Pod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The i. Pod is a line of portable media players and multi- purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 2. ВЅ months after i. Tunes (Macintosh version) was released. The most recent i. Pod redesigns were announced on July 1. There are three current versions of the i. Pod: the ultra- compact i. Pod Shuffle, the compact i. Pod Nano and the touchscreen i. Pod Touch. Like other digital music players, i. Pods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the i. Pod Shuffle to 1. GB for the i. Pod Touch (previously 1. GB for the i. Pod Classic, which is now discontinued). Apple's i. Tunes software (and other alternative software) can be used to transfer music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e- mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars, to the devices supporting these features from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft. Find out how to jailbreak your iPod Touch free! themes wallpapers fun stuff and alot more. some games only work for. if anyone knows any good jailbreak. Windows operating systems.[1][2]Before the release of i. OS 5, the i. Pod branding was used for the media player included with the i. Phone and i. Pad, a combination of the Music and Videos apps on the i. Pod Touch. As of i. OS 5, separate apps named "Music" and "Videos" are standardized across all i. OS- powered products.[3] While the i. Phone and i. Pad have essentially the same media player capabilities as the i. Pod line, they are generally treated as separate products. We hope you have fun playing Some School Games and feel free to let us know about any games you would like to see on the website. SomeSchoolGames.com. Good Daddy 2.
During the middle of 2. Phone sales overtook those of the i. Pod.[4]In mid- 2. Pod Touch was announced by Apple, and was officially released on the Apple store on July 1. The sixth generation i. Pod Touch includes a wide variety of spec improvements such as the upgraded A8 processor and higher- quality screen. The core is over 5 times faster than previous models and is built to be roughly on par with the i. Phone 5. S.[5] It is available in 5 different colors: Space grey, pink, gold, silver and Product (red).[6]History. Various i. Pod models, all of which have been discontinued or updated. Though the i. Pod was released in 2. Mac- only compatibility caused sales to be relatively slow until 2. The i. Pod line came from Apple's "digital hub" category, when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well- established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players "big and clunky or small and useless" with user interfaces that were "unbelievably awful,"[8] so Apple decided to develop its own. As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design the i. Pod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey,[9] and design engineer Sir Jonathan Ive.[8] Rubinstein had already discovered the Toshiba disk drive when meeting with an Apple supplier in Japan, and purchased the rights to it for Apple, and had also already worked out how the screen, battery, and other key elements would work.[1. The aesthetic was inspired by the 1. Braun T3 transistor radio designed by Dieter Rams, while the wheel based user interface was prompted by Bang & Olufsen's Beo. Com 6. 00. 0 telephone.[1. The product ("the Walkman of the twenty- first century" [1. October 2. 3, 2. 00. Jobs announced it as a Mac- compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,0. Apple did not develop the i. Pod software entirely in- house, instead using Portal. Player's reference platform based on two ARM cores. The platform had rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system. Portal. Player had previously been working on an IBM- branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones.[8] Apple contracted another company, Pixo, to help design and implement the user interface under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs.[8] As development progressed, Apple continued to refine the software's look and feel. Starting with the i. Pod Mini, the Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans. Later i. Pods switched fonts again to Podium Sans—a font similar to Apple's corporate font, Myriad. Pods with color displays then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, and brushed metal meant to evoke a combination lock. In 2. 00. 7, Apple modified the i. Pod interface again with the introduction of the sixth- generation i. Pod Classic and third- generation i. Pod Nano by changing the font to Helvetica and, in most cases, splitting the screen in half by displaying the menus on the left and album artwork, photos, or videos on the right (whichever was appropriate for the selected item). In 2. 00. 6 Apple presented a special edition for i. Pod 5. G of Irish rock band U2. Like its predecessor, this i. Pod has engraved the signatures of the four members of the band on its back, but this one was the first time the company changed the colour of the metal (not silver but black). This i. Pod was only available with 3. GB of storage capacity. The special edition entitled purchasers to an exclusive video with 3. U2, downloadable from the i. Tunes Store.[1. 5][1. In September 2. 00. Burst. com, Apple drew attention to a patent for a similar device that was developed in 1. Kane Kramer applied for a UK patent for his design of a "plastic music box" in 1. IXI.[1. 7] He was unable to secure funding to renew the US$1. Kramer never profited from his idea.[1. The name i. Pod 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. After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2. A Space Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay door, Hal!", which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Chieco saw an analogy to the relationship between the spaceship and the smaller independent pods in the relationship between a personal computer and the music player.[8] Apple researched the trademark and found that it was already in use. Joseph N. Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an "i. Pod" trademark with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in July 2. Internet kiosks. The first i. Pod kiosks had been demonstrated to the public in New Jersey in March 1. January 2. 00. 0, but had apparently been discontinued by 2. The trademark was registered by the USPTO in November 2. Grasso assigned it to Apple Computer, Inc. The earliest recorded use in commerce of an "i. Pod" trademark was in 1. Chrysalis Corp. of Sturgis, Michigan, styled "i. POD".[1. 9]In mid- 2. Pod models were spotted in the latest version of i. Tunes, 1. 2. 2. Belgian website Belgium i. Phone originally found the images when plugging in an i. Pod for the first time, and subsequent leaked photos were found by Pierre Dandumont.[2. Hardware. Chipsets and Electronics. Chipset or Electronic. Product(s)Component(s)Microcontrolleri. Pod Classic 1st to 3rd generations. Two ARM 7. TDMI- derived CPUs running at 9. MHzi. Pod Classic 4th and 5th generations, i. Pod Mini, i. Pod Nano 1st generation. Variable- speed ARM 7. TDMI CPUs, running at a peak of 8. MHz to save battery lifei. Pod Classic 6th generation, i. Pod Nano 2nd generation onwards, i. Pod Shuffle 2nd generation onwards. Samsung. System- on- a- chip, based around an ARM processor.[2. Pod Shuffle 1st generation. Sigma. Tel D- Major STMP3. MHz that handles both the music decoding and the audio circuitry.[2. Pod Touch 1st and 2nd generation. ARM 1. 17. 6JZ(F)- S at 4. MHz for 1st gen, 5. MHz for 2nd gen. i. Pod Touch 3rd and 4th generation. ARM Cortex A8 at 6. MHz for 3rd gen, 8. MHz for 4th gen. i. Pod Touch 5th generation. ARM Cortex A9 at 8. MHzi. Pod Touch 6th generation. Apple ARMv. 8- A "Typhoon" at 1. GHz. Audio Chipi. Pod Classic 1st to 5th generation, i. Pod Touch 1st generation, i. Pod Nano 1st to 3rd generation, i. Pod Mini[2. 5]Audio Codecs developed by Wolfson Microelectronicsi. Pod Classic 6th generation, i. Pod Touch 2nd generation onwards, i. Pod Shuffle, i. Pod Nano 4th generation onwards. Cirrus Logic Audio Codec Chip. Storage Mediumi. Pod Classic. ATA- 6, 4. 20. 0 rpm with proprietary connectors) made by Toshibai. Pod Mini. 25. 4 mm (1 in) Microdrive by Hitachi and Seagatei. Pod Nano. Flash Memory from Samsung, Toshiba, and othersi. Pod Shuffle and Touch. Flash Memory. Batteriesi. Pod Classic 1st and 2nd generation. Internal Lithium Polymer Batteriesi. Pod Classic 3rd generation onwards, i. Pod Mini, i. Pod Nano, i. Pod Touch, i. Pod Shuffle. Internal Lithium- Ion Batteries. Displayi. Pod Nano 7th generation. Multi- Touch, 4. 32- by- 2. Pod Classic 5th and 6th generation. LCD with LED backlight, 3. Pod Touch 5th and 6th generation. Multi- Touch, 1. 13. Audio. The third- generation i. Pod had a weak bass response, as shown in audio tests.[2. The combination of the undersized DC- blocking capacitors and the typical low- impedance of most consumer headphones form a high- pass filter, which attenuates the low- frequency bass output. Similar capacitors were used in the fourth- generation i. Pods.[3. 1] The problem is reduced when using high- impedance headphones and is completely masked when driving high- impedance (line level) loads, such as an external headphone amplifier. The first- generation i. Pod Shuffle uses a dual- transistor output stage,[2. For all i. Pods released in 2. EQ) sound settings would distort the bass sound far too easily, even on undemanding songs.[3. This would happen for EQ settings like R& B, Rock, Acoustic, and Bass Booster, because the equalizer amplified the digital audio level beyond the software's limit, causing distortion (clipping) on bass instruments. From the fifth- generation i. Pod on, Apple introduced a user- configurable volume limit in response to concerns about hearing loss.[3. Users report that in the sixth- generation i. Pod, the maximum volume output level is limited to 1. B in EU markets. Apple previously had to remove i. Pods from shelves in France for exceeding this legal limit.[3. However, users that have bought a new sixth- generation i. Pod in late 2. 01. Best PDA games, Pocket PC games, Windows Mobile games, Smart. Phone games by 4. Pockets. com .................. Pocket PC's, smartphone, iphone,pocket pc, pocketpc,samsung omnia, free pda games,download, freeware software. Tue 2. 9 Jan: This Month Interview - Guilherme Freitas, Brazilian Guitarist, Singer & Composer. Guilherme Freitas is an established Bassist/Guitarist/Singer and Composer from Brazil. He is best known for his bands Gugles and Pajama Flowers, he currently plays with Bandabala. The Band has just re- recorded their favourite Pajama Flowers hits completely on the i. Pad. Q. 1 Gui who were your musically influences? I've heard a lot of music in my life but if I have to mention what I most heard would be Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Beto Guedes, Brazilian pop rock( Legiao Urbana, Lulu Santos) Beatles, AC/DC, Stones, Nirvana, Beach Boys, Genesis plus many other artists , Q2. Youre a multi- talented Guitarist/Singer/Composer, is there a particular aspect you prefer? I started getting interested in music as a acoustic guitarist at 1. I had to learn to play bass because I joined a band that needed a bass player, I continued to play bass for many years, and went back to playing guitar for 7 years ago. Right now I'm in love with guitar. Q3. Why did you decide to Re- Record the tracks on the i. Pad? The first reason was that at the time of the band in '9. Another reason was also that the band no longer exists and some former members no longer work as musicians, so there was no possibility would be all together again, each took different paths in life. The band was independent at the time and had no access to good studios. I always liked those songs and felt sorry for not having done a good recording of them. When I bought the i. Pad 2 years ago, I noticed that when recording electric guitar I got an excellent result, and it reminded me of the work of Pajama's, I had to ask for help to remember the lyrics and started to record a couple of tracks before I knew it I was recording 1. Q4. How did you find the process of recording everything on the i. Pad? I've always been interested in using portable recorders, I already had several studios port (tascam, yamaha), drum machines, sequencers. When I saw the i. Pad I started doing small tests in Garageband was impressed and so I bought the IPad. I used the Apogee Jam, and soon I learned how it worked and I realized I was getting better guitar sounds than in several professional studios I've ever had recorded in. Soon I noticed that the Garage. Band would not be enough and that I needed a more professional app and found Meteor, then yes I was really excited to do all the work. I started the searching process for drum loops and how we had done the arrangements back in 9. I actually recorded all the basic instrumental in Meteor and vocals in Garage Band, because I had to use many tracks, as I did many backing vocals. The instruments I used were Electric guitars (Gibson Sg, Prs Custom 2. Fender Plus and Suhr S3) I used a 6. Tech 2. 1, miked by the senheiser 6. Effects on guitar I used eletronics TC Nova system, Fulltone OCD, and Suhr Riot. The acoustic guitars (Yamaha) I always recorded 2 tracks, 1 miked by MIC and another running straight at Jam. The bass (Tagima and precision and music man) I ran for a pre AMT eletronics and ran straight into Jam. The keyboards and the strings I got everything in Garage Band. For a long time I was in doubt if I would record the vocals on the i. Pad or in a studio outside, but then found the apogee MIC and recorded in my home. At the end of the process I had a problem, I would not be able to mix work on the i. Pad because I used more than 1. So I pulled all the wavs separately into the Meteor where they were mastered, mixed and everything. Throughout this process, Paul from 4pockets helped me a lot by email. Thanks Paul. Q5. What aspects of Meteor Multitrack Recorder made it your i. Pad DAW of choice? I found the meteor very professional, with 1. Pockets provide customers. Q6. We were impressed with the harmonization of the vocals and guitars, how did you achieve this? I always enjoyed doing many backing vocals, something like Beatles, Beach Boys, and Queen, and in fact, in this work, I really did million of vocals. As I was doing at home, it had no cost, and I could take as much time as I wanted so I could do many experiments. I recorded the harmonization's and sometimes sang 2 to 3 times each harmonization to get that wall of sound, like Queen and Beatles on the songs Right on, Sun is on the way. The verse of In the Evening and chorus of I'm Addicted, was sung by the musician and song writer Toninho Mattos. I did not know if it would be successful but I tried lol. I do not use auto tune any part of the songs. In eletric guitars, the process was similar. I played the same riff over and over again to give those aspect of the wall of sound too. But I played really again, because if you just duplicate the track you do not get the same result, only increases the volume. Q7. Brazilian musicians seemed to have taken the i. Pad to the heart of their music creation, why do you think this is? I think the whole world is using IPad to record, but maybe it's a success in Brazil because a good studio here is very expensive and one of medium size sometimes you do not get good results. Q8. When will we see the Gui Freitas or the Pajama Flowers on the i. Tunes Store? Actually I do not know how i. Tunes works for independent band, I need to tell you how this really works, in Brazil, the people still do not have much in the habit of using i. Tunes, the people still downloads the net. But I think it would be great if I could put my songs out, but at the same time, because the band to be independent, I do not know if people would know that the band is available on i. Tunes, I will get better informed and see. When I recorded this work I was not really planning on selling it, it was just to record it and show it to friends, but would not be so bad if I could make some money with it. Q9. What's does 2. I am a professional musician in Brazil for 2. I play in a band called Bandabala . This band plays Brazilian rhythms and it works here. My plans are to disseminate these Pajama Flowers songs and continue working hard. You can find out more about Gui on his Facebook Page and on his twitter @guifreitas. We would like to thank Gui for taking part in the interview, particularly since English is not his first language. I have promised him that I will learn more Portuguese than how to order a beer. Keep an eye out for other tracks from Gui and the Pajama Flowers, I think 2.
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