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iPod is a brand of portable media players that is designed and marketed by Apple and was launched on October 23, 2001. Since October 2004, iPod sales have dominated the market for digital music players in the United States.

Devices in the iPod range are primarily digital music players, designed around a central click wheel although the iPod shuffle has buttons only.

The full-sized model stores media on an internal hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital audio players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices.

In addition to playing music, iPods with display screens can display calendars, contact information, and text files, and play a limited range of video games. Models introduced in 2004 include the ability to display photos and the fifth-generation iPod, introduced in 2005, can additionally play video files. In January 2007, Apple announced the iPhone, combining the features of a video-capable iPod with integrated mobile phone and mobile internet capabilities.

Apples iTunes software is used for transferring music (as well as photos, videos, games, contacts and calendars, for models that support those features). As a free jukebox application, iTunes stores a comprehensive library of music on the users computer and can play, burn, and rip music from a CD. It can also sync photos and videos.

History and Design:

The iPod came from Apple digital hub strategy, as the company began creating software for the growing market of digital devices being purchased by consumers. While digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established mainstream markets, the company found digital music players lacking in user interface design and decided to develop its own.

The name was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public. As soon as Chieco saw a prototype for the player he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase: “Open the pod bay door, Hal!”, which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. At that time “iPod” was a name that Apple registered for Internet kiosks, but never put to use.

Apple hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design it, including Tony Fadell, Stan Ng and Jonathan Ive. Additionally, Sparkfactor Design has designed some of the iPod hardware from 2002-2004. They developed the product in less than a year and it was unveiled on October 23, 2001. CEO Steve Jobs announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put “1000 songs in your pocket.”

Uncharacteristically, Apple did not develop the iPods software entirely in-house. Instead, Apple began with PortalPlayer reference platform which was based on 2 ARM cores. The platform used rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system. PortalPlayer had previously been working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones. Apple contracted another company, Pixo, to help design and implement the user interface, under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs.

Once established, Apple continued to refine the software look and feel. Starting with the iPod mini, the Chicago font (once used on early Macintosh computers) was replaced with Espy Sans, which was originally used in eWorld and Copland. Later iPods switched fonts again to Podium Sans, a font similar to Apple corporate font Myriad. The iPods with color displays then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, as well as brushed metal in the lock interface.

User interface:

Apple focused its development on the iPod’s unique user interface and its ease of use, rather than on technical capability. The iPod is currently the world’s best-selling range of digital audio players and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands. Some of Apple’s design choices and proprietary actions have, however, led to criticism and legal battles.

The iPods with color displays use high quality anti-aliased graphics and text, with sliding animations. These iPods have five buttons and the newer generations have the buttons integrated into the click wheel an innovation which gives an uncluttered, minimalistic interface.

The buttons are:

Menu to traverse backwards through the menus, and toggle the backlight on older iPods when held
Center to select a menu item
Play / Pause which doubles as an off switch when held
Fast Forward (When held)/ Skip Forward
Fast Reverse (When held)/ Skip Backwards

The operations such as scrolling through menu items and controlling the volume are performed by using the click wheel in a rotational manner. These iPods also have a Hold switch at the top, which prevents accidental button presses.

Newer iPods automatically pause playback when the headphones are unplugged from the headphone jack, but playback does not resume when the headphones are re-inserted.

However, in newer iPods (excluding iPod shuffles), when the headphones are re-inserted into the headphone jack when the iPod is asleep, the iPod will automatically wake up to the last screen viewed before going to sleep. An iPod that has crashed or frozen can be reset by switching ‘Hold’ on then off, then holding Menu and Center (Menu and Play on the 3G iPod) for 6 seconds.

The iPod shuffle does not use a click wheel and instead has five buttons positioned differently to the larger models. It has a Play / Pause button in the center, surrounded by four buttons: Volume Up / Down and Skip Forward / Backwards. This button arrangement is shared by the Apple Remote (which ships with all Apple computers with Front Row and the Universal Dock).

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http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/the-emergence-of-portable-media-players-ipod-106089.html

Alcohol information from http://www.drug-aware.com discussing how long alcohol stays in your system, alcohol consumption in relation to the legal drink drive limit, the effects of alcohol and alcohol awareness. Drug-Aware also supply on-site drug and alcohol tests and awareness training.

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You may think the pursuit of happiness, as our forefathers mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, is that of a selfish search. However, quite to the contrary, it is one of the most selfless quests an individual can undertake.

Although you may not realize it, being happy or at the very least acting happy, is the ultimate win-win feeling. Why? Think about it. When you reflect on all of the people in your life, which folks tend to make you feel good? The miserable ones? Of course not, happy people tend to make us feel better. When you are at work, do you like being around others who do nothing but criticize, complain and belittle others? Most likely, you enjoy working side by side with people who have a positive outlook on life and are able to find the good in others and in most situations.

By the same token, guess what… most everyone else feels the same way! So, ask yourself, “Am I a joy to be around?” “Do I present an aurora of happiness and well being for my kids, parents, spouse, friends, and co-workers?” If not, I strongly recommend you take a good, long, deep look within. If you haven’t heard it yet, “Life is 5% what happens to you and 95% how you react to it.”

On my website, one lady took my happiness survey and wrote some rather critical words about this topic. I only wish she would have left her contact information so that I could have written her back and started a dialogue about her comments. Although I was unable to do that, I am pleased to be able to respond in this article instead.

Allow me to paraphrase. First, she wrote that life is never this simplistic. She claimed that criminals are happy when they are committing their crimes. I have to disagree. While I am no expert on the criminal mind, my guess is that most of them are actually miserable. I dare say that the evil forces in the world, murderers, rapists, even terrorists, are actually not happy. This may be a generalization but I would bet in the majority of cases, it’s true. Overall, I would say that happy people do not rape, pillage and murder.

Next, she wrote that happiness may well be a choice for some people, but not for everyone. She continued, “Environment, genetics and a number of other things have to be factored in and it appears you, (meaning me), ignored them. Perhaps it is because you have never known unhappiness, stress, genes with glitches, etc. If everyone were always happy, we would still be living in caves. Unhappiness with something or someone is a great motivator for change.” She went on to talk about the state of the world and how we should all be unhappy with it.

I am actually very grateful she took the time to submit the survey because until I read it, quite frankly I was completely remiss in addressing these extremely important points that need to be tackled.

First, let me just say that I have had plenty of sadness and stress in my life. Haven’t we all? Yet, I believe there is a difference between feeling sad over particular events taking place, versus an overall attitude of unhappiness.

At age 4, I had an older brother who ran away from home and disappeared for the next 18 years, only to show up years later for just a few fleeting moments until he left again for good. Unfortunately for my family, he was a very unhappy person.

At age 23, I lost my very best friend suddenly due to a congenital heart defect. We had gone through High School and College together, and I actually attribute my entire post graduate career in Entertainment to him as he was responsible for helping me land my first job out of school where we worked together side by side. He was such a powerful, positive force in my life, and touched so many others’ lives, that to this day, 21 years later, not a day goes by when I don’t think about and miss him terribly. He was one of the happiest people I knew and was a great inspiration in my creating a website about happiness.

Five years ago, I lost my mother prematurely. She was just 73. We were so close my entire life and after my kids came along, she was absolutely overjoyed to spoil them as much and for as long as she could. I felt horrible about losing her, and even worse that my kids would never again be able to spend time with her. As young as they were when she passed, fortunately they have nothing but wonderful memories of her and thank goodness we captured many happy events on video so that her memory can live on for generations to come. My mom, despite a very difficult life, was also one of the happiest people I have ever known.

I share all of this for no other reason than to help my anonymous visitor understand that we all have bad things happen to us. The world is full of horrible people, places and things that go on each and every day. For one to choose happiness does not mean that they are ignoring or condoning all of these atrocities. Imagine what doctors and lawyers and morticians go through every day. If they let what they see each and every day affect their ability to be happy, none of them would stand a chance.

I believe also, that she may have misunderstood the difference between ‘unhappiness’ and ‘dissatisfied’. Human nature itself is insatiable. From the moment we are born, we are never satisfied. Radio talk show host and author of Happiness is a Serious Problem, Dennis Prager, recalled that his son’s third word was “more”. His order of speaking was mama, dada and more! I am sure that is something to which all of us can relate. It is this dissatisfaction that drives us to constantly improve. The caveman was not satisfied with the way things were, and thus invented the wheel. Then came the discovery of fire, and so on it goes. Did Bill Gates stop with Windows XP? No, here comes Vista. Today, the i-phone… tomorrow, the i-world! None of this has anything to do with being unhappy. That is an entirely different animal. We can be dissatisfied with the way things are and strive to make them better, but we can still enjoy inner peace and happiness while working on making the world a better place.

Genetics is a completely separate issue. There are people who suffer from chemical imbalances and other physiological anomalies, which can lead to depression, anxiety and other problems, all possible contributors to unhappiness, (some members of my family included… remember my brother?)

Thankfully, there are medications that can help people in these situations. Drugs are only part of the answer though. From what I understand, these medications are only meant to enable the patient to feel better.

It is up to each individual to go the extra step and decide that they can indeed feel happy once they have that capability of doing so through medication. This really is a topic for another discussion though. I am not a doctor. This is just my laymen’s take on the subject. My point is not to minimize any of this. Clearly, there is much more that can be written and in fact, will be written for the website in the days, months and years to come.

To summarize for now though, I emphatically believe that happiness is absolutely a choice. It is the very reason that I created i-choose-happiness.com. It is truly your personal responsibility to be as happy as you possibly can. The world will be a much better place when the majority of its inhabitants are a just a little happier!

Ricky Powell
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-not-just-your-right-its-your-responsibility-131850.html

The manufacturers of LG KE Prada reportedly accused their rivals Apple to have stolen the concept and design of LG Prada and incorporating the same in Apple i-phone. We are still to find out the truth behind this allegation that has cropped up in the recent times. But one thing is for sure that LG Prada is truly a stylish handset that is has caused a lot of hype since its announcement last year.

This glamorous handset is launched under the LG brand and has been chiseled to perfection by Italian fashion house Prada. So this mobile has every reason to look devastatingly attractive. It has a fine finished exterior and touch screen features that make this handset supremely superior. Talking about its specifications, this handset offers users world wide connectivity with its Tri-Band GSM network. Plus technologies as GPRS, EDGE and Bluetooth make it all the more efficient in terms of data transferring. LG Prada has also been facilitated with a Micro SD card slot for the purpose of storing information.

As far as the camera is concerned, LG KE 850 Prada has been installed with a 2 Mega Pixels camera which is sufficiently brilliant in delivering great picture quality. The user is able to capture photographs in a still or a video motion according to his own liking. There is also a digital multimedia player that is able to play MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, RA file formats in this device. So you always carry your favourite music with you while you are on the go.

LG Prada makes a dazzling fashion phone all right but the manufacturers have not forgotten to add some highly usable features in this device making it a business tool as well. Apart from the standard web browsing and e-mailing features that are present in this device, you can also open attachments in ppt, doc, xls, pdf, txt format through LG Prada.

We have seen the features, now let’s consider the adulations. This gadget namely LG KE 850 Prada won the Product Design Award 2007 presented by International Forum design recently. This phone has it all and you shouldn’t be waiting to buy this one!

Adam Jaylin
http://www.articlesbase.com/cell-phones-articles/lg-ke-850-prada-the-dazzler-126449.html

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The TomTom app is now available in the iTunes App Store!

The app offers you:
• TomTom’s award-winning navigation technology
• Always the fastest route with IQ Routes™
• Detailed and up-to-date map
• Designed and optimized for the iPhone

The TomTom app works even better when paired with the TomTom car kit, which makes driving safer, more accurate and enjoyable. The TomTom car kit offers secure docking, enhanced GPS performance, clear voice instructions, hands-free calling, and music over your car stereo while charging your iPhone at the same time.

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If you are using Juniper or Cisco to provide SSL VPN access from your corporate network to end users then Secure Auth is an excellent companion to ensure secure a seamless connection from your end user, through your enterprise server and back to your end user using your existing SSL VPN authenticated internet connection.

The process of accessing a corporate network remotely can pose serious security risks; cause moderate downtime and extensive end user training. This compromises the complete infrastructure of a network but is a necessary part of a properly functioning enterprise since it’s virtually impossible to have every end user plugged into the mainframe twenty-four hours a day.

Secure Auth for Cisco VPN authentication is a browser-based, bi-directional X.509 certificate authentication solution for Cisco IPSec and Cisco ssl vpns. It works directly with the existing Cisco ASA appliance providing a complete solution delivering the most secure authentication service in existence. This solution offers several distinct advantages over its competitors. It requires no tokens, data servers or additional infrastructure investment and no private enterprise information is stored in the hosted Secure Auth infrastructure. It eliminates the need for an administrator to deploy and upgrade end-user software and its very user-friendly self-registration and automated certificate distribution reduces help desk calls. If that’s not enough it also fully supports IE, Firefox and Safari browsers.

Secure Auth also integrates tightly with the Juniper IVE offering browser-based, bi-directional X.509 certificate authentication solutions that mirror that of the Cisco VPN authentication. This allows from seamless transitions from Cisco or Juniper without significant reinvestment in Secure Auth. The juniper version differs from the Cisco version in regards to the fact that it has multi-platform support for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Linux clients.

Secure Auth is scalable to meet individual enterprise needs and offers a full range of services for customizing Secure Auth to meet the needs of any enterprise. This offers a layer of security that has not been available in recent times. As hackers and vulnerabilities become even more prevalent and extremely dangerous to corporate security it’s becoming very important to secure software that gives that extra layer of protection. This allows for more integration of remote end users to allow increased productivity while protecting your network from those who should not have access. It also helps to limit the amount of calls to helpdesk to correct integration issues which will help to decrease the cash cost per user thus making IT services more productive and cost efficient to the enterprise.

Kimberly Green
http://www.articlesbase.com/operating-systems-articles/getting-the-most-from-ssl-vpn-authentication-with-secure-auth-681662.html

Perhaps your phone or your car keys come in first as to an object you pick up most in your life, but second may be in fact, your computer mouse. Unplug your mouse or take out the batteries. Take a minute and try to activate anything on your computer with out the mouse. It’s pretty difficult isn’t it? The invention of the <a href=http://www.cirque.com/uploads/products/computer_mouse.html>Computer Mouse</a> has been pretty revolutionary and so many computer mouse designs have been created and marketed as the next go-to gadget.
Computer Mouse Designs- The Good and the Bad
Sure the computer mouse function has stayed the same- direct access into a computer, but designs from one enormous button to teeny computer mice to large joy-stick like models have changed drastically. Some popular computer mouse models:

•    <a href=http://www.cirque.com/uploads/products/finger_mouse.html>Finger mouse</a>
•    Joy Stick
•    Rolling Ball- trackball mouse
•    <a href=http://www.cirque.com/uploads/products/ergonomic_mouse.html>Ergonomic mouse</a>
•    Touch pad

Will the computer mouse be around for another 40 years? Technology geeks think not. The computer mouse is ready for retirement and touch screens are taking over. If you use a laptop with a track pad or a touch pad for a computer mouse pad, you will already have been practicing for the touch screen revolution.

No-doubt you have used a touch screen already, maybe in fact, several times today- be it at the bank atm, grocery store checkout or perhaps you work in an industry that uses touch screen technology for a point of service to enter in information, like at a restaurant or auto shop. The iconic Apple iPhone, no doubt is the start of touch screen phenomenon, although touch screen technology has been around since the 60s. Now that more everyday objects are beginning to have touch screens, the cost of the technology is decreasing, allowing for more advances in touch screens. For example, the Microsoft touch screen coffee table “Surface”, allows people to grab and pull images, text and other functions has quickly become top buzz, if you have seen the most recent James Bond, then you will know what I am talking about.

Some people argue that the human hand is far too clumsy, and for some people, using touch technology is not working for them, they need more than a glass or plastic screen to push. So what’s next?

The Computer Mouse is “so last year,” and touch screens are becoming the norm. So what is next? Well, motion detection technology and even “thought provoked” motion sensors are the next big wave of possibilities for computer communication. As with all new technology, it will be costly at first and hard to find and then suddenly, everywhere. I wouldn’t recommend throwing away every computer mouse you own however- it’s like switching from rotary to wireless phones in the 90s- if the power ever went out, you had to find the plug in phone. Meaning- see what happens, you may not be able to afford the computer monitor that comes with the touch technology. You may have the old retired mouse for another 5- 10 years- which is archaic in technology terms.

Melissa Peterman
http://www.articlesbase.com/hardware-articles/forty-years-of-the-computer-mouse-will-there-be-forty-more-684645.html

If you are using Juniper or Cisco to provide SSL VPN access from your corporate network to end users then Secure Auth is an excellent companion to ensure secure a seamless connection from your end user, through your enterprise server and back to your end user using your existing SSL VPN authenticated internet connection.

The process of accessing a corporate network remotely can pose serious security risks; cause moderate downtime and extensive end user training. This compromises the complete infrastructure of a network but is a necessary part of a properly functioning enterprise since it’s virtually impossible to have every end user plugged into the mainframe twenty-four hours a day.

Secure Auth for Cisco VPN authentication is a browser-based, bi-directional X.509 certificate authentication solution for Cisco IPSec and Cisco ssl vpns. It works directly with the existing Cisco ASA appliance providing a complete solution delivering the most secure authentication service in existence. This solution offers several distinct advantages over its competitors. It requires no tokens, data servers or additional infrastructure investment and no private enterprise information is stored in the hosted Secure Auth infrastructure. It eliminates the need for an administrator to deploy and upgrade end-user software and its very user-friendly self-registration and automated certificate distribution reduces help desk calls. If that’s not enough it also fully supports IE, Firefox and Safari browsers.

Secure Auth also integrates tightly with the Juniper IVE offering browser-based, bi-directional X.509 certificate authentication solutions that mirror that of the Cisco VPN authentication. This allows from seamless transitions from Cisco or Juniper without significant reinvestment in Secure Auth. The juniper version differs from the Cisco version in regards to the fact that it has multi-platform support for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Linux clients.

Secure Auth is scalable to meet individual enterprise needs and offers a full range of services for customizing Secure Auth to meet the needs of any enterprise. This offers a layer of security that has not been available in recent times. As hackers and vulnerabilities become even more prevalent and extremely dangerous to corporate security it’s becoming very important to secure software that gives that extra layer of protection. This allows for more integration of remote end users to allow increased productivity while protecting your network from those who should not have access. It also helps to limit the amount of calls to helpdesk to correct integration issues which will help to decrease the cash cost per user thus making IT services more productive and cost efficient to the enterprise.

Kimberly Green
http://www.articlesbase.com/operating-systems-articles/getting-the-most-from-ssl-vpn-authentication-with-secure-auth-681662.html

http://live.pirillo.com – I have an original 8GB iPhone, not the iPhone 3G. However, I’m running the new iPhone 2.0 operating system. After playing with it all day, I’m far more excited about the operating system upgrade than I am about the hardware one.

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