use it, for example, to update mortgage rates daily.

For serious developers only

The emphasis in FileMaker 11 seems to be on making things easier for normal, do-it-yourself users who are not experienced developers. Nevertheless, there are a few things in FileMaker Pro 11 for experienced developers to get excited about.

The new Portal Filters option makes it fairly easy to design a portal—a list showing related “child” records. For example, if you’re looking at a record in the CLASSES table, a portal might be used to show the students enrolled in a particular class. Portal filtering allows you to filter that list of related records so that, using our example, you see only students whose current grade in the class is below a certain number.
Now this, too, is something pro developers have been doing for a long time using calc fields and/or scripts. FileMaker Pro 11 makes it easier than ever before, but it stills requires some setup and the writing of a calculation formula, and I suspect it’s still a bit beyond the reach of the average FileMaker user. Experienced developers will be most grateful for this new feature, since it eliminates much of the work they used to have to do to achieve the same result.
Other improvements found exclusively in FileMaker Pro Advanced include a modest simplification of the Custom Menus dialogs and the ability to copy/paste and/or import custom functions.
Perhaps the best news for developers in FileMaker Pro 11 is that the database file format remains .fp7, the format introduced years ago with version 7. In other words, FileMaker Pro 11 does not require you to upgrade all of your existing databases if you don’t want to do so immediately.

Macworld’s buying advice

FileMaker Pro 11 is a solid upgrade with one really exciting new feature (charts) and a whole slew of more modest but nonetheless welcome improvements. If your database needs are very simple indeed, you should consider FileMaker Inc’s consumer database product, Bento (). If you need to share a database, if you are building a relational database, or if you simply need the more advanced scripting and other features found in FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced, then this new version of FileMaker Pro offers Mac (and Windows) users the best combination of power and ease of use you’ll find anywhere. And if you’ve been using spreadsheets to list data because you found the spreadsheet user interface easier to understand or because you needed to chart your data, well, you really ought to take a look at FileMaker Pro 11. You might never launch a spreadsheet again.

The much awaited January 27 event finally arrived and as much anticipated, Steve Jobs took the state to demonstrate Apple’s latest device - The iPad. It is a tablet computer which can be simply described as visually being a ‘large iPod Touch’. Apple iPad will be initially available for sale only in the USA, and is expected to be available in the rest of the world in the early summer.

The iPad will be available as a Wi-Fi and a 3G/WI-Fi model, with a 16GB, 32GB or 64GB Flash storage version for each. Apart from that, the device is powered by a new 1Ghz Apple A4 processor and is loaded with Wi-Fi 802.11n and v2.1 Bluetooth, plus the usual Apple software including iTunes and the App Store, Mail, Calendar and Safari.

The event also marked the launch of Apple iBookStore where you can buy eBooks for use with the iPad. Moreover, the current iPhone app developers will be creating new apps especially for the iPad, in order to take advantage of the new screen size.

Apple iPad: Features

According to eBay CEO John Donahoe, shoppers have already spent about $400 million on the popular commerce site using the company’s free iPhone application.

The number pales in comparison with eBay’s total sales figure ($59.7 billion last year), but it’s fairly significant considering the fact that the iPhone has a relatively small market share – about 15% of the smartphone segment – and mobile payment transactions are still new to many. Who would have predicted around half a billion dollar in sales a year would be recorded through the eBay iPhone app when it debuted on the App Store last year?

According to this report by the Financial Times, some wealthy people have used the mobile app to buy a Lamborghini, a Bentley and a $150,000 boat. And if Mobile Marketer heard Donahoe right when he talked numbers at a summit in Las Vegas, the Lamborghini went for $350,000. Talk about being at ease with making purchases from mobile devices.

Most likely, these are the high-profile exceptions to the rule and most people use the app to buy books, clothing and electronics much like regular eBay shoppers do. In total, approximately 4.6 million iPhone owners have downloaded and installed the app to date.

Apple has some more good news to share with you post the iPad launch. In a recent company announcement, Apple has revealed that it has done away with the restrictions that earlier prevented VoIP iPhone applications from working over 3G. iPhone enthusiasts are elated as this will unleash newer opportunities for VoIP applications, which until now have only worked over Wi-Fi.

This was one of the much awaited news from Apple since October 2009, since AT&T announced that it would allow VoIP apps over 3G.Quite a few popular VoIP application developers like the iCall and Fring have already announced their support for VoIP. This is in fact a priority as allowing VoIP over 3G will set the stage for increased innovation in the VoIP arena, and also more experimentation with video chatting.

Adobe's Flash supports a large portion of the internet's rich content. And it will soon be coming to almost all smart phones, opening a world of internet possibilities. All the smart phones, that is, except one of the most popular smart phones on the market -- Apple's iPhone.

Apple remains cold and aloof about the topic of Flash. While the iPhone could easily support hardware-accelerated Flash, CEO Steve Jobs has stated in interviews that Flash is irrelevant and not something that iPhone customers have demanded. He insists the iPhone is the perfect internet phone -- even if it can't run Flash.

Adobe seems to be hoping to push Apple's customers to demand the feature with a new humorously passive aggressive browser failure message.

On the iPhone customers trying to use Flash now get a message stating:

Apple restricts the use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

Before the message merely read:

To view this content upgrade your browser and flash plug-in.

Will the new message inspire users to complain to Apple, or will it merely annoy iPhone users, making Adobe look bad? It should be interesting to see how Apple's customers react to the new, more pointed error message.

Apple has some more good news to share with you post the iPad launch. In a recent company announcement, Apple has revealed that it has done away with the restrictions that earlier prevented VoIP iPhone applications from working over 3G. iPhone enthusiasts are elated as this will unleash newer opportunities for VoIP applications, which until now have only worked over Wi-Fi.

This was one of the much awaited news from Apple since October 2009, since AT&T announced that it would allow VoIP apps over 3G.Quite a few popular VoIP application developers like the iCall and Fring have already announced their support for VoIP. This is in fact a priority as allowing VoIP over 3G will set the stage for increased innovation in the VoIP arena, and also more experimentation with video chatting.