Cool iPod Functions You Don’t Know About

What is better than having an iPod? Finding out about cool new functions, of course! The iPod has become a major trendsetter over the past few years.

With each generation of iPod, the designs excite and amaze us and superior amounts of gigabits generate more downloading power. It is now possible to download extreme amounts of music and vidoe. But there may also be  some awesome new iPod functions you do not know about yet!

Click wheel

The iPod's new click wheel provides you with easy accessibility. By clicking the top of the wheel you access a shuffle mode to play songs in a casual random order. You can also play, forward, rewind, and stop and pause - all from the click wheel.

Duplicate hidden files

You can also duplicate hidden files from your iPod to complement your computer by right clicking on iPod and selecting Tools, then Folder options.  This takes you to the control panel where you can select View Tab, Hidden Files Click, Show Hidden Files - this will make all your files visible. We are not suggesting that you do this to steal music, only to copy music that you have previously purchased onto your computer.

MP4 files

Your iPod will play MP4 files, too. All you have to do is drag your ffmpegx on to the summary page and select MP4. Then click on the Video Tab and set the task to three hundred and twenty pixels, click Encode and drag your file into iTunes. This will allow you to view pictures as a slide show or a movie that you have taken from your digital camera.

Other functions

Your iPod also includes a functional stopwatch and time zone clock utility. Your iPod has a small iTunes control that sits at the bottom of your screen. This permits you to use rewind, fast-forward, and ratings, pick play list, and add to favorites. The List Saver function permits to back up and restore, so that you can move your library.  In addition, use List Saver to back up and restore your iPod. Use your Mac's built in text to speech to adapt any document web page or document into MP3: this utility also loads Word, PDF, RTF, Apple works, Text and HTML.

From the iPod functions in your menu bar, you can program your iPod for syncing and eject. You can sync your address book and calendars. You can also purchase an optional dock which you can use as a remote control for your iPod, which will allow you to listen to music from across the room through your television or stereo speakers.  

There is an audio books feature which allows you to look through over nine thousand book titles from the iTunes library to download and sync with your personal computer. iPod also features a book mark so you don’t lose your spot while on the go. There are now parental control features, which will limit your child’s use of podcasts, explicit language, and shared music - limiting your child’s access from other people who might have content your child may be interested in.

From audio books to calendars, games, clocks, alarms, exercise workouts, music contacts and photos, there is fun for everyone no matter your age. Entertainment has never been easier than it is today, nor has it been so convenient to do what you want to do when you want to do it.

There is so much potential that has evolved from the digital era. It is almost amazing what people can do at the touch of a button, or by speaking into a microphone giving a machine command that it obeys with out question. Maybe someday there will be iPods that allow us to tell them what song you want to hear and how long we want to hear it, or an iPod that gives us vocal directions, helping us get to our destinations.

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